:] Glad to hear the optimism is alive, too.

@rebekah9111 -  why would you seek to not give a group of americans equal rights under the law?

@rebekah9111 -  what isn't right? i think its not right that one group of people is being systematically denied the same rights as others because of who they are attracted to, or identify as.

@rebekah9111 - then why have many churches, christian churches, said that that is not what the scriptures actually say?  How is someone else doing something going to affect you?

@rebekah9111 - but the US is not a Christian nation, it is a nation built on the idea of freedom for all. and equal rights for all.

@rebekah9111 - we are a nation striving towards a better freedom. our founding fathers were generally deists. thomas jefferson wrote an edition of the bible that took out all of the miracles. sure there were some that were Christian. but even at that time, women couldnt vote, and they had slaves. there was never a "better time" in america. we need to do the right thing and let same sex partners marry each other. 

@rebekah9111 - so because you dont want them to get married , they cant? Do they have a say in you getting married?

@rebekah9111 - Does a gay couple, happily married, threaten your marriage, your trust in God, your religious beliefs, your home, or your personal world?

I am a Christian, straight, married, biological mother who firmly believes, with everything that I am, that my children should grow in a world that would never promote prejudice, segregation, or thinly veiled disgust at any other living, breathing, feeling human being - much the same way that Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom Christianity was formed in the attempt to become as "Christ-ian" or Christ-like as humanly possible, had believed. It was popular, in that era, to believe a slave, prostitute, beggar or leper were to be treated as "less than men", or a species separate from the main populace of humans. It was believed in that era to separate nations, as shown in his travels and the references to the denigration of Sumerians - but Christ shared bread and fish, talked amongst them, walked alongside them, whether taxman or beggar, prostitute or nobleman.

This is the basis of Christianity. Those who practice outside it, in the laws of the land - rather than the ideals of Christianity - it is said, "They, too, shall have their reward..."

I've nothing else to add to this.

@mooshpitmatt - my marriage is right their marriage is wrong

@mooshpitmatt - um because i could get married anywhere i want. i dont have to fight for my right to get married because it is  already right and have been ever since adam and eve were created