Are heterosexuals ruining the institution of marraige?

Question

Are heterosexuals ruining the institution of marriage?
The divorce rate is over 50%...this has nothing to do with gay people...so, isn't the institution of marriage already ruined?

Should we enact laws to make it more difficult for people to receive a divorce?

Should we require, yes require, that people take classes before entering into the institution of marriage...

Is it right to be able to get married on a whim in Las Vegas or wherever?

Where is the Godliness in this?

Answer 1

Let's see if you're a heterosexual, child molesting-double murderer in prison, you can get married without much of a problem and then get a divorce 15 minutes later. If you're a descent gay person, you're out of luck.

Answer 2

The heterosexuals sure aren't' keeping marriage sacred.

That's one of the BS argument against gay marriage is that it will ruin the sanctity. If marriage is so sacred we wouldn't have a divorce rate of 50%.

Classes required. NO.

Getting married in Las Vegas is fine. There is no correlation in the divorce rate and getting married in Las Vegas.


yes gays should be allowed to marry. I know 3 gay couples that have been together for each about 25 years, alot longer than most marriages.

The biggest problem with marriages are money and kids.

No one has the guts to do a study about how kids cause many divorces.

Many couples go from being single to getting married and then have kids right away.

It is a difficult transition from living alone or with your parents to living with someone full time.
then add kids and there is a whole other dimension.

I think if couples spent more time before having kids, learning how to be a couple and enjoying that time before having kids, there would be less divorces. Once a kids arrives everything has to be about the kid. That leaves very little time and money for the couple.

I could go into more detail on this but you get the point.

Answer 3

I don't have much respect for marriage. I know of some that I respect - but not that many. I'm 50 and I have never been married and don't really plan on it. I don't see the sense in it. Marriage is simply a way to save your a** if you end up getting a divorce. And - well - I think it helps with your taxes a bit.

I think if people want to get married and divorced - that's fine. It's not really harming anything. Lawyers get to make a living. Gays - too - should be able to do it if they want to do it. Do it on a whim or whatever.

Legal marriage has nothing to do with God. Spiritual marriage has everything to do with God. And just for the record - gays are allowed to be married in a spiritual ceremony if they so desire.

Now - I *DO* believe that people should be required to take a class before they give birth to an innocent child. But that's a whole 'nother discussion.
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Answer 4

THANK YOU!!! I am straight but for crying out loud, these christian "marriage soliders" drive me f-in bananas. Marriage is different for everyone who enters into it, not to mention it's not a church thing it's a damn state thing, I mean I could marry you tomorrow in a church and we wouldn't be married, not unless we went and got the little f*cking piece of paper that said we were married, which is provided by who? NOT GOD, by the state, so they should shut up about gay marriage being some kind of an abomination to the "sacred institution of marriage" and give homosexuals the same rights that every human deserves and has, Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, which includes Marriage, if that person makes you happy and you love them you should be married and conservative christian idiots can find something else to complain about like Harry Potter or TV shows that make people satatnists. And you? You rock on!!! Fin.

Answer 5

Unfortunately, people have taken God out of what He created in the first place.

Yes, the proper laws to make it difficult to get a divorce are found in the Bible...people just need to refer to it rather than taking the easy road.

Classes before marriage...also known as pre-marital counseling...should be a must. I'm doing it now and it is opening my eyes more than ever on the commitment I'll soon be making. Requirement? Yes, indeed!

Las Vegas or any other place which allows ill-equiped folks to tie the knot out of lust, convenience, or drunken stupers should rethink their tactics and what is actually permissable.

Answer 6

1) No we should not govern someones capibility to divorce or marry.
2)Premarriage counseling should be advised before marriage.
3)Sometimes things on a whim can be highly rewarding.
4)I don't think godliness has much to do with it, versus people just not being willing to makes things work in their marriage. Knowing that you can get a quick divorce gives alot of people an easy way out. Why commit fully to someone when you know you can end it easily. I think its more about personal commitment, than godliness, imo.

Answer 7

the huge type a million concern dealing with the international on the instant could be homosexuals destroying the enterprise of marriage. i know what you attempt to do. you attempt to introduce good judgment into the equation in an attempt to get the righteous christians to lose concentration. properly, it won't artwork. Homosexuals attempt to break the international by ability of needing equivalent rights. How dare you point out that all of the ordinary Republican applicants, different than Romney, have been divorced assorted circumstances as being by some ability hypocritical? The blame for all their divorces is obviously the attempt to break the sacred enterprise of marriage by ability of homosexuals.

Answer 8

Currently, heterosexuals are the only ones who CAN ruin the "institution of marriage".

Answer 9

No, heterosexuals aren't ruining marriage.

No its not right for people to get married in Las Vegas.

What should be required? Actually loving your spouse before you get married. Listening to God before you get married. My parents listened to God and they have been married for over 20 years. My aunt and uncle met 3 times before they got married. It was a short time, but they fell in love and followed the rules set by God, and have been married for over 20 years.

One of these rules? Marriage is between a man and woman.

Heterosexuals aren't ruining marriage, Homosexuals and un-Godly people are ruining marriage.

Answer 10

Until the late 80's it was very difficult to get a divorce. Now it is no fault divorce who ever created that. But getting a divorce until the late 80's was very hard to do, you had to bring witnesses to prove your case. Now you can file for divore on the internet