by Roxanne Cottell

Created on: May 17, 2008

I gotta ask all those people who are vehemently against gays and lesbians marrying - what harm is the union between two loving individuals really going to cause anyone other than people will have to accept that there are people on the planet who are attracted to and fall in love with others who share the same gender? That's right, guys...there are men on the planet who end up in love with other men, and women who end up in love with other women. This is a fact of life, has been for as long as recorded history. Nothing that the rest of us "breeders" will change this. Nothing.

I cannot understand why it is that so many people feel that it is any of their business that they have anything to say about two people in love with one another marrying. I mean, a long time ago, there was a rule that said black folks were not acceptable, and then Rosa Parks happened, and not too long ago, it was fine that Mexican people were hired to clean our yards, watch our kids, scrub our toilets, but they were not good enough to be here legally or illegally, and it was due to their "illegal" status, at first. I think we all know what it is all really about though, right? I know, I know...this is not about race, and it is not about preference.

I would completely appalled at the idea of everyone in the world seemingly telling me that due to their discomfort with what I do, say, think, and especially, who I am, is somehow anyone's business. I would imagine that this has more to do with the religious upbringing of the masses, and I should know about that one - Daddy is a retired Pentecostal Minister. I know well the idea of blinding and manipulating people into believing that if they are not willing to be bullied by the shame of generations past, they will never make it past St. Peter!

In this day and age of terrorism, inflation, recession, the mortgage "situation," it escapes my brain as to why it is that we are all so concerned about two grown, consenting adults, regardless of their gender, falling in love and marrying. With all of the turmoil happening in this state, I would really like to know how the heck two men or two women marrying one another is somehow going to be the decline of man as we know it? How is it going to personally affect anyone individually? Oh yeah, that's right! You will have to explain it to your kids.

You mean you haven't already explained it to your kids? You have not already explained to them that there is the possibility that during the course of their lives

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