They just have to marry someone of the opposite gender who's not a close relative -- just like the rest of us!
They don't want equal rights to marriage -- they already have them!
"Right to marry" is not synonymous with "right to change the definition of marriage to suit my sexual lifestyle."
2006-08-03 03:59:19 · 22 answers · asked by Julia Encarnacion 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They just want what the rest of us take for granted.
The ability to provide health insurance for your family. The right to visit the person you've lived with and cared for over the course of decades, when they end up in a coma in the hospital.
There are ALL kinds of families.
And often it's the children inthose families that suffer because states don't recognise thier family.
Two women were raising their daughter. One was a stay-at-home mom, one was the bread winner. The bread winner is killed in an accident. The family has no death benefit or social security rights. In a hetero family, the governement would send modest payment for the child until they reach 18. But this child gets nothing.
Why punish a child because of who her family happens to be?
I don't understand why marriage can't be whatever the church wants to define it as, but keep it a religious ceremony.
Make the state recognition of a family a separate issue.
2006-08-03 04:07:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Before you go spouting off about gay marriages why don't you consider the definition of marriage:
MARRIAGE
A marriage is a relationship between or among individuals, usually recognized by civil authority and/or bound by the religious beliefs of the participants. The fact that marriage often has the dual nature of a binding legal contract plus a moral promise, can make it difficult to characterize.
In Western societies, marriage has traditionally been understood as a monogamous union, while in other parts of the world polygamy has been a common form of marriage.
What they want is the same right as every other person in the country - to marry the person they are in love with, provide for them and have the right to visit them should they ever become sick enough to require hospitalization. How does that change the definition of marriage?
2006-08-03 11:07:39 · answer #2 · answered by I love my husband 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
and did you know that about 10 countries allow gay marriages??? I don't want to marry someone of opposite gender so that I will be married, I can live without being married but with the person I LOVE
by the way, the definition of marriage was made by Modestine, Roman lawyer in the 4 century AD, and the world existed LONG BEFORE this definition was made
2006-08-03 11:08:43 · answer #3 · answered by from Heaven 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually they can legally marry if they are residents of the state of Massachusetts. Marriage is not just a religious institution... even in the 1650's it was determined by the religious Puritans that marriages should be performed by Judges or Justices of the Peace so it has also been a governmental, secular institution before America was a free country of its own. Marriage should be for two people who love each other regardless of gender.
2006-08-03 11:05:24 · answer #4 · answered by genaddt 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Equal rights to marriage would mean that they could marry who they love, rather than having a sham marriage to make the religious right comfortable. Why are you so against this? I've read your other posts, and it seems like maybe you need to relax a teensy bit about the issue. You're turning something you're freaked out by in your personal life into a huge crusade, and it's kind of scary.
2006-08-03 11:06:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree, if they want to get married then they should do it within the confines of the current laws, ie members of the opposite sex. We have already diluted our society to make them feel better about their lifestyle choice regardless of how the majority of people feel. To change the Institution of Marriage in my opinion is going way to far, want to live together fine, but stop trying to change all the values of society to meet your WANTS.
2006-08-03 11:13:49 · answer #6 · answered by CrzyCowboy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is the most stupid thing I have ever heard. They want to be able to marry WHOEVER they want just like the rest of us.
They don't have equal rights, and they won't as long as there's people who think like you do.
'Right to marry' means just what it says, and it should go for every American no matter their sexual orientation.
2006-08-03 11:06:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A marriage is a legally binding contract, recognized by the govt., between two people, regardless of sex. It does not change the definition of marriage, just your pre-concieved notion. Why is it so horrible in your eyes, are they asking you to marry them?
2006-08-03 11:07:04 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have the right to marry the people we don't want. Gee, thank you so much.
We're not asking for religious marriage. Your church doesn't have to be forced to oversee the ceremony. We just want equality under the eyes of law.
2006-08-03 11:06:42 · answer #9 · answered by aethermanas 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if they want to marry someone of the same sex then hell yeah let them do it! nobodys making you be gay. are they? no! so why should we try to force people to marry people they don't want to? the bible is against divorce, but we still do that. same with women being on the bottom.
point being: just because gay marriage is legal doesn't make you gay.
2006-08-03 11:13:12 · answer #10 · answered by spitney12 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋