Why is Gay unions/marriage such a big issue?

Question

It shouldn't be but a lot make it into a big issue. What do gay marriages/unions do to hurt the country? What do they do to hurt the economy? What do they do to hurt you personally? Why was dubya trying to pass that marriage amendment, what if tricky dicky's daughter wanted to get married to a girl, would the NeoGoons have a heart attack and die? I hope so.

Answer 1

It's just a distraction used by Dubya and his gang.

Answer 2

It should not be. conservative reactionaries try to tell us that gay marriage is against Christian religious tradition. But the plain facts contradict this claim. It's not just non-Christian religion that accepts gay marriage.
Many Christian churches have religious ceremonies consecrating weddings for homosexual couples. The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, the Unity Fellowship Church, the Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches, the United Church of Christ, the United Church of Canada, and Reconciling congregations of the United Methodist Churches include gay marriage within their set of religious rituals. So, when George W. Bush and his Republican supporters say that they want to use the power of government to forbid gay marriage, they are taking sides in a struggle between religious groups, supporting conservative religious beliefs and opposing liberal religious beliefs.
The federal government has no place stepping into the middle of a battle about theology and telling Americans which religious beliefs are right and which ones are wrong. On that basis alone, the effort of George W. Bush and his Republican elite extremists to restrict the authority of churches from practicing marriage ceremonies for gay couples is an unconstitutional and illegal blunder. So gay marriage should not be a political issue for the federal government to decide at all.

Answer 3

It's a knee-jerk issue. Everyone feels some way about it. Another divisive wedge to drive between us. There has never been a single "traditional" marriage that has been harmed by two other people who love each other joining in a union. At the very least, it's a church issue alone with no need for the state to interfere. More senseless pandering to the religious whack jobs on the fringe.

Answer 4

This is a church issue and so many churches fear changes to their ideas. The Catholic Church can't even see clear to condone birth control which is a more serious issue. Profiling gay males shows an upper middle class and therefore an important segment of market potential to businesses. However gays do great damage to themselves by flaunting their sexual orientation (such as parades in jock straps and crass behavior). Perhaps a few remember that ancient societies openly engaged in homosexuality before those societies collapsed as happened in Persia, Rome and Germany under Hitler...and fear that it will happen again. I am a biologist and amongst many animals, same sex relationship is common, and even in some of the American Indian tribes, a boy-wife was common...but the church has rules...

Answer 5

Well, it is a part of life in all countries, but America is trying to hold on to what this country started with.
If there were no rules, could you imagine all the chaos.
I am totally pissed that many schools don't allow there to be a CHRISTMAS program at school, but the children are made to sing African songs at the WINTER CONCERT.
Many politicians have changed our country from where we were.
Better Or worse is yet to be seen.
I think that someone holding on to our basics is a good thing though.
But, I do think you should take a deep breath and not be so angry about it. I am assuming you are a gay man who is in this situation since you seem to be so angry.
But hoping someone has a heart attack and dies only causes your heart to pump harder, not theirs.

Answer 6

They are afraid that their health insurance rates will go up if a coworker has a partner with AIDS. Most of them talk about the sanctity of marriage but for most of them, it's really the fear of not being able to support their families. This is really not a valid fear as anyone could marry a drug addict with AIDS or another long lasting and expensive disease.

The politicians keep this fear alive by obliquely refering to "hard-working" men and women who have to *pay* for the "sinful lifestyle" of others.

To be fair, I'm sure that some conservatives are concerned about marital status having an effect on child custody or that if gay marriage is legal many more people will want to be gay.

Answer 7

When tax laws reguarding marriage were first being written, a tax break was to be given to married couples because the institution of marriage would promote having large traditional families in which the married couple would be raising a lot of future taxpayers. The math was simple at the time(egg + sperm = taxpayer), so they really didn't have to consider any fags who wanted to get together and adopt a future taxpayer. So the issue isn't really gay marriage, it's giving a tax break to a group who are less likely to produce future taxpayers.

Answer 8

Every political party has to put forth an issue to make the other side look bad. Whether it is gay rights or the abortion issue everyone is trying to make everyone else look bad while trying to raise them selves to a higher standard. I look at these things and I weigh them out. If I feel that a political person has pushed the truth too far and his opponent hasn't then I actually vote for the person who has slung the least mud. I am so tired of all the ads and lies that are in them.

Answer 9

actually, it may impact us indirectly at circumstances. If human beings sufficient those who were gay were given married and all that, one it ought to easily seem incorrect (a minimum of to me it ought to) and a couple of how are they meant to reproduce? there is continuously some thing lacking in that entire procedure. happening to abortion, even as replaced into the perfect time that you heard the toddler being aborted say they had to be aborted? The pastor at my church basically about replaced into yet he's satisfied he wasn't. On actual of that, 3 weeks after a lady receives pregnant, there is a few type of a heart beat and interior 9 or 10 weeks after idea, the toddler can experience issues. both one in each and every of those instruct that (s)he's a human being starting to be interior mom. they could sound like a short fix even as your confronted with it after both willingly having sex or being raped, yet they don't seem to be. no human being tells you what you are able to go via emotionally in case you get an abortion. in case you get sufficient abortions, ultimately the female who were given them receives to a level the position she will not in any respect actually have youthful little ones again even as she extremely did choose one. in case you do not choose a baby, then basically provide the toddler up for adaption. some different person will be prepared to guard the toddler. Does this answer any of the questions for you?

Answer 10

I think people feel that gay people can live their lives as they want, but should not demand that society change to suit them.

I think some people feel that the gay community is taking it too far when they demand that society recognize their unions in the same way as marriages. Many people believe that the (hetero) family is the foundation of our society and don't want that foundation degraded.

I don't think it affects them personally, but rather offends their sense of meaning in the world. Some things are right and some things are wrong. In a relativistic world, that is an ignorant point of view, but relativism lacks meaning, nothing is sacred, nothing is true.

Many people simply don't want an "anything goes" kind of society.

Answer 11

Because many couples are being denied hundreds of specific legal rights based purely on their gender. So, they are upset at being treated like second class citizens.

And because many people have religious objections to homosexuality, so they past gender discrimination laws based purely on their religious dogma. Which is just inherently a violation of the basic concept of not making laws respecting the establishment of religion.

As with most key issues, the two sides are arguing entirely unrelated things, but the people who are arguing out of hatred and prejudice and bigotry are too closed minded to see that.