So sad; there is so little happiness in this world that denying it to two people who want to be together is tragic. I am quite heterosexual, so no desire to emulate their sort of union, but quite happy for two to share their lives in peace; and the child would benefit from having two people looking after it. A same-sex union has enough problems without Mrs. Grundy adding more sorrows.

As a Virginia resident who opposed the amendment who worked the polls on election day it both pained and chagrined me that Virginians let bigotry rule the day. There is not much that makes me ashamed of being an American, but I went home bleeding that day, at the short-sighted rush to take human rights away from a particular group. I wonder where those self-satisifed bigots will be when this amendment starts causing problems for heterosexual people. Will they repeal it the first time a woman dies because she's not married to her abuser and couldn't get a restraining order?

So on and so on.

Another opportunity for the pot to call the kettle black? A wonderfully written article but the best the Democrats have to offer in this bonfire of political vanities is the tarnished star of an African-American "civil rights lawyer" (so called) who's only rationale for denying gays the fundamental civil right of marriage are his religious beliefs. When the volk bow down to a media created "superstar" who would use the illicit means of violating the First Amendment to achieve the illicit end of denying civil rights guaranteed under the Fourteenth Amendment then Winston Churchill was right when he stated that "the best argument against democracy is a ten minute conversation with the average voter." There is a pox on both our houses and even the best of the Democrats are 'separate but [not] equal' Dixiecrats who represent the ghost of Jim Crow. Just Google it or see See "Untangling Barack Obama's audacious mumbo jumbo," by John P. Mortimer, at http://ebar.com/common/inc/article_print.php?sec=guest_op&article=73 . Also see http://www.outrightusa.org/ And see
http://outrightlibertarians.blogspot.com/2006/11/obama-doesnt-get-civil-l iberty.html.
Even the UK is onto this deception but the "liberal press" in the US uses silence as an exercise in collaboration to pull the wool over people's eyes.
See http://www.ukgaynews.org.uk/latest.htm for December 3, 2006. Wake up.