What is the problem with accepting the term marriage outside of the religious context. I am not a christian, and therefore did not get married in a religious ceremony, yet I am legally married to my wife. Why is it fair that two people who love each other can't get married because somone else's religion forbids it?
2006-09-20 06:24:38 · 19 answers · asked by simplyrelaxinginblvl 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I'm sorry. Hello. Is there anybody out there??
The Gay Marriage issue is pure politics. It's all about semantics (and baiting liberals). Unfortunately, liberals and their friends took the bait.
John Kerry lost the election because because of the gay marriage initiative in Ohio. The thought of gays marrying alarmed the uneducated and the Republicans were able to get record turn-out of conservatives which gave Bush just enough votes to win Ohio and thus the presidency.
Gay Marriage is an issue designed by conservatives to win elections. If you're not religious, why does it matter if you're married or not? It's just a word, it's only semantics. Don't fight the social conservatives on this issue because that's exactly what Rove, Bush, and Cheney want you to do. There's no better way to get the religious base out to vote than to see liberals demanding marriage for anybody that wants it. Is there any state that actually has a majority in favor of gay marriage? Since the answer is no, the Democrats are killing themselves by supporting it!
2006-09-20 06:41:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Leaving religion out of it totally.
What is marriage? Marriage is the union of two people and their property. As property is involved, societies from the very beginning have decreed that such a union have the potential, whether past, present or future, to produce an heir so that the property does not become ownerless and cause societal ills while strangers fight over it.
Such a union, by definition, must involve both genders as single gender unions cannot create progeny.
The laws and decrees of such marriages were made in the general case....as one can always think to find some uncommon exception. The key is that the couple involved in the marriage, could have, even in the long distant past when they did not know each other, produced a child.
Now, if a same-sex couple wants to arrange their property in a similar arrangement to marriage, then they only need to visit with an attorney to get such an arrangement drafted. Of course, should that couple ever choose to separate, they would face a long court battle to separate their property once again.
Bottom line...marriage is a legal term. There is no need to change the definition of that term. And it shouldn't be changed.
2006-09-20 06:41:35 · answer #2 · answered by mzJakes 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
let them (gays) have a union, let them have a legal contract, let them share each others benefits and 401k and insurance and do not discriminate on their housing and adoption and do not impose on their rights as Americana's. Do not commit crimes on them based on their sexual preference. Do not look at them any different then any other human creature that God has created.
That being said:
DO NOT allow them to call their union a marriage. It is not a marriage, that is a sacrament between a man and a woman for the procreation of our species. Gays and lesbians cannot do that. Do not take the word marriage and make it o.k. to connect a union of that nature. Have a union, but do not call it a marriage.
2006-09-20 06:57:01 · answer #3 · answered by NolaDawn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
people get the religious ceremony and the legal act mixed up. they seem to think the two are one and the same, when really they aren't at all. it's also a great way to discriminate. it's not fair, but they don't want it to be fair. people seem to think that a legal marriage is the same thing as a religious marriage ceremony, which they are not. they are rationalizing their own hate and bigotry by saying that the big man in the sky hates gays. of course, they probably just don't know that america is not a theocracy, and we don't run our country the way the bible tells us to. and of course if we're following the bible, we should be taking slaves, oppressing women, committing genocide when god tells us to, that's all in the bible
2006-09-20 07:09:09 · answer #4 · answered by C_Millionaire 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm not against gay love and I'm not religious, but to me, marriage is a union between man and woman. I think civil unions for gays are all right, but to call it marriage is not correct in my opinion.
2006-09-20 07:29:32 · answer #5 · answered by nido_tr3s 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As a Christian and an American I believe marriage is a sacred event between a man and a women. Homosexuality is clearly a sin just like all the other sins, murder, fornication, lying etc. All have sinned but can be cleansed by Jesus Christ. We have the responsibility to protect marriage, unborn babies and our right to worship our God. That is what the Bible clearly states and that is the morals this country was founded on.
2006-09-20 06:34:40 · answer #6 · answered by buffman316 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
i dont feel that religion plays a part in this discussion. it comes down to public perception. there is very few places on this earth that socially allows same sex relations in public. society has accepted the gay community on the restriction that "whatever you want to do in your own home" but out in public that is another question. there is night clubs and other places for gays to get together, but why encourage them? with such a high rate of HIV and other STDs why help the spread those problem around?
2006-09-20 06:32:06 · answer #7 · answered by chef_q_c 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My being anti-gay marraiges has nothing to do with my religious or lack of religious beliefs and falls right in to my pocket book. The bottom line is this. If you legalize gay marraiges, it entitles those couples to the same rights and benefits of the typical heterosexual couple. That includes medical benefits and tax breaks.
Since gays have a higher risk of aids than the monogomous heterosexual couple, it means that if they are included in my employers medical coverage, suddenly my rates are rising because we will see an overwhelming rate hike to cover the what if scenarios of aids.
Not to mention the idea of gays in the first place just grosses me out. I have many gay and lesbian friends, they know how I feel but it doesn't stop our friendship, but then none of them are fighting to legalize marraige in the first place.
My opinion is thus. You want to be different and go against our physical make up of mating, fine. More power to you. But don't flaunt it in my face, I don't flaunt my relationship with my husband in yours so give me that respect. Don't expect me to back your relationship, support it, or approve of it.
2006-09-20 06:39:29 · answer #8 · answered by Lissa 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gay marriage is unnatural and is counter intuitive to the propagation of the species. It has absolutely no point except to prove the extent of moral decay that is taking place in our country. I am sorry, but you will never convince me to tell my 8 year old that it is perfectly normal for two people of the same sex to be intimate with one another.
2006-09-20 07:16:38 · answer #9 · answered by OrianasMom 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is wrong because god meant marriage to involve a man and a woman. Anything else is not marriage. It is just something that the gays do.
2006-09-20 06:39:59 · answer #10 · answered by CAI909 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋