Deozaan: I'm not going to claim I know a truckload about global warming, but fact is that it's happening and very noticable - the winters in Denmark are very different now than 5 years ago. School vacations have been moved because of climate changes. Ice is melting at greenland, and at a faster/accelerating rate that's pretty unnerving. Whether you believe it's caused by man or not (I personally believe we've at least influenced the trend negatively), we definitely should try to do something about it, because things aren't going to be nice when the water levels rise and the deserts spread.
Gay marriage is probably not something that should be discussed here at DC

- I can't see a problem with gay people getting most of the civil rights as "
normal" people, but since the religious nutjobs don't tend to approve, gay marriages could be moved to the city hall...
Illegal immigration is a problem, but I wonder what would happen to the US economy if all the
slave underpaid workers were thrown out of the country; face it, how many jobs are filled that no sane person would take? Construction business, repetitive packing jobs, dish cleaning, ...