Hello.

I'm posting for the first time, My name's Joe, friend of Johnny's from the Gouch. And by the way, relating to the issue of gay marriage I think the whole issue is way off. The court's are not dealing with a holy union, they're dealing with a legal union. For it to be possible for two people people of the same sex to be legally recognized by the state as married is no different from two people of different sexes being legally recognized. It's not like registering a marriage with the county clerk (or whoever you go to) is some sort of sacrament and Bush is going to go to hell for allowing unholy gays to do it (though, of course, he propbably is going to hell for other reasons. Which leads to a puzzling digression: which circle of hell do you think he'd go to in Dante's model?) Why can't religion be left out of purely legal matters? Religion and the ethics of gay marriage is moot. Gay couples are not trying to get the government to force the Catholic church to allow them Catholic weddings, but they could benefit from the tax breaks.
-joe