Here are some of the things that straight-sex marriage has wrought through the ages: polygamy, child-brides, loveless arrangements, trafficked women, bartered wives, battered wives, raped wives, sexual slavery, child abuse and abandonment, racist miscegenation laws, and astronomical divorce rates. If gays are unqualified for marriage, what can we say about straights? If George Bush and his homophobic worshippers really want to defend the institution of marriage, they can begin by taking an honest look at the ugly situations within so many heterosexual unions in this country and throughout the world.
2006-09-09 15:21:30 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family & Relationships ➔ Marriage & Divorce
Your arguement tends to point out more the oppression of women through the ages through men's actions wrought through different cultural concepts of what marriage is, which doesn't really work as far as your question is concerned. Rape, child abuse, abandonment are sad facts of any form of relationship, not just exclusive to marriage.
You are, I assume, referring to the Western world's view of marriage? I for one see nothing wrong with the union of two loving souls in the form of a marriage no matter what their gender. Heterosexuals and Homosexuals are most definitely worthy of marriage.
Nice to see a somewhat cool question from you for a change, although I don't necessarily agree with your choice of supportive arguement 8-)
2006-09-09 15:33:31 · answer #1 · answered by LadyRebecca 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is good and bad marriages, and I believe that if gays were allowed to marry, there would be good and bad marriages there as well. I don't understand why straight couples feel so threatened by homosexual marriages. A monkey could marry a bumble bee and my straight marriage would still be wonderful. I think that everyone has the right to be happy, and everyone has the right to feel secure and know that they are taken care of.
2006-09-09 15:27:32 · answer #2 · answered by Helen T 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whether you like it or not, the US has a Christian foundation. It's a fact. THAT is the issue with gay marriage. It has nothing to do with straight people's rights being any more important than gay rights. It has EVERYTHING to do with our Christian roots. Yeah, yeah, I know, I know, we aren't all Christians. However our forefathers were and their Christian points of view are evident throughout the Constitution. Right or wrong, it's a fact.
And please do not give same sex marriages all the "credit" for the atrocities you've listed. Those types of things are committed by degenerates, no matter what their sexual preference,
2006-09-09 15:31:32 · answer #3 · answered by Taffi 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
i'm a bisexual for i am attracted to lesbians who are wholesome. but i think heterosexual are atill worthy of marraige only some of them doesn't knoe what marriage really is, that is why there are a lot of dreadful case like thje things that you have mentioned...
2006-09-09 15:33:27 · answer #4 · answered by carendawn 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not against gays, I'm a straight democrat, but I do not think that questioning hetero couples will help our cause buddy
2006-09-09 15:23:47 · answer #5 · answered by New Jersey Steve 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I agree with the 1st answerer.
2006-09-09 16:50:18 · answer #6 · answered by ♥Luz Sin Gravedad♥ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are just as many problems in gay relationships.
2006-09-09 15:28:00 · answer #7 · answered by m-t-nest 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Shut up fag
Hope you like it in hell
2006-09-09 15:37:40 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are still human.And should have the same rights.
2006-09-09 15:38:19 · answer #9 · answered by A soldiers wife 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you think too much
2006-09-09 15:32:17 · answer #10 · answered by mightymight 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋