Same Sex Marriage...?

Question

So I hear a lot of people say "God intended marriage to be between one man and one woman", well what about the straight couples who do not believe in God, and were married by a Judge, shoulod those marriages be invalid?

Answer 1

Personally i feel as a straight person anyone that thinks that gay marriages are wrong are bigots and tunnel visioned. This world is fulled with hypocracy in some way or another. If a person loves another there should be no boundries to how they can express their love to one another. Its because some people in the world are so stuck in their ways and beliefs they don't want to see anyones point of view. As hard as it is for homosexuals in the world today, i hope they realise that not all straight people believe that it is wrong.

Answer 2

No, and I'm afraid I don't see the connection. Personally, I would scrap the whole idea of the government defining marriage at all. Let there be experiments: polygamy, polyandry, gay marriages, whatever else works for people. Robert Heinlein wrote several good science fiction stories with "experimental marriages," and made the point that what works for some people is not necessarily what will work for others. Let people work out their own lives.

As to the legal responsibilities, why not a "family corporation" or a contract of some kind which acknowledges mutual fiscal responsibility, and provides for the children, and never mind how those children came into being, only who loves them and will care for them. I've always thought a coven of 13 -- six males, six females and a High Priestess or High Priest who is old enough not to be a part of the coupling -- would be just about perfect.

Answer 3

In marriage there is always a civil union component. The state issures marriage licenses and a vow is taken to establish the marriage under law and documents signed. This can be done between any two people if the law of the land allows. The church has it's own rules and these need not be the same between Churchs.

Answer 4

Of course not. In fact, Puritans in New England even decreed that Justices of the Peace and Judges should do the marrying.

From Connecticut's Original Blue Laws written in 1655 by Gov. Theophilus Eaton with the assistance of the Rev. John Cotton for the Colony of New Haven:

"No gospel Minister shall join people in marriage; the magistrates only shall join in marriage, as they may do it with less scandal to Christ's Church"

Right there you have religious men handing over the marriage duties to government so historically marriage has not been based on religious beliefs but governmental/secular ones.

Answer 5

They also say that marriage is for procreation. I guess that means that the marriages of infertile heterosexual couples are null as well.

I've heard some of them claim that homosexuality is wrong because it goes against nature. However I've seen much more homosexual activity than i have religious activity in nature. Have you ever seen a cat or a bird pray to god?

Marriage is and always has been a legal institution to create a conduit for wealth to stay within a family. Their arguments are absurd. Leave it at that.

Answer 6

I think the basis of a marriage is between the couple. Including gender preferences and the ceremony. Love is love no matter who its with or how you go about it. either way you are making a promise to each other to stand by each other. The way you go about this vow is just as relevant as the color of a brides dress in a same sex marriage. Theres the traditional white but its not an invaild marriage if she decides to wear yellow or pink or black or whatever. Yes same sex marriages are not traditional but its not going to stop people from falling in love and making love and doing their best to be faithful to one another and spend the rest of their lives together. Its not fair to people to be so lenient about changing tradition in all other ways but when a same sex couple wants to be together they frown upon it because its not traditional.

Answer 7

Personally I see marriage as an ECONOMIC UNION. I see nothing wrong with same sex marriage. I see nothing wrong with atheists being married.

I would rather have the whole world "paired off" and less STDs would be around the world.

Answer 8

I say 'NO'. I have no problem with same sex marriage as they are human beings also. The only ones they are hurting are the people who think that this is wrong.

Answer 9

It's disgustingly wrong! God intended believers and non-believers to marry man/women. It goes against science to have the same sex marry. I can't believe how people would want to do that. It is totally sickening to even think about! Yuck!

Answer 10

There are a lot of different countries that discriminate against certain segments of their population.

The United States in the past has discriminated against certain segments of it's population. And it has always been in the name of Christianity.

And right now we have a segment of our population that is being discriminated against, in the name of Christianity.

30 years ago I remember thinking that by this time we would have stopped discriminating against gay people.

I find it amazing and appalling that we can somehow justify discriminating against them, not for anything that they have done illegally, but for who they love.

The US and State governments have no business dealing in discrimination against any of it's citizens.

I hope someday in the future we will be able to look back in shame at how we treated homosexuals, denying them the possibility of publicly vowing their love to one another.