Why should we accept Civil Unions, when they have less portability & Federal recognition than a Dog License?

Question

At least the Feds will recognize a dog license from one jurisdiction in another (even if the locals won't).

Answer 1

I agree with you

although to the skeletal remains above me, I guess two people that love each other getting married does more damage to his marriage than the 50% divorce rate...

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Answer 2

have a strong desire to support gay marriage is to increase the mental and physical health of the gay community. Our cultural erosion of family values is not due to an alleged homosexual agenda. The inordinate suicide rate of gay youth, among both homosexual and heterosexual populations, and 50% divorce rate are not due to the church's failure to oppress homosexuality, or to adequately boycott NYPD Blue. It is due to the church's failure to be Christ's blood to our culture. Our children are inundated by the cultural ideals propagated by the church and a conflicting reality. The traditional church has received certain cultural values from a generation of parents raised in the 40's and 50's--that a man and a woman should marry, have a couple of kids, purchase a house with a picket fence, and then the world will be a good place. As long as we make sure that the Communists and homosexuals don't invade our public schools and convert Wally and Beave, then we will all live happily ever after. However, this is not how the majority of Americans live. Most children live in homes which have never had a father, or are torn by divorce. At least 20% of our children have been sexually abused (possibly 30%), and many more have been physically abused or are malnutritioned. Too many become run-aways, drug addicts, or victims of suicide or even homicide, because Satan has overtaken our churches and our culture, and consequently our children's minds.

The current generation has grown up without the benefit of seeing that two people can commit to one another permanantly and stay together through hardship. Heterosexuals at least have a cultural ideology which supports their desires to attempt marriage. While most don't have the psycho-social models to sustain or believe in marriage, many at least attempt marriage. Many others don't. Many engage in sex-acts with whomever they meet on a particular night, not pursing a relationship, and not wanting a relationship. The same is true of homosexuals, who have an even greater disadvantage. Since American culture and the American church has traditionally defined marriage as a man and woman, only heterosexuals have the Weltanschaung to consider marriage as a viable (though unlikely) option in their relationships. Homosexuals do not have this benefit.

Homosexuals have been ingrained with the ideology that their behavior is morally corrupting, spiritually sinful, and legally inappropriate. Twenty states still have sodomy laws prohibiting homosexual behavior in any context. With this mindset, the homosexual cannot see him/herself as capable of a long-term relationship. While a similar effect is being seen in the heterosexual community, the effect is much more pronounced in the gay community because there are no role-models, or cultural acceptance for gay marriage. Many homosexuals, consequently, continue to engage in high risk sexual behaviors, and do not seek the fulfillment of a marriage relationship. While some people are satisfied with living a single, celibate life, most people aren't. Most people desire relational and sexual intimacy with another person. . However, it is rarely psychologically, socially, or medically safe to do so.

These are some of the effects the church has had on American mental and physical health because of its unyielding grip on irreality. The church should never condone immorality. However, it should similarly never tie cultural ideals and non-Biblical concepts to the Gospel. Such are "family values" and traditionalism in our churches. The closest thing to a boycott Jesus did was storming the temple because the church leaders had turned the sacrifice system into a way of making money and controlling the people. I think Jesus would boycott many of today's churches. Rather than supporting the mental, spiritual and physical health of our families (single parent, gay, inter-racial, etc.), we condemn and prohibit those who don't conform to our expectations. We make them feel guilty for existing as they do, and sin by trying to force them into our own beliefs about what families should look like, rather than showing them Christ's love

Answer 3

Good point.
For me, you can call it "civil unions" or "marriage" or "tangerine" or anything you want - as long as same-gender legal pairings have 100% of the same rights as current marriages do. Anything less is unacceptable, and creates a status of 'separate but equal' - which is only separate, but never equal.

Answer 4

I agree. Marriage by any other name is not the same!