im not gay but i know people who do do you believe that they should be able to get married
2006-11-09 08:55:38 · 45 answers · asked by Sammie 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Hi and thank you for this good question. I hope you notice my little answer. I am a lesbian. I am young but I have known what it feels like for mean people to make fun of me, hate me for no reason, and call me terrible names. But I am just a person like you. I just want to find love and be happy. God made me a person who likes her own sex. Of course, I should have the dream to marry just like any other citizen. To deny me is to deny any sense of justice in this country.
2006-11-09 09:24:31 · answer #1 · answered by Isis 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I am fine with gay people uniting legally to get all of the benefits that everybody else gets and to solidify their commitment for one another but I am just not fine with them using the word "marriage". The word marriage is religious and it was defined a long time ago as the union of a husband and wife. It was only changed recently because of all the new rights. I don't think it should be changed now. There should be a new word for this. Would this mean also that someday, when people fight the right to marry their pet or whatever, then when it's granted, we'll all use this word because they would love each other?
2006-11-09 09:47:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's not so much that I believe in gay marriage it's that gay couples are getting together, adopting children and raising families no matter what the law says, so if they are going to do that in spite of their relationships not being officially reconzied then why not go ahead and grant them equal rights under the law to protect not only their rights but the rights of their children. The hard core nazi christians think this is some sort of war against traditional marriage as if legalizing these unions will some how make straight people run out, get divorced and marry a homosexual. One has nothing to do with the other.
2006-11-09 09:02:59 · answer #3 · answered by mrfoxhorn 5 · 7⤊ 2⤋
I believe in gay marriage. I'm bi and would like to be able to have the same rights no matter who I choose to spend my life with. Civil unions do not provide the same rights as marriage in the eyes of the law. Marriage is an automatic right for heterosexuals. If you're bi or gay you can be denied that right. I've yet to hear one valid argument against gay marriage; *my* religion has no problem with it, and last I checked my country wasn't a theocracy.
Also, to the person who said if everyone supported gay marriage we would be extinct, that's ridiculous. We would all have to BE gay for that to happen.
2006-11-09 09:30:52 · answer #4 · answered by Zeke 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I don't know if I believe in gay marriage or not, wait, hold on just one minute, let me run into the other room and ask the man that I just celebrated my 25th anniversary with on May 26, 2006. I'll just bet he has some thoughts on the subject.
I sent this in answer to another person's question about gay marriage, thought I'd pass it along: the question was,
Are there any good non-religous reasons against gay marriage?
There really are no “good” non-religious arguments to use against gay marriage. And as far as religious one‘s, there are not any good reasons either, why two people who love each other and want to devote their live's to one another should not be allowed to do so, well you know what Jesus said about it, he said nothing, not one word. Jesus did say to love and respect and care for one another above all else. I'm afraid the same "reason" can and is used by both non-religious and religious people. “It's against nature, It's against God's will, (like any of us really know's God's will, I'm not so arrogate as to believe that I have a clue of what God thinks or to be so bold as to feel I can speak for God)It's not normal.” We humans have always tended to react with fear and hatred to those things that we do not understand or feel within ourselves. We are still a young Nation, considering we are just a little over 200 yrs old, other Nations have been around for 1,000 of yrs and they still don't have all the kinks worked out. One day this Nation will live up to it's creed and the hope’s of it's founding fathers & mothers, and we will be a people that demand every citizen be treated equal and be afforded the same rights and privileges without exception. Then we will be able to stand up and say to the rest of the world, with moral authority "We believe in Human Rights for all People" That no one person or group of people or Nation can claim to themselves or for themselves that they have a standing any better than that of their Brother’s or Sister‘s. That we truly are of one people and of one family on this planet we call Earth.
2006-11-09 09:36:22 · answer #5 · answered by Captain 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
What I believe or you believe *should* be irrelevant to the issue -- we have a constitution in the United States, that guarantees the same rights to ALL people. Not just the straight ones, not just the white ones, ALL people. That we deny the rights and responsibilities of public commitment as a couple to certain of our citizens based solely on their sexual orientation is unconstitutional, plain and simple, no matter if you or I like it or not.
Now, let me be clear: I'm talking about *legal* marriage, civil union, under the law of the US. I'm not talking about religious unions. A church is free to have their own beliefs and rules, and if a church doesn't want to sanction gay marriage, they don't have to. But a church is *not* free to force its beliefs and rules on the rest of the population -- there is to be no establishment of state religion (or its rules) in the US, remember?
I'm not gay either -- I just know it's not right for us to discriminate like this. How can two people (no matter what gender) who love each other committing publicly to spending their lives together possibly harm anyone else? It can't. And it's not constitutional.
2006-11-09 09:01:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
Mirium B Romans refers to sexual practices that are abnormal between heterosexuals such as anal and oral sex. At least that's what I was teached.
I do believe in gay marriage, and if you date someone why not marry them? If you love your gay friends then support them.
Don't be a hypocrite. If you don't want gay marriage then please don't say you love your gay friends. And saying that is "discusting" is only an opinion. It has also been proven that homosexuality happens in nature.
Get educated people.
2006-11-09 10:30:37 · answer #7 · answered by Alim 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The amendment wasn't about Marriage persay as it was about the recognition of benefits that go with it. People should be able to be with who they want, but there is a fine line of what is right or wrong when it comes to financial benefits, which I think is more the issue.
2006-11-09 09:20:19 · answer #8 · answered by KC 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
yes, I do! if 2 consenting, unrelated adults love each other, and have a committed relationship, it shouldn't matter what gender, race, religion or culture they are. who does it really hurt? and how can we "destroy" marriage? look at the divorce rate, abuse, infidelity, children out of wedlock, the blase' attitude towards marriage (like Britney Spear's drunken Vegas marriage, and now her latest marriage is ending in divorce! big surprise!). how could we possibly do any worse than that? the straight people who think we'll destroy marriage make a mockery of it themselves.
2006-11-09 13:39:16 · answer #9 · answered by redcatt63 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes,I beiieve in a gay marriage,as well as having some hard times.One couldn't or shouldn't realisticly expect to be happy all the time.
2006-11-09 09:35:21 · answer #10 · answered by Sweet Willy 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋