do u support the presidents ban on same sex marriage.?

Question

i know i support it i define marriage as a man and a woman together. so i hope it pases some day.

Answer 1

Yes.

Answer 2

Gosh no. I find it hard to support this president's views on most anything. He's made a real mess of our country.

Why should gay and lesbian people not be afforded the same right as straight people? Please don't tell me the Bible says so, because it really doesn't say that at all. Further, while I am a Christian, I don't believe that the practices of any church should be institutionalized into our governmental structures. Marriage is a civil contract between two consenting adults. Weddings were not performed in the church for the first 1200 years or so of the modern era.

You need to know the reason that this has been approached by Bush and the other hate mongers as a Constitutional Amendment rather than as a law, is that under our Constitution, such a law would be unconstitutional. By passing an amendment to take rights away from a group of people, Bush and his lackeys would be changing the entire character of the Bill of Rights and the American form of government.

Of course that's what they want anyway. They want to destroy our Constitutional form of government, and create an oligarchy run by the rich corporations and the people who bow down to them.

Answer 3

I don't support it because if we define marriage as only between a man and woman, then we are actually discriminating against others. And by saying that marriage should only be defined in a certain way is like living in the past, when we should be moving towards the future and towards a world with much more acceptance rather than denial.

Answer 4

The president has not expressed the desire to pass legislation to ban gay marriage.

The president, the senate, and congress has expressed the desire to pass a constitutional amendment to prohibit gay marriages from being treated equal under the law to straight marriages...

Gay marriage is legal in EVERY state. The federal government has not and will not make gay marriage illegal.

If you want to discuss this issue, please understand the issue first. There is a HUGE difference between making something illegal and stating that it will not be recognized.

83% of people polled think that when they vote "against gay marriage," they are making it illegal. They aren't. They are just voting to restrict the rights of one group... because they feel uncomfortable with what that group of people do in bed. I'm thinking there should be just a little bit more reason than that to end equal rights in this country.

Answer 5

Absolutely not. How can the Pres or anyone else decide who can marry whom. Its all about love, the most powerful emotion on earth. This emotion will win over any politician or political referendum. Love has conquered the mighty sword and won. So you should think long and hard about what you wish for. Someday you might want to be with someone and for some reason the answer will be no simply because we as a society have been led around by our nose and dictated to but not this time this fight is worth every ounce of my being to have it passed.

Answer 6

Completely disregarding the gay marriage issue (and the difference between legal marriage and religious marriage, and the seperation of church and state) this gets into a States' rights issue as well as the fact that the only other Federal Constitutional Ammendment to LIMIT rights lasted about 16 years. It takes a LOT of processing to get a Constitutional Ammendment through, and more and more people are coming to realize that gay people are people too, and it's not that big a deal to let them live their lives. It'll never happen.

Answer 7

The gay marriage battle is a fascinating one -- and the battle itself frightens me, though not for any reason you might expect.

The gay marriage fight is really a battle between two groups of religious denominations - Christian and other in both cases. That battle is being missed by the media, and I believe that the battle threatens democracy in America.

One of the reasons for the Revolution, in which ancestors of mine fought -- was to establish freedom of religion in the new nation. Now, we are throwing that away, because contrary to what those on the Right would like you to think, this is not a battle between "people of faith" and "atheists" or some such -- this is a battle between two groups of people of faith, using the government to establish one sides views -- the EXACT THING that the anti-establishmentarian clause of the Constitution is there to prevent.

Of course no one should "make" those whose faiths oppose gay marriage perform such marriages, and no one ever would. So ministers from the Southern Baptists and Assemblies of God and Ultra-Orthodox Jews and Fundamentalist Muslims should never be asked to perform gay marriages, and certainly not forced to.

On the other hand, why should faith groups that support gay marriage -- such as the United Church of Christ, the Unitarian/Universalist Society, the North American Spiritualist Church, Reform Judaism, and the Correllian Tradition of Wicca -- all recognized Churches and 501c3s be barred from practicing their religious faith, which says it is ok to marry same sex couples?

The first group of faith groups is realistically using the government to prevent the second group of faith groups from practicing what they believe. The founders tried to prevent this, for the stability of the country. It doesn't matter that everyone "thinks" they are right and others are wrong -- it matters that we are plural as a society and the government should recognize everyone's ceremonies the same -- which means that gay marriages committed by churches and faith groups that believe in gay marriages, should be honored by the government regardless of what groups that don't like it say.

Everyone's beliefs can be honored, thus preserving the values that my 12 times removed Great Grandfather died for -- but not if we allow one side to legislate away the rights of the other side.

Regards,

Reynolds Jones
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Answer 8

No, I don't. Marriage should be a union between two people who love each other. President Bush is making this decision because his religion says it is wrong. He has forgotten that church and state are to be separated. In other words, ban something that is worth banning, like hand guns. Most gun related crimes are committed by people baring hand guns than rifles. Rifles are harder to hide and are mostly used to hunt for food and sport. Hand guns are very easy to hide. Same sex marriage doesn't harm anyone. People don't even have to go to a church or temple or any other holy place to get hitched. They can go to a court house. So, wouldn't common sense tell you to ban hand guns to the public? Then again, Voltaire did say "Common sense is uncommon."

Answer 9

That would be a no! I believe that we all have the right to be with the one we love. The ideology behind marriage being defined as being between a man and a woman is simply a religious thing, it can be a personal thing, but hey- im not pushing my personal beliefs on you, dont push yours on me! Thats all i have to say about that!

Answer 10

Why shouldn't gay people have the same rights as straight people? Why should an inbred imbecile get to make this decision? can you imagine the outcry if this question was "do u support the presidents ban on black people marrying"? Its ****** ridiculous that this level of discrimination is still allowed to go on in this day and age. And for everyone who answered "i support it" you can all suck my c*ck! Luckily in Scotland we're a slightly more open minded and sophisticated people. The vast majority of people don't care either way. They don't see it as their business.

Answer 11

No. This is no different than the desire to ban marriage between black people and white people fifty years ago.

Fifty years from now we will be looked upon as ignorant for even having a debate over this issue.