Just for shits and giggles

A friend asked me today what my stance on gay marriage was. While I don't want this to turn into some crazily heated debate, it is my blog and I can write about whatever the hell I want to. :)
My opinion on gay marriage is this: You cannot choose who you fall in love with. Therefore, if you want to exchange vows dedicating your lives to each other, promising to stick together no matter what happens, you have the right to do it. It is my belief that you fall in love with the soul inside the body. In today's world you can make the outside look like whatever you want it to, but the soul(or whatever you want to call it) inside remains the same. You fall in love with the person they are, not what they look like, so who has the right to determine who you can and cannot marry just because you happen to be the same sex? I understand that there are religious...apprehensions about it. And because everyone deserves the right of religious freedom, I say right not privilege, that is completely fair. If a church does not believe two people of the same sex should get married it is their right to exercise their religious freedom and refuse to do so. However, there does need to be a place for gays to get married. After all, we all want the perfect wedding, right? ;) And I do believe that church and state were allegedly separated, so why is there such a big debate on whether or not it should be recognized? I know that the majority of our laws and such are based in religion at some point. However, all men are created equal, plain and simple. Two gay men or two lesbian women getting married and living a happy life together doesn't bother me in the least physically, emotionally, financially, morally or any other -ally. So why can't they?
If you're going to go the "it's a mockery of the sanctity of marriage" route, here's my argument to that: Marriage is already a mockery. Gays have nothing to do with that, nor could they mock it any further.
Not only are there the infamous "Las Vegas marriages" that last no more than hours or days due to drunken-ness or just plain stupidity, here is a link to other "mockers"(Keep in mind, I do not accuse anyone of purposely mocking marriage, I am simply informing you that if your opinion of gays marrying is a mockery, then these marriages must be, by default, mockeries as well.)
http://www.oddee.com/item_97042.aspx