Christine Quinn and Mayor Bloomberg lend support to anti-DOMA federal case

Irish pjk Basically your saying you tolerate gays. Better But you dont want equality. As for marriage alwasy being man and woman, in the old old days it was usually man and many women. Still believed in by the mormons. And it was also re inter-racial, always for so long forbidden. But strangely enough only when it was the black man and the white woman, not the reverse BAsically marriage has always had lots of unequal if not downright freaky scenes. Gays having marriage rights (not rites) may well help to embarrass the 50% of us str8s who are destroying the institution. Also sorry if the words change eg a man and his husband etc. There I think you just need to get used to change. Whioh for most good people who have the anti -words "no gay marriage" is their real problem. If nothing changed we'd still be living in the dark ages. 1000 years of zero social and ecnomic progress while the catholic church caballed with catholic kings to keep Europe in bondage. And a bloody mess it was to break that "religious freedom" The anythhing but holy Inquisition of the 1500s, and it even extended to the french revolution of the late 1700s. BTW where in the world did you come up with the two fruits argument? Talk about analogies. if thats the best you can do, thats kind of fantasy land. Or are you actually calling two ss gays fruits, which is an a common insult? Shame on you

I will comment on this controversial subject. I DO support most of DOMA, and agree with irishpjk & mairint. However, some changes are in order, such as the unfair burden placed on Edie Windsor, concerning estate taxes. Also, there is just concern regarding gay partners not being eligible for benefits given to heterosexual couples, such as medical coverage. Bill Gates, of Microsoft, gives these benefits to homosexual couples, provided they have a valid partnership. Heterosexual couples have to marry, in order to receive them. I retired from a N.Y. State Agency, which does extend these benefits to gay partnerships.

wtf I have no axe to grind with the gay community; I don’t worry about or bother them. One problem I do have is the changes they want to make to the meaning of certain words. The word marriage has always meant male and female, the word wife means the female partner, the word husband means the male partner. So when I am talking to a man and he says to me that is my husband my assumption is he is at least confused. In my book two partners of the same sex will never be husband and wife. If I have an apple and a banana I have two fruits not a pair of bananas. I don’t know how to make it any clearer than that.

GOOD FOR THEM....DOMA IS A BAD LAW...AND NEEDS A COMPLETE "REPEAL"...SAME-SEX COUPLES SHOULD ALL THE SAME RIGHTS AND PROTECTIONS, THAT HETROSEXUALS TAKE FOR GRANTED. ALISA