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How about Utah? I'm not local so don't know a much...But seriously not throw to prison with 50 lashes as appertizer. Relationships (I didn't say anything about marriage yet) are totally free in this country. Nobody pays attention are you gay, bi, straight or what ever.Same same as local people here say...

Scary to think that some countries would throw you in jail as a criminal, torture

Thailand I hate to think....50 lashes. Life Imprisonment, Torcher?????

Don't please talk about my country :)

Listen to what The Boss says: "The marriage-equality issue should be regonized for what it truly is - a civil right issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equalty under the law."

I couldn't agree more with that statement and urge those who support equal treatment for our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters to let their voices be heard now. -Bruce Springsteen.

So, 54% of my friends here, do you agree what the Boss says?

Why not? It is done here in Canada. Time to get out of the dark ages! LOL

Opinion on gay marriage in the United States has been shifting for years. Now lawmakers are hurrying to catch up.

In less than two weeks, seven senators all from moderate or Republican-leaning states announced their support for gay marriage. Their proclamations reflect a profound political change: For the first time, elected officials from traditionally conservative states are starting to feel it's safer to back gay marriage than risk being the last to join the cause.

"As far as I can tell, political leaders are falling all over themselves to endorse your side of the case," Chief Justice John Roberts told lawyers urging the Supreme Court on Wednesday to strike down a law barring legally married gay couples from receiving federal benefits that other married couples receive.

The country's top court heard two landmark gay marriage cases this week, its first major examination of gay rights in a decade. The focus on the cases obscured the sudden emergence of support among lawmakers across the street in the Capitol.

Among Republicans, whose party platform opposes gay marriage, the shift in position mostly has been limited to former lawmakers and prominent strategists. Still, a change in tone was palpable this month when Sen. Rob Portman, a Republican with a gay son, declared his support.

Rather than criticize Portman, Republican leaders shrugged. Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican Party, cautioned in a USA Today interview that the party should not "act like Old Testament heretics."

"They're reflecting what they're seeing in the polls except the most extreme of the Republican base," former New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, a Republican who supports gay marriage, said in an interview. "From a purely political perspective, if you want to be a leader of the future, you look at the next generation. They are overwhelmingly in favor of this."

On the Democratic side, President Barack Obama came out in support of gay marriage last year. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, a potential contender in 2016, announced her support this month. As support among party leaders builds, Democrats appear wary of being perceived as hold-outs in what both parties are increasingly describing as a civil-rights issue.

In the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, Republican leaders are not wavering publicly from their staunch opposition. In fact, when the Obama administration stopped defending the defence of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as being only between a man and woman, it was House Republicans who defended it in this week's Supreme Court debate.

But other Republicans are shifting support.

"The party realizes they are on the losing side of some of these issues," said former Rep. Jim Kolbe, a Republican who came out as gay in 1996 while in office. He will mark another milestone in May, when he and his longtime partner get married in Washington, where gay marriage is legal.

Kolbe and Whitman joined dozens of other prominent Republicans in signing a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Supreme Court to strike down the law barring federal recognition of gay marriages.

But with House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, still defending the law and social conservative groups vowing payback for those who abandon it, prospects are slim that Congress will move any time soon to repeal it on its own.

When Gallup first asked in polls about gay marriages, in 1996, just 27 per cent felt they should be valid. That figure climbed to 44 per cent two years ago, and reached a majority by last November, when 53 per cent said gay marriages should be recognized.

Even among Republicans, support has grown by 14 percentage points since 1996, although there's been no significant movement among Republicans since 2010, when 28 per cent backed legal marriage.

"A lot of Republicans have come to the conclusion we can't live one life in private but advocate another life in public," said Republican strategist Alex Castellanos. "We all know families who are loving parents of the same gender who are raising great kids."

-AP

To me its the same as The Black Civil rights Movement who fought to Vote ,Sit anyware on a Bus,Share the same bathrooms as whites or Drink in the same Bar. We should Campaign and protest for the Right to stand in a church and get Married. Many Heterosexuals who get Married
have raised Kids that turn out to be Criminals who were Bad parents, so they cant Judge Gay people as if there Better than them.

no we are not. not as a whole country

Ron, i'm not talking about gay marriage, i'm talking about the general acceptance. why people are looking with a different view on gay couples? for me there is no difference. when two people are in love, they should show their feelings wherever they want without any fear to get excluded or refused. first of all we need the general acceptance.

Hmmm...coolcock.....im Rheinland gibt's keine Unterschiede ...ummm....momentan kännst Du in Köln gleichgeschlächtlich Heiraten...sei doch nichtr so kompliziert...das geht...hast Du noch irgendwelche Fragen...???

i think it's not only an american question. When Tommi and me are kissing or hugging in public, some people turn around and some people looking/starring at us “how sweet, so cute” , ok we are still young, but i don’t want to know how they will react if we’re 10 or 15 years older and the world didn’t change. We don’t give a damn on other people words or views. We love to share and show our feelings like any other couple in this world ... and sorry, i really don’t know why everyone makes a different between straight and gay or whatever you love.

a recent political event here is sarting to show a huge amount of support with our younger generation. (age 15-20) speaking out for gay marriage. but we still have the dumb fucks that go against it just for attention or whatever. but for the most part morally everyone knows how right it really is. its still very hard to be gay here. it effects way too many of my actions :/

but i would like to know what its like to be a gay cupple in europe