Why does gay marriage threaten the "sanctity" of marriage?

Question

With the divorce rate around 50% and infidelity rampant, marriage has long since lost its "sanctity". Intelligent logic based answers only-no religious Adam and Steve nonsense.
PS I am maried to a woman-and it is pathetic I have to say that. The last time I asked this question the slurs started quickly. My wife thought it was funny though....

Chicano-how do you make such a ridiculous leap in logic? Sorry, I'm not going gay anytime soon but I'll absolutely defend their right to get married. Are you going gay if gay marriage is legalized?

Answer 1

It doesn't. I remember someone asked a similar question and someone replied that gay marriage made her marriage to her husband seem less important because it should only be between a man and a woman. She said she felt it made a mockery of the whole thing.

Which I wanted to hunt her down and kick her the face for. If two people that you don't even know, will never know for that matter, who love each other and just so happen to be gay get married and it some how ruins your marriage. Obviously you didn't have much of a marriage to begin with.

People need to mind their own bussiness.

Answer 2

I don't think that you can take religion out of the picture. Many people today still associate marriage with religion. The Catholic Church, for example, still regards it as a sacrament, and where do the majority of other weddings take place? A church. Religion is, by nature, a very personal thing and therefore emotions tend to run high, especially when someone is doing something that goes against your religious beliefs. That's why the debate about gay marriage is so heated.
Also, you should note that your question about the "sanctity" of marriage is obviously going to warrant religious-type answers. The word "sanctity" in itself refers to something holy, being set apart for a special pupose, and this is generally in a religious sense. "The sanctity of marriage" is entirely a religious-based argument, so don't expect to get any good answers about why it is threatened if you don't want to talk about religion.

Answer 3

I don't think that gay marriages have any bearing or effect whatsoever on hetero marriages.

First of all, "sanctity" means either a state of "holiness" or ultimate importance and inviolability.

We're a hetero couple that's been happily married for almost 37 yrs., and if the 50% failure group has no bearing on our marriage, I fail to see how a gay marriage relationship would have any.

What's more important - in my opinion - is the strength of a relationship/marriage; not whether it's hetero or gay.

For any relationship to survive, it must have certain critical elements. In no particular order, they are:

- a good amount of common interests; shared activities as opposed to separate ones and separate groups of friends. A relationship is more about "we" than "me."

- a deep sense of compromise; the ability to resolve problems and issues without a lot of emotional trauma.

- a deep sense of sympathy and forgiveness, because people are going to screw up on occasion, and its critical that they learn from their mistakes, extend forgiveness where appropriate, and move on with their lives. It is just perverse to hold someone's mistakes "over their head" forever.

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

Gay marriage is NOT a threat----except to the people who are secretly afraid they are gay!
My son is gay, and has a long-standing relationship that has outlasted FIVE marriages among his 2 aunts!
If he wants the legal protections and benefits afforded through marriage, he should be able to HAVE them!
If anyone has a problem with that, they can just avoid it!

Answer 6

No i dont thing gay marrage has any bearing on straight marrage but marriage is a unuion of god and it says in the bible that a man should not lay down with another man dont get me wrong i am not a begot but that is how a lot of peolpe look at it i mean i am supose to a brides maid at my sisters wedding. TO HER GIRLFRIEND ok so you cant just look at it from one side or that make you just a narrow minded as they are

Answer 7

The Adam and Steve part says it all. Forget about the marriage part. What about the example a gay couple shows our kids?
When a gay "couple" adopts what kind of beliefs do you think they
will force on their kids? How about the AIDS epidemic? What will
you do when you, your kids or a friend becomes infected because of carelessness? Gay people are no more than disease
carrying problems. Nothing more, nothing less

Answer 8

Gay marriages threaten the sanctity of marriage, only in the narrow minds of bigots, religious zealots, and all too moral morons. I too, have been married for nearly 30 years, to a wonderful woman. The effect of gay marriages on my life is ZERO.

Answer 9

You should probably go to a site like Debate Policy to discuss this.
This topic can get quite involved & cannot be answered in just a paragraph or two.

Answer 10

I clearly understand how you desire this question to be answered, however the reality of it is, Man did not create marriage, but GOD had. To take GOD out of marriage (as we so had with education, etc), is quite similar to blasphemy. When GOD is not present in a marriage, it is no longer a marriage but a mirage. The divorce rate is high because we don't acknowledge GOD. . . To not know Jesus, is to not know the Father and without this knowledge, how do you know LOVE. Many know lust, but only a few truly know LOVE (agape love, unconditional love, cleansing love). It takes courage, faith, love, patience, and DISCIPLINE, to forgive and love in spite of. Not very many are truly interested or desire to "fight the good fight of faith," they are likely to give up because that's easiest and makes the most sense in our world. As for gay marriages, I refuse to take the seat of judgment, however when I last checked GOD made Adam, then made Eve for Adam (not Adam for Adam). . . I have absolutely nothing against man but the sins against GOD. I know homosexuals and they would verify the truth in my saying that I love them regardless and will only speak love to them and of them, what people choose to do is between them and GOD (he is the Creator and Judge). Do I like it. . .NO; but will I slur their names as a result of their choices, NO. . .But to pray, I will.