the joy that is hot button issues...

so here is the deal...i've gotta write a big paper for my political science class on one of those tried and true "hot topic/button/pulsating artery issues." The prof has given us a selected list of said issues...many of them now having been extremly over done over the years (abortion, euthanasia, death penalty, etc). Off of this fine list I have decided on gay marriage for a couple of reasons...the first one being that i dont get the issue....and i like to get in arguements with at least a small working base knowlege. Secondly...i have many gay friends. While most of them could give a flying fuck about thier right to marriage...i hope that i would be fighting a good fight in case one of them does stop going to the club and wants to settle down with that special someone. Third...it would really re-affirm my repulsion for the religious right and thier half witted...at times po-dunk thinking (btw: if anyone knows the roots of the slang po-dunk...please educate me. this came up w/ drinking friends and none of us had a clue). I am digressing.

So again...i dont know much about the issue...i have just checked out four books on the subject (all apparently with both pro and con arguements in them, as well as both sides of the topic in a legal standpoint)...have also bookmarked some sites...(godhatesfagsdotcom not one of them). The material that i have read so far (basically scanned for content) i really dont understand. What i dont understand is why i am reading alot of biblical quotes and what not...i mean--yes, i get it...people think gays/gaysex/gayness is anti-jesus and what not...but why is this being used as the basis for what is seemingly a legal issue? I dont want to go into more detail, because i have read some other questionable things that i could rant on about for days...but i just cannot understand if there is suppose to be a seperation of church and state (rightly so--these two things are on compleatly diffrent planes of existence)...why all the bible thumping? At least give me some figures about how gay marriage will financially bankrupt public schools or cause birth defects in 98% of cases...SOMETHING other then,

"Since homosexual behavior is directly associated with higher rates of promiscuity, physical disease, mental illness, substance abuse, child sexual abuse, and domestic violence, there is no reason to reward such behavior by granting it society's ultimate affirmation--the status of civil marriage--or any of the benefits of marriage."

Because, we all know, there is none of that behavior in a happy, hetrosexual marriage--is there?
Jesus H. Christ...someone give me your comments. I would really like to hear them.
I've realized its very much a part of my personality to...i dunno...hate unfair things. Maybe I am a big fucking hippie...but whatever.

I can hear Phil calling me a "fag-lover" in his sleep.