Don't gay's already have equal rights?

Question

I mean, I'm straight, I am not allowed to marry a man either. So we are equal there. If I am not married, I cannot get married peoples benefits. Equal again. Somebody please explain this to me. I don't understand. I always hear that people have no choice, is this really true, can't you choose regardless of how you feel? I grew up Catholic, I decided to leave that church. My Choice. I see racism, but as for a lack of equality for sexual prefrence, I don't see it. Elnighten me Yahooers!

Sleeper.....

Can't a "Gay" man marry an female adult human being?

Sleeper....

There you go... so they need rights because they "WANT". This isnt a need.

JUAN...

Please explain.

Nexus...
Get your facts straight...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1082190/posts

Nexus...
Get your facts straight...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1082190/posts

Answer 1

Any "minority" group can claim special rights. Because to be politically correct, everyone else has to allow for these special rights, but I don't get it either. Good question. I'm black and female (in Africa) and have experience alot of discrimination, racism, hate, but aint nobody giving this single girl any special rights? Now why is that? I think SOME groups need to get over themselves though.

Answer 2

Until such time that sexual orientation is factored into the marriage equation then the premise that gays have the same equal rights as straights is inacturate.
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As I see it and live it, I am at the mercy of my orientation. I had two choices to make in life. I could remain forever celebate or I could be true to the purpose of my creation by being the very best gay person I could possibly be. Those were the only choices I had. To choose to live outside my orientation would be a tremendous disservice to any woman unfortunate enough to become my mate. It would be a sexless arrangement, one that would become bitter with overwhelming feelings of I don't know, abandonment, distance, disillusionment, dissappointment. I have never been able to physically function much less pretend to be attracted to women. Don't get me wrong, I love them, but not in the way that a husband and wife with the intent to raise a family can. I'm not put together like that. I decided long ago that if I was going to be gay I was going to do it on equal footing with the role models I had in life, those being straight, happily married couples. I took my time, I wasn't promiscous, I waited, and finally one day I found someone who wanted to share that with me. Although he is not religous, he allows me and encourages me to maintain my faith, we are happily partnered for half my life now. We both contribute to society, go out to work, come home to private life, just like anyone else. I see no reason not to call that a marriage.

Within my faith there is a stipulation that would require him to convert in order for us to wed. He won't and I can't in good conscience ask him to do so. The sort of marriage I'm looking for would be a civil one, recognized by the government, allowing me the protections afforded others of my fellow Americans but denied me because of the gender of my partner.

I find that unfair. I find that unAmerican, in a land where all men are created equal, one without a state religon, I find it a pardox, one gated from the past and I think that in this time and age it is time to close that gate of "because its always been that way" and open a window to a future where we are all on a level playing field regardless of orientation

Thank you for your time.

Answer 3

You can marry a consenting woman though since I believe women are also adult human beings. A gay cannot marry the consenting adult human being of their choice.

Summary: You lose.

EDIT:

Why on earth would he want to? Would you marry an ugly chick?

EDIT:

*Slow handclap*

Answer 4

You’re missing the concept of “gay rights”…Homosexuals, want the right to marry whoever they want; meaning same gender marriages.

Some wants are rights as well. You WANT to have freedom of speech….and in America; you have the RIGHT to freedom of speech (even though you don’t NEED it).

If the U.S.A. would comply with the whole separation of church and state; then this whole “should gays marry” debate wouldn’t even be around.

Answer 5

Gay's should have the same rights as murderers, rapist, child molesters, and every other degenerate group of people that is responsible for the moral decline and degradation of this world. The Miranda rights.

Answer 6

They (the gays) already have special rights in the form of "hate crime" laws that are used against anyone who oppose their perverse agenda.