Other than religion, why are so many people against gay marriage?

Question

Other than religion meaning, please don't answer with "God created Adam and Eve" or anything else about the Bible said so.

And yes... this question "again" because I haven't asked this question before and when I typed it in, nothing came up that said this question had been asked in this way. I'm just curious is all.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0722_040722_gayanimal.html

For the record, I've been very happily married for 19 years, I have two teenage children from my husband. We actually got married before I got pregnant. My idea of marriage is being in love and committed to one person through good and bad and not divorcing just because of boredom.

Answer 1

People are against gay marriage because they cannot mind their own business. They cannot accept the fact that consenting adults should be allowed to marry whomever they want to, and do to each other whatever pleases them. I think it's high time these useless, nosy, aggravating busybodies be told to STFU already.

Answer 2

The act of marriage in the civil sense has always and forever been about the continuation of the society. This is part of the reason why there have been certain deductions on taxes that only married couples can make. There is a direct benefit to our society when a man and a woman join together for life in marriage. That benefit is then rewarded to the couple.

Unfortunately, in today's society people are more likely to be selfish than in the past and as such the divorce rate has gone up, there-by reducing greatly the positive affect of two people marrying.

Furthermore, there have been several instances of great civilizations which have been corrupted and ruined because of a de-valuing of marriage between a man and a woman and the growth of homosexuality withing those cultures.

Answer 3

Because the whole idea of it is a travesty. What could be accomplished by two men, or two women going through some formality, and then pretending that they are "married"? If a marriage is not a supposedly permanent relation, sanctioned by God, or the state, between a man and a woman, what is it?

Can three men marry? How about four men, two women, and a chimpanzee? Where do we draw the line? If marriage is something other than the traditional man and woman, what purpose does it serve?

Two men are not going to produce children, and neither are two women. So, what is the significance of a putative "marriage?" Just to degrade the meaning of the word?

What if I begin selling college diplomas to people who haven't the time or money to go to college? Why can't I confer a college decree? Why should someone have to attend class, take tests and demonstrate knowledge? Why can't they just by a college diploma from me?

That makes about as much sense as telling two men, or two women that they can "marry". At that point, marriage really wouldn't have much of a definition.

Answer 4

Because if you put oil in the gas tank, the car wont go!

Don't blame religion!
Men and women with some moral fibre generally have religion in their life, which often reinforces their opinions on social behaviour. The two are not synonymous.

The same line of questioning can be asked of every generation about every other downward change to societies morals. If you were born in a previous generation, you would be against it, while the libs would ask you, "why are so many people against the hippy culture of smoke anything and screw anything and call that bringing peace to the world!"
Likewise, in the next generation you will get the question, "Other than religion, why are so many people against consensual child sex?, or prostitution? or filth disguised as art?, etc..."
It's all a social downward slide. It is not "advanced" or mature thinking to now embrace a once abhorred lifestyle practise simply because it is so prevalent! It would be like saying, so many people use cocaine, they are not affecting you, so let's change the laws and our social thinking to accept its use. then people wouldn't feel so bad about themselves and the criminal subculture would be dissolved.

The attitude of the 'liberal' mind is the heart of the problem - even worse than the offenders - who are told that they are doing the right thing. Maybe we should feel more sorry for them.

So I am more against those people who tell the moral people that they are evil and discriminating because they haven't accepted, encouraged or endorsed and lower moral standard.
You bring the rest of us down to your gutter level! [When our own level of morality is often bad enough].

Answer 5

Simply because it does not go with the Law of Nature.
You have to think about human extinction.

I'm sure love between man is possible, but it should not be compare to love between husband and wife. I feel Gay people just took the love in the wrong way.

Just hope no one come and ask to be accepted, because they start to love an Ape and want to marry the Ape.

Answer 6

Probably because it seems to go against what nature had intended. I'm NOT saying I disagree with it or that it is wrong. That being said, I think people may feel that males are supposed to be sexually active with females and vice versa. I wonder if any studies have been done to show if other animals have homosexual relationships???

Answer 7

Probably the same reason people are homophobic. Fear. I support gay marriage. I don't think it's going to bring down society at all. Some straight people don't hold marriage sacred anymore so to say that letting gay people marry will somehow sully the entire institution of marriage is just a lame excuse.

If two people love each other and want to commit, great. I don't believe in marriage (for myself) so anyone that has the bal*s to do that can go for it in my book. Love is love, that's all that matters really.

Answer 8

1. Because of the fact that, in many countries, such as Scandinavia and Denmark, the disrespect for marriage that followed the legalization of same-sex marriage is evident in declining birthrates and fewer heterosexual marriages. Because of the decline in heterosexual marriages in the countries, there has been a sudden increase in the number of children born out of wedlock (even when the number was rising anyway) inevitably leading to children without parents. In Denmark, the rate is sixty percent.
The divorce rate has also spiked in countries that have legalized gay marriage. In Denmark, they don't even have the decency to divorce after the children are grown. The available statistics on divorce, however, are barely even relevant. Since Denmark legalized gay marriage, the number of cohabiting couples rose 25 percent. Cohabiting couples with children break up too, but, as they are not married, the dissolution of their relationships have not even been recorded extensively enough.
And let's not underestimate the effects of divorce.
A study on divorce concluded that it would be less damaging to the child's psyche if one of his parents DIED as opposed to divorcing.
Combine that with the fact that cohabiting couples have an increased rate of breakup and you have many fatherless, motherless, and/or psychologically marred children that are raised up for the next generation.

2. Because of the fact that the legalization of gay marriage would make it a hate crime to preach the Biblical perspective on homosexuality. A pastor in Sweden was arrested by the police for expositorily preaching what the Bible says about homosexuality. Many of the members of the congregation insisted that he preached reasonably and there was no inflammatory hate speech, but the elderly man was arrested and forced to spend time in prison anyway.
Also, Canada has made it illegal to do what that pastor did. The introduction of gay marriage into America will mark the end of a person's right to talk from a religious perspective about the subject without injecting any hate speech against homosexuals into it.

3. Because social science has proven that both a man and a woman are necessary for a child's psychological health. The male and the female play different roles in a marriage (not talking about income; just talking about emotional needs). 30 years of social study has proven this. It is true that there are single mothers and fathers, but, obviously, in those situations, it cannot be helped. Even so, would it make sense to legalize or pervert an institution that would, with certainty, have an adverse effect on the development of a child? What, then, would happen if we disrupted the picture? We would also be destroying the child's psyche.

4. Because it gives way to the justification of other sick behaviors, such as pedophiles (who argue they're born with it). It also allows people to justify things such as incestuous marriages and bestiality. The pedophiles are working on it, too. There's NAMBLA, the National Man-Boy Love Association, working with the ACLU on the subject of pedophilia. Then, there are others, such as the polygamists (some of whom prefer the term "polyamory") who want marriage, too. If two members of the same sex can marry, then why not three or more? Why can't a person marry another he's related to? After all, he didn't choose to be attracted to a relative. He was born with the urge. If everyone argues they're born with it, where do the morals go?

5. Because of the fact that pedophilia and homosexuality have been disturbingly linked in many human civilizations. There's Greece; Rome, in which homosexuality was normalized by emperors who preyed on teenagers, and isolated tribes. The trends shown in the isolated tribes (like the Etoro) who practice homosexuality is that the role of women in society is diminished and that preying on younger boys is not even considered pedophilia anymore.
You may argue that this is pedophilia and it will never be accepted, but can we really see that far down the line? ONe hundred years ago, homosexuality was seen as disgusting in America. Then it was thought to be a mental illness. Then, in 1973, the American Psychological Association changed its mind about that, and now homosexuality is accepted by many in America. Pedophilia has been normalized and accepted in other isolated tribes, and legalizing gay marriage is one step closer toward that, even if it doesn't happen.
Plus, the man-boy love movement was born out of the homosexual movement in the 1970s. Still, advocates of gay marriage try to conveniently sweep this fact under the rug.

6. Because it's not marriage. Prior to this ridiculous idea that gays have a right to marry, in dictionaries in the 1800s and early 1900s, homosexuality and gay sex were defined as other unflattering terms, such as sodomy, etc. Even since ancient times, people had considered marriage between a man and a woman, even between races. When the Israelites conquered people, the men would marry the virgins of the conquered, even if they were different races. It's obvious that, even in ancient history, marriage has been considered to be between a man and a woman.

Answer 9

it to my mind represents all that is twisted and immoraly wrong with this country it is one thing to have to explain to your son's about the birds and the bee's one day, now why should we have to explain to kids about why one dude was kissing another dude in church and getting married when the majority of religions are against it and that marriage is as much a part of religious belief as the bible is to christianity

Answer 10

Le 20:13 "The penalty for homosexual acts is death to both parties. They have committed a detestable act and are guilty of a capital offense.
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But apart from this, God intended marriage to be a union between a man and a woman so that they could produce children - homosexuals cannot re-produce.

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