Today’s headlines indicated that the economy is in transition, the DOW was down 200 points , the world is becoming a larger desert, terrorism is plaguing our neighbors to the North, human trafficking exists at incredibly high levels, and we are sending troops to monitor the border of our “land of the free” country. Over 2000 (some say that might even be doubled) soldiers have died in Iraq since we invaded over faux-WMDs and AIDs is 25 years old. Those are headlines from just today, in the past 2 hours. So, what I don’t understand is why Dubya insists on regulating marriage and banning gays from expressing their love for one another? In a world that has so quickly fallen by the wayside…in a country that can barely muster respect from its peers…in a time when all we should be doing is celebrating the little things because the big things have ceased to exist…we are regulating love? The love of two people is what is important, their gender is not. We cannot stop our children from dying and our elders from living in poverty, perhaps the government should focus on social security, Medicare and Medicaid, bringing our troops home, regaining trust from the international community, and keeping our grounds free of terrorists. Conservatives claim they want less government involvement yet they have invited themselves into the lives and homes of same sex couples and settled down-uninvited-on their couches in order to “look out” for what might loosely resemble a wedding band. I am so incredibly disappointed. Let people just love each other regardless of race, creed and gender.