CM, have I welcomed you? I hope so. Nice to meet you and appreciate your words here.
I don't disagree with you at all.
I posted those two articles because I find them an interesting dialog within the gay community.
I am not gay myself but have many gay friends and care very much about this issue.
I have watched this thread unfold from the beginning and have learned much from it.
I adamantly disapprove of religion and government mixing too and think the 'marriage ceremony' is simply symbolic.
I am in favor of equal rights for everybody.
I hope it didn't seem that I was posting that second article in agreement with said article.
I only posted because I found both view points interesting.
The 'rite' of marriage is so absorbed in our community that even non religious people (like me) have trouble sometimes (like me at one time) with the concept that it is or should be separate from legislation.
