Should interracial marriage be banned if gay marriage is banned?

Question

I personally do not believe in interracial marriage, but that does not mean that it should be illegal. Just because a group of people (Christians for example) do not believe in gay marriage does not mean that it should be illegal either. It is not fair to homosexuals that just because a group of people do not agree with their decision, that they may not be allowed to get married. There are plenty of people who don't agree with interracial marriage, but it is allowed. To me, that is a double standard. Thought and opinions?

Let me re-phrase by saying that it is not that I don't "believe" in interracial marriage but, rather, I disagree with it. I do not think it should be banned. It just isn't fair to gay couples that just because a group disagrees with their choice, that they aren't allowed to get married. It is clearly a double standard.

Chris' answer proves my point. He contradicts himself. "We have no right to tell people who they can and cannot marry. As long as it is between a man and a woman." That is contradictory, by telling people that they can only marry someone of the opposite sex, you are telling them who they can and cannot marry.

I never said that gay marriage and interracial marriage are the same situation, because they are not. The comparison is not gay couples to interracial couples. The comparison is that there are groups of people who disagree with both marriages, but just because a group disagrees with a marriage, does not mean it should be illegal. Wrap your brain around that...

You then compare gay marriage as opening doors to marrying children, ants, and monkeys. THAT is not the same thing or in any way a comparison.

You want to talk about a weak argument - you have one. You cannot compare gay marriage to murder and speeding. The issues are entirely unrelated.

Answer 1

I see your point. I see absolutely nothing wrong with homosexuality. I don't believe in god so to say its in the bible is the same as saying its in the Harry Potter books. SO?! Marriage isn't a religious ceremony ONLY as a judge can marry. So the argument two men can't marry makes no sense. Why should it be between a man and woman only if religion is taken out? Just because YOU don't like it. Two consenting ADULTS should be able to make up their own mind and damn what the other guy feels.

Answer 2

It's a horrible ruling which shows the flaws with trying to ban identical-sex marriage. First, the CA State Supreme court courtroom unnoticed 1996's Roemer v Evans-The U.S. Supreme court stated initiatives cannot be used to disenfranchise complete groups of residents. That you may provide humans as an complete classification more rights however now not not up to different classes. The 2d flaw is that it does no longer even accomplish the allegedly publicly stated intention of 'defending' heterosexual marriage. The CA identical sex couples who had married earlier than the ruling will still be allowed to stay married and revel in legal advantages. If heterosexual marriage is so 'endangered; by identical intercourse marriage in CA--and the ban textual content defines marriage as being between one man and one girl period, that is pretty clear. Not certainly enforcing the ban continuously further signals how fallacious the inspiration of a ban strive is. If some GLBT Californians are competent to have their marriages stay authorized--however no longer others, hasn't the traditional definition of marriage already been altered? Aren't the entire men and women who voted for the ban now involved in regards to the sanctity of their heterosexual unions? Some equal-intercourse unions will nonetheless exist within the state! This is a further cause why the ban strive is stupid and time losing.

Answer 3

Sometimes we get "Ideas". Ideas as an entity are good. But the content of an Idea can be good or bad. If you say Gay marraige should be allowed because we allow Interracial marraige then that is called a bad "idea". Whether gay marraige is right or wrong your statement is incorrect. You open the doors to, Then why not marraige with a child? You will answer thats the wrong age. What if I answered your question as "thats the wrong gender". Then what about Ants? I dont mean your Aunt, I mean Ants, the insect. They are nice creatures lovely actually, you may not think so, but what if i wanna marry one? You will say it must be concentual on both sides right?! Ok what if i get a monkey, and that monkey is psychoanalized and the psycologest states. This Monkey Is In Love With You. Is that ok? What about killing? is that ok? what about stealing and what about driving over the speed limit.

Look lets be clear, you cant just get an Idea and think it is rational just because it made sence to you that moment.

But of course you are free to your opinion that is wonderful. If you are for gay marraige you can fight for it. I disagree with it, and you know your hypothesis about interracial & gay as the same situation is incorrect. :-)

I know for many my comments are very very very difficult to follow, but strain your brain you will see where you are faulty every argument one makes against gay marraige you can think up an answer, and that goes for those for gay marraige as well. Each side presents their ideas and i side with those against gay marraige because the gay community on the scales have very weak arguments. Such as, interracial is the same thing.

Answer 4

I personally don't care if gay people get married or not but it's not fair to bring interracial couples into the mix. They are two totally different types of relationships. Gay couples are in a Homosexual relationship while interracial couples are in a Heterosexual relationship. It's a skin color and in a few hundred years racists will be so mixed no one will know what's what. Different skin colors is much different than same sex organs...you need to find something else to compare gay marriage to...

Answer 5

I'm lesbian and gay marriage is illegal here, we could go to other countries and marry there but is nowadays marriage valuable as it used to be ? We've been living together for the past 2 years, have known each other for 6. Most people go against their once given vows, so whats the point. I feel married myself lol

Answer 6

Stupidity and prejudice are long-lived. Inter-racial marriage, called miscegenation, was banned by law in the U.S. The Supreme Court only overturned the law in 1965. The last law against inter-racial marriage was only removed from the books in an election in 2000 in Alabama - JUST 6 years ago! and even then 40% of the voters, voted against removing the law. People are always afraid of change because it means the way 'they' see the world will have to change too. I appreciate the logic of your argument, it is a shame that there are not more people like you - willing to hold their own beliefs, but not insist that their values become a law for the world. I can only say that if it took until 2000 to clear the last miscegenation law from the books, just imagine how long it will be until people accept the idea that a civil union for the purpose of home, taxes and inheritance, is not the same thing as a "religious" marriage. Below is an excerpt from the Wikipedia article on Miscegenation. I hope some people will look at the language used and think about their attitude towards people today. "“Many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.” Voltaire. Thanks for the great question, I hope it makes some of us really think!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miscegenation
In 1965, Virginia trial court judge Leon Bazile sentenced to jail an interethnic couple who got married in Washington, D.C., writing:
Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.
This decision was eventually overturned in 1967, 84 years after Pace v. Alabama, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in Loving v. Virginia that
Marriage is one of the 'basic civil rights of man,' fundamental to our very existence and survival.... To deny this fundamental freedom on so unsupportable a basis as the racial classifications embodied in these statutes, classifications so directly subversive of the principle of equality at the heart of the Fourteenth Amendment, is surely to deprive all the State's citizens of liberty without due process of law.
At the time that anti-miscegenation laws were ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court, 16 states still had laws prohibiting interethnic marriage. Those laws were not completely repealed until November 2000, when Alabama became the last state to repeal its law. According to Salon.com:
...after a statewide vote in a special election, Alabama became the last state to overturn a law that was an ugly reminder of America's past, a ban on interracial marriage (sic). The one-time home of George Wallace and Martin Luther King Jr. had held onto the provision for 33 years after the Supreme Court declared anti-miscegenation laws unconstitutional. Yet as the election revealed -- 40 percent of Alabamans voted to keep the ban -- many people still see the necessity for a law that prohibits blacks and whites from mixing blood.

Answer 7

Well standing on the "Biblical" point of view it should be illegal....The bible stated that God seperated all the people, put them on different lands and made them speak a different language. So wouldnt that mean that god would want you to be with your own people and not with someone else???

I am not against interracial couples, i have friends that are, i am just stating that if christians want to ban gay marriage for biblical reason, then all of the bible should be honored.

Answer 8

Actually all marriage should be banned if gay marriage is banned. People could still marry in church and stuff. Just not get special rights for it by the state.

Answer 9

I dont think that interracial marriage should be banned because we have no right to tell people who they can and cant marry. As long as it is between a man and women

Answer 10

There was a time about 30 years ago or more when interracial marriages were against the law....