Gay marriage

With gay marriage so heavily in the news lately I felt like sharing my opinion. Let me be open and honest about my feelings regarding gay marriage. The government (or it's people) have no right to tell people what they can and can't do in their own bedroom, and who they can and cant have sex with. That is what gay marriage is all about, telling people what they can and cant do. I will show you legally why I think gay marriage is okay, then morally why it should be okay.

Legally: Gay marriage is a moral or "religious" issue. Religion MUST be separated from government. As long as the GOVERNMENT issues marriage licences they can not discriminate based on sexual preference. Now if licences were not required by the GOVERNMENT, and CHURCHES were responsible for deciding who they would and wouldn't marry then this would be a non-issue. but as long as the GOVERNMENT issues licences to be married, RELIGION can not dictate who can get married OUT SIDE of their church. That's like catholics telling Mormons they cant baptize people because they aren't a real church, gay couples are just that, COUPLES, like you and your wife, or me and mine.

Morally: This is a touchy subject to religious folk, mostly because homosexuality is a sin, but if it's such a HUGE sin why did Jesus never once talk about it in the bible? The truth is that the bible does say that it's a sin to lay with another man. How ever the bible also says that it's okay to rape a virgin as long as you pay her father and then marry her after you rape her (because I'd want to marry the man who raped me). The bible also says that you can beat your children to death if they are disobedient, and many many other morally objectionable things, so I don't use the bible as a moral compass. People are scared of the unknown, and how one man could let another man have sex with him is beyond me. I have never looked at another man and thought "I could tap that..." Which tells me homosexuality is not a choice. Why would someone choose a life of segregation, precaution and struggles for the fun of fooling around with someone of the same sex? couldn't they just fool around with someone who is the opposite gender then them? NO! for the same reason I couldn't have sex with a man they cant, They are not attracted to people of the opposite sex.

"Think of the children!":
As for the people who say "If they get to marry they can adopt kids." or "children need a mom and dad." Well plain and simple screw you! more that 50% of marriages end in divorce, where the children no longer have a "mom and dad" in the same home. Marriage is the unspoken joke in Christianity, religious people have screwed up marriage so badly that it is worthless anyway, let the homo's have it, your sure not taking it seriously. Besides homosexuality and pedophilia are two completely different things. One is two consenting adults having sex, the other is a adult praying on the innocence and gullibility of young children.
Another argument is that if children are raised in a home with homo parents that they will turn out gay. That could not be further than the truth. Studies show that children raised by same sex couples are no more likely to be gay than any other children.

In short there is no logical reason that gay people shouldn't be allowed the same things straight people should. It's out of fear, religious hatred and irrational feelings that we continue to persecute people who are different.