What is your opinion on Same-Sex marrages/couples in New Mexico?

[Lovehound]

Originally Posted by EnjoyEP

<MOD MESSAGE: OK folks...this thread is absolutely fine to stand and the OP had every right to post it as it certainly does relate to New Mexico.

However, ol' EnjoyEP has been around the CD Forum block long enough now to know that topics like this almost always result in deleted posts, edited posts, locked threads, etc.

Thus, as a friendly pre-cursor, if you wish to participate in this thread, by all means do, but YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED to stay within forum Terms of Service. Otherwise, your post will be deleted and more.

We likely all know the merits of the sides of anti-gay marriage and pro-gay marriage in a general sense. For conversation debating that, take it to the Politics & Other Controversies forum. If you wish to debate this on the merits *as it applies to New Mexico*, do so, but keep things cordial, non-personal, and adult-like.

Thanks.

Haha, I sense a form message here.

But for the record, although I'm apposed to gay marriage, I don't see how it has any negative impact on the rest of us heterosexuals.

Why not just live and let live? Nobody is going to force you into gay sex, or forcing you to associate with gay couples, so just how is gay marriage going to hurt the rest of us?

I think this is just like blacks marrying whites or vice versa, back 20-30 years ago. A few decades from now perhaps 1-2 percent of the population will be married gays, and we'll be seeing families with two daddies or two mommies.

Really, who cares? They can't make *YOU* become gay. Do I sense some people here who have their masculinity or femininity at issue? I'm a heterosexual guy. I don't have to bash gays to shore up my masculinity. I know I'm masculine and heterosexual, and I don't need the opinions of others to reassure me.

I'm with California's governator Arnold Schwartznegger. He doesn't like it but he doesn't feel any overriding reason to oppose it, and I feel the same. I don't like gay couples but it's not for me to try and keep them apart. Live and let live.

Besides, gays are interesting people, and they are very nonjudgmental as a group because they know the true meaning of pot calling kettle black. I like gay people for that.

[EnjoyEP]

Sorry folks, but as I feared (and warned...which no one listened to)...this thread has just been general "pro gay marriage" v. "anti gay marriage" and as such, should be held in the Politics & Other Controversies forum. The discussion has been respectful to the most part...it just isn't geographically specific to NM.

We'll close this for now.