2007-06-01 00:05:07 · 17 answers · asked by ? 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It shouldn't, but America decided that gays are 'dangerous' to heterosexual marriages.
Why no let gay marriage happen anyway? -- If the gays that the religious extremists hate so very very much get married, 'living in sin', they will all go to Hell, so they won’t have any of us in Heaven.
Hetero marriages are threatened by divorce. They are threatened by families where both parents not only have to work two full time jobs, but also need to work weekends to pay for Bush's gasoline.
If religious people really cared about marriage they would provide free day care for all mothers and leave gays alone.
2007-06-01 00:34:18 · answer #1 · answered by Kedar 7 · 10⤊ 0⤋
Marriage must be defended simply because backwards thinking people need their constituents to focus on a non-issue, since they have nothing else to offer them in leadership. I could care less about who gets married. It does not affect me or anyone else, only those entering a union of love.
Marriage has always been between a man and woman. Puhleez! If so, so what? Slavery used to be the accepted norm, throughout recorded history. Look at the way women are treated in some backwards countries, hell, you might as well look at the way their treated here in America as well (which is backwards in its own right).
My wandering point is this: It is a non-issue. It is stupid to debate. If people quit concerning themselves with stifling other people's attempts at happiness that doesn't affect anyone else, and focus on ideas and goals to help their fellow man and do acts of kindness, imagine what this world would be like-beautiful, amazing, and at peace.
Yes, I ask for too much.
2007-06-01 08:06:39 · answer #2 · answered by tombollocks 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
This doesn't answer the question, but honestly, if I see one more person railing on about "redefining" marriage I will lose it. I just read in the paper- yesterday!- about a man in India who was tied to a tree and beaten for refusing to marry one of their relatives. Marriage has been "redefined" so many times that to "define" it as "one man, one woman" in some holy God-sanctioned union is laughable, and demonstrates gross ignorance; until the last couple centuries- which is barely a blip on the human timeline, "even if" we've only been here for 6,000 years- the idea of two people courting, falling in love, and entering into a consentual monogamous lifelong relationship did not exist, and divorce was unheard of. If marriage has been "redefined", it's generally been to the good; women are no longer bought and sold, men are no longer allowed to beat their wives, and polygamy is illegal in most developed nations. I forget, how many wives did Moses have? Brigham Young, and the other founders of the Mormon Church in Utah?
To "protect" marriage from those that actually value it enough to fight for it- in favor of those that marry and divorce more often than they buy new tires, and at the expense of real families living in the real world- is completely irrational.
2007-06-01 09:08:16 · answer #3 · answered by kena2mi 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
It never ceases to amaze me how the religionists scream about "same-sex marriage," without realizing when you get married it IS the same sex, day after day...
I say gays should be allowed to get married. After all, they have as much right to be miserable as the rest of us.
All seriousness aside, it's just a wedge issue, which is the thing the Republicans and their religionist supporters are best at. They don't care much about marriage, and if you don't believe that, look at their leaders. Even their patron saint Reagan was divorced, and his second marriage was shotgun (Ol' Nancy was 3 months pregnant when they got hitched). Americans love to pretend they're offended by stuff. The poll numbers they keep citing as "proof" Americans are against same-sex marriage are the result of the pollsters asking only the people they know are offended.
Once enough states make same-sex relationships lawful, the issue will go away, except for the Republican attack ads.
2007-06-01 07:34:17 · answer #4 · answered by link955 7 · 9⤊ 0⤋
It shouldn't be.
Marriage isn't about race, creed, social status, age or sex. Marriage is about love. There are no rules for love and no one has the right to tell anyone else who they can love. Christians fight gay marriage based on the Bible which unconstitutional.
2007-06-01 09:01:43 · answer #5 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
It's rather a paranoid delusion - allowing others to marry will weaken your own relationship; render it meaningless, if just ANYONE can do it.
But just anyone can pretty much already do it, save a large group of people who have genuine love for each other.
Apparently, "tradition" means more to people than common sense.
2007-06-01 09:40:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The argument gives people something to focus on while the government spends trillions of dollars of our hard-earned money on pointless military programmes against non-existent foreign enemies.
2007-06-01 12:18:20 · answer #7 · answered by Voight-Kampff 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Markyyy got it exactly right: it's "icky"
See, it really is simple.
"Icky" - a well-established scientific term - also covers all other aspects of perfectly normal emotional and sexual relationships that some people would rather not think about.
Give the ten points to MATTHEW T - his medical analogy is easily the funniest excuse against gay marriage I have heard for ages! A classic!
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2007-06-01 08:55:47 · answer #8 · answered by abetterfate 7 · 5⤊ 2⤋
If same-sex couples get married, they risk having to see same-sex couples in the process of making a traditional wedding happen! Same-sex couples in Bride's magazine! Women trying on dresses in front of their future wives at the bridal shop! Same-sex wedding cake toppers in the bakery's catalog! And worst of all, pictures of same-sex couples right next to their sacred wedding announcements!
No lie, when my hometown paper, the Orlando Sentinel, announced that same-sex couples could do wedding announcements (or, you know, commitment ceremony announcements, since they aren't legal in Florida yet) on the same page as everyone else, people got flustered. One guy wrote in to say he wouldn't "allow" his daughter to post her picture and announcement there, next to some same-sex couple!
2007-06-01 09:01:36 · answer #9 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'm supposing you mean homosexuals?
Well you see, we live in this country called America.
And we claim to give free rights without prejudice.
But really our country is a dictatorship, and our leaders use Christianity as a front. And since the bible was misinterpreted, many Christians assume homosexuality is wrong. so the government officials hiding behind Christianity, follow these certain beliefs, therefore...
Denying people the right to wed based on sexual orientation.
Ugh. I hate this country.
2007-06-01 07:10:26 · answer #10 · answered by Mikki Lynn Breisch 2 · 20⤊ 1⤋