Honestly, now that Obama is the nominee........

[strandinthewind]

Originally Posted by ajmccarrell

A lot of states, including my own, DO confer a lot of these rights on gays. We have most of these on the books. A lot of what you said is just plain wrong. Gay partners CAN get protection orders, CAN sue for wrongful death, can get Health Insurance, CAN adopt, etc. If you think that getting married is free, you never had to pay for a wedding! LOL! Anyway, I think we agree more than not. Like I said before, I would like to remove marriage from the legal lexicon. All of these rights should be transferable through contracts, in my prefect world that is.

Just because some rights are conferred by some states (which the R, not D, party overwhelmingly opposes in every way possible mind you) - that does not make it any better in the long run. That is like asking the cop that is beating you to slow down instead of asking him to stop In the end, without Federal protection, gays will continue to be discrimminated against because the current R party uses them as scapegoats. Look at McCain's "gays should never adopt" BS. There is no empirical evidence to support this law no matter how many times McCain says it. So, we see more religious BS.