Clint Eastwood: "I don’t give a f**k about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?!": Do you agree with Clint?

Well, those of us who consider the very word marriage to carry a religious connotation based upon Judeo/Christian heritages. My dear departed grandmother had a saying she liked to use to be sure we understood that words have meaning, "just because the cat has kittens in the oven doesn't make them biscuits".

Marriage, for the entire history of this nation, with the brief exception of Mormons and a few other groups’ brief forays into polygamy, has always been accepted as between a man and a woman. I and many, many like me do not want that definition changed. You may have whatever sectarian contract, ceremonies and other “binding” documents you like – the kitten it is not a biscuit, nor is this homosexual relationship a marriage.

I do not think homosexuality is a basis for successfully raising children or calling the paired persons a “family” makes it so. I do not think children being born without the support of a loving father and mother present is a good thing, nor should the occurrence be celebrated as a choice, but rather the single parent recognized as doing a hero’s work in the absence of a more ideal situation.

What is being hurt. No one individual, but the society as a whole loses a defined entity to look to for success in most people’s lives, that of a mother and father. This should not be one of those, “oh but look at the number of people who come from such backgrounds and they did well”, this leads to calling the exception the rule and the rule the exception. Yes, there are people who are born to crack addicted mothers and somehow manage to become contributing citizens, that logic does not however, lead to believe that we should subject more children to that environment.

I really could care less if you or anyone else wants to have intercourse with thier cat, but that is not a marriage either....it's real yucky, but not marriage and should not be called one.