[Tommy]

Steve,

A person can enter into three different legal partnerships with three different people. If it turns out that doing the right thing in one partnership puts pressure on another partnership, that's life. If one of the partnerships goes sour and ends up in court for settlement, that's not unusual. If government would get out of the business of defining marriage and let each pair of adults define their relationship and legal entanglement as they choose, we would be much better off. .... When I grew up in the deep south, the Christian majority considered it immoral to operate a business on Sunday, so there were Blue Laws that prohibited businesses from opeing on Sunday. It didn't matter that some business owners and customers were not Christians and didn't consider opening on Sunday to be immoral. I have no problem with laws that exist to protect public safety, but I don't like laws that attempt to impose the majority's moral standards just because they are the majority.