what do you think about same sex marriage?

Question

I think it's wrong but what about you? what do you think and why?

Answer 1

I think it's wonderful.
Maybe it's because I'm Atheist and dont care if it's a sin.
Maybe it's because I'm bisexual and maybe one day I'll want to marry someone of my own sex.
Maybe it's because I know alot of gay people who may want to marry one day.
But I think marriage is about love, not gender or religion.
If two people love eachother, they should be allowed to marry.

Answer 2

I don't think about opposite sex marriage and I don't think of same sex marriage.... I think of marriage. Marriage is more a govt institution than a religious one - check out early puritan history and you will see that in their by laws Reverends handed over the marriage duties to Judges and Justices of the Peace. A marriage can be religiously blessed but doesn't have to so in which case marriage should be for anyone regardless of gender. It's the 21st century.. end discrimination.

Answer 3

So what if you think it's wrong? I think Britney Spears' marriage to Kevin Federline is wrong. I think my aunt has a miserable marriage. But their marriages are still legal despite my disapproval, and that's how it should be.

Could you imagine having to ask other people to approve of your marriage so you can have one, on top of all the other things you have to think about? I can't just have intimacy and abandonment issues; I have to care what a religion I don't believe in thinks, too? How mean and stupid! How invasive! How disrespectful of fellow adult citizens! We're certainly treated like full adult citizens on tax day!

I am married to another woman. I know it even though my state doesn't. We are married in our minds. We have all kinds of paperwork, like wills and powers of attorney. It took years for us to be able to give each other our lives. That should be our decision, not fellow citizens' or a religion's or a state's.

Answer 4

I think it is a beautiful thing when two consenting adults fall in love and want to pledge their eternal love for one another. I also think it's a personal choice and that the rest of the world should stay out of their business. We don't tell heterosexuals who they can and cannot marry.
People used to feel the same way about interacial marriages but we've over come this issue and we shall eventually over come the issues that people like you inflict upon homosexual marriage as well.

Answer 5

I personally don't care for it, but that's not my business. I think that marriage should be between the people involved and their religious deity and clergy.

Gay marriage is about setting a legal precedent to force acceptance. This wouldn't matter if government weren't in the business of rewarding marriage with various preferred legal and tax statuses. The right thing to do is to get government out of the marriage business. Then these laws expanding marriage, and this debate over them, wouldn't be necessary

Answer 6

Love is love. If two men or two women care about eachother and want to get married, it should be no different than a man and a woman.
secondly, many hospitals won't let in visitors that aren't family. What if your partner, who you've been with for years was dying and you cant be with him? How would you feel?
thirdly, marriage is a state institution. you can't use a religious arguement. there's a separation of church and state there.

Answer 7

Don't let the rhetoric fool you. It is all about money. Many businesses and governments provide benefits for spouses and gays just want the same benefits for their "partners."

I would suggest an alternative where anyone should be able to designate a person to receive those benefits without regard to marriage or any other relationship. This would allow someone to name a child to receive those benefits or any of a vast number of other situations.

As for homosexuality itself, I believe what Paul wrote:

1 Corinthians 6:9 Don’t you know that evil people will not receive God’s kingdom? Don’t be fooled. Those who commit sexual sins will not receive the kingdom. Neither will those who worship statues of gods or commit adultery. Neither will men who are prostitutes or who commit homosexual acts. 10 Neither will thieves or those who always want more and more. Neither will those who are often drunk or tell lies or cheat. People who live like that will not receive God’s kingdom. 11 Some of you used to do those things. But your sins were washed away. You were made holy. You were made right with God. All of that was done in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

...it is NOT PERMANENT, no one was born that way, and IT CAN BE FORGIVEN!

Answer 8

My personal opinion doesn't really matter, but I do believe it is important to find out if God approves of same sex marriage.
I am going to include a link to an article that discusses that subject and takes you to the Bible for the answer.
http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2005/4/8a/article_01.htm

Answer 9

I agree with you.

Many people don't seem to realize that gay people already have a right to marry -- they just have to marry someone of the opposite sex. That's what marriage is.

And I can't stand it when "gay marriage" is likened to interracial marriage, which was also illegal in some places at one time.

This bothers me not because I'm going to enter into an interracial marriage in November -- but because interracial couples have never tried to redefine the man-woman definition of marriage in order to suit an "alternative sexual lifestyle."

Interracial couples, back in the days when it was illegal in some states, were never trying to enter into anything other than a man-woman union. They were never trying to change the fundamental man-woman nature of marriage.

They were simply trying to gain the same opportunity to enter into this man-woman union that every same-race couple had.

For that reason, I totally reject comparisons of "gay marriage" to interracial marriage.

They're not the same thing by a long shot -- and it's a horrible analogy to make. Some people just don't know how to make good analogies these days.

Answer 10

I think there is nothing wrong with homosexuality and that homosexual couples should have the same rights as straight couples. Because I believe in the inherent equality of everyone.