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Nice article but you should take your logic further. Just a few points to ponder. Has science proven where heterosexuality is found in the brain? What makes people straight? Can science prove this is normal or just PREDOMINATE?

If homosexuality is a behavior then so is heterosexuality. After all you are just expressing your love for this person of the opposite sex. If homosexuals are only 2% of the population as you contend then how on earth can such a small percentage bring down an empire? Or maybe the empires throughout history just destroyed themselves by greed, conquest, power, politics. Homosexuals are just a convenient scapegoat as they have always been. If it is just a "behavior" how come it has been around since recorded history? Could it be that it is just part of the grand scheme? Is "God" really so shallow as to create this wonderful world with such rich diversity and balance and wonder and pleasure and then limit humans to one way of being sexually? Or is it just humans way of trying to control what they don't understand?

Homosexuals build a family! It is not about sex. It is about having the legal framework that is established to protect the emotional, financial, and physical unit that has been built. SAME AS HETEROSEXUAL COUPLES! I have yet to hear of a straight couple say it's only about sex. That is what affairs are for! However, when it comes to gays its always about sex never any looking deeper at the human being. And GAYS are accused of being sex maniacs! However, there are four things human don't argue over productively: preferences, beliefs, the impossible, and facts.

JP, (F) 30
Evans CO

Response: No one is trying to prevent anyone from engaging in homosexuality or bisexuality if that's what you want to do and you're over the age of 18 and the person you're with is over the age of 18.  Based on your logic, pedophilia, bestiality, necrophilia and all other non-traditional sexual manifestations couldn't be created if God was so "shallow" either.  If you really want to take on that issue, are you sure God created homosexuality, especially when it is condemned multiple times in every monotheistic faith? Why would he create a behavior he condemns?  Temptations are not of God; in the Bible, Qu'ran and Torah temptation is the playground of the devil.  God gave each person free will to decide whether to cave to temptation or not.  Don't lay that one on God.  Same thing goes for affairs.  God doesn't have affairs.  Men/Women choose to, and like homosexuality, they too are considered a sin.

Everything those preferring homosexuality want to do can be done without destroying marriage in the process. Playing the victim isn't working this time. You're alienating a lot of people who have stood up for your right to practice homosexuality, enjoy it and are even willing to recognize legal contracts if that's what you want but draw the line at calling it marriage.  This victim stance of you're either 100% with us or 100% against us is juvenile, but it is a keep component of effective propaganda.  You'll find very few people against what you do in the privacy of your own home, and as an American you will find even those against calling a homosexual union a marriage behind you if the government tried re-institute laws making homosexuality criminal behavior between adults.  It's only when you require society place its stamp of approval on it by forcing society to become complicit in your actions as calling a homosexual union marriage does, you're going to find opposition.

Get a lawyer and draw up a contract.  Marriage didn't even exist as a license until the 1820's and you have the ability to get the same benefits and penalties via contracts.  Companies decide whether to recognize homosexual, co-habitation or even polygamist relationships for benefits, not the government.  If you really want to get technical, the government should not be legislating marriage in the first place even for heterosexuals.  It's a religious act, at least it was until the 1820's.

By the way, science doesn't have to prove heterosexuality is normal.  The fact you exist, the fact we all exist is proof enough. 

Thanks for the comments.

I believe church and state are separate and that same gender marriages have a valid place in both areas. When I married my husband it was because of love and we did it in church to honor or commitment to keeping God as the center of our marriage. I believe God blesses same-gender marriages as well. Civil marriages do not have to be about love, and are about legal rights and responsibilities. I believe anyone can enter into a civil arrangement as long as it's legal. And I applaud the changes that are validating the same gender commitments.

LY, (F) 60
Pasadena, California

Response: Marriage is not just any relationship between human beings.  Marriage has nothing to do with separation of church and state.  There is no such thing as same-gender "marriage" unless you redefine marriage from millennia old "natural law" to a new politically defined status.

My partner Pedro and I have been together over 4 years in a committed, monogamous relationship. We are homosexuals and strongly believe that the same tax benefits available to heterosexual couples who have the option to marry ought to be available to us as well. It's blatantly UNFAIR that the benefits that my employer offers Pedro are taxable. Such is NOT the same with heterosexual couples...and God forbid that something should happen to either one of us, causing one or the other to be hospitalized. There is NOT any guarantee that the other party will be allowed to make decisions on health care or possibly even visit in the hospital. The fact is that the first marriages which were performed in the Catholic Church were between two MEN. So, this is NOT a new idea. Women, at that time, were thought of purely as a means to replenish the population. That's no longer a problem. The population is increasing every day. Your bigotry is appalling, mean-spirited mind-boggling and outright revolting I look forward to your reply.

10/11/2003

(M) Cleveland, Ohio

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