No education, no culture.

No, but you can see Touchdown Jesus anytime at Notre Dame.

Tebow's not the problem. It's his fans.

I thought the theocrats had outlawed cloning people.

"This is hard to answer as the concepts contained jump around almost at random." This is difficult only if you cannot follow a train of thought.

"Miscegenation" is a word,a noun which names a concept or mental attitude with which most disagree." ...with which most disagree NOW, but not not during the Jim Crow era that didn't end until passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of the 1960s. The word for us has fallen out of favor along with the idea as our culture has accepted black people as equals, and my point here is that the word "gay" has come in into favor in the mainstream as gay people too have gained greater acceptance. Meanings change along with the culture.

"What they want is an EXCEPTION to the rule, an EXTRA right or super right...SPECIAL right..." You're arguing the discredited "special rights" line, which the SCOTUS jettisoned along with Colorado's ill-favored Amendment 2 in Romer v. Evans, 1996. Please note that antigay legal teams have avoided that terminology like the plague ever since they lost that landmark case. Marriage was identified as a fundamental right of citizens in Loving v. Virginia, 1967, the famous case that abolished anti-miscegenation laws nationwide.

'All words are "freighted". That is what gives them meaning.' Again, were the meaning of marriage not so valuable, you and others would not be spending untold time and treasure to reserve it for yourselves at the expense of gay couples. Yes, some people ARE more equal than others in regard to marriage, as an increasing number of Americans are coming to realize. Were it not so, Proposition 8 would not have been overturned on Tuesday, Washington state's legislature would have voted it down yesterday, and six other states and DC would not have already legalized it. Indeed,"marriage" is word much more highly freighted than most in our culture.

As a noun, yes. Please note that only virulently antigay sites like World Net Daily and Catholic News Agency still insist on this label - they use the word gay only in scare-quotes in order to indicate their contempt not only for the term but also for the people. For them, emphasis is on "sexual" as if there is no other aspect than sex to gay people's lives. In that sense, the intent is very much pejorative.

Some good replies here. I'd like to add that many of us non-evangelical, mainline Protestants feel that the word "Christian" has been "hijacked" and "redefined" to identify only those whose Christianity reflects a literal (and cherry-picked, misinterpreted) King James Version worldview. So be it. Words merely reflect the state of the culture at a given point in time. The word "gay" existed for most of the 20th century in the gay subculture before its gradual emergence into the mainstream beginning in the 1950s as gay people stepped more and more boldly in the public sphere. The Stonewall Riots and the founding of the Gay Liberation Front in 1969 brought this word front and center. Its usage thus reflects changes in the culture. So too with "marriage," as this institution broadened its scope to permit middle class women working outside the home (poor married women have always worked) and the joining of interracial couples. Note that the term "miscegenation" is rarely heard outside history books now - do you long to bring back THAT word, too? The point here is, were "marriage" not a word freighted with meaning and value, you and others would not fight so hard to retain it just for yourselves. Marriage conveys a basic right of citizenship, important standing in society and a host of state and Federal privileges. Thus your "live and let live" attitude is anything but that - it's the discredited canard of "separate but equal." Rather, your insistence on keeping "marriage" for yourself, unavailable to same sex couples, simply means that you wish gay people to remain as second class citizens, much as white Southerners used anti-miscegenation laws to keep blacks in an inferior social and legal status.

"Lastly, the TC is to be commended for not using the improper, sugarcoating term "marriage equality" relating to homosexual marriage." Note that the LTC also didn't use the nonsensical phrases "protecting" or "redefining" marriage, either, so while do I suspect the editors side with antigay forces, they were careful to avoid homophobic and divisive language. Moreover, LTC used "gay" rather than "homosexual," modern and non-pejorative terminology which I find commendable. Please keep in mind that just two generations ago, many people in our country opposed interracial marriage...difficult to comprehend today, as will be opposition to same sex marriage in even less time.

Yes, a new theatre with more choices of movies beyond those that cater only to the kiddie or male adolescent demographics.

Rick Santorum continues to insist that marriage is a "privilege" rather than a right of American citizens. I guess he never read the landmark decision on interracial marriage by the SCOTUS, which in Loving v. Virginia, 1967, declared that 'Marriage is one of the "basic civil rights of man," fundamental to our very existence and survival.' Santorum's narrow and frankly bigoted views are too petty and paranoid to merit the office of the President of the United States.