How, EXACTLY, do gays threaten your marriage?

Question

How does one marriage have any bearing on another? Who are these secret folks with their hidden agendas to end YOUR marraige? Can you provide a list of casualties resulting from this "assault" on marriage? Are you really that insecure with your own marriage?

Answer 1

Good question, I too would like an answer to this. As far as I'm concerned gay marriages have nothing to do with my marriage, of course, neither do other straight marriages. I'm more concerned with home wrecking tramps who think a married man is a challenge.

Answer 2

Gay marriage is a misnomer that is all. If a man had sex with his daughter it would be lewd and lascivious conduct. If a man lived with a women it is called cohabitation and assumably if the do have sex it would be called fornication. If a married man had sex with another person it is called adultery and would be prosecutable under the law. What gays are trying to do is not change the law to allow gay marriage they are trying to change the definition of the word marriage. I recall there was a president that tried to change the definition of the word sex, did it work? no. So to answer your question I will ask you a question, if I advertised that you were a violent sex offender would you be offended if you really was not one? Likewise would you be offended if I advertised that you were the smartest man I knew? No matter what color you paint something it does not make it so if it is not so. Gays have the same right to get married as anyone else ( what is marriage?).

Answer 3

Gay marriage is no more threatening to traditional marriages than the drunken preacher whose job it is to unite Mr. and Mrs. Doe. For what it's worth, I think a few of you should go buy a history book-not a bible,so you can see what the good Christian folks have really done TO this country. We are a country based on murder and greed and thievery,so don't preach at those of us who choose to accept and respect all races and nationalities regardless of religion or sexual preference.I say love and let love.Furthermore mind your own business and that should keep any unwanted illness at bay should you happen upon a gay couple in love.

Answer 4

If homosexuals are allowed to marry, all the right-wing Christians will realize that they can have their cake and eat it too... they'll divorce the horrible shrew wives that they felt obligated by societal expectation to marry, and act on their latent gay desires to marry each other instead... it will be a Roman gay orgy on the Republican side of the isle in Congress.

Either that, or there's absolutely no threat to marriage at all, and it's merely a diversionary issue brought up only when the Republicans need to 1. distract the public from the real issues and 2. pander to their right-wing Christian fundamentalist base.

Answer 5

Some folks out there object to the homosexual practice because it is wrong in the eyes of God. I tend to agree with that notion. On the other hand what a person or persons chooses to do in the privacy of their own home is their own business. The problem I have is when a group attempts to make a political agenda of the ideal. I am expected to accept as normal what I do not belive to be right. I fully support Bush in the one man one woman marriage law. Do what you want in your own home, but dont force me to accept it. I utterly reject it!

Answer 6

The idea of gay marraige as an "assault" on marrige is the only political argument that homophobics can come up with as a valid reason to deny gays the right to a "legal relationship". I am hetersexual and have been happily married for 7 years. Gay marraige is no "threat" to my marraige. Should'nt these people have the right to dedicate their lives to each other just as we do? Anyone who opposes gay marraige just hates gay poeple and does not want to openly admit it.

Answer 7

Gay bashing is just the new way of showing bigotry and prejudice. They don't threaten marriages and allowing them the right to marry doesn't threaten traditional marriages. I wanna be a fly on the wall when all the self righteous stand before the gates of heaven.

Answer 8

I don't belive that anyone has stated that gays threaten anyones marriage. Simply deciding that you are gay dosn't make you a part of a minority group any more than my whiteboy rear claiming to be Black or Indian makes me part of a minority group. Nor does it ENTITLE me to special privilages. The claim being made is that they deserve the same spoucil rights as a husband and wife. If we are going to extend that then we might as well extend it to a brother and sister, 2 friends, and 2 strangers. And where does it stop? Shall we allow sex with a baby? How about sex with the family pet? Shall they be given the rights of a husband/wife marriage too?

This question is simply being stated to cause problems and to incite anger.

Answer 9

"raci_tracey" and "klimrite" raise excellent points. Gay marriage is not so much a threat to anything as it is an affront to most Christian beliefs.

Unfortunately for them, purely religious justifications are not valid reasons to have secular laws. That's the entire point of the Establishment clause -- to not enforce purely religious beliefs as a matter of law.

If certain Christians don't want gay marriage, they don't have to participate. But if we start letting religion, any religion, dictate our secular laws on purely religious grounds, then not only have we abandoned the Constitution, but we've forgotten the entire reason this country was founded.

Answer 10

Gay marriage doesn't threaten anything. Not everyone believes in God and religion is to be separate from church and state. Meaning, the US government shouldn't force us to live by commandments of a religion that not everyone believes. I personally do believe in god and think homosexuality is wrong and a sin, however, I personally could care less what other people do with their lives in the privacy of their own home. I don't have to live with any moral consequences and don't Christians believe that only GOD should judge and not anyone else? So WTF? I am so sick of this issue being a political selling point to get these crappy persons elected, such as our current President. Everyone is entitled to live their life the way they see fit (Free Will) as long as they are not personally hurting anyone else. How, please tell me, does someone being allowed to be legally married (they are already living together and having sex) hurt anyone else? Enlighten me, please!

Answer 11

It is stated above that religion should not be used to have secular laws, well folks marriage is totally a religious ceremony. Thats why most marriages take place in a CHURCH. If gays want to be partners fine, but find something else to call it.