Gay Marriage?

Question

Last night 7 out of 8 states had voters that said Gay Marriage should be banned in their state. Is this even legal. Its a violation of who we are and what we are about FREEDOM and CIVIL RIGHTS. I am gay and i would like to make my life the best ever. This doesnt mean i am different from you or the next person. I am still human. What does this do to us as a nation. What do you think? Be Positive and be respectful in a response. Most of all be you and be true.

Answer 1

i think its horrible that they are doing this. you have every right as the next person. my problem with them is that they are going by one definition of marriage, when there are many out there, and a few of them say nothing about the sex of the people involved. and then they go and say its against the bible, well whoop-de-doo!!! i dont believe in the bible, i've never read it, so i dont give a flying f*ck what it says, cause i'm not living my life by it. and THEN there are the people who say it devalues marriage, well so does divorce and people who remarry all the time, and people like Britney spears with her 55 hour marriage... its all just a joke!

what half the population believes in should be how the ENTIRE nation should be run. its messed up. Church and state should be separate, and since marriages are seen by the state, and you dont need the church to be married, i say the Church should have NOTHING to do with marriages. marriage should be between two consenting individuals, and thats it.


and to the first poster, you dont want it in your face, but its ok for you to flaunt your marriage to others? its the same thing, whats good for the goose is good for the gander.

Answer 2

You want me to be positive and respectful in my response. But I'm not sure that is possible considering that you are gay and can only see my response as an insult.

See, the people don't want it. The only reason the gay marriage issue is even being considered is because of radical judges that force it on the people!!! Is that legal? To by pass the will of the people with these court decisions? These Judges themselves break the law because they are using their position to force their morality (loose morality) onto the public. If people vote one way, and are forced another way, how is that legal?

You talk of civil rights. Believe me, our founding fathers never envisioned gays marrying. Had they seen into the future, they would have added a clause that reads: and if such (gays) wants to be married, hang them upon a tree, and do not bury the bodies. Believe me...only in today's generation can something like this actually be taken seriously. All of mankind past would have laughed you to scorn for even suggesting it and condemned you in a New York minute.

Today's person is morally bankrupted. People today call right wrong, and wrong right. No concept of it. They make it up as they go, based on personal perspective.

So in summation, marriage is between a man and a woman. Period.

Answer 3

This is such a ridiculous issue!

I can't believe that a religious issue is even being considered as an amendment to the Constitution....it's an outrage....I'm not even gay and I'm pissed off about it. Our constitution is being abused...and anyone who says that these restrictions aren't motivated by religious beliefs are kidding themselves.

Many people in this country are treating gays like blacks were treated before civil rights...like they're some sort of subspecies...sometimes I'm surprised gays are even aloud to vote in this country....and believe me, there are people in this country that would ban that too if they could.

I think sex between two men is absolutely disgusting!...but that doesn't mean I have the right to prevent it, or even that I want to prevent someone else from doing something that harms no one. It's the same as gay marriage...it hurts no one.

Some people say it would allow gays to reap benefits that they don't deserve because they would get married just for the sake of the benefits....

...that argument is completely bogus, because many straight people have already been doing that for years...it should be an issue of how to prevent people from abusing marriage, not restricting people from getting married because they might abuse it.

I see no validity to the laws...I can't think of one benefit created from them.

I'm very interested in any intelligent information on how anti-gay laws are beneficial to anyone.

Answer 4

You know what makes no sense to me? The fact that these anti-gay zealots say that gay marriage will ruin family values. Family values are ruined now! What about divorce, cheating spouses, teenage pregnancy, abusive husbands, alcoholism, drug abuse, neglect... these are all problems we have NOW. And another big problem is gay people feeling so ashamed that they "play straight" and get married, have kids, and end up miserable with their families miserable too. So the very thing they are preaching is what could tear a family apart. If a same-sex couple gets married what could that POSSIBLY have to do with anyone else's life or marriage? It's just bigotry cloaked in some kind of religious spiel. These are the same people who didn''t (and still don't, probably) want interracial marriages to happen either.

Answer 5

I was married for 14 years to the same man until I found out he was cheating on me to a woman...The sanctity of marriage is between two people and not what other people think...Every State in our Union should adopt Gay Marriage laws and things would get alot better, especially over-population.. It hurts me to see all these children going hungry and dying everywhere, even here in the United States, and all these religious organizations raising money to feed other countries instead of looking right outside of their own back yards....SO Sad...This is hurting our own economy as a nation....

Answer 6

You are absoluty right, I feel for gays, it reminds me a lot of the civil rights movement in the 60s. It is said our country can't treat gays like normal human being. What is worse, is the republican party used gay marriage to distract the American public from the war in Iraq during Bush's re-election, and it WORKED!!! Just goes to show how closed minded and discrimatory this world is, and no one in power will stand up for gays, because they are scared, probably why many of those 7 states chose they way they did.

Answer 7

For me you should not be envolved in this type of activities. What is the idea about all the gay an Lesbos, and Transies, wanting the world too know about their love afairs. This is what caused Sodem an Gamora to become non-existant. You should read a little more of the Holy Bible. This is an act of satin confussing you.
BEST LUCK. P.S. Don't want a marriage of the same sexes.

Answer 8

We continue to fight this noble cause. We continue to gain grounds. Yes 7 states voted to ban, yet one state decided not to ban. This was a first. it shows progress and gives us hope.

I am old enough to remember a lot of stuff. Like when inter-racial marriage wasn't legal. I remember a lot of segregation problem in my schools.

Times change and people change. Times are changing, just a little slower than we all hope for. Perhaps someday the US can become a leader again in civil rights for all of it's citizens. We preach it to other nations, yet we can not do it here in our own back yard.

Answer 9

I am not gay and I am a Christian. I don't see any reason why 2 people who love each other and want a commited relationship should not be able to marry. If both people are of legal age they should be able to marry even if they are the same gender.

Why should two adults who love each other be denied the rights and protection of marriage just because they are the same sex?

I voted against the marriage is only between one man & one woman bill last night.

Good luck! No group should be discriminated against due to their choice of partners.

Answer 10

Homosexuality and Gay Marriage; has developed into some type of stigma of slander. People want to equate it to things that have no connection. Foley is a prime factor; people in their ignorance associate gay with pedophilia. They also believe that all sorts of bad things will happen to this country if Gay Marriage is allowed. My answer comes from a bumper sticker that said: "Mind your own business; and take care of your own dam family!