Why would you be against gay marriages?

Answer 1

It would open the doors to all types of marriages.
Polygamists would want marrying 10 wives to be legal. Pedophiles would want to marry children without adult consent.
People would next want to marry their pets, money,....etc.

It would entice,....." If they can marry, why can't I?"
Ever hear of Pandora's box?

Answer 2

The Issue is mute, this is a issue Republicans like to use to divide Americans against each other. The real issue is 44 million Americans have no basic Health Insurance, half that number are women and children, they don't want to talk about that problem, the Republicans love to change the subject when it starts to be about there own failures over the past 20 years. If I were a Gay Man or a Lesbian woman and I went to Canada or Mexico and got Married there. Would I in fact be married? No one can legislate good morals. It's a non issue.

Answer 3

Because Marriage is a sacred covenant sent down by God for use between a man and a woman. Therefore a gay couple does not meet the qualifications for marriage.

However, I do believe that they should have legal rights to decide who and how to set up their lives. Colorado currently has an ammendment on the ballot that would give legal protections in areas of inheritance, medical care and property ownership. I believe that a person should be able to designate who they feel they want to share these types of things with. Even if I'm not gay I should be able to designate who I want regarding these matters without worrying that my choices won't be honored. I believe something like this may be a good alternative for both sides of the issue.

For those stating that marriage is a secular act between two adults, it is not, it is a religous act between a man and woman. If one wants a secular act, then there should be some kind of secular ceremony or paperwork, not one related to a religous ceremony for those wanting to be united in a civil ceremony.

Answer 4

Notice all the answers above that are against.

Most are based on their personal and religious beliefs, which are not valid reasons to enact discriminatory secular laws.

Others make the utterly laughable irrational claim that it's a slipper slope to bestiality or polygamy. All our current marriage laws are based around two adult humans. Two. Adult humans.

Gender doesn't matter in terms of marriage rights, because husbands and wives have the exact same legal rights. So, gender only matters for who can get married. Eliminating gender-based discrimination doesn't change any other existing legal rules, because all the rules are already set up for two people. But changing the laws to allow anything other than two adult humans requires a massive rewrite. No Pandora's Box, no slippery slope, because it's a completely different and unrelated issue.

There are no valid non-religious ground against same-sex marriage, and none of the laws even deal with sexual orientation. They are pure gender-based discrimination. And that's unconstitutional.

Answer 5

Its is against nature and society. No Que*r animals in the world.
Society has established Marriage man / woman is that to hard to understand 17 states voted just that way none for Gay marriage.

Answer 6

I could never be against gay marriages.

Answer 7

I'm not against it at all, but I believe most people who are homophobic worry that their kids will see gay couples, and then become gay or want to "try that" which is silly. You are either gay or you aren't. You don't learn it or catch it. It's what you are at birth. So let gays marry.

Answer 8

I wouldn't. People should live and let live. I have plenty of my own problems to worry about without wondering whose maryying whom down the street. Nosy uptight people who have too much time on their hands are against gay marriage. The rest of us would just like to get along.

Answer 9

Eh, i got three reasons.

1. Im a Catholic. Yea all of you go complain about it.

2. It goes against what I think is wrong.

3. Politically speaking its dumb. Democrats say that being gay is a sexual preference. Loving children in a sexual way is also a sexual preference. Most Repubs. wanna lock up/kill child molesters, but yet Democrats believe you can coax a child molester with therapy into going normal. So why can't the Democrats coax the homos out of their ways into going straight? and if they can't, why can't they be locked up?

Answer 10

For the same reasons I am against: Bestiality; Pedophilia; Bigamy; Polygamy. I do not accept homosexuality as being "normal". On the other hand, I have absolutely no problem with people practicing homosexuality behind their own closed doors. Don't put it in our faces, and don't think you will ever make any of us accept it or see it as normal.