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NOS2Go4Me,Mar 22 2006, 12:48 PM Wrote:If you haven't figured out by now that I love my openly-gay brother-in-law as much as my own brothers and can't understand the rest, you're quite far removed from the ability to tell me what I feel and don't feel.[right][snapback]176347[/snapback][/right]

If your brother-in-law found another man with whom he wanted to monogamously share the rest of his life with (ie. gay marriage), would you be as happy for him as you would any of your brothers getting married? Because if not, the love IS different.

Old public service announcement:

A boy comes home and tells his Grandpa that his friend Billy called him 'prejudiced.'

Grandpa asks, "Are you?"

The boy says, "I don't know what it means."

Grandpa asks, "Well, who is Billy?" to which the boy replies, "He's my Jewish friend."

Grandpa concludes, "Then you are prejudiced, because you think of Billy as your Jewish friend, and not just your friend."

Once you start to set people apart because they are different, you are diminishing them as human beings. If you admonish Ford because they choose to put Jag and Range Rover ads in gay magazines, you don't feel that gays deserve equal treatment.

Gay marriage, just like hetero marriage, is supposed to be about expression of love -- even moreso than hetero marriage because the financial benefit (or incentives) to a gay marriage is less than that of a hetero one.

Quote:That's all I'm going to say because I don't feel like another week of ban-stick beatings.

I don't see why you'd be afraid of that if you keep the conversation/debate mature. We're not calling (at least I'm not) each other names.