why is this great non-issue so important to people?

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Where's the fear. The only people who will be inconvenienced are the IRS and tax lawyers, and isn't it good to throw a monkey wrench into their works?

Really; explain the harm of people who love one enough enough to commit, doing so?

Spare me your Bible stuff. The church granted dispensations for many medieval kings to marry their stableboys and such...

open4one, that's reasonable a) if you trust the states on religious matters, which I don't. and b)
the fact is the only position the feds are taking is against. And that's not their right. To me it's a matter of constitutional personal liberty.

You either support individual liberty or you do not.

Amalone, that's not working for me. There are couples, hetero, that can't have children, and they still marry, and adopt. And who are you to say that the kids in a gay marriage are for show. I know many gays who have raised great kids... kids who didn't end up gay incidentally.

If you argue against the fruitlessness of an institution, try arguing against war, or capital punishment. Those truly are fruitless.

No one has convinced me it shouldn't be any man or woman's right to marry any man or woman... sorry.

In Europe, for hundreds of years, when the king loved one of the boy squires, the church always granted a dispensation for a genuine holy marriage.

Why don't people get the same right as kings?

Answer 1

just another part of the great American distraction , while they rob your children and grandchildren of a free country

Answer 2

I think ever since 1968 the electorate has focused more on social issues than economic and other issues. Remember, despite everything that happened from November 2000-November 2004 (9/11, Afghan War, Iraq War) thw world turned upside down, the main issue according to the exit polls in 2004 was "moral values". If you look at electoral maps from years ago the South and Middle of the Country was more Democrat and the Northeast was more Republican, because The South and Midwest was more rural and the Democratic policies (New Deal) helped them, while Republican economic policies were more helpful to businesses in the North, but ever since they've been pushing things like civil rights, abortion, gay marriage, yadayada, and that seems to be what people focus on for the most time right now.

Answer 3

Call me dumb but...

A gay love is a dead end love. Fruitless in terms of pro-creation! Adoption is for public image.

If we say gay is a sickness or a genetic disorder then soon the gay civilization will end since gay is fruitless. If gay continues to exist, then it is not a sickness. It is a manifestation of a meaningless thought. A sickness has mother nature to blame for but a manifestation of the mind is self inflicted. It shares the same context of validity as any other meaningless human behaviors and desires. There's no ground in pushing for such rights or granting such rights.

Granting such a right voids all future debates on such a non-issue as this. It will be a sign of things to come. It is the beginning of the end to the moral values of this great nation. We remove God and take in gay marriages. Very smart.

Answer 4

Personally I like states rights approach quite a bit. I dislike a strong centralized government. We dont mind Balkanization in the Balkans and I think people just plain do better when most of the rules are made by the states they live in. Take California for example. You can get pot and live in a sanctuary city (they have the most of them) they thumb their collective noses at the laws of the land. I personally dont like that so I dont live there. I think having states all representing a particular group is great. If you like the conservative thing move to Idaho the people there arent like their senator. They do however respect laws.

Answer 5

I have a slightly different take on it.

I oppose a Constitutional Amendment about gay marriage, whether it's pro or con.

It's a state issue. Whatever 49 states do about it doesn't concern me in the least.

If it is left as a state issue, my state legislature will find out which way I lean on it, but it's no concern of anyone else's.

I'm solidly against a federal decision on this issue on either side.

Answer 6

OK I will spare you the Bible stuff, except to say God created
Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

I do not support same sex marriage, there is no constitutional right that guarantees this. No freedoms have been taken away from homosexuals, they can marry people of the opposite sex, just like everyone else.

I would support Civil Unions

Answer 7

Your right on about it being a non issue. I think its brought up only because its a quick way to get "I AGREE" out there.

I just hope the non issue of fetish based marrage dosent end up as a brown starfish shaped stamp on the constitution, wether it was banning it or not.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Because the majority of people can't stand gays, myself included. Sure ,some will say it doesn't bother them, but they only say that to be politically correct or to keep from being called a homophobe. Gays are nasty and spread diseases.

Answer 10

Don't do it Homo's...it's not as wonderful as you think...take it from a divorced guy