Iowa and Vermont Legalize Gay Marriage: My Opinion

Over the past few days I've been watching the news, and I found out in that time that both Iowa and Vermont legalized gay marriage. In the case of Iowa, it was legalized by the state's Supreme Court. Vermont had it legalized by the legislature. It isn't any surprise that Vermont legalized gay marriage, Iowa is. These things aside, here is my opinion on the subject.

I don't see what government has to do with marriage anyway. It is just a contract, it is nothing else. I don't understand why people are so obsessed with stopping two men or two women from entering into a legal contract. I am not at all gay, but if entering into a contract with another male helped me from a monetary standpoint I would, and that is that. Gay marriage has absolutely nothing to do with this, nor does the morality of homosexuality. If two nuns living together want to enter into the same contract with the benefits of marriage then they can. If three, four, five, six, seven, or a million people want to enter into the same contract they can.

In the end I don't even see what government has to do with marriage. We privatize all kinds of things in this country, whether it is toll roads, the town dump, etc. People seriously discuss privatizing Amtrak and even Social Security. If we do, then why don't we seriously discuss privatizing marriage. Marriage is already private to begin with. I don't know why people want to even turn marriage into a public issue.

As far as I can say, if you (o social conservatives) have wasted all that time and money to defeat something as stupid as a contract between two men then that is life that you have thrown down the toilet. This contract has nothing to do with whether or not homosexuality is moral or not. It isn't like abortion which is a social conservative concern that actually affects people. The bottom line is that gay marriage is nobody's business. I don't care if Iowa or Vermont legalize gay marriage, and I won't care if my state does, or if all 50 states do. Then again I don't care if they don't either, considering that I am not gay. Of course, if you are gay maybe you do care.

Nonnetheless, it all seems to be going through without much fanfare. I think part of it has to do with the economy, meaning that people are more concerned about the bottom line in times like these than other affairs. I also think a lot of it has to do with the fact that people are finally waking up and realizing how irrelevant gay marriage is to their daily lives, and saying, "The heck with it, we may as well let 'em." And that is my opinion on gay marriage.