2007-03-27 05:39:51 · 35 answers · asked by hot carl sagan: ninja for hire 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Certain religious people would go crazy?
2007-03-27 05:43:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 2⤋
*Gasp* They'll be able to file taxes together... OH NO! And get their partners on their insurance. Holy Hell, we can't allow that! What else? hhhmmmm.... I guess that's all there really is to it. They would get the same "rights" (as if anyone had to fight to be allowed to file taxes together or to get their loved one put on their insurance - what a friggin joke).
The worst thing that could happen is that the general population would then be stuck trying to explain why 2 men/women are getting married when they drive by where they are holding the marriage ceremony. I don't have a problem with the Christian Churches stating they won't perform the marriages.... I do have a problem with ANY religion trying to tell anyone else what is allowed while trying to state that marriage is a religious institute. It may be a Religious Ceremony - but you have to go to the court house to get the license first, that makes it a Gov't Institute. If these people would just pull their heads out of their backsides long enough to catch some air, they might see how hypocritical they are - while they're filing for divorce and remarrying (which is also against the Bible).
2007-03-27 06:34:43 · answer #2 · answered by Kithy 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
1) It would put a burden on the federal tax system, because we now have to determine the status, and give tax breaks to, all of these new couples.
2) It would open a can of worms, because now other groups (like the Mormons) would want to redefine marriage to include their living arrangements too. It would eventually make marriage a meaningless term, legally, since it would become so broad that it defied any attempt to define it. A few gay rights activists have actually said that this is their goal (Granted, not all gays support this idea, however). Note that countries like the Netherlands, that have instituted gay marriage do not have a large Mormon population, and so they face different problems than we do.
3) In countries that have legalized same sex unions, most gay couples do not take advantage of it; and as for the ones that rushed to the altar in countries that did legalize it, the majority of them were divorced just a few years later. Why do gays fight for a right that they don't really want to use anyway?
4) Why should the government condone, or give legal and tax support to, a person's own private lifestyle choices? What does the government get in return for all of the new administrative and legal burdens placed on the system (divorces, child custody insurance benefits law suits, asset allocation & inheritance rights, etc.) to make it worth the cost to the taxpayer? Supposedly, the state has an interest in encouraging opposite sex marriages, because that is how the human species reproduces (and reproduction produces future taxpayers). Even if some do not reproduce, for various reasons, the majority of them will, by design or by accident, and the government cannot know for sure which heterosexual unions will produce children, so might as well encourage them as much as the government can. What does the government get in return for encouraging same sex unions?
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...Liberal columnist Michael Kinsley wrote a July 2003 op-ed piece in The Washington Post titled, "Abolish Marriage: Let's Really Get the Government Out Of Our Bedrooms." In this revealing editorial, Kinsley writes, "[The] solution is to end the institution of marriage, or rather, the solution is to end the institution of government monopoly on marriage. And yes, if three people want to get married, or one person wants to marry herself and someone else wants to conduct a ceremony and declare them married, let 'em. If you and your government aren't implicated, what do you care? If marriage were an entirely private affair, all the disputes over gay marriages would become irrelevant." Otherwise, the author warns, "it's going to get ugly."
Judith Levine, writing in The Village Voice, offered support for these ideas in an article titled "Stop the Wedding: Why Gay Marriage Isn't Radical Enough." She wrote, "Because American marriage is inextricable from Christianity, it admits participants as Noah let animals on the ark. But it doesn't have to be that way. In 1972 the National Coalition of Gay Organizations demanded the ‘repeal of all legislative provisions that restrict the sex or number of persons entering into a marriage unit; and the extension of legal benefits to all persons who cohabit regardless of sex or numbers.' Group marriage could comprise any combination of genders."
Stanley Kurtz, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, summed up the situation in a recent Weekly Standard article. He noted that if gay marriage is legalized, "marriage will be transformed into a variety of relationship contracts, linking two, three or more individuals (however weakly or temporarily) in every conceivable combination of male and female … the bottom of this slope is visible from where we now stand." ...
2007-03-27 08:43:34 · answer #3 · answered by Randy G 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bigots would lose their minds because that's the ultimate bash to their egos. Some of the bigoted answers in here are the most laughable because it's all about their ego and inability to see anything beyond it.
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2007-03-27 05:53:30 · answer #4 · answered by vinslave 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Damn gays getting their gay all over me and making my kids gay (KIDDING)
PEOPLE: the netherlands have had legal gay marriage since 2001. I am ashamed it took us that long. It hasn't hurt anyone, and why should it.
2007-03-27 06:02:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
They would convert everyone else to be gay. Then there would be no hetero couples left to reproduce and the human race would become extinct.
BTW, I believe in Leprechauns, unicorns, and the egg laying rabbits so I really know what I'm talking about!!
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2007-03-27 05:48:28 · answer #6 · answered by TLG 3 · 9⤊ 1⤋
they will breed a satanic race of super-homos! It will usher in the rapture, Apocalypse etc as foretold in some part of the dusty old book. Oh yeah, and every one will be forced to accessorise.
2007-03-27 05:49:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
Fundies bombing places where the marriages are held...you know like some of them do to abortion clinics? I can see that happening.
2007-03-27 06:08:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The worst thing?? Lawyers might make more money. I think that's about it.
2007-03-27 05:58:05 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Christians would go off the deep end. Which I find kind of funny actually. But the noise they make and the complaining they do isn't funny.It's hard to shut those self-rightious creeps up. It was the same when they started sunday shopping yrs ago they whined and complained but eventually they shut-up.
2007-03-27 05:48:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 9⤊ 2⤋
The Gay people would be Happy.
And everyone knows that it is the Christians Job to keep all the minorities Unhappy.
LOL (it's just a joke don't take it so personally)
2007-03-27 05:48:23 · answer #11 · answered by Bobby 3 · 11⤊ 2⤋