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seems to assume that gay people can't fall in love; that their reasons for wanting to get married are somehow "wrong" or "impure" as opposed to the reasons straight people get married. Can we reflect for a moment on some of the reasons straight people do get married? Getting knocked up, money, a need to not be alone, 'it's just what you do', etc, etc. Enough said. As for "destroying the institution of marriage", let's be realistic - the "institution of marriage" is already quite dead and has been for quite some time. No one's going to be able to destroy something that's already been abused, shattered and soiled by the very people that are crying to protect its sanctity.

The Concerned Women of America is yet another group of people hiding behind the gripe that letting gays be gay is corrupting America and that letting them marry would be the end of all good and moral things as we know them. From their website: "When marriage is undermined, entire communities suffer. Fagan notes that broken households increase the risk for children of:

* health problems;
* retarded cognitive, especially verbal, development;
* low educational attainment;
* behavior problems;
* low impulse control;
* warped social development;
* physical and sexual abuse;
* crime in the local community.

The breakdown in marriage even leads to shorter lives. A study in the American Journal of Sociology found that "for both sexes, the hazard of dying falls significantly with marital duration, suggesting a cumulation (sic) of the benefits of marriage over time."

Now, while every statistic listed above is undoubtedly true (or halfway believable, at least), those statistics have nothing to do with "gay" marriages. They are statistics taken about marriage as it stands today in heterosexual households. Letting gay people get married does not undermine marriage they sure can't mess up the tradition as badly as we have.

As a conclusion, the "concerned women", state, "The stakes are very high: Absent a marriage-based culture, can America continue to function as a self-governing republic? History indicates that the chances are slim."

First of all, we're not self-governing. If you believe that your freedom is really free, you need to wake up. If we were really free, people in government wouldn't have the right to tell you who you can and cannot love, have sex with, and be joined with. Besides, we aren't even a marriage-based culture anymore, we're a divorce-based culture, and adultery-based culture, an abuse-based culture we're attacking the simple fact that gay people want to have sex and be married by saying that it will increase the violence in our homes and communities, that it will ruin our morals and corrupt our children when in fact, the main problem with violence and immorality in our lives is because we refuse to take responsibility for our own actions.

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