What christian denomination are you?
2006-10-05 11:32:40 · 58 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
no. marriage is between a man and a woman. not man and man or woman and woman.
2006-10-05 11:34:29 · answer #1 · answered by lover of Jehovah and Jesus 7 · 4⤊ 4⤋
Yes!!
People think incest is wrong yet they can legally marry their cousin in certain states. Then again who is anyone to judge someone else's relationship? I am straight and my best friends are gay. Why should I be happily married while they cant? Almost every man/woman wants to walk down the aisle and every man/woman wants to be at the end waiting for the one they Iove to make a life long commitment to each other. It's their choice, no one elses.
2006-10-06 06:12:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Non-denomination...
Why do gays want to be involved in a religious ritual (when religion clearly is against the homosexual lifestyle)?
I can't speak for other religions; I can speak for Christianity. God / Jesus are clear that living the homosexual lifestyle is a sin. Sin, any sin is an abomination to the living God.
God loves everyone. Just because you are attracted to someone of the same sex doesn't mean you "have" to act on it. Contrary to what society says, it is not normal. Normal is one man and one woman and that my friend is a marriage.
Besides, if it's the legal issue of a living will or power of attorney...that can be done at the local Office Max, Office Depot or Staples. They sell the documents for less than $50 and as long as they are notarized...they are legal.
Before you go and label me...I love everyone. Jesus commanded us to love one another has He loved us.
This won't be a popular answer but the truth rarely is...
2006-10-05 11:38:54 · answer #3 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Nope. Man and Woman shall become one flesh God said so when did he ever say Man and Man or Woman and Woman can become one flesh?
Genesis 2:24 (Whole Chapter)
For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
1 Corinthians 6:9 (Whole Chapter)
Do you not know that the unrighteous and the wrongdoers will not inherit or have any share in the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived (misled): neither the impure and immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who participate in homosexuality.
2006-10-05 22:23:11 · answer #4 · answered by Da Great 1 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Particularly given that married couples have legal rights that unmarried couples don't have, like the right to see each other in the hospital ICU and to inherit from their loved ones.
I'm an atheist.
2006-10-05 11:58:51 · answer #5 · answered by Fraggle 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course they should its none of my business. And for all you out there who belive that you have a right to impose your beliefs on someone else you are crossing a major boundary, no one gives you a hard time for your beliefs so leave the rest of the world alone. Otherwise some people may have to step up and say did God himself write the bible? or men in power who wanted the world to follow them and are people potentially doing a morally wrong act by condemming others who would not say peep to you about how you live your life? I believe in god but saying there is only one way to live is mighty narrow minded and I would not want to be judged for that when I die.
2006-10-05 11:56:24 · answer #6 · answered by cscagel2 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It seems all the "no" people cite the bible, but people other than Christians get married too, folks.
Why is gay marriage worse than, say, a Britney Spears 24-hour marriage-and-annulment? If gay marriage 'devalues' marriage, how does the Britney marriage strengthen it - while a monogomous gay couple who have been together for decades and even raised kids together supposedly does not?
Fair is fair - other than an ancient religious-based prejudice, there is no reason to deny some the priveleges everyone else gets.
PS The bible was once used to justify slavery, too.
2006-10-05 11:43:10 · answer #7 · answered by kent_shakespear 7 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Yes. I believe that they should be allowed to marry. I am not Christian.
2006-10-05 11:45:19 · answer #8 · answered by Rance D 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
There are few ways to look at it
1. By the Christian belief that homosexuality is wrong, of course no.
2. By the logical sense (to me anyway) being "gay" is not natural, it defies self preservation by means of offspring. I watched an interview with a convicted child molestor on TV. He acknowleged that he is screwed up mentally, but he tried to explain his physical desires. He stated, just like most men are attracted and lustful of women, he feels the same way about little boys. Just because someone "feels" something, does not make it right. Marraige is the foundation of family. A family (historically and naturally) is a man, a woman, and their offspring. Marraige is the commitment between a man and a woman (for now at least, defined legally) that they are devoted to a monogomous relationship with one another in order to bond and procreate. The answer would still be no just because it does not make sense to be married with a member of the same sex. Which brings me to...
3. Theory of evolution and the common acceptance by athiesm.
According to the laws of evolution (if we assume that homosexuality is genetic and not a mental deffect caused by an outside condition) should prove that homosexuality will eventually cease because the "genetic trait" will not be passed to offspring, because there won't be any anyway. Common sense. If homosexuality is a genetic trait and perfectly natural, where did it come from? Evolution should tell us that homosexuality would have never even existed because the genetic trait could not be passed on. So the answer yes would not make a long term differnce as it would eventually completely eliminate the "genetic trait" from human genetics all together. From a scientific perspective homosexuality must be a mental defect, not an inherited trait.
Me personally, I don't agree with homosexuality, not just because of religious beliefs, it just does not make sense using true logic that it is natural. Which makes it a mental deffect, which may be caused by a balance of chemicals in the brain, but most likely is caused by an outside condition, such as the failure of a paternal or masculant influence with an overshadowed maternal or feminine influence for "gay" men, or perhaps opposite for "lesbian" women. With no regard whatsover to any religious beliefs it is unlogical to assume that homosexuality is a genetic trait. That does not mean the individual is of any more or less worth than the rest of society, but to me it does mean that we are talking about whether or not women should be able to vote or a hispanic person can become a citizen to a nation. These issues are derived by genetics, but homosexuality simply cannot be (it is impossible).
If I thought it allowing marraige of homosexuals would stop right there, I would probably reconsider, but because I know that would be the first step to:
Homosexuals adopting children (causing a very disturbing influence on children with regards to relationships in my opinion)
The ultimate abolishment of marraige all together (because it just is not fair to everyone)
The continuation of a moral fee-fall of society. (I believe, religious or not, society is structured around basic morals that are the determination of right and wrong. If the assumption is that right and wrong are defined by each individual, then the assumption that society can make any rules whatsoever for inividuals is a violation of the right of that individual to create his own version of morals. If nothing determins an absolute truth of "right and wrong", nothing can be declared by anyone to be right or wrong. Your conscience, the golden rule, does not matter, it is ultimately unfair to opress your version of right and wrong on anyone else for any reason because you have no true basis for your version of the same. Therefore there is no right, there is no wrong, there is only what each person chooses to do, because that is the only fair way for everyone, despite majority.)
Because I do not believe homosexuality is genetic, because it cannot logically exist from even an evolutionists point of view, I would call it a perversion of the nature of man. It is equivalent to me to legalizing the right of people to marry animals. If you believe homosexuality is the right of people to make their own choices, you believe each individual chooses their own version of right and wrong. If that is so, a man who has the desire to have sex with animals has the right to determine his version of right and wrong. You CANNOT tell him that it is immoral because there are not true morals for everyone.
NO, you might as well abolish all laws because nothing is wrong if we define our own versions of the reality of right and wrong. We might as well legalize animal sex and take away any law of statatory rape because you cannot tell a pedafile that he or she is wrong...you don't know.
Oh my denomination should not even matter. I could be athiest, agnostic, Catholic, Musslim, or Christian and it would not change my view at all because I am taking a purely logical stance on the whole issue.
2006-10-05 12:36:55 · answer #9 · answered by RedE1 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. I'm a generic Christian, at best. I believe in God and I believe that Jesus is His Son. I do not believe they are one and the same.
2006-10-05 11:36:58 · answer #10 · answered by MishMash [I am not one of your fans] 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Yes, they should be allowed to marry. I'm atheist.
Common sense would dictate that a religion whose messiah preached a message of love, would accept love in any form...not just how they want it.
Alot of christians throw out the leviticus verse to support their claim against it, but fail to acknowledge the fact that the very same book of the bible condones publicly stoning a disobedient child...rather convenient to only use the parts they like.
2006-10-05 11:40:59 · answer #11 · answered by Bill K Atheist Goodfella 6 · 4⤊ 5⤋