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Originally Posted by Ron61

Normal pertains more to the standards of an area than any one persons deciding what he thinks is normal. Webster:

Normal: A rule conforming with or constituting an accepted standard, model, or pattern corresponding to the median or average of a large group in type, appearance, achievement, function, or development and etc.

So what is normal for one place may not be for another. And no one person can make that determination it would seem.

Ron

Ron,
Interesting point. We seem to be approaching gay marriage on a regional basis. I have no problem with that, and it makes a certain amount of sense anyway. The states that lean towards allowing gays the same rights (marriage/civil unions) as heteros tend to be the more populated states. I think that the people in most of those states have learned how to mind their own business a bit better because their neighbour is often living just a few feet from them. They may have to deal with a huge variety of people on a daily basis that gays just might not be a big deal, or even something that ever concerns them.

Steve

[Ron61]

Steve,

I have mixed feelings about gay marriage, mostly from my religious beliefs. I have worked with and around gays all of my working life and found both the men and women to be just people for the most part. They have the same radical fringe that all groups have. Working in San Francisco a lot, I really got to know more abut them as 3 of every 4 people working there were gay. One of the best people I ever worked with was gay and a concert pianist. None of them ever made any attempts to bother me and I never said anything derogatory about them. Despite our completely different lifestyles and beliefs, we managed to co-exist and work together with no problems. I still can't quite go along with the gay marriage bit though and they already get every benefit that anyone else out here does. I am not condemning nor judging them. Just stating my personal experiences with them. Heck, in San Francisco it could be called normal for you to see a man dressed as a woman walking down the street. Yet up here in the remote wilderness, that would be far from normal.

Ron