Gay Marriage
Gay marriage is a bond of love between two men or two women, but it is also hospital
visitation rights, social security benefits, health insurance, retirement savings, family leave, home protection, pensions, and more. Everybody deserves these rights. You can’t help your sexuality any more than you can help your race, age, or gender. People are born gay. Why in the world would anybody choose to be gay?? It’s not like the little boy or girl sitting in class contemplating their sexuality is thinking “hmm, I wonder what I can do to make people beat me up more and exclude me.” It’s ISN’T FUN being a minority. It ISN’T FUN being ridiculed and hated constantly, feeling left out, not being able to express your feelings in public, getting beat up, having people call you names, feeling unsafe… if sexuality was a choice, nobody would choose to be gay. But it isn’t a choice; it’s natural. There’s even evidence that it’s genetic. And if people are born gay, then
gay marriage isn’t going to make straight people gay, so there’s no need to worry about the human race ending. Think about it. And despite a little concept called ‘
separation of church and state’ people want to bring the bible into this, huh? Well did you know that in the bible, there are more references apposing heterosexuality than there are apposing homosexuality? It’s true. So if you can say you don’t agree with gay marriage because the bible says it’s wrong, then I could say I don’t agree with
straight marriage because the bible shows says it’s worse!Another thing the bible teaches is ACCEPTANCE and LOVE. You don’t have to agree with homosexuality, but at least accept it. Because some people are gay, and nobody can do anything to change that. Even denying the right to marriage won’t make homosexuals disappear. If anything, it will make us stronger and more vocal in the community. So if you want us to leave you alone then allow gay marriage, because we’re not
shutting up until we get equality. And no, civil unions are NOT equal to marriage. The idea of “separate but equal” just doesn’t work. Just look at race or gender.Gay marriage isn’t going to “convert” or “recruit” people to the “gay side”. It isn’t going to weaken the society, or threaten the so-called
sanctity of marriage (
two thirds of marriages end in divorce. Britney Spears was married for 48-hours. What
sanctity??). Gay marriage will simply show that discrimination is unjust. Acceptance and tolerance are
inarguably positive concepts to promote. Without acceptance and tolerance, there would still be slavery, and women would not be able to vote or work. Discrimination based on a person’s sexuality is no different than discrimination based on a person’s gender, race, religion, appearance, age, physical ability, etc. It all boils down to hating someone because they are different than you. Put yourself in the shoes of the minority. Think about what it would feel like to be denied hospital visitation, social security benefits, health insurance, retirement savings, family leave, home protection, pensions, and more.Life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, people. Let’s not deny anyone those rights.
Gay Marriage
by SlickSerpent99 on Aug 06, 2017 13:23:32
The union in
marriage of two homosexual individuals. It is illegal in many places around the world, including
thirteen US states.
Example:
8 Reasons to Oppose
Gay Marriage:
1.
Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
2. Legalizing
gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behaviour. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
3.
Straight marriage has been around for a long time and hasn't changed at all like many of the principles upon which this great country was founded; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
4. Straight marriage will be less meaningful is gay marriage were allowed; the
sanctity of marriages like Britney Spears' would be destroyed.
5. The only valid marriages are those which produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because are orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.
6. Obviously gay parents will raise
gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
7. Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a
theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion here in the United States.
8. Children can never succeed without both a male and female role model at home. That's why we, as a society, expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
Gay Marriage
by Artisticalogical on Jan 23, 2012 11:30:13
A completely reasonable thing. People who believe
gay marriage is 'wrong' and 'unholy' are just stupid. It's two people loving each other, what's wrong with that? Marriage WAS the union of a man and a woman. WAS. Now that it is more socially acceptable to be openly homosexual, of course that will change.
People who think that gays can 'turn back straight', let's see you
turn gay if it's that simple. No. You can't. Whatever sexuality you are, you were
born that way. Gays may bow to social pressure and date men or women (respectively), but that doesn't mean they don't know what they feel.
The point, is that they love the person they love. There are plenty of people who are openly bisexual and homosexual, and many of them are married if it's legal where they live. It should be legalized so that everyone has equal rights.
Example:
"Did you hear? Miranda and her partner are protesting to
legalize gay marriage! That's just sick."
"You're sick,
bigoted asshole."
gay marriage
by Shreve Lamb and Harmon on Sep 22, 2005 05:12:12
A matrimonial union between two people of the same sex. Not a mockery of marriage because it implies a loving relationship between — and listen to these words closely — TWO. CONSENTING. ADULTS. If you honestly think that the next step is going to be
bigamy, beastiality, or pedophilia, then you're really
off your rocker because none of these things involve all three of those three words. Maybe you can make a case for incest, but that's more often practiced in
the Bible Belt between straight people, anyway.
Example:
Ironically, the American state with the lowest divorce rate is Massachusetts, the center of gay marriage land; followed by Connecticut, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and New York. The American state with the highest divorce rate? Nevada, with Oklahoma, Tennessee, Wyoming and Indiana
rounding out the bottom five.
That's right, the holier-than-thou
Bible Belt has the highest divorce rates in the country, while the liberal Northeast has the lowest.
Suck it dry, neocons.