This is another of those issues that I refer to as “style points”. Whenever I read someone get hyperventilated over the issue of gay marriage (which I’m in favor of, by the way) I find myself wondering if gas prices fell to $.50 per gallon, Ahmedinijad keeled over and died in the night, Osama’s been found, and the Chinese Olympics went off without a hitch…and I slept through all of it! Who cares if they get married, even though it’s two guys? I have several pairs of gay friends, many (most) of whom have been living together, in sin, for decades. Does *anyone* think that their having a piece of paper formalizing their relationship legally is going to have *any* effect on anyone other than those individuals, and perhaps their relatives? The idea is beyond preposterous, and you have to wonder about those who get so overwrought and the thought of two people they don’t know having a piece of paper that says they’re together in some sort of matrimony, and it’s *legal*. Remember, you can usually find a clergyman somewhere to perform the ceremony: it’s been done for years. The only thing we’re discussing is whether it will have any *secular* meaning. I don’t think churches want the government telling them how to do business; they should abide by that rule themselves, in the other direction.
