Your thoughts on Gay Marriage for it or against it ? and Why?

Answer 1

I am against it.

I am against it due to the fact that they are killing our society and killing our beliefs.

Children growing up and watching 2 men hold hands in a more than friendly way. If there is something right with that, you tell me.

The sacred marriage is being spat on. Society is being spat on. Our Religion and belief is being spat on. Our childrens minds are being spat on.

Answer 2

For. Gays should have the same legal protections that straights have. There are several countries that allow civil unions or gay marriage, and none of them have had the problems that the anti-gay-marriage crowd predicted (it's been legal in Holland for four years I think).

There was a gay couple in Oklahoma that shared a ranch. They had a will drawn up, but it had only one witness instead of two. One man died. Some distant cousin showed up and took everything. The man's partner was left with nothing. If they had been married, there would have been no way his property could have been taken from him.

As far as the Bible, the fundamentalists like to cherry-pick the parts they like and ignore the rest. I don't see then advocating a return to slavery, even though it's endorsed in the Bible. I don't see them trying to deny rights to fornicators and adulterers the way they do with gay people.

Answer 3

The issue is much more expansive than a simple answer can provide for. As a society we are changing and there are less subtle movements going on. Recently, I read an article that with the advancement of DNA and reproductive technology, the incest laws should be reconsidered between consenting adults.

Homosexuality is considered a sexual orientation, established at birth. This decision was originally made by the American Psychological Assc. back in the 70s, through a vote at their national conference. Similar decisions have been made as regards other sexual orientations, including pedosexuals in at their San Diego Conference in 2000. That decision was redrawn within six months, under pressure from Congress, but it raises some unpleasant questions.

If homosexuality is given the same rights as heterosexual, than that should apply to all five sexual orientations. If you don't apply it to all sexual orientations, than who decides which ones should be discriminated against? I'm sure there are threesomes out there who would like to be legally married.

Another problem that is raising from Homosexual couples involve children. When they breakup, invariably the bio parent of the children denies access to the same sex partner, because the other parent is not biologically related. On this issue, custody or visitations rights should not be enforced any more than they are in heterosexual couples where the mother gets custody. According to a government study, 60% of fathers are denied access within the first six months, and lose all contact within five years. This should be no different for gay couples.

Answer 4

I'm an open minded person. So I accept gay marriage.
Who says that marriage is only for heterosexual couples? If a gay couple love each other and plan on spending the rest of their lives together, why can't they celebrate it just like heterosexual couples?
Go to Hawaii they are a liberated state. They perform gay marriages all the time.

The last time I checked, the way people live their lives is no one's business. Leave them a lone and go on with your life!

Answer 5

For it. I don't see how allowing two consenting adults to get married causes others harm. I have heard the argument that it undermines heterosexual marriage but I don't see how. As for the religious grounds that some people have that I feel is illegal religious discrimination. Churchs that don't support gay marriage shouldn't have to marry gay people but the government has no business to support one particular religious viewpoint over others. Some religious denominations don't have an issue with it. Some people aren't religious at all. Gay people should be able to get married in civil ceremonies or by those religious denominations that are accepting. No discrimination I say.

Answer 6

Since we accept the freedom of choice of gay people to live together as couples, there should be a legal procedure through which they can arrange issues of taxation, inheritance, and so on, and express their will to be officially together, like everyone else. So yes, I am for it. But I am not so sure about having the right to adopt children, because there is a lot of prejudice around and the children might encounter problems and racism and be traumatised.

As for religious arguments, I only have these answers:
1. we don't live in theocratic states, we don't HAVE to live according to what the church syas. We may not even be Christian or Muslim or anything else.
2. The wedding does not need to be religious. Religion of course has the right not to accept it. In Greece, where I live, the church doesn't even recognise the civil wedding, that doesn't mean it doesn't exist!

Answer 7

For.

1) the only cogent reasons produced against it have been religious in nature - given we live in a society which values freedom of religion, the idea of one group pushing their religious values thru force of law is repugnant.

2) Basic fairness:
o Gay and Lesbian couples don't have the same freedoms and financial privileges given married hetero couples
- Inheritance
- taxes
o They find it more difficult to adopt because they aren't married.
o One member of the couple may have helped raise a child with their partner for 15 years, only to find they have no rights if the biological parent dies.
o They find it more difficult or sometimes impossible just to visit one another in the ICU - can you imagine being with someone for 25 years and not being able to visit them when they are dying of lung cancer in the ICU?

3) As one who anticipates being ordained soon, I don't see the government is remotely in the position of judging that some of the marriages I perform are legal and others not to be recognized.




Even more basic than that, I see the government's role as something besides a big mommy and daddy. It's here to judge us only when we've hurt others through force or fraud, to provide infrastructure, and to protect us from threats from without - not push one group's religious views on us through force of law.

Answer 8

I am Gay and really don't care.

What ever makes one happy. I think all marriages end
up in divorce anyway.

But I do know one thing it will not be the end of the WORLD.

Answer 9

i'm against, it maybe they should have a covenant or something, but not a marriage, i think every child deserves to have a mother and a father, studies have proved children grow up better with 2 parents of different sexes, its just biological, think about it

Answer 10

against. but im not gonna go all out of my way just to prove to a bunch of gays that their sexuality is full of evil. they will find out in the long run.

Answer 11

anybody should be allowed to seal a loving pardnership .for moral,religious,financial
,emotional and legal reasons,

the gender is an irrelevant detail ,Many people love the person or personality or have sexual preferences

objections to gay mariages are just opinions of people who are not even involved,

personally it does not interest me .much what other people do