http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

That is a misconception, though unfortunately a common one. The real situation was that a single scientist on the project posited that it might, all of the others disproved it mathematically, he irresponsibly went to the press, and they kicked him out. That's the truth, though it makes a much less sensational headline.

There is a crucial flaw in your argument: Neither animals nor children can give informed consent, and that is why marriages with them are not permitted. I don't think anyone can argue that homosexual persons are incapable of giving informed consent.

(Group marriages are an entirely different issue, because society has come to associate them both with shady tax manipulation as well as underage 'marriages'. Those were the reasons they were made illegal, rather than any inherent issue. I personally have no interest in group marriages, but feel that they should be permitted provided that 1.) They provide no financial benefit beyond what a single marriage provides [thus eliminating the shady tax manipulation] and 2.) that they follow the existing laws regarding informed consent [thus eliminating the pedophilia sub-issue])

tl;dr:
1.) Restrictions who is eligible for marriage should be limited to issues of consent
2.) Financial benefits from marriage should be identical in all cases

Anything beyond that is not the government's business.

On a side topic, I find myself wondering how long the Republican Party can continue to exist as a single entity, when it has two diametrically opposed motivations. Motivation #1 is 'small government' - that the government should stay out of citizens' private lives. Motivation #2 is the 'moral crusade' - the portion of the party that feels that gay marriage is immoral, etc. These motivations are opposed because while #1 decries any invasion of individuals' right to make their own choices, #2 requires such invasions to succeed.

Backspace or alt+left_arrow for back, alt+right_arrow for forward. HTH, HAND. Firefox for Linux disables backspace acting as back in the default build, but you can re-enable it by setting browser.backspace_action to 0 in about:config. The alt+arrow_key ones work in every browser I've ever used. (IE on Windows, Opera on Windows and Linux, Chrome on Windows and Linux, Firefox on Windows and Linux, Konqueror on Linux, Arora on Linux)

There's a patch floating around if Firefox's bugzilla that uses GStreamer as the backend for the <video> tag, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422540

Why do you think that when I used it, I changed my password, gave them the changed one, and immediately after changed it to a third, unrelated password?

My initial reaction was, "So THAT's how they have such narrow borders on the clue displays!"

Well, yes, but you can put it on a thumb drive at home.