My take on gay marriage.

There is a big debate about gay marriage currently.  I think it's ridiculous that we are voting on this.  If two consenting adults want to get married, do it.  I don't care if they are both male, both female, or one of each.  Truthfully, the marriage could be more than two people and I just don't care.  I think that should also be the governments view.

Call me conservative/libertarian/anarchist if you want, I really believe the government went a little crazy with laws.  Just write laws to punish people for doing something that hurts someone else, or potentially hurt someone else.  Someone speeding could kill someone else, punish them.  Someone has a car without lights, could possibly hurt someone else, punish them.  They're not wearing a seatbelt?  They can only hurt themselves, why punish them?  I wear my seatbelt (and did before it was a law) because I think it's safer in a car with one.  Why do we have so many laws?  Are some of these laws just to further some lawmaker's beliefs and views?  I can not think of any other reason that doesn't smack of the government thinks we the people are stupid.

As for gay marriage, I don't think the federal government should say a damn thing about it.  If a state wants to say yes or no then that state can vote against it.  And I say against it because it doesn't hurt anyone so I don't think it should be illegal.  This debate is basically so the government can tell two people they can do something that doesn't hurt anyone else and unless the two people (three with priest/rabbi/minister/jp) tell someone, nobody else will know.  At what point did we the people not have the ability to do something so trivial?  I don't consider marriage trivial, but to the federal governments point of view it should be trivial.

With all the other things going on this world right now we (and by we I mean the federal government) are spending how much time, effort and tax dollars on a law to let (or not let depending on your opinion) Bob and Bruce (Or Lucy and Betsy) do the exact same thing they would do with a long term relationship.  Only now they have a piece of paper.  How many people are dead because we worried about this instead of people that can hurt others?

Some people say that homosexuality is a sin.  By your standards it's a moral sin and should not be noticed by the government by my standards.  Some people say that gay marriage will destroy the institution of "traditional" marriage.  The only way your marriage can be hurt by Bob and Bruce getting married is if your marriage isn't that great to begin with.