(CBS) Most Americans continue to think there should be some legal recognition of gay and lesbian couples, and 30 percent say same-sex couples should be allowed to marry – the highest number since CBS News began asking this question in 2004.(source – CBS News)

It is something I simply do not understand. I know up here in Canada, the majority support the right of Homosexuals to be married. After all, it really has nothing to do with any particular Church or Religious Order even. Mind you, awhile back the Conservative Jewish Congregation voted overwhelmingly to allow for Gay Rabbi’s as well as to allow for ceremonies between Gay Couples to take place in the Shul, synagogue, church. So that basically was the last piece in the Jewish Group that had been holding out on same sex marriage. Only the super ultra orthodox wing, a few per cent of all Jews, still refuses to acknowledge that two members of the same sex can be in love, and live as a couple.

Fact is that I don’t know of any Gays who are pressing for any Church to let them be married in their facilities, or are pushing for ANY LAW that REQUIRES a Priest, Pastor, Preacher, or whatever to marry them either. They are simply wanting to be treated EQUALLY UNDER THE CIVIL LAWS OF THE COUNTRY. That too is what the California Supreme Court stated in its decision, as a reason for granting Marriage over Civil Unions or Civil Partnerships.

I am legally married. I can honestly say that it has its ups and downs, spiritually, but legally it does really make a difference, specially as I get older. My health is not the greatest, and I can see problems coming up as I get even older, God Willing. So it does help, to know that if I am unable to make my own decisions, that someone who knows me, who loves me, will be there to make those decisions, Plus, they will be ENTITLED TO DO SO.

I also know that fear of the unknown is not good for someone who is ill. By having some piece of mind, in knowing that David will be there to render decisions, and that the hospital MUST LISTEN, is a good thing. That is what this is all about. Not just about benefits or tax breaks, but of having some piece of mind, that any other loving couple has. And why shouldn’t gay men and women have that, under a civil law that proclaims itself to be FOR ALL MEN.

So when I see a figure like only 30% support EQUALITY, it is a bit sad, a bit disheartening. To me, when you can’t see your way to support others having the same rights as you, well, it makes one a bit nervous. What other rights do you believe others who are different than you, who believe differently than you, should not have?

California already offers same-sex couples who register as domestic partners the same legal rights and responsibilities as married spouses, including the right to divorce and sue for child support.

But in the justices’ recent 4-3 decision, they stated that domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage. (source – CBC News)

While some in the GLBT community thought it better to seek something called Civil Union, Domestic Partnership or some other catch phrase, I have maintained that anything less puts whatever rights given to those ‘new agreements’ at risk. At any time, a legislature could alter or remove those rights, without flinching, because after all, it would only apply to the Queers. So why would mainstream America give a damn?

The California Supreme Court seems to agree.

It was the same argument the racists used against granting equality to people of color back in the Sixties, which is why it is important to fight segregation at all times. Separate but Equal does not exist.