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Marriage! The "sacred" institution we hold so dear. But let me ask you a few questions? Who wants to marry my father? Who wants to marry a millionaire? Who loves the Bachelor? We heterosexuals are so hypocritical. We sit back from our privileged positions of marital entitlement and pass judgment on people who don't fit the mold of what we find acceptable. We pretend that we consider marriage to be so sacred; yet, we do everything we can to show that we don't consider it to be so sacred.

The divorce rate for first time heterosexual marriages is over 50%. What does that say about us? That tells us that we don't know the people we marry, we aren't ready to get married and we don't understand all of the intricacies involved in marriage. Yet, we want to sit back and tell Gay and Lesbian men and women that they can't participate because we know best and marriage is only for heterosexuals to screw up. I personally know people who have been married more than once. If heterosexual people can try it, mess it up, get divorced, try it again, mess it up, get divorced, and then try it again, mess it up and get divorced can you please give me a valid reason why Gay and Lesbian men and women shouldn't be allowed to marry if they want to?

One person I know asked me why we couldn't just give civil unions the same weight as marriage. You know separate but equal. I've heard this before. Ummm, where, where, where? Oh I know! I know where it came from. It came from the argument that White people used to make in the pre civil rights era Plessy v. Ferguson. That case stated that it was ok to separate Blacks and Whites as long as the facilities were separate but equal. Great right? Well no. That ruling was overturned with Brown v. Board Of Education. In that ruling it was determined that separate was by definition inherently unequal. You can't have two things and have them be separate and the same. Something about each of the items will be different. Why can't people seem to get that not allowing Gay and Lesbian men and women to be married and instead classify their bonds as civil unions is separate and unequal and thereby a violation of their civil liberties?

We make lofty arguments. We fight against their right to exist. We fight against their right to love. We crucify them and make them feel like pimples on the face of society. We discriminate against them - legally in some cases. We ostracize them in our families. We ostracize them in our churches. We force them to

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