How do gays consummate their marriages?

Without consummation, a marriage isn't considered complete. It can be declared invalid and annulled.

The inability to consummate the union is one reason to scoff at the notion of gay marriage. Another pertains to the eagerness of gay couples to lie when taking their wedding vows. One need only look so far as the first homosexual couple to tie the knot in Provincetown to see this latter oxymoronic form of marriage in action.

"[Jonathan Yarbrough] says the concept of forever is 'overrated' and that he, as a bisexual, and [his partner Cody] Rogahn, who is gay, have chosen to enjoy an open marriage. 'I think it's possible to love more than one person and have more than one partner, not in the polygamist sense,' Yarbrough said. 'In our case, it is, we have, an open marriage.'"

So what, exactly, is the point of a marriage if it's "open"? I thought marriage was about exclusivity and monogamy based on an intense love between the parties? The whole gay claim has been that they are able to love each other the same way a husband and wife do... which implies monogamy.

But hey, as Dan's post mentions, without the ability to consummate the marriage and procreate, the "marriage" is not a "marriage" at all, since the couple's relationship is based entirely in selfishness and cannot possibly have the radical self-giving in all facets of life necessary for true love.

Wait. This is the same state that produced great revolutionary heroes like John Adams and Paul Revere, right? This is the state that had prominent citizens dress up as Indians and throw tea into the harbor to protest a pittance of a tax? And the governor and legislators of this proud state (let alone the citizens) just quietly acquiesce in the face of judicial tyranny that even George III would never have dared impose? How shameful.

Geez, a quick check of any Merriam-Webster would have answered this one for you.

Consummate, in its verb form, is defined as: "to make (marital union) complete by sexual intercourse" and sexual intercourse is: "physical sexual contact between individuals that involves the genitalia of at least one person."

Penile/vaginal penetration is called "coitus," and nowhere in the definition of consummate does it mention procreation or coitus - just intercourse. Gay people are perfectly capable of fulfilling the definition of sexual intercourse and thereby consummating their marriage. If you want, I can explain exactly how that's done . . .

"Another pertains to the eagerness of gay couples to lie when taking their wedding vows."

1) Unless they vowed to be sexually and emotionally exclusive, they didn't lie when taking their wedding vows.

2) The eagerness of "gay couples"? Looks like you're talking about one couple here. Perhaps you should do a survey of all the gay couples you know personally (you do know some, don't you?) before jumping to conclusions.