My problem with the entire issue is that I live among fundamentalists, and almost all of them are divorced at least once. The only gays in town have been together for 30 years and own a business and house together. Of course, officially they are just business partners, because we don’t have any gays down here.

The state legislatures are the ones that kept piling on the automatic benefits if you get a marriage license. If there weren’t all of the tax exemptions one marriage and one divorce would suffice.

In Florida a Notary Public can marry people, so it isn’t very sacred when humor columnist Dave Barry has the right to marry people.

I’ve long held that “marriage” should be reserved for the church and whatever you want to call the “legally-recognized two-party relationship” be left up to the states. Honestly, it’d be much easier that way. The Fundies could have their “marriage” ceremonies and everybody else could go down to the court house, get their “legally-recognized two-party relationship” license and go on with their lives. It’s really a shame that asshats like Don Wildmon, James Dobson, and some of those other guys feel the need to try and impose their will/values/beliefs/etc. on the rest of us. Good on the New Jersey Supreme Court for ruling the way they did. Now we’ll just have to see if the NJ Legislature obeys the ruling.

By the way, I like your site. I’ve linked to you from mine. Take it easy.