Gay Marriage? Who Cares!!!

The recent NJ court ruling on gay marriage has got me thinking and wondering why this is even an issue in the first place?

Maybe it is just my liberal upbringing and my libertarian beliefs, but who fucking cares if gays want to get married to each other? What is the big deal, and why is this issue brought up every year come election time? If two people love one another, and want to share a lifelong commitment they should have every right to do so, regardless if it is a man and a woman, a man and a man, or a woman and a woman. Whether two gay people get married have absolutely zero impact on my life, my state or my country.

I don't feel that if gay marriage were legalized across the union (which I doubt will ever happen in my lifetime) it would impact my marriage to my wife in any way shape or form. What gay marriage allows is a dignified way for people to share their love together. Lets face it with heterosexual marriages having a divorce rate of close to 50%, what is the harm, since clearly half the people getting married don't believe in the sanctity of marriage to begin with.

The way I see it, the biggest issue surrounding gay marriage is the legal benefits which a significant other receives when the union is legal. The TV show " ER did a great story a few weeks back, starting John Mahoney from Frasier, as a drag queen living in Chicago with his lover, who becomes very sick, and requests that he call his estranged family, who he has not spoken with in at least 10 years. It was an interesting episode in that the family (sister, brother, nephew) were immediately empowered to make decisions for their family member, even though the John Mahoney character had discussed with his lover their plans, and was in a better situation to carry out his last wishes, rather than just being pushed aside by the family who did not approve of their brothers lifestyle choices.

I don't believe, nor can I understand how some do, that bringing a child into a gay household will make that child gay, a deviant or some kind of social outcast. The children that come from loving homes, with supportive parents have just a good a chance to succeed as those children that come from a similar home with different sex parents. A child raised in an abusive, or broken home will always face a larger hurdle, regardless of the sex of their parents.

But again, maybe it is just me.