This is an issue of equality, as well as economic. Every year gay couples are denied the needed benefits to help their living and health arrangements. I have witnessed first hand the struggles some gay couples have to face without these benefits. They are the same as the rest of us, they pay taxes, they vote, and they are a part of society. So why should they not be entitled to all of the benefits that heterosexual couples are granted. Interracial marriages were once illegal throughout the U.S. So perhaps sometime soon the 30 states that banned same sex marriages will have it overturned. And I believe that same sex marriages will also someday in the future be legalized. ...