I am doing a debate on gay marriage and my teacher put me on the con side so i need info on why gay marriage is wrong.
2007-02-01 18:01:08 · 22 answers · asked by Asha J 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
Gay people want the government to recognize them as married so that they can draw disability benefits like married people do. They figure they will contract AIDS and will need the Government to pay for their medical bills. It means more money in the household if they are married. Same situation for private medical insurance and private disability.
Gays are intent on shoving their lifestyle in everyones' faces. It's pathetic. I can understand them being PO'd because of years of feeling 'scared', confused, and maybe outcast, but hey, GET OVER IT.
So because of the oppression they've felt - especially from some religious avenues, although probably the most vehement condemners of gays are usually closeted gays themselves - they feel like they have to have not just a civil union (which would get them by on the government and insurance), but actual "In The Eyes Of Gawd" MARRIAGE and they want to be able to demand that any Justice Of the Peace or Minister they pick be legally compelled to perform the service. That way they can force it down a church's throat and make 'em choke on it. They are demanding to be more than equal, they want special priveledge.
I don't care if gays marry or not, it seems like they are shooting themselves in the foot. They are going from a free relationship to a legally binding yoke. I understand about "wanting to be accepted" and all that, but this ain't 1967 any more, this is the 21st century and nobody cares! It just makes people mad when you try to FORCE yourselves on them when you've got no real problem in the first place. If you're living in the USA you're better off than 98 percent of the rest of the world anyway - and the only care in the world you have is you want to marry someone that pees the same way you do??? GROW UP!
Rational reasons why Gay Marriage is wrong:
1. The sex gay males practice is nasty and spreads disease. Anal sex spreads fecal bacteria at the very least.
2. Sex with multiple partners in general spreads many diseases. The actual concept is two people hook up for life and are monogomous. That is a community safety concept, not religious dogma. A century ago diseases like siphilis were incurable and brought about horrible sickness and insanity before death. Now days we think we've freed ourselves from disease and unwanted pregnancy with modern medicine and we've lost sight of the consequences of promiscuity, so we feel free to indulge ourselves in recreational sex. It was not just religious piety that prevented folks from being 'loose' back in the day, it was fear of real and dangerous problems.
Now how that relates to gay marriage is that the people clamoring about it attack religion as their main foe, when that's just a dodge. Sex has always been about the business of procreation and the consequences about sex outside of marriage or between men has been about preventing disease. Nobody has ever really cared about sex between women, except men who feel left out.
So the argument that gay marriage is opposed purely on religious grounds is bogus. Gay sex has historically been frowned upon along with sexual promiscuity in general because of the purely secular need to safeguard the community from illness. While most of the worst diseases of history are curable medical research is still finding new reasons for caution. Human papaloma virus is implicated in some forms of female cancers. It is easily spread between partners even with protection used. HIV is still rampant, and is primarily spread by the gay male community. While there is perhaps no group of humans that could be more easily singled out for prejudicial treatment and quarentine than gay males with legitimate justification perhaps society is not willing to do so simply because they have suffered so much already. They have found acceptance and even 'protected species' status in this day and age among the majority of the human population, but to further grant them special rights and priveledges is not warranted, nor wise.
3. Social Security is based on future generations paying for the upkeep of former generations, and spouses can draw based upon their spouse's benefits. Men and women couples produce future generations to help propagate the system. Gay couples do not. While as separate individuals paying in they each earn benefits, being considered a couple allows two to draw on one's input. So gay couples represent a double-negative draw on social security.
4. Gay male couples almost guarantee at least one of them will be disabled by AIDS and being legally recognized as a couple will allow the patient and their spouse to draw benefits. While any couple could end up with a disabled spouse, generally a husband supports a wife and that lessens the benefit the government has to pay out. If a wife is supporting a husband the amount is greater. How do you tell the difference in a gay couple? First off the incidence of disability in gay male couples is going to be higher than for any other couple set. Second, whoever is disabled in a gay couple, the other can claim to be the 'wife' and claim the higher benefit rate.
5. Gays recruit more gays. Gays are active in seeking to 'convert' straight but pliable prospects. The more acceptance and freedom the gay community receives, the more it will proliferate, until it causes the whole nation to implode from the unsustainable condition of lack of progeny. Homosexuality is truely, "The abomination that causes desolation."
2007-02-01 18:34:05 · answer #1 · answered by rumplesnitz 5 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Gay marriage killed the Dinosaurs Top 16 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is Wrong 16. Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven’t adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans. 15. There are plenty of straight families looking to adopt, and every unwanted child already has a loving family. This is why foster care does not exist. 14. Conservatives know best how to create strong families. That is why it is not true that Texas and Mississippi have the highest teen birthrates, and Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire have the lowest. This is a myth spread by the liberal media. 13. Marriage is a religious institution, defined by churches. This is why atheists do not marry. 12. Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why our society has no single parents. 11. Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in America. 10. Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children. 9. Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn’t be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren’t full yet, and the world needs more children. 8. Gay marriage should be decided by the people and their elected representatives, not the courts. The framers checked the courts, which represent mainstream public opinion, with legislatures created to protect the rights of minorities from the tyranny of the majority. Interference by courts in this matter is inappropriate, just as it has been every time the courts have tried to hold back legislatures pushing for civil rights. 7. Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britany Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed. 6. Civil unions, providing most of the same benefits as marriage with a different name are better, because “separate but equal” institutions are a good way to satisfy the demands of uppity minority groups. 5. Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can’t marry whites, and divorce is still illegal. 4. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract. 3. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall. 2. Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning. 1. METEORS and VOLCANOES. _()_
2016-03-29 01:07:33 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dont be so narrow minded!!! What your saying is no worse than saying a black person and a white person should not get married as they have different skin colour except if you said that you would be raciest, gay people cant help being gay so shouldnt we have just the same rights as straight people.
Imagine this a 60 yr old couple of lesbians been together for 42 years, Have no children and never got married as gay marriage is wrong and no gay rights one of them dies tragically the other is left with nothing and cant pay the mortgage she has nothing.
Why should she have nothing just because she is Gay?
2007-02-02 00:04:53 · answer #3 · answered by tizzy_em85 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wow, you got a tough school assignment. Maybe you should ask your teacher to put you on the other side if you feel like that's where you belong. I do not think gay marriage is wrong, but those who do use moral reasons and site the bible for it. So that might be the best you can do.
2007-02-01 18:51:15 · answer #4 · answered by Maggie 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Personally, I think gay marriage is right... but some people don't like it because they believe marriage should be between a man and a woman so that they can have babies. Ummm... and people think it's wrong because in the Bible there are some implications about gay activity being sinful... but it doesn't directly say that. It's just interpereted that way. There are a bunch of reasons... I'm tired right now and I can't think well, lol... I'm off to bed :P Good luck on your debate!
2007-02-01 18:05:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
too bad for you. I don't think it's wrong. But maybe here's something to make a little argument. Marriage is defined as man and woman in certain religions. It would be wrong for others to use 'marriage' as the name of their union. Maybe if everyone, not just gay/lesbians, who wasn't in a particular religion used a different word besides marriage.. the religious people wouldn't get so offended. :shrugs:
2007-02-01 18:06:13 · answer #6 · answered by fuhreezing 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
gay marriage is wrong in every essence, Marriage is there for propagation of mankind, otherwise i don't see any use of marriage for any other purpose talk of love,you love a woman before you marry, companion you can have one without necessarily marrying. Biblical there is no place we have seen God blessing a gay marriage in fact those were some of the reasons why Sodom was burnt. Since there is no reproduction in gay if encouraged then there will be no future generation. The Bible says Women submit to your men that's sex included, in gay how does one submit? and who submits because they are of the same sex hence similar feelings. My belief is that these just succumb to their feelings just like one will have sex with animals and other perverts acts although they are wrong people still do them despite gays still marry it does not make it right in the society.
2007-02-01 18:29:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
This is just my thinking about. Today rather than some time ago i liked when i could tell who was the husband and wife. Why be married let the straight people pay the for one of the 10 comments Thou shalt not commit adult. If there is a hell their are going to be a lot in line. Thou shall not be homosexual .Gay.Couldn,t there be just one beautiful transgenered going down the you know what . That long walk in a beautiful gown. What,s romantic seeing to guys or gals
2007-02-01 18:23:57 · answer #8 · answered by becca 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only things people have against gay marriage are due to religion.
2007-02-01 18:10:17 · answer #9 · answered by jacque_sue89 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It's not, so just adbicate/throw the debate, it's a loosers side!
Two people of the same gender don't "make a baby" any more than two opposite genders who are INFIRTILE!
If God wanted us all to pair off with opposite genders, why did he make Oysters that can CHANGE GENDER, Seahorse males be the one's to get pregnant and give birth, earthworms with no specific gender, people of different colors/races/heights/hair colors/eye colors/handed-ness/personal likes and dislikes?
It sure seems God celebrates diversity, I think it's high time we started following His lead!
If you do a little research, you'll find that many other mamal species as well as bird species have homosexual pairings as well.
Since our laws are NOT based off any ONE SPECIFIC religious belief or dogma, religious arguments have NO PLACE in a LEGAL DEBATE. EVER!
2007-02-01 18:07:39 · answer #10 · answered by DEATH 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, I don't think that gay marriage is wrong. But, from our childhood, we have been taught that Males are only for females or Females are only for Males.
Thats why, we think that gay marriage or lesbian marriage is wrong.
But I think that marriage should be "with heart, emotions, feelings". Not only with body.
I don't know that why u asked this type of question, but I think that Gay or Lesbian marriage is not wrong. "WE HAVE TO CHANGE OUR CONCEPT." Ok????
2007-02-01 18:19:10 · answer #11 · answered by M.A. 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋