IF MARRIAGE is based on religion, & some religions allow gay marriage, why would government to not honor them?

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Is this not government favoring one religion over another?

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So answer Number 1 says: "The church has no business saying who can and cannot get married."

And answer Number 2 says: "Government should have nothing to with marriage, period."

Here, my friends, we have a dilemma. We have a global institution, and we don't even agree to whether the Government or the Church should hold sway over it.

I'm putting this one to a vote, so let's see how the majority feel about this issue.

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Answer 1

marriage is not based on religion. Marriage has been practiced for thousand of years, in almost every culture. Originally marriage was practiced for economic reasons. The church has no business saying who can and cannot get married

Answer 2

Your point is? Marriage is a choice and it isn't always considered a right. You do realize it don't you? The whole argument for same sex marriage is people who love each other should be able to get married. Yet, what about first cousins? Or what about sisters and brother or daughter and father. Or Son and mother. What if it's love beyond the family bond or connection? And it's sexual love. We don't allow these groups the right to marry and why? Think about it some more will you. And nope the argument because it's wrong because it's biologically and chemically wrong doesn't work because that's the argument you put before people who are against homosexual marriage. So if homosexuals are actually allowed to married, we should let all incest cases be allowed to be married as well. Never mind the fact that there is a strand of moral or possibly ethics behind incest being wrong.

Answer 3

Well, not all marriages are based on religion, and not all marriages are based around raising children.

If marriage were solely a religious institution, I would argue that the state should not have any part in them (except for contracts dealing with transfers of wealth and so forth).

But seeing as marriage is not only a religious practice, it makes sense for the government to accept all sorts of marriages, provided they are entered into by consensual adults.

Answer 4

The government makes the laws of the land, the Church doesn't. It doesn't have to listen to the Church at all. And, marriage is not based on religion.

Answer 5

Using a religous reason in a country that is not supposed to have a state religon is hypocritical. The procreation argument is obtuse. They are going have to come right out and say it, ""gay sex grosses me out."" Well, I don't know about you, but as a gay man I don't go around thinking about the sex lives of others and if I ever did I certainly wouldn't obsess about it to the point of making an attempt to circumvent common decency.

Answer 6

Because marriage is NOT based on religion. Marriage is BOTH a religious and a civil institution, and the separation of church and state allows that they do not necessarily have to respect each other's definitions.
For example, a church may not recognize the civil marriage of a couple, since there was no church ceremony; likewise, the state may not recognize a marriage performed within a religious ceremony that does not meet the state's restrictions.

This is why the gay marriage debate doesn't really have anything to do with religion. Gays are simply requesting the right to CIVIL marriages - any religion is free to refuse to perform or recognize this marriage, but that doesn't prohibit the couple's legal civil rights outside of that religion.

p.s. Natalie W - correction, my religion accepts gay marriage, as do some Espicopal sects. Remember that this country assures freedom of religion, so that YOUR religion does not determine how everyone gets to live their lives.

Answer 7

Good question, but unfortunately hypocrisy is not a sin.

Answer 8

NO RELIGION says a man and a man, or a woman and a woman are allowed to marry. God created the man and the women, and said to be fruitful and multiply, and thats what man kind shall do.

Answer 9

No matter what religions may "allow" gay marriage, it is STILL an abomination to God. And our nation, whether people like it or not was based on Christianity. I am totally against gay marriage.

Answer 10

Government should have nothing to with marriage, period.
Marriage is supposed to be a personal and/or religious choice, and therefore not a matter of government.