Gay relations have no affect on me. I have no interest in being gay. So why should I care if someone else chooses that lifestyle. Be happy life is short. It is not anyone else's business on who marries whom. YOU ARE NOT THE ONES GETTING MARRIED! Let it go. For all the people tying up the legislation that allow gay marriages to happen I have a shout out to you. Why do you care? It is none of your business. It will not affect you in any way other than seeing a few more people happy in this great mess we called life. The ultimate gift is happiness and humans search their entire lives for those fleeting moments of joy. I have no intention of denying anyone peace or contentment. Even God wants people to be happy, happy and morally sound. I think the real reason that gay marriage is such an issue is that those who oppose it are frightened. They are frightened of the social restrictions and taboos placed on gay couples could evaporate. Then all their discriminations and biases would come to light in a world that loves being politically correct. The point is why do these people care about something that makes someone else happy. Live and let live don't go out of your way to make someone miserable. That's just bad manners.
Gay Marriage: Why Care?
By AVeagle125 - Posted on October 9th, 2008
The reason that many Americans, including myself, are against legalizing gay marriage it not fear. It's because we believe that marriage should keep its traditional meaning of one man and one woman. For many, it's an issue of religion or spirituality. For others, it's because that's the way things have been. However, there are several reasons why gays should not be allowed to marry, and why homosexual relations are wrong. Homosexual sex is one of the largest causes of the passing of sexually transmitted diseases. All animals were created with the ability to reproduce, thus allowing them to survive. Humans are animals. 2 men or 2 women cannot reproduce together, that can only happen with one man and one woman. Gay marriage, and gay relations are not the way nature intended things to be. There are so many more reasons that people are against gay marriage and homosexual relations than fear. That is not a factor at all in people's decision to be for or against the issue!!! It's a matter of moral standings, natural intent, and tradition.
Please understand that while I disapprove of gay marriage and homosexual relations, I am tolerant of the people around me who have chosen that lifestyle. They know that I do not agree with the lifestyle, but we agree to disagree on that issue. Personally, I believe it is wrong, but it does not change who that person is.
If you have a problem with a large portion of someone's lifestyle it kind of does affect how you treat them. And just because something's always been one way doesn't make it right. It just makes it a tradition. A bad one.
If you have a problem with a large portion of someone's lifestyle it kind of does affect how you treat them.
Actually, that's not true. I am one of those who doesn't feel that homosexuality is right. But at the same time, one of my best friends is gay, and many of my other close friends as well. It's absolutely possible to disagree with a person's lifestyle and not let it affect how you treat them.
We're all people, living together in this crazy world. If you remember that, and live by it, then differences of any kind, be they racial, political, religious, moral, etc., don't matter. You treat everyone equally, as fellow human beings, just because you recognize that no one is greater or lesser than anyone else.
And that's comin' at ya' from yer local redneck hippie.
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Ooh, ooh, pick me, pick me!!!
Should all heterosexual people wanting to enter into the union of marriage be required to submit to fertility tests, then? I mean, if they can't procreate, they shouldn't be allowed to marry. And they should also have to sign a pledge that they will bear children in the future.
And on the disease issue, you should educate yourself about STI transmission rates. The fastest growing rate of HIV infection is among heterosexual women. When I worked in HIV/AIDS adult foster care homes, two of my residents were gay. The rest of the forty-something residents wer heterosexual.
As for the rate of infection among gay men, that is more related to promiscuity than to anything inherent in gay sex. Recognizing long-term relationships would give gay couples more icentive to couple up and settle down. And incidentally, lesbians have the lowest rate of infection of ANY demographic group, so by your reasoning, that makes us the most righteous relationship of them all. Ban hetero marriage! Let the lesbians rule the earth! I'm kidding of course, but my statement was about as ridiculous as your argument.
"Never go with a hippy to a second location."
~Jack Donaghy
http://www.progressiveu.org/blog/ediblewoman
It's because we believe that marriage should keep its traditional meaning of one man and one woman.
Aside from the fact that the "tradition argument" is just not historically accurate (there are many historical examples of societies that embraced same-sex couples in their marriage traditions), an appeal to tradition does not make for a valid defense of a discriminatory practice. To quote the Supreme Court of the United States...
For many, it's an issue of religion or spirituality.
Opinions regarding "religion or spiritiuality" are irrelevant, since our Constitution prohibits religious establishments in our Laws, thanks to the First Amendment to the Constituiton.
Homosexual sex is one of the largest causes of the passing of sexually transmitted diseases.
Factually incorrect. Gay men have a higher rate of infection in a small groups of STD's that are prevalent in our community, but the vast majority of all STD infections take place along hetersexual vectors. The most common STD in the United States is HPV...with roughly 20 million currently infected, and over 6 million new infections every year. Compare this to HIV infections...approximately 1 million currently infected (and only about half of those were gay or bisexual)...and the fallacy of your argument becomes apparent. This is even more obvious when you add lesbians into the mix, since female to female STD transmission is actually one of if not the lowest potential vectors of STD transmission.
All animals were created with the ability to reproduce, thus allowing them to survive. Humans are animals. 2 men or 2 women cannot reproduce together, that can only happen with one man and one woman. Gay marriage, and gay relations are not the way nature intended things to be.
There are several fallacies here. The first is the apparent assumption that homosexuality is not found throughout the rest of the animal kingdom, too. But it is. The phenomenon is well-documented across many species (including virtually all of the primates). The second fallacy is the idea that marriage and reproduction are somehow uniquely contingent. In fact, marriages between couples of the same-sex are historically quite common. The essential point, however, is that if you look to nature to determine how things were "intended to be," then you should be in favor of same-sex marriages, since the actual evidence would suggest that in "nature," same-sex pairings are quite common, and when they occur the other animals in the herd (or pack) don't freak out about it.
Please understand that while I disapprove of gay marriage and homosexual relations, I am tolerant of the people around me who have chosen that lifestyle.
There is no evidence that gay people "choose" to be gay. In fact, the general consensus among the experts in the relevant scientific fields is that few people experience any sense of "choice" in regards to their sexual attractions. And, I would suggest that saying that you don't think that gay people should be afforded the same basic civil rights as other citizens doesn't make you sound very "tolerant" to me.
TTFN,
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Good blog, but maybe you should throw in some facts from other sources to make yours seem more convincing.
But overall, it was convincing, and I agree with your point of view. I can't believe it's turned into such a huge issue, but then again, everything different is taboo for this PC society.