do you support gay marriage?

Question

i think we should because if you love someone then you should marry them. yet i dont think we should because if they adopt a kid then it would be made fun of because it has 2 mommys or 2 daddys. and it wont live a normal life.

Answer 1

Yes.

Answer 2

I support. Love is love and you can't decide which gender you like. The Bible may say marriage is between a man and a woman, but when you think about it, the Bible was written hundreds of years ago by men with their own biases and culture-based values. It also condones sex with slaves, treatment of woman as property, and polygamy. Read the Gospel, it never actually said anything bad about being gay. I also believe when any two people get married, it should be called marriage, be it a man and a woman, two men, or two women. The first amendment states all should be treated equally. Meaning everyone has the right to have it be called marriage.

Answer 3

Depends on how you define "marriage."

If you mean, "Should the government recognize marriage between two people of the same sex?" then no, but with a caveat... I don't think the government should be involved in marriage at all. Who are they to put their cold finger of approval on the love and committment between two people regardless of their sexual preference.

The government already approves of gay marriage if it is between two gay people of opposite sexes. I don't know of any specific examples of this, but I know of plenty of failed marriages because one of the two were gay.

There are two reasons that make half a lick of sense to justify the existence of marriage in my opinion. The first is providing a stable home for children. This is flawed because nothing shows that children raised by homosexuals are worse off than children raised by heterosexuals. The second is to encourage marriage through the lower tax rates for married people. The trouble with this argument is two-fold. It assumes that marriage should be socially engineered and since most married couples today both work, they actually have a dis-incentive to get married because their income is combined creating a marriage penalty.

The other issue regarding government (legal) marriage are the rights and responsibilities that come with it. All of these could be handled through private contracts and in the absence of state marriages, those private contracts would become as commonplace as wills. In addition, private contract marriages would provide the type of marriage each couple preferred and would include things like divorce provisions which would save people a lot of grief if and when they did divorce.

We don't really have to use marriages to protect children anymore. The laws have adjusted to accommodate unmarried and divorced couples in a way that tries to do what is best for the children and that wouldn't change.

If you mean within the church, I think it is up to each church.

One more thing -- gay marriage tends not to add to the overpopulation problem which is more responsble for environmental problems than any other source.

Answer 4

Yes. There is no logical reason for why two women or two men should not marry the same as a man and a woman.

Answer 5

well yes and no... i mean god made man and woman to love each other not for man and man to love each other or opposite. i do support it, but a little part of me doesn't want to because i'm really big with the whole catholic bible reading thing so i dont really know.....=P

Answer 6

No. Marriage was intended as a sacred union between a man and a woman.

Answer 7

I believe it is up to the people that choose to marry. It isn't for me to decide. That is between them and God. Whatever makes who ever happy. Does not affect me or my family.

Answer 8

Yes, these people are human beings with feelings.

Answer 9

yes

Answer 10

yes