What you said hurt me, too, because there's something inside me that really wants to be liked and accepted and respected, but I'm still glad you told me how you feel because I also like knowing where I stand with people.

That being said, did you read the comments on this entry before replying?

One reason for my blanket statement was throwing religious, personal, and legal aspects of marriage into one basket and getting confused by that. I still stand by what I said as concerns the religious aspect, but I'm no longer so sure about the legal aspect (which, as I found out, is what the "Marriage is love" is mostly about). I didn't do my homework there.