Is the main reason for opposing homosexual marriage?

Question

Because it makes you feel icky?

Answer 1

I think deep down, that's the reason why most people oppose it. But, they cover it up with religious reasons, rather than just telling the truth.

Answer 2

Humans, by nature, are fearful and suspicious of things that are not "the norm". And the country, for the most part, feels that homosexuality is not the norm.

I don't feel "icky" because of it. I don't care who you sleep with - that is your business. No one asks a heterosexual person if they are heterosexual, so why ask a homosexual person? Home life is just that - home life. It is private. If the government began to tell me who I could marry and how many children I could have, I would begin to feel like I was in China. And aren't they a communist government?

Government has no place in the private lives of their citizens. You can't legislate homosexuality because it's "a sin" due to the seperation of church and state. And because it "makes you feel icky" is not a good reason, either. So everyone needs to move on and deal with the more pressing issues.

Thanks for your time in reading this post. :)

Answer 3

It makes me "feel icky" because IT IS icky, in any way you want to look at it, except in the icky way. I know you may be too young to remember, or even have heard of the Icky Twerp Show that a lot of us kids back in the late '50's and early '60's came home to watch after school. They showed the Three Stooges, which I love, but HE was ICKY!! And so is homosexuality and "homo-marriage". God Bless you.

Answer 4

The original scriptures had nothing against homosexuality, there was just the stricture against anal sex but the religious like to do the nasty so they made the stricture about people and not an act, so that they could do the act and not feel guilt. Despite the fact that research has shown that this act is the key for the explosive spread of sexually transmitted diseases (1000%-2000% more frequently than all other forms of sexual contact combined),
Now they want to continue their discrimination by telling people how they can love the one they are with.

Recently developed apologetics needed to be made available to same-gender-attracted people who have been devastated by the widespread misreading of the Hebrew & Christian Scriptures. As it turns out - those Scriptures NEVER condemned same-sex intimacy! The SPECIFIC CONDEMNATION was against anal-sex all along!

Answer 5

Fear. A lot of people worry that if homosexuality is ok, people in their families will 'chose' to become homosexuals. As if its a choice.
The other reason is that may people feel that it doesn't follow their religion. Marriage is a special thing, like baptism. Its a step towards god...or something of the sort. They believe that God made a man and a woman to be together.
Its really all stupid. When has it ever been the governments choice of you who love/marry?

Answer 6

It's a confusion of the word "marriage". It's used in several different contexts interchangably:

1)religious, biblical, of a man and his wive(s) joined before God

2)The state of coexisting with another person (i.e., living together, sharing finances, etc.)

3)Legal status where you get to file your taxes with someone else, make decisions for them when they're sick, etc.

I think that most advocates for gay marriage are probably more concerned with the third context (couples may already live together, but want legal rights), while opponents of gay marriage are more concerned about the first context, and they don't want God to see our legal system changing up God's laws.

The idea that we would institute "civil unions" seems to me like it avoids some of the confusion, but I guess enough people said "civil unions are the same as marriage" to convince people to vote against them.

Answer 7

Homosexuals can do whatever they want, with whom they want when they want just like heterosexuals. I am not homophobic but I do believe the main purpose of marriage is to spend the rest of your live with a person you love and to procreate. Homosexuals can't do the second part.

Answer 8

Jesus taught us..
Love thy neighbor as yourself...except the gays
Let he without sin cast the first stone unless you are stoning a "queer"

Please remember that he posted the "Homos go home signs" whenever he spoke.

If you rid yourself of your religious and societal biases there is no reason. If the sanctity of marriage is your concern you should not allow anyone in Hollywood to ever wed.

Answer 9

Frankly, I don't get what the big deal is...Homosexuals can still move in next door to you, and legally have all the sex they want. Not sure how banning the marriage really affects the ick factor.

Answer 10

there can be several reasons i guess:

a) hanging on to an outdated idea of marriage (marriage as an institution that provides economic security to mothers and children, not as an expression of committment)

b) religious reasons (leviticus 18, paulus' letter to the romans etc.)

c) plain old prejudice