Quote Originally Posted by BPTactical View Post
We have seen historically that a large amount of children that commit serious crimes come from dysfunctional families.
Bert, I'm not arguing with you here, but while this is true it's a non-exclusive issue too- look at John Hinkley, Jr.... He did not come from a dysfunctional family.

My stance- let them do what they want to do, they want to pay joint taxes as a married couple- great. Bill's husband ends up on his death bed and he wants rights to be in the hospital room with him for his final hours, let him. Susan wants to be able to order the doc to remove the feeding tube from her wife, why stop her. Sanctity of marriage? I like that picture ghettodub posted- See: Britney Spears' 55-hour-joke-of-a-marriage.

Freedom is a 2 way street folks- you want your freedom, someone else wants theirs... just like you can't pick and choose the rights on a case by case basis, what I mean is you want the freedom to say "We're all equal and deserve to be free," but you can't restrict someone from saying "Blacks should be treated as second class citizens." So you want to be able to marry Mary Jane Rottencrotch, you shouldn't be able to tell Gary he can't meet Ace at the alter and make their partnership official.