Rights & Responsibilities of Marriages in the USA

As far as I'm concerned, If you love sombody (man or woman) and your willing to spend your life with them, sacrafice for them, share all your responsibilities with them, then the same benifits which married persons (traditional) become should be given to same sex marriages. Where the difference should be is if they have Children, their own or adopted. I think marriages with children should receive extra benifits. Why, because they have produced a taxpayer, isnt that where the only difference is?

just me

Thanks for this info, NJ!

Well this why I have been posting to those forums against gay marriage NJ.
It is utterly ridiculous to think that marriage between same sex couples will somehow lead to people wanting to marry their cars or cows and whatever nonsense the opponents always try and bring up.
It will not lead to teaching about sex education in schools,or molesting by gays or anything else harmful to children which they like to claim.
I ask them always "how does it change your life personally"?
Not one has ever come up with an answer. They do try and go on a tangent about everything else except the original question though.
Sheer lunacy!
Really disapointing that people in every state aren't better informed and are so scared of nothing.
cigarbabe:sasmokin:

I have absolutely no idea how Fred and Terrance committing matrimony is going to hurt my marriage one iota. Now Lisa and Julie, weeeeellllll... Sorry, damn chauvinistic gene rearing up again.

Seriously, my wife, while not homophobic, just does not cotton to the whole idea. But when we moved down the street from an all-female couple whose kids quickly became her daughter's good friends, things started to change. We'd invite them over, had drinks and dinner together often, and found at that their values are pretty much the same as ours.

Well, except that I found that one of them was a bit too conservative for my tastes. No, I'm serious. She was a true Republican, and I'm a staunch Independent with Libertarian leanings. We had more arguments about politics than anything else.

Stupid, stupid voting public. Wish I would be alive when the history books will paint this time as another of the "can you believe how close-minded we were back then" eras.