I Think Its Time To Move

AHHHHH my lovely state of New Jersey. We now deem that same sex "couples" have the same rights as married couples, I guess we are just waiting to see if they will allow same sex marriage. I guess I get confused. Lets try to break this whole thing down a bit. I will be honest, I have not heard many of the reasons that gay couples want 1. the same rights as married couples and 2. the right to marry. Being a guy and always thinking fiscally, one of my guesses may be to be able to be afforded the same benefits that an opposite sex married couple receives. For instance, any tax breaks, filing joint returns, medical benefits or the ability to purchase those for your "partner". From a total outside view, it make sense to me. If I was in love with another guy, we made some sort of commitment to each other, I would want us to the ability to provide for each other the same way my neighbor does, I get it. Here is where it gets dicey. Where does it end?

I have my best friend, his name is also Jim, we have been friends 39 years of our lives. We live in two different states, but still speak on the phone 3 to 4 times a week. I can honestly say I love him. If we both didn't have families, we could easily live under the same roof and get along great. We would always care about each others well being. The only thing that would make us different from a gay couple is we wouldn't be having sex. Heck, you couldn't even say you need to sleep in the same bed, because when we were in our early 20's, we did that on a summer vacation because it was the only room in the hotel that the AC worked!!!! My point being, shouldn't we be eligible then for all benefits? My same friend has two older Aunts that live together, and have for years, they never married. Shouldn't they be given those rights as well? Shoot, probably would have saved them a ton of dough over the years.

Do you want to stop all the debate, I do. The first step is to get rid of common-law marriage, either you make a fuckin commitment or you don't. If you aren't married, then you aren't married. Once that is gone, you have an easier way to define marriage. Prior to "gay activism" the dictionary definition of a marriage was this : the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law. Now there is second line stating person of the same sex as well. Anyway, the question would be going all the wayyyyyyyy back in time, why did people marry? I don't have the exact reason why, but my guess is that it had something to do with pro-creation more than it did wanting to spend your life with someone. The continuation of a blood line, the continuation of mankind. Here's a newsflash, put three gay male couples on an island, come back in 60 years and let me know how well the civilization is thriving. Shoot, go ahead and make it 100 couples, maybe that will give mankind a better chance to thrive.

This is not an anti-gay post. I may not agree with the lifestyle, but I have no right to tell someone how to live. At some point though, the U.S. has to draw the line on issues, not just this one. Hate to break the news to ya, but our founding fathers would be spinning in their graves if they knew how bastardized their original model for this country has become. Have we made a lot of changes for the better? We sure have, but don't fall into the mistake of thinking that all change is good.