How many times is this going to be asked today? This week? Doesn't anyone ever check past questions, using that helpful "search for questions" box? Arrgh!
Having gotten that off my chest, YES, society must provide equal rights for all, or it will be discrimination. Marriage rights are given and regulated by the STATE, such as inheritance and taxation. Religion should have no say in such matters, and the state should not be allowed to discriminate through gender or sexual orientation.
It always kills me when some bigoted "christians" say out of one side of their mouth that 'LGBT people never have long-term relationships' and then go out and rail against same-sex marriage, you know, LGBT people having long-term relationships. What hypocrites!
2006-11-21 03:48:50
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answered by Anonymous
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Gay marriages already exist in everything but official recognition by the governmental and religious authorities and the fringe benefits that accompany that recognition. It's simply adding just due to what already exists. Get real people. What do you have against monogamy anyway? If it's good for you, it must be equally good for others too. (Those last remarks not directed against this questioner. I do not know what your views are. Peace.)
2006-11-21 12:20:49
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answered by Seeker 4
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There should be nothing to debate here. It should be legal regardless of how anyone feels about it. Live and let live!
If someone doesn't like it, they should mind their own business. Afterall, the fact that gay marriage is not legal does not stop gay people from being gay... but it does oppress them and deny them rights that all americans should have!!
2006-11-21 11:50:16
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answered by markalan1973 2
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Religious organizations have no onus to accept gay marriages.
Still, I believe that gay people usually have no choice in the matter and are owed equal treatment under the law. Civil law
should allow them the same protections that it provides to us
heterosexuals.
Under civil law, you can call it a marriage, or civil contract, or
whatever you wish, but they deserve the rights and privileges of other citizens.
2006-11-21 11:46:00
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answered by hls 6
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I believe people should marry who they want.
I don't see gay marriage becoming legal soon, however.
Not until people of my generation have died off (I'm nearly 50). (I have the impression that younger people are, on the whole, more tolerant.)
What I'd really like to know, though, is why people's getting married (people that one never knows), ruins other people's marriages -- as so many claim.
How shaky is your marriage that it would be destroyed by gay marriages?
2006-11-21 13:06:29
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answered by tehabwa 7
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I have a covenant with my g0y mate and could care less if society recognizes it or not. The legal documents exist to protect my rights and if I want the states involvement I will ask for it. I think also that homosexuals deserve the right to love who they love and live with who they wish. The government has no right to deny anyone the right to be married.
2006-11-21 12:43:25
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answered by ♂ Randy W. ♂ 6
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I am for it. Marriage is between people who love each other and are willing to make a life-long commitment to love, honor, respect, care for, and remain with that individual.
2006-11-21 13:38:14
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answered by TransyMAJ 2
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completely for it. i find it ridiculous that those who believe so strongly in god to judge other people can hate so strongly. it's so hypocritical that i can barely stand the thought of it. now, i am not a religious person, but that has nothing to do with the fact that marriage is love. marriage is the joining of TWO PEOPLE WHO LOVE EACH OTHER, who want to support each other and show a lifelong commitment. in some book "sent from good", sure, you can find words that tell you two men lying together is wrong, but you can also find things about sinning by eating shellfish. or by touching your wife while she's on her period. don't get me wrong, i support those who believe in god also, but things have changed. we are a modernized world in many ways, and it's time that people see that there is no reason not to let people of any sexuality be married. no one is saying that once gay people can get married any man will be FORCED to marry a man. it is a privilege of choice for those two people and those two people only. you don't support it? fine, don't look. but get over your ******* self and let people live.
2006-11-21 11:47:58
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answered by itendstoday 2
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For it but I'm straight so I don't really care if a person is gay or not. I look on what's on the inside.
2006-11-21 12:01:30
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answered by missgigglebunny 7
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Society doesn't have to accept anything especially since we live in a Democracy. So Hell no men were physically meant for women and women were physically meant for men. If it was natural to be gay then why can't two gay people have children? And why is there no natural entry opening on a man or no male genitals on females? Society should not have to accept people's sick twisted views when it doesn't agree with the morals of humanity.
2006-11-21 12:46:31
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answered by RedRose 2
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