Americans: Should gay marriage be allowed or forbidden? Dont forget....?

Question

that this is a country build and based on freedom, and dont forget that there is a seperation of state and church. What do you think after thinking about all of the aspects that this country is based on?

I just want to add that I dont have an opinion on this and that I am not gay, just in case anybody thinks anything.

Answer 1

With the separation of church and state, can the government even legislate what marriage is?? "Marriage" is a religious ceremony to unite 2 people.

If the government wants to have marriage be a lawful union, then they have to come up with an unbias reason (not based in religious belief) that gays should not marry. Because it is stated to be wrong in the bible will not fly in a court of law. Anytime that someone tries to pass a law about marriage being between a man and a woman, it gets struck down as unconstitutional because lawmakers can't come up with a good enough reason other than it's in the bible. Thank God that someone can still look at the law without pulling the bible into the mix.

I seriously think that no one ever expects the law to pass, and it is only done to make "friends" with the "moral majority". If the Christian Right is happy, the funds keep going into the reelection accounts. They can say "well, we tried".

Answer 2

Banned, you cant change the entire institution of marriage because less then 5% of the entire world population is gay, this is a liberal agenda and we are meant to believe that it is the will of the masses, since when did the majority start taking its orders from the minority. Would you be asking this question if the issue was having multiple wives or husbands or if you could marry your sister? I bet you wouldn't but I guarantee that is what is going to be coming next if gay marriage is passed. Once the institution of marriage is compromised everyone with any idea about what marriage should be will come crawling out of the wood work, think about it and tell me you dont think someone some where will try and marry an animal, and once this institution has lost its integrity, what will we have to stop them

Answer 3

I don't see any harm in gay/lesbian marriage but it would since it wouldn't really be too much of an impact on society but it would make the USA look weird in the eyes of other countries who don't allow gay/lesbian marriage.

PLUS, the Catholic church could possibly threaten to withdrawl from the USA since it is against Christianity in all aspects to have a gay/lesbian marriage. This could cause massive impacts on the world as a whole and could cripple modern society as we know it.

So in the end I must say I am an opponent of gay marriage. Such things would lead to bad things happening to the internation and spiritual communities which would override the good it would do for simply America.

Answer 4

Who really cares? Tell me this, if you're against gay marriage, and yet two people of the same sex do get married, are you harmed in any way? No. It doesn't affect you in the slightest. So why are we worrying about it?

There are some who'll say that it's ruining the sanctity of marriage. Is that really possible? Will two people of the same sex expressing their love for each other really ruin the sanctity of your love for your spouse? If anything, divorce ruins the institution that marriage is supposed to be. Getting married because you were drunk and then getting a quickie annullment the next day ruins the sanctity of marriage.

If this teaches us anything, it should teach us to mind our own business and stop interfering in the lives of others. Unfortunately, that'll never happen.

Answer 5

No. Gays should go out and start there own type of union outside of the traditional marriage. Marriage is for men and women. Gays have a different reality than straight men and women and should not be allowed to distort the reality of a traditional marriage. I do agree that there should be a civil union of some sort a side from marriage for those who wish it. Marriage is not gay.

Answer 6

Your on the money, Church and State are separate BUT how many gay people were considered when the constitution was written, given the time period and who wrote it there was not a thought that people of the same sex would or would not be together and we all know that its common sense given the time period. I personally do not believe that their should be same sex marriages, it grosses me out. I don't care what anybody does behind closed doors (with the exception of pedos), I want to be friends with people because they are good in their hearts and minds, I don't want to know that you sucked a shlong last night or that your carpet munching girlfriend is on the rampage, if I can respect your choice you can respect mine. Just because I don't want to hear about it or have it shoved in my face does not mean I am homophobic it just simply means that I don't agree with it, I would not pick a fight with someone because of it I would not harass them because of it. But don't flaunt your personal life in a parade the next thing you know there will be a parade with hookers on the float! That's just sick!

Answer 7

I think the government should get out of the marriage buisness all together. Why does it need to be defined anyways?

Are conservatives really so insecure that they need to have it written down somewhere? Perhaps those who are pushing for outlawing gay marriage have their own issues.


Call everything a civil union and if you want to get married by god or whomever goto a church.

Answer 8

Government-sanctioned marriage is a matter of joining two people in a civil union--so in denying gays/lesbians the right to marry they are denying them their civil rights.

Let churches/religious institutions do as they please, marrying or not marrying couples due to their sexual orientations, creeds, national origins, ethnicities, etc., but the government has no business basing its position on this issue on a Judeo-Christian belief system, not only because of the constitutional separation of church and state, but because the Judeo-Christian system is NOT the ONLY system our citizens live their lives by.

Perhaps all ceremonies performed by the government related to the joining of two adults in monogamy should be called "civil unions," and only religious institutions should call their joinings "marriages."

Answer 9

Gays should not be allowed to get married. Marriage is about creating life which 2 gay ppl cannot do. If we let 2 ppl of the same sex marry than we are saying that marriage is a joke and pointless.

Answer 10

hmm



As far as marriage...i was for domestic partnerships until i heard the argument that

Although marriage is preformed in a religious cermony, church wedding, temple, ect

it is a legal agreement. Therefore everyone must be treated equal in the eyes of the law.

For example you need a licence to get married..a legal document, and when you get divorced you do not go to church to get divorced you go to the law.
Under law then yes Gays deverse the same.

So in conclusion if you believe in the equality in the US, then yes.