GAY Marriage?

Question

Should heterosexuals really be telling homosexuals about marriage?

In Denmark, homosexuals have been legally able to get hitched since 1989. But despite stereotypes of gay relationships as short-lived, the divorce rate among Danish homosexuals is only 17 percent, compared to 46 percent for heterosexuals.

What are your views on this?

No bashing.

Uncle John:
The Court issued an innovative ruling: since the provincial courts of appeal had ruled that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional (a position strengthened by the Attorney General's refusal to appeal those rulings), it was unconstitutional across Canada, and to continue to restrict marriages in Yukon to opposite-sex couples would result in an unacceptable state of a provision's being in force in one jurisdiction and not another.

Definitions change my friend.
Gay used to mean happy.

Answer 1

No one really has a say in marriage and the church just addapted it. Marriage is simply a tax cut and legal document (in any religion) that states they are together. Sometimes I think people forget the religion and Christianity doesn't own the rights to marriage.

In these days we are lucky if people are willing to get married. I now friends who are saying they'd rather just live with the person but never marry.

I think people also forget that homosexuality has been around as long as heterosexuals have. Animals can be homo, and if people look up their history; the spartans were all gay. They believed you would fight harder for your lover than for your friends so they actually would pair up boys with men. It was a social norm. Women were just there to bare children and given a home to run.

So really, I don't think they should be telling who should get married to who. And I really hate when people, like my dad, use the slippery soap argument. "Well if we let gays marry, next people will want to marry llamaz.." ... like that makes sense.

But yeah, marriage should be open to anyone

defintion of marriage:

the state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce); "a long and happy marriage"; "God bless this union"

A contractually committed partnership, including sexualove, cohabitation, shared economy/property and mutual childrearing.
a close and intimate union; "the marriage of music and dance"; "a marriage of ideas"
Socially-approved sexual and economic union that is assumed to be more or less permanent.

Answer 2

The big problem is that people often mistake holy marriage(marriage in church) with legal marriage.

Same-sex marriage is a legal issue, not a religious one. We're not out to change religion.

In Canada the law changed, not the religions.

I don't see why people seem to think religion gets a say in anything. If they did then divorce would be illegal, and premarital sex would be a criminal offense. Doesn't make a lick of sense nowadays.

Answer 3

I believe that gay couples are entitled to civil unions.

I hesitate to use the word marriage, because marriage is a religious rite, and it is up to the individual religion whether or not to allow that. However, it is true that one applies for a "marriage license" from the state, and I think that homosexuals are entitled to that state license.

Further, I think that we need to discuss WHY that license is not available to homosexual couples.

If the answer is a religious one, it must be dismissed -- as I said, a religion can make any rules it wants and we can decide to join that religion or not; any church can decide what it will call moral, but it cannot decide what is legal.

"Legal" is determined by a government that is responsible for the welfare of its citizens, for passing laws that serve to preserve a cohesive, peaceful and healthy civilization: therefore, we must ask whether it is in the best interest of a civilization for a portion of its citizens to be denied the right to participate in something that a society has determined is beneficial to its welfare and perhaps essential to its survival.

If we truly believe that marriage and familes are the bedrock of a healthy society -- that marriage and family provide for better individual nurturing, mental stability, financial security, and overall health and welfare of individuals and the society as a whole, then that society only hurts itself by denying homosexuals the right to marry. Surely excluding a segment of society from what is best for that society as a whole only damages all members of that society, as it undermines the overall stability, health and welfare of that society.

Answer 4

professional gay marriage, why do individuals care what you do. Love is love. i'm a christian yet nonetheless the government has no precise to tell you which you would be able to't marry the guy who you adore.

Answer 5

I think if someone loves someone enough to spend the rest of their lives together, why not? Shouldn't we just be happy that they are happy? But I think most heterosexuals are jealous that most gay relationships work better than theirs. Not that all gay relationships work. But just let the people (ALL people, gay, straight, whatever) marry. There are enough heterosexuals to keep the world populated.

Answer 6

Keep your beliefs and religion to yourself. That's the best way!
This idiot that says if you stay gay, get a clue! I won't even dignify this with any further consideration.

Answer 7

Marriage is a union of man and woman

Therefore "gay" marriage is a contradiction in terms, trying to join two terms that cannot be joined.

Gay people can certainly live together. They already do. In some places they even have civil unions recognized by the individual laws of a state or government.

But gay marriage is twisting a concept long established into something unrecognizable.

Answer 8

My opinion has always been, how can the government tell people who they can and cannot marry. That seems like something so personal. Live and let live!

Answer 9

Is this a question about happy marriages?

Answer 10

its ok to get together u can do what u want!! but lets define merriage its not going to be called getting merried thats a man and woman to have kids ex.... but you can committ to each other .... and call it something ealse and make your owen defanitons and 2 wemon together can some times be a 24/7 fight allways nagging bitching ex trust me i know a gay couple... but i dont cair heres my other cheek