Reply #17: Don't understand [View All]

[murphymom]

why a loving, committed relationship between 2 gay people is considered less valid than some of the celebrity marriage "flavor of the month" relationships that get all the press.

The only possible difference that I could see with gay marriage would be in parental rights and responsibilities (as a child born into a gay marriage would be the biological child of only one of the people). Not a lawyer here, but doesn't the law make the assumption that a child born into a marriage is legally the child of the two people, unless some action is taken to prove otherwise? Of course custody and parental responsibilities are dealt with all the time with "blended" families.