Mike...great post, but me thinks you're a bit guilty of mixing up rights with privileges when you compare marriage licenses with business and driving licenses.
And while CDC is quick to mount a stone outcropping with finger pointed while he screams "Sodomites!" (which in some Southern States can mean simply allowing a female to be on top), the fact of the matter is that the debate is a political and moral one, regardless of who is pushing it.
Personally, I could care less who's screwing who and how they screw, and there are few here who are more "conservative" than me. I happen to know more than a few conservative gays, and it troubles me that they feel they have to choose between their political/economic positions (Republican) and their anal diversions (Democrat). It also bothers me that insurance companies, retirement plans and credit providers do, in fact, distinguish between married and unmarried partners in providing benefits/protections, even in states allowing for civil unions.
I guess I'm conservative enough to not only want government to get the phuk out of everyone's life, stay off their property, leave their guns alone, stop stealing their money...but also to stay out of their bed.
