Who supports gay marrige?

Question

weel this gurl in ma class asked me if i supported gay marrige i didn't say anything but she told me she does so i just want to know who supports gay marrage and why cause i don't

Answer 1

I do. Any two people that are in love should be allowed to get married if they want to.

Answer 2

I am gay but do not support gay marriage - for these reasons:
"Marriage" is a lost cause - it has a failure rate of over 50%. If a stock only produced dividends 50% of the time you'd dump it. If your lawnmower only ran 50% of the time, you'd trash it and get a new one. If only 50% of the groceries you bought at a particular store were within the expiration date, you would shop elsewhere. Why would a gay couple want to "invest" in something that is basically in the throes of death? Heterosexual marriage is meaningless today - it's a piece of paper. The spouse-of-the-month club.

Civil Unions have taken on a new meaning - they used to be regarded as commonlaw marriages or marriages done by the Justice of the Peace. Now they pretty much refer to gay partnerships. How many commonlaw and JOTP marriages survived is anyone's guess.

Domestic Partnerships are a legal contract giving each other spousal and familial rights to the others' property. This is nothing more than a glorified Power of Attorney with rights of survivorship.

I would prefer we redefine a Civil Union to be an exclusively Homosexual rite of marriage, and that we pass legislation banning heterosexuals from entering into Civil Unions. Civil Unions would need to be afforded the exact same rights, priveleges, and responsibilities as heterosexual marriages. Not difficult, you just pop all the laws into Microsoft Word and do a find and replace command and replace the requisite gender and spousal identifiers. Doesn't take a rocket scientist. Ok, maybe it takes a GAY rocket scientist. In any event, let the heterosexuals keep their cancer ridden "Marriage". I don't want to share any of the blame for their miserable failure.

Answer 3

I think it's fair we should have the same longterm partnership rights as straights do, so far as paying taxes, receiving tax benefits, and being recognized as a couple by society. However, marriage is a bad deal for straights, so why would it be any better for us? Why do we really want it?

Sometimes I wonder if all this pro-marriage thing is actually all about some other thing, because all gays know how vicious, dull and awful heterosexual marriages can be. I ask myself sometimes, why would we want that? "Oh, look! We want the right to poke a sharp, infected stick in our eye, too!"

Bottom line though, I support it. Gays and lesbians should have the same rights and privileges as heterosexuals do. It seems like gay has become the new black: "separate but equal". Are cross-burnings, Confederate flags and barking dogs on the horizon between us and our rights, like it was in the Fifties and Sixties for black Americans?

I support it. Just as principle, being gay m'self thanks.

Answer 4

You really need to ask yourself WHY you don't? Are you a throwback to the pre-1967 days (before the Supreme Court struck down all of the remaining such bans) when bigots were whining about interracial marriage? Those racists seemed to think that some sort of harm would be done if blacks and whites could legally marry one another. Well -- for about 40 years now, interracial marriage has been universally legal in the USA, and it's not only been harmless, but it's helped society to recognize the value of diversity in society.

Try asking yourself THIS the next time you're thinking about your not supporting same-sex marriage... this scenario:

The day finally comes when same-sex marriage has become legal. And for about 20 years before that, there's been this same-sex couple cohabiting in their home town, without benefit of marriage. So -- when they finally were able to do so, the couple ties the knot. QUESTION: Just HOW would that do *any* harm whatsoever to the marriage of *any* opposite-sex couple living in that community?

Now... do you see how very ABSURD are the lying claims by mindless bigots when they say that "traditional" marriage somehow needs to be "defended" against same-sex marriage?

Same-sex marriage is as harmless as a cheeseburger. MORE so, in fact -- since the cheeseburger contains potentially unhealthful fat.

And, BTW, just for the record, so you won't think I have an ax to grind -- I'm not gay. (But I *am* a fair-minded egalitarian.)

One other thing... ignorance and bigotry go together. You might want to keep that in mind while putting up posts as obviously illiterate as your question was...

Answer 5

There are two sides to marriage. First, the religious part; that's reserved for churches, and they make their rules. Some churches allow it, others don't, and that's OK.

The important argument is about state and federal law. In federal law, a male/female couple receive 1,049 special privileges because they make a contract (marriage) in which they declare they will support one another. This relieves the state from some of it's obligations to the couple. That couple can visit one another in hospital, inherit each others property automatically, can arrange for the funeral of their partner, and will receive their partner's social security after the partner dies. There are many other rights and responsibilities associated with this form of contract.

What gay men and lesbians want is to be treated equally when it comes to the law - NOT religion. So the law should say that any couple should be entitled to hospital visitation, inheritance, social security and other rights based on their long-term commitment to one another.

Don't confuse religion with law; the two are separate and must be considered separately.

It would be better if we changed all the laws to remove the word marriage, and replace it with 'civil contract' which is actually what the laws are talking about.

Answer 6

No ones marriage will change your life, your future marriage one way or another. Your life will be the same. The sun will rise as always. The trains will run on time.

I personally don't like the idea of dull witted people being allowed to marry, but in the end it really wouldn't make my life better by saying they can't.

So relax, let people couple as they choose.

Besides, if you mess up your life horribly, you can say it was legalizing gay marriages that caused your life to become a train wreck.

Answer 7

if 2 consenting, unrelated adults love each other, they should be able to get married and enjoy all the legal benefits as well. it shouldn't matter what gender, race, religion or culture you are.
the only "threat" to marriage is divorce! just look at the divorce rate, abuse, infidelity, children born out of wedlock, not to mention the blase' attitude some people have towards marriage (like Britney Spears' drunken Vegas wedding that she had annulled after a couple days, and, big surprise! now she's getting divorced from "K-Fed"). how could we possibly pose any more threat to marriage?
you sound like you have some growing up to do, and you need to spend more time in spelling and grammar class.

Answer 8

sure, I help gay marriage. there's no legal reason behind similar-sex couples to be disadvantaged of marriage. each and each and every citizen of the USA is entitled to an similar rights as another citizen of the USA, in spite of sexual orientation, gender, race, faith, etc. permitting a majority vote to settle on on rights of a minority is unlawful. In a democracy, the minority's rights will continually be sacrificed.

Answer 9

All I would do is ask why you don't 'support' gay marriage? I would then go on to say that gay 'marriage' is not about sexual preference or whether you think someone's sexual preference is a good thing or not. It is about a human right to be able to protect the person you love and care for in a legal sense and to be able to celebrate that love with your family and friends. It really is as simple as that. It is not about religion or anything else.

Answer 10

Why do you wish people unhappiness?! Doesn't everyone deserve the right to live a happy life with the person they love?!! What if some law said that you couldn't marry the person you love because you have different haircolors or are different heights?!!

Answer 11

What the hell is going on with your grammar? If your going to put something on the Internet, spell check is good. Yes, of course I believe in it. Anyone who doesn't usually has some lame "hooray for Jesus" excuse as to why they don't. It's only a matter of time until those primitive ideals get left in the dust, and then the Republicans will be kicking themselves for having spent so much money trying to keep gay marriage illegal.