Marriage should not be an issue of sexual orientation or religion. It's an issue of choice. Every individual, regardless of sexual orientation or religion, should have the CHOICE to marry or not marry the person they love. How fortunate for those who choose to be with someone of the opposite sex that in our country those in power allow you to make that choice on an individual basis. How unfortunate for those who choose to be with someone of the same sex that those in power discrimate against them by denying them the right to make that individual choice. That's what this film is about - the CHOICE to marry (or not marry) the individual you want to be with.

This bothers me. Does pleading the cause of gay marriage have to mean forgetting the problematic kinds of gender transactions that come with the history of state-sanctioned wedlock? The gentleman in this film does not, in fact, ask 260 million people permission to marry-- he asks them for possession of "Meghan." Does this seem f---ed up to anyone else?

Yet again, the gay rights movement has used a really difficult and overwrought rhetoric in which to couch their arguments for, as Howard Stern puts it, one of heterosexuality's "worst institutions."

Nice film. I love the camera angles. Yeah it would piss me off pretty bad if I had to ask 250 million people if I can marry my woman. But C'mon men or women marrying? I have no problem with homosexuals but I am totally against them getting married. Okay alot of us have accepted you just like you wanted. Now you want to change the sacred law of marriage? The definition of marriage is the holy unioun between a man and a woman. Not a man and a man. I'm an American down to the soles of my shoes. So you probably aren't surprised when I say NOT IN MY BACK YARD. This countyr is going to hell in a hand basket. Thank God for president Bush, I know he doesn't stand for this. And like someone already said I'm pretty sure God ain't too happy with it either. You're here, you're queer and we're used to it, but why do you have to try and defile a sacred thing. Luckily I'm not a dictator, it would be illegal in every state.

It's not a religious issue at all. It's a basic human issue, so save your religious perspective. You're the one who discriminates by saying that god is the most important person to ask.

Have you talked with him lately? Like, a real conversation? Grabbed a cup of coffee with him and heard him say, "you know, those people there—they shouldn't be able to marry." We just want to share our life with someone we love—just like you.

Anyway...

On the basis of this film. It's a work of brilliance and an amazing way to handle this subject. Because, that's basically what we have to do... sad but, true. We're discriminated because of someone else's belief system—that's not fair.

So, thank you Vance, you did a wonderful job.

I feel that this was an interesting film and it should not matter who you marry. I liked how the film did not throw there message in your face but rather let the viewer come to there own conclusion.

Seems like the only one not asked is the only one that matters at all. God.

This is terrific. I feel pretty lousy that I can't marry the person I chose.

Permission is excellent. Right to the point,,,The way this country is being "led," we'll all have to report what we have for breakfast, then ask permission to eat.

Permission

This made me cry. It cuts to the heart of what the marriage debate is about in the US (and was about in Canada). Why must we have to plead for the same things that the mainsteam population takes for granted.

And speaking from the Canadian perspective, even though I don't think that marriage (for me it's emulating mainstream culture and fading to the background) is the future of post queer culture, it has been the final indispensable tool in ending huge nasty chunks of institutionalized discrimination here. They can't say we don't deserve it, in almost any context. That changes the ground.

That (living in a different Canada [even Steven Harper can't change that]) SpencerBear

Will someone please post the "Permission" video on YouTube? GoogleVideo says the video is not available. Thanks!

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