This is in response to DocFrance's post a couple pages back (sorry to bring up an old post), but gays want to marry for other reasons than "just paying less taxes."

Here are some scenarios about rights they won't have if they don't get married.

1) A man's homosexual partner has been diagnosed with cancer and gets weaker every day. This man goes to visit his partner in the hospital in his dying days, but the nurse tells him, "Sorry, only spouse and direct family members."

2) Two women have been unable to get married (because of the law), but have been together 3 years. One of the women has an 5 year old from a previous marriage that ended in divorce. Six years pass and the child is now 11 and has learned to love both women as his/her parents. One day, his biological mother dies. But because they weren't married, the other woman the child has been nurtured by does not get custody.

Also, I'm going to post the same thing that I post everywhere else: A black can marry a white, a pedophile can marry an axe murderer, an 18 year old can marry a 90 year old, and to further prove how retarded these anti-gay marriage laws are, a GAY can marry a LESBIAN.