how can people say that marriage is a union between man and women?

Question

and shouldnt be aloud for same sex.....You people are not using your head....how many crack heads,.drug pushers.child molesters and on and on are aloud to get married?....there is no control on marriage when it comes to opposite sex marriage ....and you are saying not to let same sex get married?.....stop and think guys....if your not gonna not let gays get married ...then you need to put HUGE restrictions on others who get marred....not to mention divorce......where are your heads?

Answer 1

Let's just cut to the chase. We had 10 million single -mother families in the U.S in 2002.

Gays didn't cause this NATURAL DISASTER !

Thank heterosexual marriages !!

Over the past 30 years, the number of single-parent households has increased dramatically. Single-mother families increased from three million in 1970 to ten million in 2000, while the number of single-father families grew from 393,000 to two million (U.S. Bureau of the Census 2000). Single parents are not a homogeneous group; they come from all social classes, all racial and ethnic groups, and all age groups. However, single female-headed households tend to experience more financial burdens than single male-headed households. According to the 2000 Census, one-parent families maintained by women were more likely than those maintained by men to have family incomes below the poverty level (34 percent compared to 16 percent). In addition, of the twelve million one-parent families, the ten million maintained by women were more likely to include more than one child than the two million families maintained by men (46 percent compared to 36 percent).

Single-parent families encounter a number of stressful challenges. Role overload and income inadequacy place single parents at extremely high risk for anxiety, depression, and other health problems. Lack of essential resources and support can also lead to negative parenting behaviors (uncommunicative, unsupportive, and punitive) which result in adverse outcomes for children (Hamner and Turner 2001; Brooks 2001).

Answer 2

The gay marriage fight is really a battle between two groups of religious denominations - Christian and other in both cases. That battle is being missed by the media, and I believe that the battle threatens democracy in America.

One of the reasons for the Revolution, in which ancestors of mine fought -- was to establish freedom of religion in the new nation. Now, we are throwing that away, because contrary to what those on the Right would like you to think, this is not a battle between "people of faith" and "atheists" or some such -- this is a battle between two groups of people of faith, using the government to establish one sides views -- the EXACT THING that the anti-establishmentarian clause of the Constitution is there to prevent.

Of course no one should "make" those whose faiths oppose gay marriage perform such marriages, and no one ever would. So ministers from the Southern Baptists and Assemblies of God and Ultra-Orthodox Jews and Fundamentalist Muslims should never be asked to perform gay marriages, and certainly not forced to.

On the other hand, why should faith groups that support gay marriage -- such as the United Church of Christ, the Unitarian/Universalist Society, the North American Spiritualist Church, Reform Judaism, and the Correllian Tradition of Wicca -- all recognized Churches and 501c3s be barred from practicing their religious faith, which says it is ok to marry same sex couples?

The first group of faith groups is realistically using the government to prevent the second group of faith groups from practicing what they believe. The founders tried to prevent this, for the stability of the country. It doesn't matter that everyone "thinks" they are right and others are wrong -- it matters that we are plural as a society and the government should recognize everyone's ceremonies the same -- which means that gay marriages committed by churches and faith groups that believe in gay marriages, should be honored by the government regardless of what groups that don't like it say.

Everyone's beliefs can be honored, thus preserving the values that my 12 times removed Great Grandfather died for -- but not if we allow one side to legislate away the rights of the other side.

And that's what I think.

Regards,

Reynolds Jones
http://www.rebuff.org
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Answer 3

The Christians say that marriage is a divine institution joining one man and one woman only, and that to allow same sex marriages destroys the sanctity of the marital institution. How can Christians say such things? As if marriage were still intact. They say Marriage is supposed to be between one man and one woman only. If this is a true statement to you, then you are a Bible believing Christian and you must also agree that sex is supposed to happen only between two married people. We all know that there are many Christians who have sex before marriage? The divorce rates among Christians are so high it is ridiculous. How many of us have heard of Christians participating in adultery, pastors addicted to pornography? The institution of marriage was desecrated long before the homosexuals asked for the privilege of marriage. It was desecrated by Christians. It isn't non-Christians preachers that must leave their churches due to extra-marital affairs. Its the Christians.

Answer 4

Re: KIM: Marriage is an contract between 2 human beings to make a existence lengthy dedication to at least one yet another. it will be a civil settlement it truly isn't any longer in accordance with faith or a religious one. purely because the pilgrims moved out of britain to practice their interpretation of the "precise" faith does no longer make this a Christian u . s .. The regulation of the land is the structure, no longer historic previous, notwithstanding it truly is interpreted. those pilgrims would not be considered so religious in present day-day. They broke very virtually each and every contract they made with the Indians; the raided Indian villages at nighttime to kill each and every of the inhabitants or take the youngsters and women into slavery; they beheaded and skinned alive Indians to tutor to the others that the white guy become to be feared, at the same time with the Indians that provided their help even as the pilgrims were ravenous; years later they were slaughtered through the very pilgrims they helped. between the applications of a authorities in a democracy is to verify the minority isn't disadvantaged of the very freedoms maximum persons enjoys. even as it includes the allocation of freedom, majority rule isn't the guideline, in the different case it is mob rule, no longer a democracy. The "protection of marriage" stream is purely the grotesque face of hate and xenophobia, those who opt for to bury their heads in the sand of semantics somewhat than seem existence in the face. No diverse then the previous even as blacks were denied the right to an preparation, women the right to vote, etc.

Answer 5

Marriage is between a man and a woman even if society would decide to let others marry. That's because the real definition of marriage is the legal or religious union between a man and a woman. So if you decide to start calling a pig a donkey it's still a pig.

Answer 6

You're wasting your breath. It's not about reason. It's about bigotry. And about a religion that doesn't dare have any part of its foundation challenged by facts or the whole establishment will come crashing down.

Answer 7

People say a lot of things that are just plain wrong. You're preaching to the choir. I agree with you, but that's not the way it is. For now.

Answer 8

Marriage is a loving bond and spiritual commitment between two people who love each other.

Answer 9

I completly agree with you!! I've argued these points over and over again!!

Answer 10

Because it fits in with their ignorant viewpoint.