If you are against gay marraige...why?

Question

I know this has been asked probably a zillion times on here...but reading through the answers all I ever seems to see is Bible verses and personal feelings.

Why do people who oppose gay marraige feel the need to be involved in someone elses life?

Does it effect you one way or the other if two gay people get married?

Would it make your marraige less valid if those that were gay got married?

Does this effect you personally?

Why do you feel the need to be involved in someone elses life that you don't even know?

Do you feel better as a person preventing two people that love each other from having the same rights as you?

Is it REALLY any of your business?

I AM a Christian...and as a Christian I love my neighbor...and I believe my neighbor should be free to have his own beliefs...It is NOT my job to judge...I leave that to God. It is my job as a Christian to help and love thy neighbor...

Don't you remember reading THAT in the Bible..or is that one of those parts that you overlook?

That is why God gave us free will.

Jan---

I didn't say ANYTHING about adopting chilren.

As for the "tax breaks"...who pays for the tax breaks that traditional married people get?

Answer 1

Cause I don't like gay people, I think it's disgusting and wrong.

Answer 2

i'm a hypocrite right here. What i actual have self assurance is in equality. Do i've got self assurance in gay marriage? NO. Do i've got self assurance is right away marriage? NO. Marriage has non secular connotations and could be finished away with. What all people would desire to have are Civil unions (that are acknowledged everywhere). yet of path i'd vote no on 8 (that's particular for equality) So i do no longer think in any style of marriage, which contain gay marriage. And for the gays that are happy with Civil Unions, you're quite unhappy or ignorant. they do no longer carry the comparable reward as marriage FYI i've got self assurance the precise quantity became a million,046 regulations that Marriage has that Civil Unions do no longer.

Answer 3

I think it is all about the word "marriage".
I believe a gay couple, committed to each other should have a sanctioned and legal exchange of vows, requiring a license and preformed by either civil means or by a minister vested to preform this service the same as a "marriage" service. They should then have all the privileges and responsibilities as a hetero couple. This union, should they wish to part would then require a legal divorce and the usual disposition of assets just as a hetero couple.

Again, the problem is with the word. I believe if gay couples would agree with "Committed Life Partners" or something similar the doors would open to making it possible to be recognized as binding legally for all the rights concerning their union, nothing less than married hetero partners.

Answer 4

I will tell you why. Because the word "Marriage" is a sacred and religious word to many people. In my religion, it is a sacrament that one prepares for years to receive. It is not that so many Christians or whoever oppose legal unions for gay couples...in fact I heartily support gay unions. But you cannot take a word that is of Christian origin, and apply it to gay unions. It is an affront and a disrespect to those who regard it as sacred.

I compare it like this: a Bar Mitzvah is a coming-of-age ceremony for Jewish boys. How would the Jewish community feel if EVERYBODY started having Bar Mitzvahs for their sons, serving pork and basically doing things that are against Jewish religion? People could say, "Hey...I'm entitled to have a coming of age party for MY son! And I can do it how I please, and I can call it a Bar Mitzvah if I want to!"

Somehow I don't think the Jewish community would stand for it. And it is just an example of how a simple word can mean so much to people with faith.

All we ask is that you respect our word, "Marriage". It is sacred to us, and it means something much more than a drive through chapel in Vegas, to many people. Most of us Christians support gay unions, which shows that even in the face of differing values we can be tolerant. Why can you not show us the same tolerance?

Answer 5

I personally don't. But I am also not in favor of forcing people to accept what they think is immoral.

And that is mostly what it is about. There is nothing to prevent gay people from doing it right now. I have been to a gay wedding. And further a good attorney can fix most of the legal rights in an hour so that isn't really it either. What they want is to force employers to provide benefits to behavior that they may consider wrong or they may not be able to afford. This will lead to benefits being dropped a few places and some families with children will have problems. That is where I start to have a problem.

Answer 6

Why do people who oppose gay marriage feel the need to be involved in someone elses life?

(Great question)

Is it REALLY any of your business?

Not really. I am a Bible thumpin, Holy Rollin Jesus freak who is heterosexual and the last I heard people have free will. I am to work out MY salvation with fear and trembling and every once and a while I get to tell someone what Jesus has done for me. That's all I am concerned about. GOD is not cool with Homosexuals and GOD was also not cool with about 95% of everything I did before I was saved too. So as soon as I am perfect I will get all up in your salvation. Right now I am working on mine.

Answer 7

Marriage is a union between a man and a women created by God. I do not care if gays have all the same rights as married people just do not call it marriage. I think this would work.

Also, no gay marriage would not affect me I guess. However, murder, rape, and prostitution have also never affected me in any way. I am still against these things because I believe there wrong.

Answer 8

If many people feel (and define) that marriage is a sacred union between a man and a woman...then who is to say who is getting into who's business.

Trying to change or destroy another group's idea of what marriage means - is getting into that group's business. Would that not be "defiling" their union?

Why stop there...what about incest...perhaps that should be allowed. There are cases of blood siblings loving each other. They should be allowed to marry. Obviously they can not reproduce, but they should be allowed to marry - right?

Why stop there...perhaps there are some in bestiality or zoophilia people would like to marry their sheep. Would you be OK with this or would you "meddle in their business"? If you are OK with this...you are missing what marriage means.

It is not as easy or clear cut as you think.

To define a word...you have to draw the line somewhere.

~ Eric Putkonen

Answer 9

What you do in the privacy of your bedroom is your right and your decision - not mine.
However, that said, when you then try to make it legal to adopt children, thats a different critter.
A child needs the proper balance of a male role model and a female role model - meaning a mom and a dad. Growing up is hard enough and confusing enough for kids, without you wanting to make it even worse, because of your own selfish incompetence at knowing what your body is designed to do. Even with God put totally aside, nature itself tells you its wrong.
Ever wonder why a child isn't conceived when two of the same sex come together in that way?
Its because its against the very laws of nature.
You are basically taking the circle of life and dumping it into the trash can.
Do whatever you want - it isn't my business, thats UNLESS you are attempting to adopt innocent children into it. This is the most selfish thing I've ever heard of.
Oh, and if you legally marry - who do you think pays through taxes for the tax cuts you would receive as a legally married couple? we do.
So do your nasties in your home, but if you bring it out into the open and display it all around town, then its your own damn fault if others are forced to look at it.

Answer 10

I am vehemently against Gay marriage because I have a gay best friend, and I don't want him to stop having sex. It's bad enough that straight people have to get married....I don't want to force them to do it!!! It will put so much pressure on their relationships that they don't have to ddeal with now. I don't want to lose another friend, and poker night partner, to marriage. I think not getting married is probably the biggest advantage to being gay.

Answer 11

They are against it because of that ignoramus's bible that doesn't allow some people ti think for themselves so they just keep parroting the same, ignorant, stupid and most importantly wrong information the Bible gives. The Bible is wrong and homophobes who hide behind it's scripture will be exposed for what they are.