do you think that Bush should butt out of gay marriages?

Question

bush has been preventing gay marriages because he believes that it is not in God's wishes. i thought that there was supposed to be a seperation of church and state, but apparently bush thinks otherwise. i myself am straight, but i support everything that the gay people may or may not want to do. i believe in the Bible, but i don't believe in Christians repremanding them and preventing them form being happily married. i really don't think that is very Christian-like myself...

Answer 1

I didn't know Bush had vetoed any laws allowing gay marriage. I thought that was being defeated at the state level.

Answer 2

Go to church more often or at least read in your bible. You are supose to witness. Let these people know that being gay is not in god's wishes and they will be punished for it. The church for years has repremanded people for doing wrong. Do you think a good preacher would not tell the people this. To support this is a sin. So letting them as said being happily married and voting for gay marraige is a sin. I would rather them be catholic than be gay. Then at least god is in there life. It outlines in the bible what he expects of people of all sorts including where you and me should be. Lead a child in the way that he shall go and he shall not depart from it. Bush is the president and we are his sheep. If he votes for gay marriage then he will be punished for it. God gave us the right to govern ourselves under him. This country is getting out from under that and this is why we are having so many problems in this country. In the bible it tells me that the man is the head of the house and is my castle. If the children do not learn it is my fault not the mothers. Jobs may be deligated but they are still the mans job. You should understand my point by now. sorry for the preachin'.

Answer 3

Well not for the reason you beleive, But marriage is a state rights issue and Bush and the Federal Courts both need to butt out. The Fed court was wrong in allowing it in Mass, since it is up to the state to set thier marriage laws.

And of course Bush is against it, because the largest majority of all Americans are against it.

In any state where it has went to vote, it has never passed.

Answer 4

A homosexual union does not a marriage make. Look up the definition of marriage in the dictionary--A legal union between a man and woman as husband and wife.

Sorry the word marriage is already defined. If homosexuals want to have the similar legal status they will have to make up a new word.

Anyone have a new word for homounion? Same gender union could be sageun or samgenuni or gensamuni or unigensam or unisamgen or how about homosexion or homoiage? Maybe sageuniage? Surely some clever artistic type could think of an appropriate new word. How about a national contest? Maybe someone could offer a big reward for the best word. Then we can add it to the next edition of Webster's.

One right they will never have is the right to make a baby that is 50% of each of them. God fixed that. LOL

Answer 5

i don't care if it's considered a marriage or not. by all means, call it something else besides marriage, but give the community an "equal opportunity" like we in the United States say we do. But why be so hard-headed with a definiation of a word, because that's where this is mostly coming from right? Exactly what marriage is defined as in the dictionary...? How many times have words changed their meaning throughout the decades and Webster's Dictionary has kept with the trends. Why can the definition of marriage not be re-looked at? I think it's because certain people - even though they say they aren't - are extremely homophobic and don't understand what it is like to be that way.

Answer 6

I think government should stay out of marriage altogether. It was ordained and invented by God and belongs strictly to Him.


Government is in it for the money and gays want into it for the SS benefits. If there were no government involvement in taxing and regulating marriage then there would be no problem for anyone getting married.

I might add that separation of church and state is a Biblical principle. Jesus never told the disciples to get involved in politics. He instructed them to steer clear of changing governments.

Answer 7

It's no ones business who gets married. Who cares. Why is this still an issue in America? Right now 2 gay men are having sex with each other. How does this affect me? It doesn't. It doesn't affect my family or my morals.

What does affect family and morals is teaching kids that it is okay to lie. That it's okay to oppress people. That not everyone has the same rights because we live in Hippocratic America.

And I'm tired of these people acting like Bush hasn't done anything to prevent gay marriage. He has asked for the states to make these laws by voicing his opinion. Hitler didn't kill the millions of Jews during WWII, but we blame him for it don't we.

Answer 8

Well, I would love a recent example of him getting involved in it. I bet you cannot find it considering the fact that there is not one. Gay marriage is not up to the national government, it is left up to the state. Whatever state you live in has the power to let men marry other men is they so choose to do so. I think that your anger should be directed at your own state government. By the way, George Bush has not prevented one single gay marriage since he took office. Though he has tried to get a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage it did not pass, and he has all but dropped the issue. I would love to get an e-mail from you telling me I am wrong, but do look it up first.

Answer 9

yes i think every body needs to butt out of gay marriages. they have rights even if the christians don't think so. i to believe in the bible. i support gays. it may not be our way of life but it is their's i wouldn't want people to tell me who i could or could not marry.
and there is no separation of church and state. the church has too much $$$$$.

Answer 10

haha... he should butt out of office as well

it's a paper tiger. they're not really planning on doing anything about it, at least until, like immigration is in danger of becoming, it becomes such a popular issue that they have to deal with it. for example, the only reason bush is for a guest worker program and amnesty is that if they have to resolve the issue, this is the only way to solve it without getting rid of a low-wage work force... that it goes from slave wage to minimum wage is an acceptable loss. but until the republicans absolutely HAVE to deal with it, they will extend the problem as long as they can.

The gay marriage thing... well it works better as a method for winning over voters without actually implementing it, like abortion. If you make amendments to the constitution, it pretty much decides the issue, wins maybe some "thank you" votes from the conservatives in future elections, and tapers down. but conservatives are much more useful for "prayer votes", hoping their agenda will be promoted when it never will.

but turning it into this kind of public debate is a form of discrimination in and of itself... even if you're not gay, say you were... like in my case, married to a foreigner. what if isolationism got so out of hand that they started a public debate about whether U.S. citizens should be allowed to marry foreigners, or if their existing marriages should be recognized? I would definitely feel discriminated against. and I would be pissed at people who said, "Hey, you have the same rights as everyone else, to marry an American citizen of the opposite sex"

Answer 11

The Gay community wants to have their cake, and eat it too. This has nothing to do with President Bush -- it is the will of the American People as demonstrated repeatedly in the electoral process.

First the Gays tell us that the Federal Government should stay out of the bedroom.

Then they demand that the Federal Government be in the bedroom by validating/accepting/legalizing gay marriage.

What marvelous hypocrisy. If you want the government out of your life, then don't demand that they get involved with your life.

BTW -- read the First Amendment to the Constitution sometime. Nowhere in the amendment is there any statement about "a wall of separation", or "freedom FROM religion".