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 Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:25 pm
Taeryyn weswissa Lady Liverbird I think the government shouldn't have a say in who's to marry whom. It doesn't seem right to me that a government is able to do that, especially in America, when we claim to be a country that practices tolerance and "freedom of religion", when it is mostly religious morals that create restricting laws. It's just very hypocritical. So even if they're not married by the church, homosexual couples should be able to get married legally. It was also religious morals that created this country. Actually, wasn't your country founded by people who left Europe in search of freedom from oppression? Honest question. I'm not being snarky, I'm simply not American. Which actually was the case. Not all of the founding fathers were religious, including Benjamin Franklin. It was common law and tradition borrowed from Europe that helped shape the states.
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 8:21 am
yeah maybe our country can think about this... saying people of the same sex cant get married is bs ......saying they cant get married is like saying a african american woman cant marry a white man ........which can happen......so if this country wants to be all for equality we should have the rights to get married
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Posted: Sat Aug 08, 2009 8:41 am
I agree with ABBI. Frankly, it annoys me that so many states (including the one I live in) do not recognize gay marriage. It disgusts me that people are so intolerant.
In eighth grade, we were discussing gay marriage in Home Ec. while sewing bean bags out of boredom. I was saying how gays have every right to be married legally and a friend of mine says, "Well what's gonna happen next if gays get married? Are they going to legalize beastiality?"
He admitted later that it came out wrong (I don't know what he actually meant) but still, he compared same-sex marriage to the rape of an animal. WTF.
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 10:45 pm
The reason gay marriage needs to be legalized is because civil unions (that's what they're called) don't provide the same benefits as marriage. Homosexuals aren't being whiny, they just don't have equality that they should have. If a man and a woman are married, and the woman needs knee surgery, then the company that the man works for can provide the health insurance needed so that she can fix her knee. If two men were joined and one needed surgery, he wouldn't get it, because civil unions don't allow for shared health insurance.
It's really not fair and there are SO MANY more civil liberties that straight people have that gay people do not.
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Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:20 am
Star_Catcher_567 I agree with ABBI. Frankly, it annoys me that so many states (including the one I live in) do not recognize gay marriage. It disgusts me that people are so intolerant.
In eighth grade, we were discussing gay marriage in Home Ec. while sewing bean bags out of boredom. I was saying how gays have every right to be married legally and a friend of mine says, "Well what's gonna happen next if gays get married? Are they going to legalize beastiality?"
He admitted later that it came out wrong (I don't know what he actually meant) but still, he compared same-sex marriage to the rape of an animal. WTF. I have run in to people that say that ***** will want to marry children after the legalization, and the real fun/idiotic ones say that we'll start marrying inanimate objects. rolleyes I think that's what we call the slippery slope fallacy if I remember correctly.
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Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2009 4:42 pm
o-o-Super Cheesepuff-o-o Being against gay marriage when you're straight is like being against gay marriage in the US when you live in Europe. It. Doesn't. Effect. You. CORRECT. It doesn't affect me or anyone. All those idiots who say. Oh no we can't have that, it's a slippery slope. Then there will be people who will marry horses, dogs and other animals. This is one of the stupidist arguments against it that people say. It is just two people who want to show their commitment to each in front of other people. It should be celebrated not denigrated.
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 9:00 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IHdaJOZe7EIt's like Wanda Sykes said in this video, "People are afraid that gay marraige will ruin their marraiges. They shouldn't make gay marriage illegal, they should make divorce illegal." I don't think that'll fix anything either, but I see what she's getting at. heart I love homosexuals! heart Hehe...well, I am one...BUT STILL!
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 9:27 pm
I am pro gay marriage and I agree that everyone deserves the right to free speech and I am ok with people that are against gay marriage IF they can give a good reason why they oppose it... witch they normally can not, so... sweatdrop
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Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 11:03 pm
What really gets to me is when people say that marriage is a religious institution. It is, but it is also a social institution. If it is only religious, why let straight atheists get married. I'm Christian and a lesbian, so the religion card really does not fly with me. The hating skews what Christianity is all about anyway.
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Posted: Tue May 11, 2010 1:54 am
Personally I'm against marriage in general (that includes het/gay/les/and everything in between)
But yeah if two guys or girls do wanna tie the knot then it's their funeral...lol 3nodding
ie got no problem, not my business etc etc
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Posted: Wed May 12, 2010 12:43 pm
I don't really like the idea of marriage, to those who can hold up their marriage I congratulate them, but for me I enjoy relationships not anything super serious. But I don't care if you're straight or gay, it doesn't matter to me: Love is love, and whoever you're willing to share your love with, then by all means enjoy your marriage.
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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 2:10 am
Lady Liverbird I think the government shouldn't have a say in who's to marry whom. It doesn't seem right to me that a government is able to do that, especially in America, when we claim to be a country that practices tolerance and "freedom of religion", when it is mostly religious morals that create restricting laws. It's just very hypocritical. So even if they're not married by the church, homosexual couples should be able to get married legally. This hit the nail on the head
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Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 12:50 pm
I want my religion separate from my politics.
Religion should have nothing to do with what goes on with running the country and it definently shouldn't dictate who is allowed to get married.
How can you vote on other people's rights? That's voting on somones life.
That's not fair at all.
And I bet these people that are against gay marriage and gay people have never even spoken to an out gay person, they try to talk about what the "gay agenda" is yet they don't know ANYTHING.
You wouldn't let a racist white person tell you about black people would you? No, because thats stupid! So why let a homophobic straight person tell you about gay people.
We are normal human beings, many of us without lives, who sit around listening to music and watching tv, not trying to "recruit" your children. It is also sick to compare us to animals and/or say that we will try to marry animals, beastiality is a totally different thing from homosexuality. Beastiality is a fetish whereas homosexuality is not. Our sexuality is apart of our nature, no matter what sexuality that may be.
So in conclusion, their arguments of religion and our "gay agenda" are false and totally irrelevant.
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Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 5:07 pm
 Marriage only being restricted to a man and a woman is showing that the United States government is weakening under the force of religion. That being said, I wouldn't doubt that that law is a sign of a theocracy poking through our secular government, since there is no way to prove that religion is exclusive to heterosexual couples without using any religious terms or texts.
(I feel like a broken record, I've said that in this guild at least twice today)
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