how do we get gay marriage legalized throughout  the  whole  united  states?
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I think that with time, this will become the accepted norm.\n\nHopefully fifty years from now our current situation will seem as ridiculous as not allowing mixed race marriages.\n\nHow to acheive this goal is difficult, because most of us who are pro-gay marriage live in places where most of our neighbors agree with us.\n\nIt becomes incumbent upon pro-gay people in the so-called "red states" to get the word out, write their congress people and try to expand people's minds to accept that tolerance for gays is the only acceptable way to look at things.\n\nIn the meantime, just be vocal in your support. I think, and hope, that it is just a matter of time. \n\nWe need to stand up and say that people like Sam Brownback and Fred Phelps are *wrong* and that we will not stand for their intolerance.
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Gay marriage is legal in The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and Canada.\n\nIn the U.S. it is legal only in Massachusetts.\n\nOther countries, such as the UK have legal civil unions which give many of the benefits of marriage.
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We have tried to get it legalized but the government is very slow when it comes to changing the law. Hopefully, polygamy will be legal by 2008. I hope you agree that this is good news, even if we have to wait awhile.
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not enough. when all states are pro gay that wil be enough
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When hate-mongering 'christian' bigots stop campaigning against basic equal rights.  \nWhen you, and others like you, start demanding that your representatives remove all barriers to two people in love being able to marry.\nWhen New York upholds the founding principle of the separation of church and state this country was founded on.\n\nIn short, hopefully soon!  :o)
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No law has been passed in any state allowing same sex marriage. The only state in which same sex marriage is legal is Massachusetts, and it is legal there because a court ruled that banning homosexuals from marrying was unconstitutional, based on the Massachusetts state constitution.\n\nThe judges' ruling was based on the idea that granting homosexual couples different opportunities is inherently unequal and since the state produced no compelling reason why homosexuals should be forced into this unequal status, it cannot be constitutional.
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If he is already in this country, you just need to get a marriage license, which you can do from your local county clerk. If you need to bring him into the United States, look at the info at the site below.
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same sex marriage is gay.
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Vermont, never.  Too many gay people and progressives for that to happen.  Maybe Missouri.
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I particularly like "Same Sex Unions in Pre Modern Europe" by John Boswell and it would be neat to see his evidence online, perhaps in timeline form.  Gay marriage is a hot topic, and those of us who do history know that this whole "marriage has always been between a man and a woman" thing is total crap.  Plenty of societies have had, allowed, and encouraged same sex marriage, like Native American societies.  I would like to see more about that online.
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BRILLIANT!! THANK YOU FOR BRINGING UP THIS POINT!\nExactly right now we are being governed by a minority.  The MAJORITY govern the MINORITY if a majority of people want gay rights then let it be, if they dont then dont let that happen.  That is essentially how the US system of govt is supposed to work.
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Who knows why our country's doing anything it's doing. I agree with you completely. I'm sorry that you and your partner, as well as all other homosexuals, cannot show your love by marrying one another. Love is love. I don't think it matters if you're a man loving a man, a woman loving a woman, or a man loving a woman. If your heart is true you should be able to get married. Bottom line. I hope that you and your partner will one day have the same rights as the rest of us. And that this prejudice will end; to any degree it can.
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I doubt it, considering we actually had to vote on whether to add a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, even though gay people can't get married to begin with.  \nGeorgia for now is much too conservative (at large) to legalize marijuana.  Maybe that will change someday, maybe for medical reasons at first.
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Everyone in the US has the same rights. There are laws that govern who can be married. Even Canada will not let family members marry. \n\nJust because there isn't a law permitting something doesn't me the US isn't the land of the free.
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Its been quietly going on for some time.  The recent furor over legal same sex marriages has just put it in the public eye.  Lesbian priests, gay marriage, and western civilization hasn't fallen.
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First to legalize gay marriage.
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The current debate is foundational.  It touches on the issues of how the country should be governed.  Whether we should employ democratic and constitutional processes to change the meaning and intent of the US Constitution and the granting of "rights."  Second, the current campaign will not ensure that your brother or any other gay or lesbian persons will actually enjoy the privileges and benefits that current heterosexuals enjoy now as a married couple.  In short, the current campaign for gay marriages is ill-conceived and will cause more harm than good for both homosexuals, bisexuals and heterosexuals.  You need to look beyond the hype and your emotions and become informed.  Your goals are not helped by using the incorrect political process.\n\nThere are several secular and non-religious reasons for rejecting the current process to secure "Marriage" or "Civil Unions" for gay and lesbians. I have summarized the major reasons below. For more indepth analysis, see the reference below.\n\nI.Why the Current Campaign to Establish Gay \nMarriages Is Anti-Democratic and Anti-Constitutional\n\n\nOur government was founded upon the premise that “Governments are instituted among men [and women], deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” The current attempt to change the scope and meaning of the US Constitution in regards to 'gay marriages' by side stepping the amendment process will--in the end--jeopardize everyone's freedom. The attempt to expand the current tradition and meaning of marriage to include same gendered individuals through either a judicial pronouncement of a single state or federal judge--or a decision by a “State” or an Appellate Court, and/or through the edicts of several local politicians--should be seen as an attack on our constitutional democracy from within. \n\nSeeking to expand the rights of a few, by the few, by trouncing on the rights of the governed, should be seen as an act similar to those which occasioned the creation of the “Declaration of Independence.”\n\nIt is our position that expanding the rights of gays and lesbians to enter into marriage should be done through the amendment process that has been used for over 200 years. Seeking to side step the ‘constitutional’ process in favor of expediency is a sign not of enlightenment, patriotism, nor constitutional fidelity, but of hubris—of pride and arrogance. Historical and constitutional integrity requires all Americans to work to defeat the present attempt to expand the U.S. Constitution by the dictates of the few whether or not an individual believes that granting “gay marriages’ is a just cause.\n\nAs stated above and worth mentioning again, it is our position here that the real issue is not whether gays and lesbians should be allowed to marry. The real issues are (1) did the original white male voters, who approved the original articles of the Constitution, mean to include gays and lesbians in the institution of marriage and, if not, (2) did subsequent voters expand marriage to include gays and lesbians and, if not, (3) what are the proper means for expanding the institution of marriage to include gays and lesbians?\n\nAs Americans, we should all believe in the use of the “proper means for a proper end.” The proper means for expanding the rights we have under the US Constitution is to submit such changes to the American people via a proposed Constitutional Amendment. We believe that the US Constitution should only be changed with the consent of the governed as is required in our democracy.\n\nThe current campaign to enact 'gay marriages' without allowing all Americans to exercise their right to vote is counter-productive to maintaining our constitutional form of democracy, divisive to society, a waste of tax payers' dollars and a frivolous use of the time and skills of our elected and judicial officials. We believe that our elected and judicial officials