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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (154254)	12/16/2004 4:24:18 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I don't know what kind of laughter I provoked, a genuine belly-laugh or the more derisive kind, but in all seriousness, I am a fairly tolerant person. Gays don't bother me, if they want to be married, I think they should be allowed to be married. Who cares? Why get all worked up about it? The reason I think that the debate is not about "Christian" values is that Christianity tells us to love and accept people as they are, warts and all. Love the sinner, not the sin, and all that jazz. Why some churches have rejected gay priests and ministers is logically incomprehensible to me. The civil union bit is in my estimation a fig leaf. If a couple has a sexual relationship, owns property, presents its face in public as a couple, why not call it what it really is? The Louisiana Civil Code is fairly wise in this aspect. A heterosexual couple that is not civilly married, but lives in "open concubinage" will be given all the benefits of marriage, including the benefits of the community property laws and allowing any children born out of the concubinage to inherit property as if they were children born of a marriage. I suspect that gay couples will eventually find this kind of legal protection within the Code. We were way ahead of the NY and CA palimony business. I am, however, incredibly backward and intolerant about stupidity, ugliness, and amorality. Regardless of religious or sexual orientation.