So... gay marriage? Support it or against it? Yes, I do consider myself a Republican but I do have some liberal views. This would be one of them. I totally and completely support gay marriage! In any case I'm bi-curious so in the event that I ever did (which won't happen, I've found my life-love and person I'll be with FOREver) end up with a woman I'd want to be able to get married to her. It doesn't seem fair that straight people can be joined by the binding law where-as gay or bisexual people cannot.
Look at it in a different way then. Put yourself in their shoes. Say we lived in a predominantly gay society, and gay marriage was allowed but straight marriage was banned. Thus you could not get the same benefits as a lawfully married couple, and could never truly enjoy the bliss of being bound by some power more containing than just the bond you share. Wouldn't you want to be able to get married as a straight person? Unfortunately you're unable to because there is a ban on you getting married to a person of the opposite sex because it's "unlawful" or "ungodly". That doesn't seem fair. Well, think of how gay people feel now-a-days in America. Mmm-hmm, that's right, you wouldn't want to be in that situation, so why do you think they should be put in that situation?
Gay people have every right to get married... after all, if they were put on the planet by some "higher power" then there must be a reason for it. Just becaue they're different than you based on the people of life doesn't mean they should be scorned and not allowed the same benefits or opportunities. Yes, there are many that are going about it completely the wrong way my forcing their gayness down other people's throats, but still... in a country where we are supposed to be free don't you think this is a little odd?
-sigh- They have every much right to it as we do. Forgive the poor grammar.
Amen. I'm with you here. I'm straight but i find it absolutely preposterous that the United States (land of the FREE, home of the brave) is trying its hardest to eliminate gay marriage. As i recall we americans felt the same way about inter-racial marriages at one point too...
"You must be the change you want to see in the world"
- Mahatma Ghandi
I've been for it since the start - not so much because I'm so opinionated about gays (which I'm not) but because any movement against gay marriage has been religious and bigoted - neither of which have place in our government. Marriage is not a religious institution - it's a governmental institution. It's designed so the government can recognize that two people are bound together by law, and now have different benefits they wouldn't of had had they not married.
Changing the gender of the marriage should have no difference at all - They're people too, and their love is equal (if not greater) than most heterosexual couples. Most religious texts teach you to love everyone - so gays being together shouldn't be an issue at all. You don't expect your marriage to be judged based on what happens in your bedroom, do you?
____
If a society is willing to give freedom for temporary security, they deserve neither.
Well i guess i am the opposing person here. I don't agree with it. I have gay friends but we don't talk about it. I just don't think that a man and a man or a woman and woman should be together. After all, God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve. However that does sound harsh, and i don't want to be thought of as that way. I don't know I am trying to put myself in your place, and I just don't get it. Maybe that's why people dont' agree because they don't understand. I keep trying but i dont' understand so that's what you have to do I guess, Make people understand what it means to you.
Crystalj - why don't you try talking to your gay friends about it? Not just gay marriage, but about being gay. Why are they gay? I bet they don't understand why either. Really probe them, I bet they would love to talk about it. Such questions are on their minds as well.
Gay marriage won't make people gay or force you to be gay. So why are you so against it? Because a book tells you so? That book is not the end all and be all that you think. The bible has some very good lessons, but it also claims that women are subsurvient to men and should only be treated as property. Women were not allowed to inherit or own anything. Do you believe in that? The idea that women are subserviant (found throughout the scriptures) is more prominant than the anti-gay idea (only found once).
So if you think the bible is correct about homosexuals, I suppose you better forfiet all you assets, time, intellegence, and freedoms to the next man willing to pay your parents for you!
Actually I do think that a man should be the head of the house hold. I think that a one of my jobs as a woman, along with working a job to help support my family is to have my domestic duties done for him as well. This means I think a guy should drive anywhere we go. I should have his meals cooked for him and take care of any kids he may have.
I think homosexuals should b allowed to marry those of the same sex. If heterosexuals can marry,why not gays? It makes no sence to me why they cannot, and frankly, it ticks me off. I think maybe the reason I am this way is because my parents are totally against it, and most of my friends are bi/gay.
-------------------------------------------------------------
I'm just a small town girl
Livin' in a lonely world
I don't agree with gay marriage and I never will for the fact that the Bible states it is bad. I just take a religious stand point on the issue. But don't think I'm against gays or lesbians because I have a ton of friends who are and I love them the same.
If you love your friends the same why can't you treat them equally? Marriage is a GOVERNMENTAL institution, not religious. Your religion has no say in what the rest of the world can or cannot do. Allowing gay marriage would not undermine your religious values in any way. Will it lessen your beliefs? No. Will it force you to accept gays if you choose not to? No. Will it force the church to accept gays? No.
And like I said before, the bible does more to discredit the equality of women than to discredit gays. This is a huge flaw I find in the religious fight against homosexuality in general, especially when women are claiming the wrongness of homosexuality. To me, if you are going to take the entire book literally, instead of a guide to morals and ideas, you must also deny your own equal rights as a woman.
I'll suggest again. Talk to your so called gay friends. If they are truly your friends, by asking a few questions to better understand their points and feelings perhaps you can truly hate the "sin" and accept the "sinner" for who they are and stop trying to deny them the rights they deserve.
I agree with Jacqulyn--marriage is a governmental institution, not a religious one in the United States.
Love knows no boundaries.
"Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity--and I'm not so sure about the universe"
-Albert Einstein
PROUD SUPPORTER RIGHT HERE! What would be a good reason not to completely legalize same-sex marriage? Reasons for this are ridiculous and completely contradict themselves. there have been many points such as "gays can't reproduce" and "gays are more promiscuos than straights" and "dont have truly loving relationships" if these reasons were so, then shouldnt the elderly and infertile also be banned from marriage? And yeah maybe some gays are promiscuous, but its only obvious that straights are just as promiscuos, i cant even go to a wal mart without seeing a pregnant teenager. And who says gays dont have truly loving relationships? I love my girlfriend to death and i mean that. And the whole adam and steve thing? what happened to freedom of religion? in the bible it discusses a few times of men sleeping with men, and i feel that these are obsolete. People get married because they are in love, im in love, but unless i want to go to massachussetts i can't get married.