Surrounded by Idiots

I'm taking a Political Science class online and we all had to post a short blurb about ourselves and put up a website that we thought the class could benefit from.  I was shocked at how many students put up conservative sites like, "Focus on the Family".  Are you f-ing kidding me?  Visiting a prejudicial site full of hatred and lobbying to keep things like the pilgrims had it is supposed to help me with politics how exactly?

Most of the students in this class, are stay-at-home moms with 3-5 kids who want to get their degree but are too busy pumping out babies for their husbands to actually go to class.  When I took a critical thinking class last year, the students were decidedly liberal and non-judgmental.  Apparently the judging ones stay under their rocks at home where it's safer.

Our most recent assignment was to write a one page paper on a controversial issue.  I'm sure you all gathered that I wrote mine on gay marriage.  Well, to quote Jim Neighbors, "Surprise, surprise, surprise!" two students wrote anti-gay marriage papers and three chimed in with agreement.  These people are so misinformed it isn't even funny.  One line that I gave back to one of the authors was this:

"I find it humorous that when we discuss marriage, it's all white dresses and flowers, caterers, spiritual bonding in front of God.  But when we dissolve the marriage in divorce, it's attorneys and 'Don't let that bitch take my stuff!'"

The fact is, marriage is a legal entity which forms a legal relationship and divorce dissolves that relationship.  Gay people are looking for marriage instead of civil unions because marriage has Federal implications while Civil Unions are State granted rights.  As I posed to a classmate, how would you feel if I told you that you could marry your wife in CA but to stay married, you needed to stay in CA?  If she gets a job promotion in another state, tough.  If you move, you lose your protections and benefits.  Still seem fair?

The "M" word is just a damned word.  It's a word that is already on the books in every state.  It's rights transfer from state to state via the Full Faith and Credit clause of the U.S. Constitution.  So we either amend the wording of thousands and thousands of state laws or we just allow gays to get married and use the laws already on the books.  I ask you:  Which seems more logical?