I am for same sex marriage, why shouldn't they be miserable like the rest of us!

There is a prevailing argument among some sectors of the nation who maintain that gay and lesbian oppression pales in comparison to the oppression of slavery, employment discrimination and Jim Crow suffered by African Americans.

The straw man's argument, "my oppression was far worse than yours," is both hurtful and insulting to gays and lesbians. It minimizes and marginalizes the oppression suffered by gays and lesbians today. Additionally, slavery and Jim Crow are over but the refusal to grant marriage rights to gays and lesbians is occurring right now as I write this.

I thought we lived in a country that recognizes and supports the separation of church and state rules. The laws that have been proposed or challenged, such as in NC, pertain to the government's recognition of the union of two adults and how the government will legally relate to these citizens (e.g., tax laws). They do not affect religion in any way. If a religious group chooses to treat the citizens differently, they can do so, so long as they don't break any laws. Please have your panelists address this perspective. It seems to be very straightforward to me.
Also, the claim of tieing marraige to child rearing, as I heard on this program, is spurious, at best. I have not seen anything in the legislation that even mentions children. Should we prohibit parents from divorcing because it has such negative effects on children?

But we shouldn't pick on homosexual persons: it should be a call for all of us to use our sexual faculties correctly. And abortion is a greater crime.

If gays and lesbians want to be as miserable as the rest of us straight married folk, hey why not let them? :-)

Same sex marriage is about families. People have the right to live as a family. The folks who oppose same sex marriage don't respect others families and feelings and religion. What's next - maybe an amendment allowing torture or promoting one religion? Not in my country.

We all knew President Obama supported same-sex marriage, that's how he has acted. Let's hope it costs him the election. We need to see this not in terms of civil rights, but in terms of President Obama's extreme pro-abortion politics: anyone who supports abortion as he does, of course supports same sex marriage.

Same-sex 'marriage' means that marriage is defined without any reference to children. It redefines all marriages in this sense.

But it's not the only sexual mistake around today. There is a return in the Church to natural family planning, and when you see these couples, you see why artificial contraception is a bad idea, and why same-sex 'marriage' isn't real.