Prop 8, Gay Marriage, and Why Can't People Mind Their Own Business?

I just spent a little time over at Andrew Sullivan's blog, looking at all the photos and reports coming in from the hundreds of protests organized throughout the country in protest of the passage of Prop 8 in California and other restrictions against gay and lesbian freedoms in other states.

I have always had what I think is a very simple and straightforward question about this: Why is it my business if someone wants to get married? Isn't that something that really is only the business of the two people engaging in marriage? Okay, maybe their families and closest friends can have some impact - though no real say, because, like, it's none of their business, either - but really, this is a private issue. Gays and lesbians marrying has absolutely nothing to do with how YOU (or I) choose to lead your life, get married in your own right, have or adopt and then raise your children. I will never understand why anyone thinks they have the right to tell me what to do. You can have an opinion...it is, after all, a free country. But what a gay or lesbian couple does has zero impact on YOUR life. Why should it?