Reasonable Argument

Now, I'm not a republican, but it's good to see a reasonable argument in favor of Gay Marriage coming from one, especially if it's John McCain's daughter.

The republican party has been waging a war against the gay marriage in the name of protecting the institution of marriage. Okay...Is this a religious thing I don't understand? Doing a little research will show that between 41 and 50% of first marriages, 60 to 67% of second marriages, and 73% of third marriages all end in divorce. The blanket phrase "half of all marriages end in divorce", while basically accurate, tends to skew the actual data, and my research site has a good breakdown-by-age.

Now, not agreeing with homosexuality on principle or religious grounds is one thing (I can't say I understand that, but I have some loved ones who do), but how that translates to revoking civil rights I'll never understand.

I support Gay Marriage. I've included an argument FOR gay marriage, not by some other lefty crack-pot, but from a GOPer, and the last republican Presidential candidate's daughter. The main ideas are: this is about Civil Rights, not how you feel about homosexuality. In "America", you know the one, the mythical land of Republican dreams and freedoms and equality, what the GOP is essentially saying is "you, the group of couples with mixed parts, you get these rights" and "you, the group of couples with the same parts, you don't, because you have the same parts."

Protecting an institution where, in the big picture, over half will fail doesn't seem the right way to argue against allowing the rights to translate over to another group.

Do you think that when the Civil Rights Act was initiated most Americans had nothing but positive feelings toward the black people the Act was designed to help? Did you know that 2/3 of the people living in the colonies didn't want to break away from Britain in the 1770s? Keeping the constituencies happy shouldn't be the gauge right now. This is about Civil Rights and/or denying them.