Thank You, America

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Originally Posted by Cleo

(I just wish my that my happiness wasn't tempered by what has happened with equal rights for gays)

It is a shame that such an important issue is being over-shadowed by other political events right now - or even ignored - by the major media outlets. The imMoral Majority doesn't want people to think of it as what it is: an issue of civil rights. What's odd to me is that I know some fairly liberal-thinking sane-seeming people who are against gay marriage and civil unions. Not vehemently so, but their initial reaction is against them even though they don't think of themselves as anti-gay. I assume this reaction is due to the lack of critical thinking. They've heard sound bites and that's what stays with them. When you ask them why, they don't seem to have any deeper response than "marriage has always been between a man and a woman." If you say "so?" to them, they have nothing further to base their opinion on. They simply haven't thought about it.