by trying to keep homosexuals from marrying....should the concentrate on keeping the divorce rate down among heterosexuals?
2006-09-01 07:08:40 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
typo: i meant, shouldnt they concentrate on keeping divorce rates down?
2006-09-01 07:10:03 · update #1
Thank you for that. Perhaps they should concentrate on there own lives. Let us live ours and be happy.
However, like in WWII Hilt er got the minds off of the countries problems, but going to war, blaming the Jews and gays for their problems. Let's see President Bush has gone to war and well, maybe note blaming the Jews anymore, but he has targeted us to blame.
Common strategy for when a politician does not want you to see the real problems.
2006-09-01 07:12:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
BRAVO - Well said! It is a common smoke-and-mirrors practice of the religious-right ultra-conservative political establishment to divert the focus off of the real problem and blame it on someone or something else (i.e. the devil made me do it?). The 'institution' of marriage has long been in decline and it has nothing to do with homosexuality or the fact that same-sex-couples want to get married. Actually, with the track record of heterosexual marriages, I am surprised that so many same-sex-couples even want to get join in the flawed 'institution' of marriage and equally surprised that the lawyers in this country are not on the gay-marriage bandwagon (imagine how much more money they could make when same-sex-divorces start generating billing hours for them).
All jokes aside: I firmly believe that there is no secular, rational, or legal reason to deny same-sex couples the benefits and protections of marriage that heterosexual couples enjoy. I believe that if a government is going to extend legal protections to couples wishing to formalize their relationship, then it should extend those protections to all couples.
Maybe the heterosexual establishment is just afraid that we will just do it better than they do!
2006-09-01 14:33:33 · answer #2 · answered by rp_iowa 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have answered this question a number of times in the past, however, I felt the need to respond to something Lisa said.
I don't see the religious right attempting to stop OTHER sinners from getting married. Your theory of marriage being a spiritual thing and that is why some people don't want gay people to get married is just another EXCUSE.
Most gay people think marriage is a spiritual thing, too.
When straight people decide that people who "serial" marry, abuse/neglect children, or abuse spouses can no longer get married, I will accept your explanation. Until then,... just another excuse to support bigotry and discrimination.
2006-09-01 15:43:24 · answer #3 · answered by Dustin Lochart 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think people get married for the wrong reason(s) now days and that is why there are so many divorces. most people feel that marriage is a spiritual thing and that is where the homosexual issue comes in. most religions disagree with homosexuality so they feel that it is wrong to promote it by allowing them to marry. I think anyone ahould be allowed to get married as long as they are marrying for the right reason(s)...not just because they want children or because of money or because someone is knocked up.
2006-09-01 14:16:18 · answer #4 · answered by Lisa 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here's a spin for you:
Wouldn't logic suggest that PROMOTING marriage for GLBT's would actually HELP marriages in general?
Since they have managed to keep us from getting married, they have disgraced the sanctity of marriage all by themselves.
They have managed to damage the notion that marriage is supposed to be something more permanent, something to be cherished and honored.
But by keeping gays and lesbians from marriage they only bolster the notion that it's something disposable and temporary.
I've heard the argument that because GLBT relationships don't have any real permanence that we shouldn't be allowed to marry.
What they don't see is that GLBT's have been PROGRAMED BECAUSE of our being excluded from taking part in marriage. They've done this to us and to themselves, but blame us because they can't take responsibility for their own lives.
2006-09-01 17:01:54 · answer #5 · answered by DEATH 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never understood it either. It's not like my marital status has anything to do with some fundamentalist living in Mississippi who's never even met me.
Strangely, Charles Barkley of all people just addressed this issue in an interview with Chris Meyers. I had no idea he was so eloquent.
2006-09-01 16:59:29 · answer #6 · answered by lcraesharbor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree but with the Republican party because of it's Gay Hating Religion, to them 10,000 divorces among hetros is better than having one good Gay Marriage. Until they are out of office it will be decades until Gay Marriage is legal in all American States.
2006-09-01 14:49:06 · answer #7 · answered by IM THE GAY GOD ALL FEAR ME 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I agree... my girlfriend wears a pin on her guitar strap that says "let gays marry so they can be miserable like everyone else"... I think people need to let it go... we're already here, right? might as well throw us a few scraps.
2006-09-03 20:07:45 · answer #8 · answered by Cinderella 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's OK we read typo's lol.. To answer your question I see your point but you'll never get them to look in their own back yard I'm sad to say :(
2006-09-01 14:12:52 · answer #9 · answered by Super 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Worry about your own problems before you wrongly try to prevent something you don't like.
2006-09-01 14:52:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋