Yes.

There are leaders and followers in this world and some people are much more comfortable following the lead of others. They prefer the 'security' that comes with knowing they will have a steady cheque, benefits and retirement over the uncertainty of striking out on their own.

The problem is that your link is from 2007 and his is from 2008.

Current research trumps yours. neener neener neener.

How many times have you neglected to 'spell check' your bank account?

If failure to properly spell carried the same penalty as failing to carry a 1, people would place more consideration on their written conversations.

I agree! Just because someone is throwing food whilst debating or hurling expletives, that has nothing to do with the actual debate. We should dodge the food, ignore the insults and pay attention to what they're saying.

Yes.

1. There's a built in spell check. Learn to use it.

Only if I can call myself a Scot-Chippewa-Irish-Cherokee and make everyone else do the same.

I think the major point that everyone is missing is that few people would get married if it were not for the benefits attached to such a union. If you remove the benefits, would anyone wish to get married?

Another point of issue, marriage is a religious icon. Why is the government issuing benefits based on the edicts of established religion? If people wish to get married or divorced, why does Uncle Sam or any of the 50 states really care?

So to summarize, Gay marriage does hurt us. It hurts us by allowing the government to further violate the constitution by respecting the beliefs of established religion. I vote against Gay marriage and I vote against ANY form of marriage where two people must register their union with the government.

Our forefathers fought against the stamp tax, yet 240 years later the constitution has been raped and the very laws we fought against have been slowly yoked around our necks.