I am puzzled as to why all the rhetoric regarding gay marriage. Why is it even a topic? Haven't we learned anything about regression yet? Doesn't our knowledge of history tell us anything? When will we wise up?

I would like to think we haven't legalized gay marriage in the US yet because some of those who have control over what is legislated and what isn't know what they are doing. It's so easy to sit there and say "But, they love each other." Therefore, they should have every privilege a married heterosexual couple does, right?

It's this use of words that gets things all screwed up. As someone who is vehemently anti gay marriage and any other legislated gay anything, I say they should have the rights to shared insurance, mutual inheritance and other privileges. I just don't want them to get married. I don't want a township, a county, a state or our country to publicly recognize and condone gay marriage because it is fundamentally wrong. I don't care if two gay people are in love or not it is not natural.

We seem to stop thinking when it comes to this issue. If you remember, we once used to have morning prayers in school. We even said the pledge of allegiance, with "One Nation, under God" in the middle of it. Our teachers at one time had the liberty of punishing our children if they did wrong things. We were allowed to give Bibles out to graduating students. We invited ministers to offer prayer at many different ceremonies. We proudly set up nativity scenes; on the Post Office lawn. We could publicly state "Merry Christmas" to anyone and everyone with little fear of repercussion. Department stores and malls would regularly play Christmas music that was real CHRISTmas music (Silent Night, Oh Little Town of Bethlehem, The First Noel, and so on) instead of nothing but "Santa got run over by a reindeer, or Frosty the snowman, or Jingle bells.

All of that and more, so much more, is nothing but a figment of our past imagination now. Of course, to replace all of that we have school shootings, a major increase in child suicide, a cottage industry for child psychologists, child pornography, child prostitution, drop outs, and on and on. Probably much better than giving someone a Bible, right?

In addition, most things that once were taboo but finally made it through the social gauntlet are common, every day things today. One day, Gay Marriage will be so common place that we will wonder why we ever had any sort of complaint about it at all.

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