MIXED FEELINGS: George Curry

[George E. Curry is editor-in-chief of the NNPA News Service and BlackPressUSA.com. His most recent book is "The Best of Emerge Magazine," an anthology published by Ballantine Books. He can be reached through his Web site, georgecurry.com.]

As regular readers of this column know, I usually have pretty clear views on most social policy issues. But I confess that I have mixed feelings about same-sex marriages.

...Even Little Richard jokes that God created a union between Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

To thousands, I know this is no joking matter. And while I believe that the government shouldn't sanction gay marriages, I understand why some gays and lesbians want to enjoy the same privileges that married couples covet--the right to make life or death health care decisions for an incapacitated partner, to be entitled to financial proceeds that were jointly created and to be entitled to all benefits extended to a surviving spouse.

...Gays and lesbians need to get real, too. It irks me that so many of them try to equate their struggle with the Civil Rights Movement. ...

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