[frisco-kid]

Like Griz said earlier, just because one state recognizes gay marriages doesn't mean that other states have to if they have laws in place in those states against it. CA does, was voted in by a majority, and just because these marriages are going to be recognized in SF, they are not going to be recognized by the state. They've already been told by Sacramento that the licenses aren't going to be recorded and they will not be able to file joint income taxes, etc.. I don't see this law being overturned any time soon. A significant majority of Californians are against the marriages. By the same token, a vast majority of Californians are against a Constitution Amendment on it, as I am.

Personally, I don't care about the marriages one way or the other. As a married heterosexual I don't, in the least bit, feel somehow threatened by gays marrying. I don't think it somehow demeans my marriage, or believe that it's the beginning of the end of the sexual morals of the country. I find your fear of the next step in the decline of the institution of marriage being people marrying animals to be absurd and comical. Are there people in TX waiting in the wings to do this? Haven't heard of it here.

I'm willing to bet that alot of the arguements and fears being voiced today about these marriages, are the same ones that were voiced in the arguement against mixed race marriages a few generations ago. I also believe that most of the people being so vocal about this today, would have taken the same stance about the mixed race marriages back then. BTW, CA was the first state to legalize mixed race marriages in 1948. It wasn't accepted nationwide until the mid 60s. Now just because this was accepted and legal in CA, you're VERY naive if you think these married couples were able to move to other states that RABIDLY prohibited such a union and have their marriage legally recognized. And Ron, back then ALOT of people truly believed that these people HAD married outside of their own species and the whole country was going to Hell in a handbasket, for sure.

Just my take on some of this.