Why would anyone ever be opposed to gay marriage?

Question

I'm thoroughly confused.

Answer 1

It is against every tenant of Christian religion. Why are you confused?

Answer 2

It is shameful how many bigoted people are on yahoo answers!!

I've read through all of your answers and it seems the world is full of racist, sexist, homophobic xenophobes.

There is obviously nothing wrong with same sex marriages!! homosexuality has been around since time began, but it seems the more technologically advanced we get, the more retarded and medieval some get...due to religion, an out dated way of controlling the masses and coping with the fact we are born, then live, then die!!

It is laughable that someone even answered that gay marriage os wrong because you can be gay one day, straight the next, then gay, then straight!! How innocuous!!

Now, I'm sure I will get labelled a "liberal", by means of an insult!! I, for one, am British so the term liberal means as much to me as calling a yank "New Labour", and for 2, I am no "cry baby", a term I've come to see alot on here when linked to being called a liberal!

In advance of being called this by the right wing fascists....save it!! I am not.

Answer 3

People can be opposed to gay marriage for many reasons. I can also give you my reason for NOT being opposed to gay marriage.

People are opposed to gay marriage because of their many different religions out there that say so, or their misinterpretation of things. Also many people are prejudice and also afraid of anything that is different from what they may have been taught in their family life and from society life.
Many people think that the natural order of things are man and woman producing children and then in turn the children reproduce when they get older and so on and that that is the only way it should be. Many people also think gays have a choice to be heterosexual. Many heterosexuals who think this way, think that the gays are sick or crazy for choosing to be that way. Many people also believe in supporting the constitution, which obviously doesn't say anything about gay marriage or we would have had it many years ago and you would have heard many people speaking up more about this. I guess how I started out to answer this one is to tell you the two main reasons are the constitution and religion, mainly for what it says in the bible somewhere in Leviticus 18.

I do not oppose gay marriage however. I will give you a reason. If a person was born heterosexual, don't you think people are born to be gay. If heterosexuals can marry, therefore gays should marry. Heterosexuals search for their life long love and live together and do all sorts of things together and vow there love to one another for all to see and people love it. They think it's oh so sweet. Well, gays have the same exact feelings, they are born with the same kind of values based on that same thing. Many of them try to fight it because their religion may state something different and their families also. So those people fight their feelings for many years and are ashamed for what they feel inside.

For many people, the chief reason for opposing gay marriage is that it teaches them that it is a sin. So they will do what they must to protect the current status of heterosexual marriage as being the only marriage, hoping that people will not be so free to sin if it is not permitted. However, these people will live like they are married anyway, so what's the use in all these people opposing a marriage when people will live like they are married anyway, except it is not made legal law. The gays want to also tell the world how much they love this person and are devoted to them and they are shamed for doing so, heterosexuals show how much they love their mate and are devoted to them and people hope it will be a marriage to last.

I hope these views will change as this country must change. It's politics, it's views, health, it's whole life. This country must change. You brought up a very good question. It is something I hope many others will really think about and look deep to find the answer.

Answer 4

Until just recently, there was virtually no religion or government in the world that recognized marriage between homosexuals. It didn't matter if the persons living in those countries were predominately Christan, Jewish, Muslim,Hindu, Buddhist, agnostic, or atheist, etc.. It didn't matter if the government was democratic, republican, socialistic, communistic, a dictatorship, a monarchy, etc The idea of gay marriage was unheard of.

I believe that the societal, historical, and universal taboos against homosexual marriage show that the opposition comes from more than just fundamental Christians. For example, (far as I know) there is no gay marriages recognized in Communist China and that's a predominately atheistic nation.

Answer 5

Is mostly for religious reasons than intellectual ones. I don't see a reason to prohibit gay marriage. I don't see how two men or two women marrying is going to affect me. People who support civil unions should realize that is the same thing just with a different name. Is hypocrisy becuas they just don't want the word marriage attached to the legal unions of these couples. There isn't a good reason to oppose gay marriage.

Answer 6

Homosexuality is a sin to me. Do I hate gays - no.

I sometimes say mean things to people, sometimes I run stop signs (after looking of course,) and I have been know to steal a personal fax from work. I think these are sinful acts. Do I hate myself - no. (But I am sorry.)

Do I think gay marriage should be legalized -no.

Another person may love to have sex with a goat. Just because they choose to do it, does not mean we should change to laws to accommodate them -no. What about 12 year old boys? 6 year old girls? (Would I claim her as a wife or take the child -tax credit?) Liberals and the ACLU would have a field day.

Answer 7

the only reasons that someone would be opposed to it are: religion and/or intolerance...

many Christians think that because their bible (written about 50-100 years after the death of Jesus by the way and the gospels are EXTREMELY conflicting) tell them it's wrong....

although this nation is NOT ruled by a bible or any other religious book, it may be influenced by it but it is ruled by the CONSTITUTION....(FIRST AMENDMENT)

also, people don't realize that being gay is not a choice...it's mostly genetic...i have a few gay friends and their lives are so much harder than mine just because of the prejudice and the guilt associated with their lifestyle...they've told me many times that sometimes they wish they weren't gay...

gay people aren't animals, they are human beings, no different from anyone else...

Answer 8

I am not against ensuring that gay couples have the identical rights as hetero married couples.Civil unions seem a resonable settlement of this issue.
But it is irritating that even when that is offered, the gay activist movement insist on the word 'marraige'.
'Marraige' is defined as the union of a MAN and a WOMAN.
Equal rights? yes.
Equal protection? Yes.
But call it whatever you like...the word 'marraige' is already taken. and is clearly defined.
Antony - I don't see flag-waving 'neocons' telling anyone what to do...I see flag-burning liberals CONSTANTLY telling me what words to use, what car to drive, what I should and should not think...the traditional values that made this country great are under attack from secular progressives like yourself...not the other way around.

Answer 9

My position is this: If two of the same gender want to join together than I say yes to a civil arrangement.

My problem with marriage is that they will have the same benefits as a married couple of the normal male and female relationship and that they will be able to adopt a child which to me would be an imbalance in how that child would be brought up.

The absence of either a male or female in the child's upbringing could be biased and place the child in an imbalance to its' social education.

I know that there would be many qualifications to be passed but I also know that lawyers would be waiting in line to fight them.

Answer 10

Because many people believe that marriage is an institution created by God for one man and one woman *only.* They feel it's disrespectful and arrogant of man to redefine that social institution. By defining marriage any way we want we are saying we know better than God.

That's the Original Sin, when Adam and Eve decided they knew better than God by eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. That sin made their children, grandchildren, and ultimately the whole human race rebellious, knowing what was evil and desiring it over what was good, including the proper sexual use of the body. That sin also separates us from God individually and culturally.

The only way we can be reconciled to God is through Jesus Christ. He came and satisfied the penalty of sin allowing all people to come to a right relationship with God and freedom for the entrapment of sin. Anyone who believes in his heart and confesses with his mouth Jesus is Lord can be saved.

Answer 11

I think it is about dependant benefits. Otherwise I don't see the traction.

I can see where some states would entirely have to overhaul their family law (in Illinois for example there is a statutory definition of marriage that says its purpose is to provide for children that permeates every family law decision.) However, I am conservative enough to think it isn't the government's place to get into that arena, at all.