I am also ok with gay marriage. I didn’t used to be. I really had to think about it for a decade. Totally fine with it now. (I’m slow some times.) I thought your analogy between the Mormonism and gay rights was interesting and dead on, Jeff.

Don’t get me started on Polygamy….I have serious issues with people who are so opposed to polygamy on earth, but expect and condone it after death.

Marriage HAS to be recognized by the government. While there is a spiritual and personal dimesnion that should be beyond the scope of government, marriage is also a legal contract between adults. That contract provides some pretty essential rights and privileges that protect privacy, finances, assets and more. This is in my opinion where the real discrimination againts homosexuals is happening. Where I enjoy legal priveleges and protections with my wife in these areas, comitted same sex couples do not.

I don’t believe the institution of marriage should be a goverment issue, I believe it is purely relgious, so why is is government controlled? If you believe it is the goverments duty to regulate marriage I have one question; in the LDS faith why is a marriage outside of the Temple not recognized in the afterlife? The fact that you MUST be married in the Temple to progress suggests to me marriage is PURELY religious, and we all know that pesky thing about church and state.

Tom said it much better than I could, so I’ll just say “Ditto” to his comment!

The proponents of the amendments would reject your framing of this issue as a matter of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. They insist it is a matter of preserving the sacred institution of marriage that has been the foundation of society for thousands of years.

I say it’s about equal protection under the law. People have the right to believe that homosexuality is evil, but they don’t have the right to deny equal rights based on that belief.