Gay Marriage Debate

I've written too much about this already. But I want everyone who cares about this issue, pro or con, to read this transcript of Larry King Live. At the end, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsome summed it very nicely.

KING: Mayor, did you realize the firestorm that would happen when you did this?

NEWSOM: You know, not going into it, but looking back, of course, because people just want what I have, and that's respect and dignity to live -- to be able to live together in a bond and loving relationship, to have the same privileges and obligations that I do as a married man, and that to me is affirming life, affirming humanity, and affirming family, and it's the kind of a world that I think we all want to live in eventually, and I hope that there's a day we look back with disbelief at the discussion we had tonight, as we look back with disbelief at the discussion they had during the '40s, '50s and '60s on the issues of interracial marriage.

Let's look back up a bit and check out what the other side has to say.

KING: Civil union between two people.

MUSGRAVE: It's destroying the definition of marriage will do exactly that. That's why we need a federal marriage amendment, we need a federal definition to keep federal judges and state judges from forcing gay marriage and who knows what else on this country, and four judges in Massachusetts, arrogant in their black robes, should not be allowed to force gay marriage on this country.

Yes, what will those crazy judges foist upon us next? One can only wonder.

A friend summed it up over irc: "the bottom line is you're gay and we hate you."