U.S. Supreme Court Votes Gay Marriage Constitutional and Legal

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Wonktonodi said:

gergroy said:
I'm fine with this, doesnt bother me in the slightest even though my religion was quite against it. There really isnt any good reason for gay people to not have the right to be married. However, I still look at this whole process as backwards. The problem wasnt that the government wasnt allowing gay marriage, the problem was that the government had any say in who marries who to begin with.

Marriage is a commitment between two people to share their lives together, people shouldnt have to ask the governments permission to do so. Let alone pay the government for the right to it. People should have been fighting to get the government out of marriage all together instead of begging them to control it even more...

people haven't been asking for the government for the right to commit to one another, they have been asking for the government to grant them the same rights and benefits that others who were allowed to marry had. That doesn't give the government anymore control over marriage it just increases the number of people who can get married.

There are so many legal rights and benefits that come from marriage so if you take that institution away what would you replace them with? Would you require people to set them all up individually? If you want to do away with them then you would be taking away peoples rights to make the decisions to make that form of commitment to one another

Indeed, over 1100 to be precise.  Not just rights and benefits, but also responsibilities (next of kin, etc...)