Same Sex Marriage?

Question

Whats your opinion on same sex marriage? Its a big debate now in politics and will be a huge issue in the next election.....

Answer 1

Same sex MUSTN`T get married!!!!!!!!!
I hate it, really!!

Answer 2

Of course they should be allowed to marry. It is a free country. If two consenting adults want to officially commit to each other, the government should not stop them based on ignorance, religion, or hate. The government is supposed to protect the rights all citizens. The argument used to be against interracial marriages. We should support loving committed relationships. We have some horrible examples of heterosexual marriages in this country that are far from holy unions, not to mention the very high divorce rate. Children can understand tolerance and diversity-for some reason adults have much more trouble with those concepts. Religion cannot be used as the reason either. There is suppposed to be seperation of church and state. The hot debate on this issue always coincides with an election year. The Republicans are desperate to divert attention and drive out the religious fanatics in their base.

Answer 3

Our society is democratic. Our society ensures certain self evident rights.

Implied also is society's right to say what those rights are.

I can not marry my daughter, her dog, or seven women, no matter how much I love them and they love me.

That does not make society wrong. Society may change, but most elements of human behavior do not.

Marriage has always had rules. Age, consent, obligation, equality (at least on an idealistic level)

Put another way, if I want to join a club, say the Girls Scouts of America, I do not necessarily have the right. I do not meet the criteria. As middle aged man, my motives would be suspect to say the least. A group can make reasonable limits on access to its facilities and customs.

We have established that race is not a reasonable exclusionary criteria.

We as a society have not determined that homosexuals have a "right" to marry any more than I have a "right" to marry seven women.

If two people want to live together, fine.

Just don't call it marriage.

Answer 4

If they want to get married that's okay. I basically have an issue with the couple adopting though. I believe in having a role model that fits the mom/dad criteria and two people that are the same sex really don't qualify. (sorry) It's the same with single parents. The kid can come out okay, but usually they have issues as they are missing a vital component of the family upbringing. Both Mom and Dad have a serious role to play when it comes to guiding a child through the moral pathway of life.

Answer 5

Why do those against it care what other people do? Those same homophobes have made a joke out of opposite-sex marriage in the US, which has one of the highest divorce rates in the world. If I were gay, I wouldn't want to participate in the joke the scared straight people have made of marriage.

Gay people do, however, deserve the same rights and benefits as anyone else under our constitution. Call it "domestic partnership" to placate the homophobes, that's fine. Just get them a way to get the rights as partners that they deserve.

I'm absolutely disgusted by the hard-core religious right morons who scream about not allowing gay marriage, but are they themselves twice-divorced, are having affairs while married, don't pay child support to the kids they have from their multiple marriages, are lousy parents, and are hypocrites when it comes to religion and morality. They're more of a threat to society than any two gay people who love each other and want to commit to spending their lives together, and want the same rights as anybody else who does so when it comes to power of attorney, visitation rights, inheritence, etc.

Answer 6

It'll never work, and not because the homosexuals are horrible people, because most of them aren't.
The fact of the matter is, most of the more religious states would never want to live in a country that allowed same-sex marriages, so they would probably secede.
If it reverted to the states, it wouldn't be fair on the homosexual couples.
I'm leaving my own religious persuasion out of this. I think that instead of marriage, they should have a "commitment ceremony", which would mean the same thing as marriage, and give them the same rights, but in order to please the more religious in the US, it wouldn't be called marriage.

Answer 7

Lesbian and gays should be allowed to be together, but as far as same sex marriages, it promotes immorality. How would we explain to a child that they have two daddies or two mommies. we have to be able to explain to our child that since that is something immoral, the law prohibits them to do it. What kind of citizens are we going to have if those children do not want to listen to their parents about anything that has to do with morality, because those children feels like their parents do not have any morals. We have enough evil people in this world with bad morals and bad home training. We don't need kids growing up thinking it's ok to have intercourse with their animals, because it will affect every single one of us even if we want it or not

Answer 8

They should be allowed to be married. If it is to be a family. Marriage is to have children and raise them together. There are the average heterosexual marriages who raise kids and they are not fit to raise kittens let alone children. Rosie O'Donnell and her chick seem like very good parents. Maybe there would be more children out of the system and in good homes where they are being taken care of. Less tax dollars being spent on something correctable.

Answer 9

Civil unions....No
Marriage........No
Next thing you know some Bozo will fall madly in love at first sight with a sheep at the county fair. The entire subject turns my stomach. Visions of a sex act between two people of the same sex is a real puker.

Answer 10

There's not enough love in this world as there is. If you can find someone you care so much about that you want to spend the rest of your life with, then it shouldn't matter what sex you are

Answer 11

I have no problem with it at all...If two guy or gals want to get married more power to them, who are we to say if its wrong? If its wrong the god will sort it out, But if its not god will get those who persecuted gays to begin with. So let them get married, how does two people of the same sex marrying affect me...It doesn't, Live and let live. We Americans have the right to live our live as we see fit, so long as it doesn't interfere with other peoples rights, so tell me how does gay people getting married interfere with mine or anybody Elses rights? If anything were interfering with theirs by not allowing them to marry.