Gay Marriage - Yea or Nay?

Question

Alright, it's time to set the record straight, once and for all.

For or against same-sex marriage?

Is it wrong?

Should it be legal?

What's wrong with it?

I'll put in my two cents first. First of all, I don't have any religious affiliation, so I'm able to approach this open-mindedly. Though it is akward at times, gay marriage should be legal, no doubt about it. It's going to happen soon, so why not stop putting up all the red tape? If two people love eachother, why shouldn't they be together? And despite what people may think, they don't think that what they're doing is wrong, it's just the rest of the world. I think it's sad to see people going against it because it's "not God's will" or whatever. God made gay men (and women), and for what, just to watch them be prosecuted by people who don't have the same view? Tsch, just sad, I'd like to see one good reason on here why two people shouldn't be together that doesn't have to do with God. There you go.

So far, after about 10 minutes, here is where we stand.

14 Yea
4 Nay

I still have not a one reason why gays should not be married that doesn't have to do with God. Anyone wanna blow my mind?

Answer 1

Marriage is a religious ceremony and in being so is up to each individual religion to determine the parameters of the partnership.

If however, a homosexual couple wishes to become life-partners and to have a legal contract endoresed by the state, which is what the marriage license in the US actually is, then they should be able to have one. They should have all the rights of partnership and be able to engage in contracts as would any other hetero partners.

I think we need to separate the act of marriage, from the license to partnership.

I do not, however, endorse marriage between gays. I have many gay friends and relatives, and I would defend their rights to have a life-partner with a civil ceremony. I think it is up to the churches to decide if they want to allow gays to marry, and if a religion makes the decision to allow gay marriage, then people can decide whether or not to engage in that religion.

We should never confuse religion, and legal rights, and each person's coventnant with their God is their choice.

Answer 2

Religiously, no.
Politically, no.

I will explain: It should be up to the state and the people that should decide what constitutes a marriage and not up to the government or courts, state or federal. In 2000, the people of California overwhelmingly voted for Proposition 22 or The Defense of Marriage Act. It simply states in a few lines that marriage will only be recognized as between a man and a woman. So politically, this is how it should be determined. Many other states have also adopted similar statutes concerning marriage. Only two or three states have put in their books that allow same-sex marriage. Also, the courts should not intervene against the will of the people of the state as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals tried to do. The State Supreme Court decided that Prop. 22 did not violate any constitutional laws. It is still in the books, even though the Democratic controlled state Senate and Assembly are now trying to water it down by passing certain laws. They are not about representing the people, but the few fringe groups that give them donations. One other thing is these groups are trying to force others in changing their own beliefs.

This is where I also disagree religiously. Marriage to me was made sacrosanct by God. Yes, some that voice their opinions on this site are atheist, pagans, or liberal Christians and have your own opinions. Mine beliefs come from the Bible, and the teachings of my faith. I and my faith believe that God ordained marriage as a mean of bringing souls from heaven to gain bodies, learn, and prove their worthiness to return to him again. It is a sacred ceremony that should be between a man and a woman. I can show all the scriptures stating how the act, and I do mean the act of homosexuality is a sin, but that would be redundant to those the either feel the Bible is fiction or should be read as metaphorically or mistranslated in some parts. Marriage is sacred to me, my wife, and possibly in twenty years or so from now, my daughter. I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. To put in a clique, we love the sinner, not the sin. I hope that one day, other will realize that this is not about prejudice, but about saving people and them that Heavenly Father would love for them to come back to him in the first resurrection.

Answer 3

Like I purely spoke back RobertR11389: the place-ever you detect love, why not be allowed to make that committment? i don't see how the government letting someone marry the guy they love in any way threatens me and my marriage and my family members - i'd nevertheless elect a heterosexual relationship no count if or not gay marriage is criminal - so my family members existence does not choose protecting out of your homosexuals' criminal prestige. i truly have faith that tehy does not chosen this existence form if that they had a call. gay adoptions: back, a committed loving couple has a greater useful probability of elevating a outstanding, properly-adjusted person than lots of the persons who submit right here on YA! approximately their custody circumstances and their dysfunctional relationships that contain the babies, etc. etc. i'm additionally for surrogates for fathering organic babies and donors for mothering natual babies. P.S. I evaluate myself a Christian and function a undertaking for people who profess to appreciate what "all Christians" sense in this concern.

Answer 4

I just don't understand why people still are making such a huge fuss over homosexuality. It's out in the open now - GLBT people have a voice and nobody is just going to go back into the closet. Gay marriages will happen eventually. Conservatives are just making the event as long and unpleasant as possible, and making themselves look like bigots in the process. Religion does not have to agree with gay marriage, nor do religious institutions have to perform them - marriage these days is a secular ceremony (ask any atheist). People deserve to have their rights be respected, the majority doesn't get to decide that things are illegal because it makes them feel icky. Nor does religion get to intrude onto the secular scene.

Answer 5

I'm gay.

I'm against gay marriage.

I'm sure a number of people just did some double takes there. But it's true.

The problem with modern marriage is that it intermingles a religious ritual with a legalistic contract. The State should have no business judging who can engage in a religious ritual; the Church should have no business judging who can engage in a legal contract.

If I and my partner went to a Baptist Minister and asked him to marry us, we would, rightly so, be laughed out of his office -- it goes against his religion. If we then went to our pagan friend and asked, we'd likely be made quite welcome, and have to explain that we asked for a minister, not a wedding planner and would he PLEASE stop trying to figure out how to make our wedding cake with black fondant so it looks like leather and no we do NOT need his help getting undressed for the cere... I digress.

But when I and my partner walk into the County Clerk's office and ask for a marriage license, just like a hetero couple, we should be told that the government has no role in Marriage, but if we'd like a civil union certificate, we can sit down with the paperwork and fill it out just like the other couples, hetero and homo, who have to fill it out.

Religions (or family) should oversee the ritual of marriage, Governments should oversee the contract of civil union. The same should be true for both heterosexual and homosexual couples.

Answer 6

Although, I personally am strait, I think that if you fall in love with someone regardless if they are the same sex as you or not you should be able to pursue a married relationship with them. People say it is "ungodly" I say to those people, God created earth knowing about people who were going to be interested in the same sex. So therefore i think it is totally up to what an individual thinks but I don't think there is anything wrong with it

Answer 7

I am a straight male and I have no problem with gay marriage. I don't see how religion could even have any bearing on the situation. It goes to show you how much religion controls our society. If you are born gay, you can't help the way you feel, why make someone suffer like that?

Answer 8

religious or not, the act is disgusting for even the straight persons mind!!! Gays in general have go down the devils path and he's made them question their sexuality. Come one, its a simple concept and fitting that a man and woman get together. Why else then would there not be a third , fourth sex out of god's creation.

Answer 9

For same-sex marriage.

No there is nothing wrong with it.

It should not be illegal.

I'm writing a paper on both sides and am still having allot of trouble for the against side, everything I put on it is SO week, with no legal standing, except of coarse precident.

Answer 10

I don't agree with gay marriage. Why, because God only created man and woman. And it is His design for a man and a woman to be one in marriage. No one is born gay so God did not made gay men or women. It is their choice why they became gay. God loves them even if they chose to go against what He desires for them and it's just so sad that these people miss the great plans He has for them only if they choose to do what is pleasing to Him.