Finally he admitted that he just didn’t like thinking about two guys “being together.”

I looked over at him, almost 300 pounds, and his wife who’s even bigger… “I don’t really want to think about you two together, either.”

They didn’t think that was funny at all. Looks like I’m not getting invited over there again any time soon.

Entirely apart from that, it’s a promise, in public and in front of witnesses, that you are making a lifetime commitment. That’s a big step and really differentiates the mindset of living together from being a married couple (at least for me).

Finally, it’s a ritual, one involving family and friends, and celebration. Rituals are important to humans, it’s how we tell each other something is important.

I’ve seen some really shitty marriages, marriages that made a mockery of the institution. I don’t see why a loving, caring, commited same-sex couple CAN’T take that step, when there is absolutely no filter on the kinds of marriages anyone else can jump into.

And finally, because I want to get off this soapbox, it seems to me that although dozens of arguments are thrown up against it (biblical, pro-family, etc.) they all seem to smack of hindsight rationalization: People have decided they just don’t want gay marriage, because it’s icky, and so they find reasons to justify their prejudice from whatever source they can.

My $0.02.

But anyway, as long as gay marriage opens the door, I want to marry my poodle. He’s the most loyal, consistent companion I’ve ever met.

11) Gay marriage undermines too many of our nation’s most precious institutions like gay orgies and anonymous same-sex liaisons.

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