Don't you love it when...

Here, let me just say a couple of things, I don't really want to argue about gay marriage. My first husband was gay, I lived with him for two years after I found out because he didn't want a divorce. I went to gay counseling, I went to regular counseling, I had to sit and listen to all how gay men can recognize each other, what they do, what they think, where they go, who does what to whom and everything a straight woman never wanted to understand about gayness. This was also at the time that AIDS was being discovered. He worked at a hospital in ICU where one of the first cases was there dying. I learned all about what the CDC was doing and how it's spread and so on and so forth.

I've been around many gay men and lesbians, my husband's best friend is a lesbian. The only thing I don't know about being gay is what it feels like to be gay. So, I think I've had a lot of experience with gayness, the theories, the ideas and the lifestyle (yes, it is a lifestyle as well as a sexual preference).

I've been remarried to a fantastic man for 26 years and I understand long term relationships, and love. I have a daughter and I have two granddaughters.

So, I seriously doubt that an 18 year old STRAIGHT girl can tell me that I don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to gay or long term relationships. At least if she had been gay she could have had some credibility. Then, there is no comparison between the relationships of gay men and their behavior, and the associated health risks and that of lesbian women. Two entirely different things with the exception that they both like the same sex.