As a former Sgt of Marines, combat veteran and father of a Gay son, I am truly torn on this one. Chief, you are absolutely right, our Corps is "beloved" to us and I think troop moral has to be a primary consideration but I also, know there a many homosexuals that love this country just as I do and would gladly place themselves in harm's way to secure our liberties. I always thought DADT was a pretty good compromise.

I think you and I could have an interesting and respectful conversation all day. My husband is a former marine, combat vet, football, wrestler, lineman, and pretty much about as manly as one can be. I don't doubt that my environment has had some type of influence on all of our kids, but I assure they were not exposed to homosexuality. What I can assure of is that they were exposed to exceptance of all people. If teaching my son to follow the 10 commandments and to try and love his fellow man made him gay, then so be it. There are a lot of worse things he could have become. The main point of everyone's point of view, I believe, has very little to do with being gay. The point is we need to fight the socialist agenda being forced...

If those 3 or 4 don't care why should I? Again, I do think it sounds strange. I wouldn't do it, I would not encourage it. But I truly do not know how I can argue against something that people do, if what they do is not affect ing anyone else. For example abortion kills a fetus, stealing takes from another, denying equal rights prevents others from having the same opportunities. How does 3 or 4 people marrying each other hurt anyone else? I'm not saying it is okay, I am saying I cannot intelligently give you an argument against it. I also certainly am in no place to judge those 3, 4, or 20 people.

Oh, I would agree that a church should not be forced to go against their doctrine. But there are churches that will marry homosexuals and a couple can always chose a judge to marry them.

Jeffrey, for someone reason people aren't happy unless they are juding others and telling them how to live. I don't understand it, but I think this is a much bigger problem than homosexuality.

Rebellious Monk- If we all lived by the advice given in your last sentence what in the world would we talk about on a Saturday afternoon when we had nothing to do. How much simpler our lives would be if we stopped judging and tried loving. Thank you for your words of wisdom. I for one am going to try better right now to love others just as you have suggested.

Not taking it as being a smart alic. Originally my son was exposed to all sorts of cartoons. When he seemed to become so fixed on the Princess movies, we tried to influence him with super hero shows, Power Rangers, Vegie Tales, Thomas the train, etc. We never allowed any of the kids to watch MTV, shows with cursing, or sexual content. My first child is a male on the outside, but he has always acted more like a girl. I have two other boys, they were both brought up the same way. They watched Disney Princess movies. My 12 year-old has played with dolls once or twice when he was little, but he never wanted to be a girl and he is straight. My other son is 4, and he does not have any femal tendencies. I think to suggest something...

Then who among us is righteous enough to judge? I would say none.

Sounds sickening!! But no I can't come up with an argument against it, assuming that the granddaughter and everyone else is involved is of legal age.

Dear Tspoon - I didn't say kids know they are gay, they know they are different. My son was given a cowboy outfit when he was three. He took the pistols out of the holsters, held them above his head, while he twirled around and proclaimed "I'm a fairy and these are my magic wands." When he was given a tonka truck he pretended it was Cindrella's coach. When we no longer let him wear long t-shirts because he pretended they were dresses, he made himself a dress with construction paper and staples. He said he wanted to cut off his male parts. Play with a doll? I wish that was all he had done. Again, the point is he was different. He felt it, he knew it, and people criticized him as early as 3 because of how he played and the things...