What are your thoughts on gay marriage?

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It doesn't matter to me who gets married to who.

Tim

If gay marriage is legal then polygamy/ polyandry and maybe even brother-sister and cousin marriages should be legal too.

You have any kind of reasoning for this line of thinking? It is one of the most overused malformed arguments against gay marriage, and I'd be interested to see if you could actually explain how you came to that conclusion in a way that isn't completely illogical.

It isn't gonna destroy the universe,so homosexual marriage is appropriate.

I agree. MARRIAGE is between a man and a woman, not between two people of the same gender. I don't care if anyone here bashes me for saying that, but ahayes is right.

definitions change.

lets just ban ALL marriage and just have "civil unions"

i think of marriage as a form of tax evasion

so gay/straight/poly.... meh w/e


if i ever get married, it'll prolly be to make my partner happy (and cause I DO LOVE THEM of course...) it's just not required for me.


and i've always resented that you have to invite your family and such. i've always imagined my wedding as something secret between me and the other person... when i do have such delusions

lol

i just think it's so cute when people of whatever kind hold hands with other people.

make love not war.

The thing about this is we have to remember is that people have justified these kinds of rules for thousands of years for reasons we now find silly, but seemed carved in stone to them at the time. In Russian Monarchy you still can't be considered a direct line descendant who can inherit if even one of your ancestors was not Russian Orthodox and married without dispensation from the Czar. A little over one hundred years ago you could not legally marry a Native American. In Nazi Germany a German could not marry a Jew and previous such marriages were considered void. In the United States, a "white" could not marry a "black" (definition varying by state) in many states until the 1960's. At different times aristocracy could not marry commoners and in fact this is still talked about. This issue has happened with "heretics" and Catholics, Protestant and Catholics, and Muslims and Christians. It's even going on now with Sunni and Shiite Muslims.

At the time, all these distinctions seem inflexible and all of them were said to be divinely ordained. In retrospect, we reject almost all of them out of hand as ludicrous. Sometimes you stand too close to the painting to actually see it the way the artist intended. That's probably why the bible says Judge not, let ye be judged. So, to me, if you want to marry your dog and leave it all your money, I don't care. If God, in whatever form, has an issue with it, he or she can take it up with you. That's not my job and I believe it's called free will for a reason. We all have free will to make our decisions and it's up to divinity in whatever form to take it up with us if we are wrong.

Gay marriage is fine with me.

Being from one of the most GLTB-friendly places in the US (and proudly so, though I myself am straight), my support for gay marriage is pretty much a given.

I think Gay marriage is OK. The term marriage is more a spiritual and religious meaning than a legal meaning. The legal system defines marriage as a civil union on is own merit. Some people say it’s OK to allow a Gay/Lesbian couple to have a civil union but don’t dare call it a “marriage”. What puzzles me is (at least in the US) with the separation of church and state, why are we as a society allowing the “state”/government to define what a marriage is. Shouldn’t it be up to the religious organization that the couple belongs to?

I like what a comedian said once, but can’t remember who is was. His comment went like this: “Yeah, I’m for gay marriage. Why not? They should be just as miserable as the rest of us!!”


-Scott

Possibly, but the latter people just have to keep in mind that the gene pool needs to be diluted now and then for more genetic variation.

Marriage between cousins is already perfectly legal in many (dare I say most?) places in western world.

God created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

I believe that Gay Marriage is immoral and making fun of Matrimony because of how marriage is always between a man and a woman. Why don't they just allow people to marry their cat, that is basically the same thing.