2006-09-18 08:45:37 · 44 answers · asked by stoneagequeen1 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
I support it. They're just people, entitled to pursue happiness any way they choose, just like everyone else. It's none of my beeswax what goes on in anyone's bedroom!
2006-09-18 08:48:54 · answer #1 · answered by S&S 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
a very hot topic question(hope the results are just as good)
I dont believe in gay rights,but before you put the hammer down let me explain.....To be gay is not a right,its a choice,whether born that way or not(and theres nothing wrong with that)but if you classify it under the act of rights,than you open the floodgates to many other groups that would want the same(example:n.a.m.b.l.a.)North american man boy love assc(pedophilia)and this would open everything into chaos.now do i think gays should have an ammendment to be joined in partnership(not marriage)and be able to have the same rules as married couples(benefits,health etc.) i would support it.but as to be called rights would open a legal stew that would cost us astronomical amounts of money,create more strife in society and make all the lawyers rich. so no on (the legal term of...) rights
2006-09-18 09:00:56 · answer #2 · answered by stygianwolfe 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I support gay rights because it's no one elses business what people do in thier bedroom, or who they like doing it with. That is the only thing that makes them different then anyone else. People who protest against gay rights need to get a life and worry about more important matters.
2006-09-18 08:49:00 · answer #3 · answered by deepadot 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I don't support gay rights because I don't think we should give special rights or priviledges to someone just because of their sexual preference.
We all have rights enumerated in the constitution of the United States, everyone has these rights regardless of their race,creed etc.
As for discrimination or infringing on the rights of someone who is homosexual, If the homosexual doesn't advertise their sexual preference then no one can discriminate against them for it. I don't advertise what my sexual preferences are, I really don't care to know what everyone elses are either. Also if they do face discrimination they can always resort to the courts.
As for marriage, it isn't a right. If everyone had a right to get married, then we would have to force someone to marry someone they do not want to marry. Therefore not allowing homosexuals to marry is not an infringement or restriction of a right.
2006-09-18 08:59:28 · answer #4 · answered by Biggen 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I support gay rights. Why not? they are human beings.
2006-09-18 08:47:49 · answer #5 · answered by Avner Eliyahu R 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
For the same reason that I support straight rights, because I believe that everybody, regardless of their sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, birthplace, economic or social status should have the same rights. I think it is stupid, cynical, myopic and unfair to act in any other way.
2006-09-18 10:52:14 · answer #6 · answered by p.g 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wholeheartedly hope gays get everything they want; gay marriage, gay divorce, gay custody battles, and gay newly divorced, cry your eyes out, bachelor apartment complexes, all on one condition: that they shut up about being gay. Nobody's interested in your sexual orientation. Heteros don't run around shooting their kissers off about theirs. If gays want to be assimilated into the main stream, it would be a lot easier if they would satisfy their sexual preferences indoors, and stop rubbing everybody's nose in it.
2006-09-18 09:17:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
don't either way...
All I can say is I treat a gay person as I would anyone else - they are a person with a personality. Some personalities annoy me, other's done. Straight or not.
Don't believe it's my place to judge that one way or another. There are higher judges in this universe than me! And none of them are on Y!A!
2006-09-18 08:48:21 · answer #8 · answered by stimply 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
i support gay rights because they are also human beings that got to pay bills and taxes like everyone else so why should we treat them any differently
2006-09-18 08:52:12 · answer #9 · answered by 2sexy4u 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Gay rights is a tricky question. I am not gay so my gut reaction is to tell gays to go to hell. As I was growing up, the worst thing that a boy could tell another boy was that he was gay....whiter was the actual term used. I am sure this kind of thing was going on world wide and this happened in previous generations and is still happening in all schools today.
All straight men KNOW that being called gay or calling someone gay is one of the worst things to do, one of the last verbal challenges before the fists start flying. To try to fix this problem in early schools is ridiculous ...'cos any 'converts' to the reasonableness of homosexuality are sure to be disparaged as just being gay themselves. Furthermore it is an obvious bully tactic to make 'us good guys' feel better at the expense of others.........imagining the other team as just a bunch of fruits would urge the team on to victory....afterall...nobody wants to be beaten by a bunch of fags ...right?
Trying to change the fact that one's identity is closely tied to ones sexuality is, I feel, just too much to ask of society. Everyone is not going to wake up tomorrow and suddenly think, "You know, we've been wrong all this time giving homosexuals a hard time....let's all somehow come to an understanding that being gay is not one of the worst things that you can be....we'll all pick on pedophiles..that's it." (in reality) "....but hey wait!! ...calling someone a gay pedophile has some extra pizzazz...never mind"
Then there's the fact that Bible Believers feel mandated by God to persecute such 'abominations'. Who are the lawmakers to fly in the face of such 'common sense?' This amounts to making the act of despising homosexuals a THOUGHT CRIME.
My point is that people in general are ignorant and bigoted and they will fight tooth and nail against anything that appears to be contrary to their rights, freedoms and beliefs.....even to the point of 'cutting off their own nose to spite their face.' (Imagine poor people voting in a crowd of morons who are dedicated to cut off all social safety nets just because the other team might allow two guys get married.)
The general feeling is that anyone who would vote for gay rights must be a fruity/leftist/pinko/atheist and that they should rot in Hell ...as soon as 'we' can assist their passage there.
In conclusion, the above reasons are why I think that the gay community should circle their wagons and wait until such times as the 'average citizen' is tolerant and that given a chance he/she will think this through. Meanwhile try to separate the idea of marriage from civil union as much as possible
2006-09-18 10:22:03 · answer #10 · answered by eantaelor 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I do support gay rights. I think that everyone has a right to love who they want to and we shouldn't condem people for acting on what is in their heart and their head.
I strongly belive in same sex marriage too. A rapist/murderer on death row can marry, but 2 people of the same sex who are in love can not. Does that make sense?
2006-09-18 08:48:55 · answer #11 · answered by lion75 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋