kaiso:

Get your religion out of your argument, along with your fuzzy thinking and misinformation about what AIDS has to do with this, and you will find you have nothing.

News flash: I am not a Christian, nor am I required to live by the rules of your "god". Ever since we didn't become a theocracy, our LAWS are based on secular reasoning, not your stupid and inconsistent theological drivel.

Another news flash: Lesbians have the very lowest risk of contracting AIDS. I guess we're the only ones who should be able marry, huh?

Kaiso,

You make some great points. The Bible is not a basis for secular law but even if it were I don't think Lesbianism is prohibited even by the Bible.

I think the Biblical basis for saying homosexuality is a "sin" comes primarily from a few lines in Leviticus which state that "a man laying with a man, as with a woman is an abomination" or some other such nonsense. Notice that it says "man laying with man" not "woman laying with woman" so even the Biblical literalists should have no objection to lesbianism as far as I can tell.

Of course the Bible also says slavery is okay and Leviticus also says many other things are abominations such as eating shellfish. Have you noticed any Fundamentalist Christians picketing red lobster? I haven't. I don't see them trying to pass laws banning the eating of shellfish either.

If Fundamentalists really believed that everything in the Bible is literal then they'd have a lot more objections to our society but they seem to pick and choose what they object to and the Bible is just a handy excuse for their prejudice.

I think a lot of people just find the idea of homosexuality strange and think that gays are somehow really different then the rest of us. To be honest I felt this way myself in my younger days until I worked in a place where there were a lot of gay people in commited relationships and you know what? Other then who they were attracted to they weren't much different than me.

I have faith that things will change. Not the kind of "faith" that allows me to believe something because it was written in a book thousands of years ago even though science proves it's wrong, but faith that the American people will realize that discriminating agianst people because of sexual preference is just as wrong as racial discrimination.