HOW IF AT ALL WILL THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE CHANGE IF IT INCLUDES SAME SEX COUPLES???
plz help me to understand this plz i'll be so thank full if u help me!!!
2006-12-08 15:04:56 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
nothing will change. i say gay marriage should be allowed . everyone should be entitled to a spouse, children (adopted or otherwise), divorce, alimony, tax rape. it merely challenges marriage in a biblical sense which always brings out the nuts.
2006-12-08 15:28:24 · answer #1 · answered by BuddhaDaddy 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The institution would not change. In the long view of history and global cultures, stable gay couples are the norm for human societies.
When President Bush made the comment that gay marriage would lead to the downfall of civilization, the American Anthropological Association sent this letter to him, explaining to him why that assertion is wrong: http://www.aaanet.org/press/ma_stmt_marriage.htm
The AAA includes anthropologists, archaeologists, linguists, scholars of evolution, journalists, and a number of other scholars and professionals who make the study of human life their work. Gay marriage, or at least same-sex relationships, have been completely normal through the ages.
Nothing will change, except people's attitudes. I encourage you, as I have encouraged stopxstop to read the letter.
2006-12-09 06:52:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interestingly, in the U.S. and the rest of the west, people did not really get married for love until fairly recently. People used to be very worried that society would fail with the new trend of marrying for love. They'd say "if you marry for love what happens when you fall out of love?" They'd say "families will start to divorce and children will be left with no one to care for them."
And you know? The divorce rate did go up, a lot. And you could really be saying now that it is a bad thing that marriage and society have changed.
And you could say "see there is proof that marriage will change if gays get to marry so we shouldn't do it." But then you'd also be saying that we need to go back to where we didn't get so many divorces, back to when we didn't marry for love.
I don't think we want to argue for marrying again with the main concern of who will be a good provider instead of who do I love. If you're argueing against gay marriage to keep marriage from changing then you probably think marrying for love is wrong too.
That's where the logic of "because it will change marriage" takes us.
2006-12-08 16:52:27 · answer #3 · answered by Avalon 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The idea of marriage will not change..what marriage is supposed to mean won't change. We might see a lot more rainbows on diamond engagement rings, but other than that I cant think of anything.
2006-12-08 15:24:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It won't. At all. Now... I've answered your question so, please, feel free to answer a few of my own. What exactly IS the Institution of Marriage? What defines it? God? I thought God had no say in our government? What happened to freedom of religion? Did that not include freedom FROM religion?
A few questions you can ask yourself before you go to be tonight.
2006-12-08 15:31:03 · answer #5 · answered by Addicted to Crayola Paste 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The institution of marriage will not change.
The vows may alter to a degree, but in civil ceremonies, I believe you can choose your own words now.
Rose P.
2006-12-08 15:23:18 · answer #6 · answered by rose p 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only thing it changes is the people who are getting married
2006-12-08 15:57:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It won't change the institution negatively at all.
2006-12-08 15:29:38 · answer #8 · answered by IndyT- For Da Ben Dan 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It wouldn't, as far as I know.
It wouldn't change any couple's marriages. Only they can change their marriages, no one else can.
May you know the Lord Jesus and have peace.
2006-12-08 15:21:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It won't change, but the divorce rate might go down.
2006-12-08 15:56:34 · answer #10 · answered by Cheryl C 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋