agt on Legalize same-sex marriage

It's easy enough to say that marriage shouldn't be political or that it should have nothing to do with government, but that is effectively impossible. In this country, government has regulated marriage for 400 years (that's right...even as they were starving in Jamestown), there's no way that you can take it out of the equation. It's entrenched in our social consciousness that marriage is partly a civil institution.

And honestly, it ought to be a civil institution. Married people are good for society. Statistically speaking, they're more stable, they commit fewer crimes and they're good for the economy. I see no downside to government continuing to regulate and encourage marriage.

So if married people are good for society, then we ought to encourage as many people as possible to be married, no? One way we can do that is by making sure that everyone has, legally anyway, a chance to do so, gay people included.

As far as it being difficult to change society's perception of marriage to include same-sex couples...just because it's difficult doesn't mean that it's bad, or that we shouldn't do it. Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court ruled against a Virginia law that prohibited interracial marriage. We heard the same arguments then about what society accepts and doesn't accept. Let's give society a little more credit for its ability to change.