Frogprince.....my stance on this issue is on health, but I do understand the concerns of those who feel that re-definition would have a negative effect on the the family structure.

The religious aspect does not bother me in the least, but it does concern a huge body of religious people wordwide, who don't share my atheistic views.

Reserve the smelling salts for your "liberal" friends who are so agitated by the "right" of homosexuals to purloin the word marriage, yet support wholeheartedly an economic system which has inequality at its black heart.

The battle for homosexual rights is a sham, a sop to the conscience of those too cowardly to bring real equality to all.