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I think a big part of this problem is that there is no such thing anymore as "traditional values". While love of country and family are one thing, it's entirely another when it comes to having a family. I can love my country all I want (although at this moment I all but despise it), but that doesn't mean I simultaneously involve my family with that. I mean...if a gay couple were to marry and adopt a child, would they be any less "traditional" than a heterosexual couple who loved each other less? I think this will become a big problem for us. I know many homosexual people who have been with their partners decades longer than most hetero couples could ever hope to be together yet they are denied the same privilages. The problem is that people vote on their beliefs and not by way of logic. But maybe that's another topic altogether.

As for marriage...it's now a joke in this country. Most of our generation consider your first marriage a "starter marriage". I swear I didn't make that up...it's what most people consider their "first" marriage. My brother, who's a year and a half older than me, got married about 2 years ago. He dated the girl for around 2 1/2 years. She left him after 9 months with a guy she'd obviously been fucking around with during their marriage (maybe longer). Oh...and my brother was marriage number 2 for her. This is why there's no tradition anymore. "Til death do us part" has turned into "for the next 6-10 years", if you're lucky. With marriage a sham and tradition out the window, how can we continue our current way of life without some sort of change? The president has proposed a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and a grant of $1 billion to promote the "sanctity" of marriage. Am I the only one who sees a conflict here? Gay marriage can still be a sanctity...yet you'd rather ban it and promote a hetero marriage that will likely fail within it's fledgling years. It's muh more likely that people vote on their fears rather than their consciousness. I'm not sure why gay marriage would scare some people, but apparently it does. "God" forbid anyone else be happy.