Do you think gay marriage should be allowed?

Answer 1

I am against all marriage the best way to f*ck up a good relationship is to get married.
BAN ALL MARRIAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

I think marriage is the wrong word and has inflamed too many people. Equal partnership rights is all that is needed. You can even have a ceremony but why call it marriage?
Also when a straight person tries to say that all gay people go to bath houses every night and have sex with 30 people or more, call them on it. If its not true don't let them perpetuate myths. It allows them to de-humanise us which makes them more capable of persecuting us. Also how can a str8 person say that the love between 2 people of the same sex is not the same as str8 love unless they have experienced both.
STOP the propagation of lies and myths, don't even humor these people. The time for action is here.

By the way cinderburn, most children are abused within families with str8 parents, what you gonna do about that?

Answer 3

The word Marriage hasn't been religious for many years. As it stands, a straight couple can get married without having to ever step foot in a church or deal with a church in anyway. Therefor, marriage is a state institution.

As a state institution, it should be available to any couple, whether straight or gay.

There is absolutely no reason to not allow it except for religion and tradition. Both of these things should be considered very little if at all when making rules. Seeing as these are the ONLY arguments against gay marriage, then the argument against is very poor.

If you want to make marriage a religious thing, it shouldn't be available through the state. You should only be able to get married through a church. And it should not have any advantages in law. Especially in the US where there is a seperation of church and state.

Either make marriage available to gay couples, or take it away from the non-religious (and out of law).

One way to sort this out would be to bring in civil unions to gay people, but then marriage shouldn't be an option for straight couples not going through a church, they should have to get a civil union to. As should people married through a church, if they want their "marriage" recognised by the state.

And to OU812

Gay men and woman can have sex without getting married. That's not why they want to get married. You might think sex outside of marriage is wrong, but that doesn't make it illegal or impossible. The fact is, gay couples want to get married for the same reasons as straight couples, love, commitment. Oh, and also for financial benifits, immigration reasons, and all sorts of other non love related reasons. Yes, that's straight couples too. Not all marriages are about love and devotion. Perhaps they should be (in some people's views), but they aren't.

And finally, one last edit, to people who say that marriage "by definition" is about a man and a woman, meanings of words change all the time. Look at the word gay, it didn't always mean homosexual. It's not a reason for not allowing gay couples to get married.

Answer 4

No. That this is even an issue being discussed in a public forum should tell you how far we've progressed as a society.

We have a line, and we can't move it without "disenfranchising" some minority group. Gays like to point at the conservatives' examples of what would come next (polygamy, etc.) and call those scenarios ridiculous. Well, why? Their own scenario would've been considered ridiculous just 10 years ago.

Finally, the institution of marriage has to mean something if a society is to survive. That's why simple cohabitation should be lumped in with gay marriage, in terms of it not having marital benefits conferred upon it. Marriage has to stand for a stable relationship capable of perpetuating that society through childbirth. I know, I know, gays will say, "Well, does that mean straight couples who can't conceive shouldn't be allowed to marry?" That's being unreasonable, as boy/girl love is GENERALLY going to produce a child. Gay love never will.

Answer 5

of course,,,read blog on 360


"One Man and One Woman"

It is taken as an article of faith by the anti-gay marriage bigots that marriage has always been between one man and one woman. That is not true. Historically, many, if not most marriages were between one man and multiple women. This is still true in parts of the world, including, although illegally, some in the Western U.S.

Trying to justify your bigotry through historical evidence works a lot better if you've actually examined the evidence. Or, at least, if no one else has examined that evidence and can contradict you.

and we do have kids and it all works great ...evolve a little ...it doesn't hurt ...promise

Answer 6

People keep saying that "marriage is by definition a union between a man and a woman" Whose definition are they talking about, and why would we care what they think?

Of course gays should be allowed to marry.

Answer 7

Yes and why not call it a marrage? The word only implies the union of two entities. When the "Alliance Party' & "The Progressive Conservatives" joined together to become "The Conservative Party of Canada", I thought it poetic justice when the press refered to it as " the marrage of the two parties." That is the party that feels only the union of a man & a woman should be called such. There must be total equality under the law if we want to consider our country to be a true democracy

Answer 8

The aruement is that gays shouldnt be allowed to marry because..."marrage" is sacred...
So what is divorce..and adultery..its a fact that divorce has 3 times the rate of peopel staying together...
Then you have a high percentage of people who stay together unhappy..this is what peopel are fighting to protect?
It is no different than..when african amercians were denied rights...
or women denied the right to vote..
Every human on earth has the same rights to life, freedom and happiness...so yes if gay people want the same right to marry..and divorce..they should be allowed...
I think if you are so worried about what other peopel are doing in thier lives...you need to find one of your own...

Answer 9

Yes i think it should be allowed, love is love no matter if it's same sex or guy and girl. I think that if you're in a loving relationship there's nothing wrong with marrying the person you love. Same sex couples are just as loving and caring as a straight couple, but society does'nt want to give us the same rights as a straight couple and there's something wrong with that picture, We have rights too!

Answer 10

Marriage, by definition, is a union between a man and a woman; so the word, "marriage" should apply only to that kind of relationship.

However, I feel that unions between two men or two women should be allowed: just give this kind of union a word other than "marriage."

Answer 11

I'm not an american and where I live we have a civil union bill ehich gives these people the oppurtunity to celebrate their relationship while preserving the tradition of hetrosexual marriges for religious reasons. I think mthat people shouldn't be judged for their sexuality but as we should respect them we should also respect the religious teachings of the ones who had these events and who perform these events (the churches and religions)