Why do they want to ban gay marriage?

Question

Doesn't that interfere with freedom of religion? And many homosexual people still believe in God and get married in churches.

Someone made a really good point earlier: No one is stopping Athiests from getting married.

Is it just a political move so people will get elected to office?

Answer 1

Because gay marriage is morally wrong.

Answer 2

Because God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve

Gays are not banned from marriage, a homosexual male
can marry any woman that would have him, and a lesbian
can marry any man that will have her.

Should a man be able to marry 2 or 3 women, or a woman
marry 2 or 3 men? Why shouldn't a man be able to marry
his pet sheep, dog or a woman marry her horse. They
can do that in churches as well, at least the liberal churches
where God's word doesn't mean anything.

NAMBLA want to lower the age of consent to 12 years old
so that it will be legal for men to have sex with young boys

I am not a gay basher, I do not hate homosexuals but I
am against same sex marriages and practicing homosexual
acts.

How many of you people remember that Bill Clinton signed
into law the Defense of Marriage Act, defining marriage
as being between one man and one woman?

Answer 3

You can't ban something(gay marriage) that doesn't exist in all but a couple of states. Maybe some churches perform marriage cermonies for gays but probably just a tiny number.

As far as the analogy with the atheists getting married, they're male atheists marrying female atheists. There's no law anywhre that says that people have to believe in a religion to get married.

Answer 4

No, it doesn't interfere with freedom of religion, because the debate is not over religious marriage: it's about government-sponsored civil unions. They're completely separate things, but conservatives like to conflate them (thus, civil marriage becomes sacrosanct and must be protected).

The government cannot (because of separation of church and state) force any religious body to marry any two people that it refuses to marry (many Catholic priests refuse to re-marry someone who has been divorced), and for that matter, cannot regulate what a religious institution calls marriage as long as it is not claimed as legal (you can create a religon and marry your cat if you so wish -- it won't be a legal union, but the state can't prosecute you for it).

Essentially, conservatives want to protect the "sanctity of marriage" but the sanctity of marriage comes from religious institutions The argument is not over churches -- they can do whatever they want with regards to marriage. The argument is over civil marriages. Thus, the argument becomes that their denomination's version of marriage (yes, some Christian churches will perform gay weddings) should be the state version of marriage. Separation of church and state, anyone?

In response to your last question: *yes*.

A couple of responses, which I've made a billion times:

Mother-and-father families only, huh? By that logic, my mother and paternal grandmother both should've been taken away from their families, because their fathers died. Also, instead of just deciding that gay families are bad, look at the research (done by sociologists and psychologists, not Focus on the Family): adopted (and non-adopted) children of gay parents are just as well-adjusted as children with a mommie and a daddy. What matters is a loving home, not the gender of the parents.

Gay marriage does not mean fewer children. People are born gay, they don't "turn" gay. No one's going to not have children who would before. It just means legal recognition of relationships that would have existed anyway.

This is the stupid one: if Christians created marriage, then why does practically every culture in the world have marriage of one variety or another?

Answer 5

Marriage is a union designed to assist the family, because the family is or was the basic building block of society.
Gay marriage, just like abortion on demand, and sex without consequences destroys those basic building blocks of society, so it actually is damaging society. We have a country where divorce rates are extremely high, sex offenders are everywhere, and the children are getting such a good education that they can't even make change from a dollar.

Answer 6

In an age where "nobody" gets married anymore. The gays want to be front and center.

"Marriage" recognized by the state, is what gays want. It has nothing to do with religion. Simply because religion does not dictate the use of health benefits, wills, and property rights.

Besides, if they allowed the gays to get married. They would have a new flag to wave next week. It's called, getting the message out.....period. In your face....IN YOUR FACE.

I never had a problem ever with "straight" people on the 6 o'clock news talking about sex...cuz they don't.

Answer 7

The only thing I can think of is that some people are still narrow-minded redneck idiots. We should realize that, even if we do disagree with homosexuality, it is not our place to impose our own religious beliefs on others through law. And the lawmakers should realize that these bans are unconstitutional. God is not applicable to the laws of this country and our founders did not set it up to be that way, contrary to popular belief.

Answer 8

First Atheist that wed are not the same gender. The first settlers that came to America came for religion freedoms. Our laws and rules for our democracy was based on marriage (man and women) united, not man and man or woman and woman.
I feel that all beings have the right to live and love and to choose a partner but marriage is between man and woman. If God meant differently he would have made all one gender.

Answer 9

I don't view it as banning gay marriage, and I think even this is proof that words are loaded.

You cannot ban something that does not exist.

You can only create something new. And this involves public policy analysis.

You first look at the compelling interests of involving the state in a religious institution in the first instance (marriage is a religious institution).

The only legitimate, compelling interest for the state to be involved in marriage is children.

Answer 10

We are slowly turning into the British Empire before the 13 colonies broke away, don't people realize that it is this type of bigoted behavior which formed this once great nation, it's shameful...And no I'm not gay...Just and angry "AMERICAN CHRISTIAN WHO BELIEVES IN FREEDOM TO LIVE WITHOUT GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE"

Answer 11

Marriage was created by Christians, Civil union was created by government...Gay's are welcome to the civil union but have no right to push a lifestyle that is against the very definition of marriage on a group who INVENTED MARRIAGE...They get the same rights in a civil union as those in Marriage...so why try to force feed their lifestyle on others...why are they so special that they can REDEFINE words, and force it on people? Civil union makes them equal to married couples in the eyes of the law...if they are looking for acceptance from God then they need to take it up with the church.