I am torn regarding your article. I myself am a lesbian and I am confused about my people (HAHA) wanting so badly to get married (the straights have not done so well with this institution so I don't know why it is so appealing to us). However, I do take umbridge with some of your comments. When the comparison is made about the prejudice against interracial marriages being the same as that against gays marrying that is what is being compared, the prejudice against marrying. You branch into bus riding and toilet going and meal eating and, for the most part, that has not been the comparison nor should it be. Now, having said that I want to recount that when I came out (in 1970) I was blatantly refused housing, fired from a job, seriously subjected to abusive actions from the police and all of this (and more) was done because I was a proud and open lesbian. Now, while I suppose that this may not compare to Rosa Parks and her historic ride on the bus it seems to me that being refused the right of a roof over my head, the right to earn money to feed myself, and the protection of our esteemed puibic protectors as some pretty significant prejudices.