That's the battle you need to fight first, equality through civil unions. It'll be much easier to win. Once all or most States have it, the next battle will be easier. That's my point about not being anti-gay. I'd say anyone against equality under civil union is anti-gay, and that'll weed them out from the religious or other issues. The marriage term scares people more. Forced education, as you mentioned, seems to get traction with changing marriage, but not with civil unions. I vaguely remember a law last year or two in California about banning the mention of a mother and father as a family in all school books. Brothers and sisters couldn't be mentioned unless "other" was also included. I don't know how true it is or if it's just a worse case scenario about the law but it's not helping the cause.
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:32 AM, David Churvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And I know you don't consider someone who's against same-sex marriage > anti-gay, but I think that's due in large part to the fact that you're not > gay with a partner that you can't marry. I'm going to Boston (hopefully) > next year to marry the man with whom I've built a life. That trip's going > to cost a good amount of money. And then we're going to come back home and > have the big party surrounded by family and friends and love... and the > marriage license won't be worth the paper it's printed on because Georgia > doesn't allow same-sex marriage. In addition, Georgia's amendment went one > step further and said that no relationship between two people of the same > sex can even have any of the same rights as marriage, even if it's legal in > another state. So for instance, if he gets sick, there's no guarantee that > I'll be able to see him in the hospital. I'm certainly not a member of his > family. And that's just one of more than a thousand rights we are denied as > a gay couple. > > So maybe it's not anti-gay in intention, but it's sure as hell anti-gay in > effect. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:280572 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
