Someone just claimed this here.
I was wondering:
Does anyone here know of a single heterosexual, christian, married couple whose marriage ended because some guys got married?
Gays have been getting married for, what, over a year now....
How many heterosexual divorces has this caused?
Anyone have the numbers?
*snicker*
2006-10-24 13:15:09 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Beka, how is it an attack on the "nuclear family"????
don't play semantic games when cornered, hun.
2006-10-24 13:18:51 · update #1
Wow. The sheer ignorance of mankind never ceases to amaze me. Gay marriage does nothing to destroy heterosexual unions.
2006-10-24 13:19:12 · answer #1 · answered by Spookshow Baby 3 · 8⤊ 0⤋
*lmao@ Shacha* Good one!
Anywho, the idea that gay marriage "destroys marriage altogether" has nothing to do with hetero couples divorcing - they do that just fine on their own. No, actually, it's a catholic and "God-fearing" belief that if a man is allowed to marry a man and a woman to marry a woman, then the "sanctity" of marriage would be compromised, although I don't know why they're complaining - gays are more loyal to eachother than most and would be less likely to divorce. (I believe). The "sanctity" of marriage is the concept of submissive woman cooking, cleaning, and popping out kids on a regular basis and the man providing for them and neither lying to or cheating on the other.
Marriage is screwed either way you look at it, but the bottom line is people who are homophobic and also afraid of their own sexuality dead set against the source of this fear to be allowed to do anything they can. They feel threatened by something they don't understand and, blinded by this fear, are unable to see past the end of their own noses.
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2006-10-24 13:33:06 · answer #2 · answered by Deus Maxwell 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Marriage is dying as an institution. Only 49% of Americans are married. 51% are single or cohabiting.
Maybe Gay marriages will boost the percentage backup, since Heteros are deserting the concept little by little.
The most astonishing thing is close to 90% of Americans claim to be Christian!
2006-10-24 14:00:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
So far as I know no christian couples in Massachusetts - which allows gay marriage - have gotten divorced because of it. In fact, life seems pretty normal up there still.
According to a Boston Globe article called "Walking the Walk on Family Values", Massachusetts has the lowest divorce rate - 2.4 per 1000 - of all fifty states - imagine that...
2006-10-24 13:22:06 · answer #4 · answered by genaddt 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
devlsadvoct,
Hi again.
This Christian cannot see any way that Gay Marriage can do bad things to Marriage. Those who have been married to opposite sex parners have screwed it up in all manner of ways before now.
The thing is: Who can believe that Gays WON'T have just as many problems with it?
I think that everyone is entitled to be as smart, or as stupid, a anyone else.
2006-10-24 13:29:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No matter what a person feels about the moral state of gay marriages, it has no effect whatsoever on heterosexual marriages. I have known many wonderful gays over the years, and while I do believe that the bible denounces homosexuality, I feel this is a matter between gays and God. I am not in any position to denounce them. They are aware of the bible and what it says, and they choose to disregard it. How this affects the stability of my marriage is a mystery to me.
2006-10-24 13:20:51 · answer #6 · answered by mcpenguin5 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Isn't it a lot of fun to see how many fundamentalist right-wing Christians apparently start thinking about getting out of their marriages when they think that gay marriage might be legalized? I had no idea there were so many closet gays among the married conservative Christians.
2006-10-24 13:28:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Marriage is a covenant instituted by God. If homosexuals want to live together and pursue unnatural sexual acts they can go ahead but, their relationship and the marriage covenant of the Bible do not have anything to do with one another. Civil union so they may have equal visiting rights in the hospital--fine. Civil Unions so they may receive death benefits from insurance or something--fine. Just don't pretend it is the same as marriage.
2006-10-24 13:35:45 · answer #8 · answered by Midge 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The ignorance never ceases to amaze me. If one is against gay marriage, great do not marry a gay person. Otherwise it is not their business. This subject has gotten me angry before so I will close now and I will not even read the answers that you get.
2006-10-24 13:20:11 · answer #9 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
That is a tough one, It has only been a year, how many gay divorces has it caused, marriage does seem to be the leading cause of divorce.
2006-10-24 13:18:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋