Reply #13: Well, it matters in terms of advancing the cause.

[beachmom]

When more and more people stand up and say they are for gay marriage, then it becomes more acceptable. Even more so when an elected official as prominent as Sen. Kerry.

But never mind. Pardon me my wanting to help a minority who have higher rates of poverty, by the way, than their heterosexual counterparts:

http://www.mydesert.com/article/20090321/NEWS01/903210318/-1/newsfront

One in five children living in a same-sex household is poor compared to one in 10 for children in opposite-sex married families.

Nationally, 24 percent of lesbians and bisexual women are poor compared to 19 percent of heterosexual women.

15 percent of gay and bisexual men nationally are poor compared to 13 percent of heterosexual men.

Researchers theorized gays and lesbians could be more vulnerable to poverty because of employment discrimination, lack of insurance, less family support and no access to marriage and the more than 1,100 rights and benefits it affords.