It's 2:46 am -- and I can't sleep. I've been up all night trying to understand my failed marriage. We stayed together for no other reason than just to have somebody. Our crappy marriage ended soon enough that it didn't hurt my son to see "mommy and daddy" fighting all the time. We couldn't function together. It seems so silly that our country, one of the most technically adavanced countries, is the furtest behind in civil and equal rights. We'll allow disfunctional straight families to raise children -- through domestic abuse and child abuse -- yet, it's not okay for children to be raised by well-adjusted, hard working, loving same-sex couples. How many children need good, caring, loving homes? How many kids are in a broken down foster homes? I've heard kids can't be placed with same-sex couples because they'll be "sexually abused". Really? REALITY CHECK PEOPLE: Straight couples have abused their foster kids sexually, mentally, and physically. Funny how same-sex couples can't have kids...why? Their relationships last longer -- and love is love. Providing is providing. These kids need to be raised and taught tolerance, who better to do that than a same sex couples. Funny, everyone's so worried about gay marriage -- but we can't deal with our straight divorce. Too worried about a same sex-couple raising a child, but let's forget about the kids without a home, or worse, stuck in a home where they'e being abused. Sick.