Top 17 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is Wrong

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You know, I've never been a fan of state-endorsed marriage. Normally I'd be against gay marriage (but also against straight marriage ) with the argument that it should be a purely spiritual institution. However, I feel as long as the state endorses straight marriage, it is required to endorse gay marriage.

Churches, being separate from the government, can ban gay marriage all they want, but the government does not serve any one faith, so they must respect all lifestyles (within legal boundaries, as previous posters have mentioned).

I don't have any problem with gay marriage. Doesn't bother me.

I think people that ague against gay marriage etc, probably have homosextual tendencies and they are affraid to face up to them.

Lienda, I think what freaked Griff out was that one of the early posters, iamnotaparakeet, did cite "natural law" - that is, he claimed that human sexual organs were "obviously" designed for one and only one form of mating, derived from that a claim that using them in any other fashion was "immoral", then treated both assumptions as axioms, not needing proof.

Problem with that is that natural laws are called that because they are part of nature, woven into the very fabric of the universe, and are thus inviolable. Gravity is universally attractive; this is a natural law. Nothing can go faster than light in an Einsteinian plenum; this is a natural law. When free hydrogen and free oxygen are placed in close proximity and left to themselves, they will combine to make water; this is a natural law. You can interfere with the functioning of some laws with the application of others (using Bernoulli's principle and thrust to temporarily overcome gravitation, for instance), but none of the laws need enforcement, because, as they are natural, you can't break them.

It becomes plain, then, that if a "law" can be violated, it is not a "natural law", but either a misunderstanding of nature or a law of men. Same-sex preference tends to be selected against evolutionarily, but some studies indicate that the genetic complex leading to male homosexuality is probably carried in the mother's genes, thus it may not be eliminated by evolution. (In some species, in fact, it can provide a benefit. Among wolves, for instance, only the pack alpha gets to mate while he's present, so when a female goes into heat, the lower males must relieve their stresses with each other. Bonobo chimpanzees use all manner of sexual relations for group-bonding - among them, strict heterosexuality would result in ejection from the troop, and a single bonobo won't last long. Male dolphins use same-sex contact as a dominance game - the one who assumes the position generally held by a female during mating has submitted to the authority of the other one.)

ahhh. Me see, my bad. *bows to deaconblues* I heareth thee, oh wise one.

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One thing is wrong in list when it said greece and rome gay sex happend in greece and rome alot and their is nothing wrong with that. If gays want to get married well good for them I belive marrige in genral is unatural do animals have fedelity no they do has many has possible for the survival. that an state sponsore marriage isn't evil because i am an athiest and I don't want to get married in a church. That I thank deconblue for mention to hated evengelical radicals trying to take away our right and increase the intensity of our therorcacy. That and since hitler i am pretty sure its a little bit eaiser to get into heaven if their is a bar because getting into heaven is like limbo and hitler raised the bar so only people who did somthing really horrible is condemned to hell like george w bush will be.

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8. Wrong. Too large a percentage of the American population accounts for intolerant facists and religious nutjobs. No offence intended. Unless you are an intolerant facist or a religious nutjob.

7. Wrong. In what way would straight marriage be any less meaningful if homosexual marriage were allowed?

6. You say we are uppity? It seems to me like society is too uppity to admit that a civil partnership is just the same as a marriage. Stop beating about the bush and call it what it is.

2. From the moment I met Max, I fell in love with him. I have an instinctive desire to be with someone I love. If that isn't natural, I don't know what is.

5, 4, 3 &1. Sigh... so transparent. Pathetic, in fact. You couldn't think of any more legitimate arguments and decided to throw in some un-funny and/or offensive jokes. None of which would be worthwhile criticizing.

OP, if you posted this because you agree with it then you sir, obviously suffer from BCDD (brain cell deficit disorder). However, if you posted this in the hope that it would fall prey to ridicule, congratulations - you succeded! And wasted an hour of my life.

Hmmmm. The thread was started 4 years ago! A few posts in someone states the facebook thing was a parody anyway.