Is there any logical reason to deny same gender marriage?

Question

I am of the opinion that if two people love each other and want to commit their lives to each other, this should be celebrated. Why are so many people opposed to it?

Answer 1

it threatens their beliefs. Plus marriage has already become sort of a joke. No one takes it as seriously as they did 100 years ago. They figure if you take the deffinition "man and woman" off, then marriage will be even more meaninless.
I for one think gays should be able to get married. They just want to be a family together like anyone else. And eventually it will be so, because that is equal rights and the law will eventually have to realize that. They will just have to keep fighting for it for a few more years.

Answer 2

Hey, why stop at two? If two is good why not three or six or ten....Why have any limits? Why not let me marry my cow or my horse or my dog or my snake? In fact why shouldn't I be able to marry my 6 year old daughter or my 7 year old son? Why should anyone have the right to state what is right or wrong?

The simple reason is, our nation was originally founded on Judeo Christian Values. The Nuclear Family is and has always been statistically the most healthy stable environment to raise a child....it's a statistical fact. Are there exceptions? Of course there are, but failure does not negate the best and healthiest choice. I understand that times have changed but with each shift this nation undergoes, the social impact is devastating....This isn't conservative babble, it's a fact. Nearly 80 percent of all African American families do not have a father in the home. Society is crumbling because it makes the choice daily to turn away from what makes it strong and healthy. Using examples of failed marriages does not justify trashing what has ALWAYS been the strongest, healthiest way to raise children.....One man and One woman. When you disrupt the best design and the best choice you create other problems. When you disrupt traditional marriage with divorce, you create other social problems. When you decide that traditional marriage is no longer the norm and no longer the standard, then other social problems will result. It is a historical fact that cannot be dismissed, regardless of people's diverse opinions on the subject.

Answer 3

There are logical reasons why a society may want to ban it. You or I may not agree that those reasons are valid, but they are reasoned arguments nonetheless. Here are a few, for example:

POPULATION GROWTH. Many industrialized countries have markedly lower population growths than others. Some even have a negative growth, which is to say that over generations their numbers get smaller and smaller. This has ALREADY led many countries to take measure to offset this, by paying or rewarding families that produce children, engaging in media campaigns, and the like. And although homosexual people aren't too likely to have children, married or no, it is concievable that if forced into regular heterosexual relationships a baby or two might be produced.

CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE. Obviously almost any society where men only have sex with man and women only have sex with women is going to be gone in just one generation. Even a society that isn't worried about disappearing any time soon may decide that encouraging such relations is a bad thing and that they therefore need to be discouraged as much as possible, if not outright criminalized.

MORAL FOUNDATIONS. Many (if not most) countries were founded on the basis of a set of ideals. Many societies also have certain ideals, even if they aren't codified specifically anywhere. In these groups, even if same gender relationships naturally arise they are nonetheless considered to be deviant. In this sense, society is enforcing a prevailing veiw whith is not necessarily for its own good except to preserve the status quo of ideals.

Now you may say that there are other ways to stop population shrinkage, that a slippery-slope argument doesn't apply, or that maybe the status quo isn't that great. You may even be right. But there certainly is a KIND of logic involved in denying same-gender marriage. And if you want to overcome it, you need to recognize it.

Personally, I hope you succeed.

Answer 4

No there is no good logical reason to deny same gender marriage or at least to authorize an equivilent civil union. Marriage is a legal contract between two people.

The religion reason for everyone quoting the bible is not a logical reason. Religion is not based in logic as logic and faith are essentially antonymns. Religion and faith is about the belief in the unknown, which doesn't sound very logical to me.

If people want to have the word "marriage" to be between a man and a women fine. Allow an equivalent civil union between two persons with the same benefits and penalties as a marriage.

Remember the separation of church and state. I didn't get married in a church but my marriage is valid and not an insult to anyone that got married in a church.

Answer 5

Marriage is a legal contract in the USA It should have no meaning in the Church, If I don't believe in God should I not be married?
As far as the Moron with the first Post about marring a cow or a 6 year old, its not the same thing. A cow can't object to the union and a 6 year old doesn't understand the concept of marriage.
I understand the view point that they can't be married in a church, but at a state level it shouldn't matter about the bible separation of church and state, ringing any bells for any of you?
I am glad that I was able to marry my wife and raise children, why would we deny someone that right because of their sexual orientation? why not ban all marriages from people who do not attend the same church, or who don't believe in "GOD" church makes as much sense as discriminating for being gay.

Answer 6

A lot of people are so set on controlling other people life, that they can't live their own. I'm a married man (to a woman), and the relationship that two other people have with each other is none of my business. Two men (or two women) getting married is not going to affect my relationship with my wife. However, some people are scared the gay couple my try to adopt children and raise them in their gay life style. Gays already adopt children, and some companies already give gay couples the benefits of a spouse, so stopping them from getting married is not logical.
Other people feel that is a sin against God. If it is, they should have their right to burn and Hell like every other person who sins against God.
I believe in God, but I'm not going to force my religion down somebody else throat, some people feel if you are not of the same religion as them you are bound to go to Hell, rather you believe in God or not. That's mighty arrogant of them to think we chose wrong and they chose right.

P.S: As I read some answers I came up with one logical reason to be against same sex marriage, and that reason is Divorce.
The government has to get involved to disband a marriage, however two people just living together can go their separate way any time they want, without tying up the courts. (Divorce Lawyers should love the ideal of Gay marriage, more clients for them).

Answer 7

I for one believe that marriage is sacred and that it is between a man and a woman. I, however, do agree with you that people have a right to love whomever they want. I certainly do not look down upon same-sex couples and I am totally in favor of some type of civil union, just don't call it marriage. If we call it marriage I feel that some homosexual couple will want marriage in a church or chapel or any place of God. This is totally wrong because If you believe in God I don't see how you can support gay-marriage. If God wanted persons of the same sexual orientation to be together then they could reproduce together.

I feel that it is an insult to all people who have been married in the church because you take a vow to willingly bring up children according to God's will.

And, just to note, I consider myself a moderate democrat from massachusetts.

Answer 8

No, there is no logical reason. The bible may say that it is bad, but what about those people who don't believe in the bible? This is not a country in which people can force purely religious beliefs on others. Therefore the constitution SHOULD prevent anyone from making laws against it.

Answer 9

well there are a couple of reasons some religious .Certain religions think that it's very displeasing to God especially with the whole Adam and Eve .The other is it is a proven fact that AIDS are at it's highest from homosexually .And then when people break up from those relationships not everyone is a good person and gets tested ,and then they bring that into relationships and it just gets passed on and keep revolving .And then kids watch everything and their afraid that they're child might pick up that habit

Answer 10

No, there isn't any logical reason. Most average people try to hide behind religion like its a shield. Ignorance is not an instant pass to the afterlife. And civil ceremony and marriage ceremony are different. People don't get that.