I have a real hard time getting my mind around this issue. On the one hand, I tend to believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman. However, we seem to have quite a few same sex couples involved in my daughter's elementary school and every one I have met are very nice, smart, professional people who as far as I know love each other and love their children. Also, the guys next door are gay and are two of the best neighbors one could have. Finally, it isn't my job to judge folks and impart my way of life on them any more that I would want it done to me. So, where do I go? I guess I am in the boat with you others that say basically, it doesn't really effect me. However, I was also reading somewhere this morning (I cannot find the article now) that domestic violence is on the rise between gay couples and the article was pushing the point that we don't have enough social support/programs such as counciling for these folks. I don't really think that we need to be setting up more social programs to handle gay/lesbian issues either. Furthermore, if the gay community wants to develop themselves into another minority group and have it based on sexual preference I'm not for that either. So in the end, I guess I am still riding the fence on this one.