Same Sex Marriage

I've been married, and I can tell you, it was no great shakes.  The "man" I chose turned out to be a liar and a thief.  Liar in that he cheated with a co-worker, denied it when I asked him outright, then lied in court when we were divorcing.  He is a thief in that when we were a couple I deposited one dollar a day in a savings account for my sons, plus they also deposited half of any Christmas, birthday or gift money they received.  We had decided that they could use the money for college or any kind of trade school they wanted.  If they didn't want to do either of those things, they could have the money when they were 26.  I like to hope that by the time you are 26, you have lost the urge to pee through your money.
Their Father was secretly withdrawing the money, and when we divorced, there was less than twelve hundred dollars left.  What kind of low life, cheating sneaking loser must you be to steal from your own children?  When we have the occasional hearing, he always produces an account with about eleven hundred dollars in it.  The fact that the account is at the same bank that his brother uses, or that the amount appears and disappears in time for our hearings is beside the point.
Just because the Judge hearing the case used to be the attorney of his parents, or that he gave my ex five hundred dollars for his race car are absolutely beside the point.  He told me so.
Now with all the thieving and deceit involved in marriage, why would you want that?  What is wrong with a civil union, anyway?  A marriage involves one man and one woman.  It says so in the Bible, and I tend to believe what it says.  A civil union would allow two people to stand in front of their friends in their nice clothes, repeat some words to each other, and wear rings.  They can refer to each other as partners and they should be happy.
It will keep the sanctity of marriage in tact and slow the downward spiral we are experiencing as a society.  I have friends who are homosexuals and I do not believe that they should be kept from protecting each other.  Of course, this could be done with a will and a little planning, but that does require effort.  As for being able to claim survivor benefits, Social Security will be dead in eight years, anyway, who are we kidding?
Call your elected officials, take a public stand on how you feel about things.  You'll thank me later.