My two cents-sine everyone keeps talking about it.

Last night on Jon Stewart, he noted to Huck that the religious rights and choosing of religions are protected. The right to choose whom you love and marry, are not.

Stewart: "Marriage has evolved greatly over those five thousand years, from a property arrangement, polygamy. We've redefined it constantly. It used to be that people of different races could not marry. It strikes me as very convenient to go back to the bible and say, 'Hey man, we gotta look at the way they define marriage.'"

Huck: "If we change the definition, we really would have to change it to accommodate all lifestyles. I mean, we'd have to say to the guy in west Texas who had twenty-seven wives 'that's okay'"

Ummm... no, Huckleberry... you don't. I'd settle for a definition of two individuals of the legal age of consent entering into a legal and binding partnership - how's that for a nice, easy to understand, top-level definition? The vast majority of the people who are pushing for equal rights in this arena are not trying to get polygamy accepted as part of the definition of marriage so quit trying to push that on us as a lame excuse as to why you're against updating the definition. Quit saying that people are going to marry animals. Quit quoting marriage as the most sacred institution in this country when the divorce rate is so fucking high. Why don't you admit to the opinion that you believe homosexuality to be a disease, the Devil's Work or a fad or a genetic mutation that the "victims" should either be cured or wiped out?

Huck: "There is a big difference between a person being black and a person practicing a lifestyle."

Ummm... no, being gay isn't a lifestyle you bigoted, ignorant, asshat. It's about gender preference, it's about who you love, it's not some "fad" or "lifestyle" that you can turn on and off like a switch. It's not some secret kink - it's about the qualities that you are attracted to being in someone who happens to be of the same gender. Have you ever even tried talking to a homosexual about what it's about? Have you ever actually given them a fair chance to explain their preferences?

If people say Gay Marriage is wrong because God and the Bible say marriage means one man and one woman, how come THEIR choice of THEIR religion overshadows someone else's so-called "choice" in behaviour? Assuming of course it is a choice, which i don't think it is?

But even if you think being gay is a choice people make, being religious is also a choice people make...So how come one trumps the other?

If I can have several groups of Jehovah's Witnesses in my house over the course of my life and openly and calmly discuss the differences between our religious beliefs without either of us calling the other wrong or trying to convert the other, you can sure as hell get off your moral high horse and try to do the same with people of a different gender preference. Even for a lot of religious people who believe that being gay is a "choice" and you can just as easily "choose" the correct lifestyle as decreed by God (the God of their choice I might add), it's interesting that their RELIGIOUS choice and rights preclude the rights of someone else. It's a completely circular argument.

As for me, I think being gay is like being blue-eyed. You can wear contacts to hide it, but inside, you're still blue-eyed. In which case, forcing a religiously prescribed choice on someone else who has none is even more of a disservice. And whether or not a person thinks being gay is or is not a choice, I don't think 'God Says So' should be the argument lobbied against Gay Marriage when religion and God are also choices and rights protected equally by the constitution.

Stewart: "Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality. The protections that we have for religion? We protect religion and talk about a lifestyle choice. That is absolutely a choice. Gay people don't choose to be gay. At what age did you choose not to be gay?"

Game. Set. Match.