Do you believe in gay marriage? Or do you prefer a civil union? Or neither?

Question

And, if you believe in a civil union, isn't that just samantics? I mean isn't it just marriage with a different name?

Answer 1

Gays need to be able to get married and call it that. Even if we deny them the right to call it marriage, we are still denying them a right that others get. That is unfair and un-American.

Answer 2

No I don't. I am not sure what civil union is all about, but what I have heard of it, just sounds like a marriage, with another name. Men and women were created a certain way. It does not matter how science does it, it always take a man and a woman to make a baby- that is just nature. We can't change how nature works. Homosexual relationships are not natural. Also it is not genetics , it is a choice. The research that was done to prove that there is a gay gene- has been taken out of context. The research showed that men who have more feminine qualities, Got an extraordinary amount of Estrogen while in the womb, which is why they have more feminine behavior. That is what the research found. That does not mean that they have to be gay. People with that agenda who were trying to excuse the deviant behavior took the research, put their spin on it and ran with it, and everyone just accepted it without questioning it at all- just have we have accepted the whole human caused global warming thing without question. If they choose to behave that way, then that is their choice. Nobody should tell them that they cannot. But they need to accept that they are not going to get all the benefits out of life that others not making that choice get. It is called taking responsibility for our behavior and choices, something that has become foreign to so many people.

Answer 3

I fully support it. It's really pathetic that the USA hasn't already legalized it.

And yes, there's a big difference between a civil union and a marriage. Any same-sex couples can travel to Vermont to receive a civil union (they are not available to different-sex couples). Civil unions provide all the rights that marriage does within the state of Vermont -- they do not provide federal marriage rights and benefits, like Social Security, federal tax breaks, and immigration rights. Other states may not have to recognize civil unions. Couples who don't live in Vermont sometimes choose to get a civil union as a powerful symbolic gesture, but outside the state they have little or no legal significance.

Answer 4

well
strictly now some are way against gay marriage
though if u go back by 10 years
u will find people were strictly about gay people
but not its ok if u r gay
but no about the marriage thingie
so after 10 years
they will be strictly against the
adoption
and that they bring up a child in a gay house
after another 10 years
it will be ok
but there will another thing
all i am saying time change things
and change people too
so i think i dont care that much
because in a way if one is gay he lives with his partner
so whats the different between marriage or civil union
is it just it doesnt sound as bad
however it will be ok one way or another

Answer 5

Believe in it? Do you BELIEVE in it? Do you believe in heterosexual marriages? I don't think there is anything to believe in. It's not your decision. It's the decision of those two people who want to be together. It is the decision of the people in question of whether they should choose to or not to get marriage. And I disagree completely with those arguments against "gay marriage" saying that is the union between man and woman. I think it's horrible that a group of people should be able to vote against certain couples having the choice to be married. Personally, I don't agree with civil union; however, if a couple chooses that against being "married" then so be it.

Answer 6

I believe under constitutional law same sex couples are to be granted the same rights and privileges as heterosexual couples. I would not support naming this marriage, because it is intrinsically different from marriage as historically understood, at least in terms of its social and economic basis in culture. I have spoken with lesbians and homosexuals about this issue and they are actually divided as well. Some are not interested in names, but want rights. Others want the name and rights, because the name confers a status. I think if there could be relative consensus about the first option, the rights would come much sooner and the name of marriage might come shortly after. But the division, even among the homosexual community, is causing hold ups.

Answer 7

Marriage seems to mean so little in our culture these days that I really don't see much difference between it, and a civil union.

The fact is that most religious people divorce at the same rate as non-religious people.

In my opinion, Marriage is what two people are willing to make out of it.

Answer 8

I support the legal recognition of same sex marriage, but I'd prefer marriage left to churches, and the government to recognize only civil unions.
Anything else is a failure to seperate church from state.

Answer 9

Not really. Civil unions carry only those benefits that the state governments want to give us whereas there are many more benefits that come with marriage.

Answer 10

As long as it has the same rights and protections, it can be called whatever. It really stings when you've been with the same person for 10 yrs and your straight friends who've been married for a year get $6,000 back on their taxes just for getting married. It stings even more when they get divorced a year later, remarried a few months later and are qualified for that tax break again.

Answer 11

Of course gay people should marry if they choose to.

There should be no second class citizens in a free country.

Those who think being homosexual is a sin should just not be one and leave other people alone to live their own lives.

Christians seem to think that they somehow invented marriage and get to make the rules. Marriage was around long before Christianity.