Marriage Vs Marriage.. A question

[Great-Kazoo]

56 and do not care. Your life style you enjoy it.
I use the same context for gun owners when the opposing team starts their shit.
So you feel human beings should be able to choose their life style
OT: Why yes everyone should be able to enjoy what they believe in.
Me: Great now explain to me again why same sex couples have a right to enjoy themselves. BUT as a gun owner i cannot because you don't agree with my life style choices? Bit hypocritical there you are. As always they get quiet and wander away.

[beast556]

I think as with everything now a days the liberal media is blowing this whole gay marriage thing out of controll and feeding lots of fule to the fire. Every one I talk with could give 2 shits about gay marriage. Stop wasting our tax money on this stupid shit and move on and let them get married who gives a shit, this isint 1940.

[Ronin13]

Ok, I've given this some thought and have devised the end all be all point to this whole thing.

Show of hands, who here thinks America should be under Sharia Law? I see none, great. So with that in mind, do you think it would be beneficial to deny people something based on a religious belief via the law? How is Christian-inspired law any different from Sharia law? When you legislate religious morals you step into the mud of tyranny- that's an idea introduced by Thomas Jefferson (I don't know the exact quote so I paraphrased it). There are religious ideas that clash with each other, look at Hindi vs Judaism, one says cows are sacred, the other says don't eat pork- but then you have the Protestants that can eat both, and then they go home and have a little fireman time, but oops, the Catholics get riled up because "every seed is sacred." See the conflict? Best to keep religion out of my government and my government out of religion.

[Great-Kazoo]

Best to keep religion out of my government and my government out of religion

Keep the .gov AND religion out of the bedroom, In fact stay the fuk out of my house & life, unless i specifically ask you for help.

[Mr_RoP]

This is a non-issue in my eyes. I don't care about same gender marriage as it will not effect my marriage. If you can find happiness in a marriage then go for it. People will say it is nothing more that gay activism masking itself as civil rights. I guess my only issue would be if there where children involved. It might just be my own ignorance here but has there been any studies on the effects of a gay marriage on children of that marriage? I would hope that there is no issue there. I guess in general, I dont care about what two adults deceide to do but I do care if those actions are detremental to a child.

[kanekutter05]

Ok, I've given this some thought and have devised the end all be all point to this whole thing.

Show of hands, who here thinks America should be under Sharia Law? I see none, great. So with that in mind, do you think it would be beneficial to deny people something based on a religious belief via the law? How is Christian-inspired law any different from Sharia law? When you legislate religious morals you step into the mud of tyranny- that's an idea introduced by Thomas Jefferson (I don't know the exact quote so I paraphrased it). There are religious ideas that clash with each other, look at Hindi vs Judaism, one says cows are sacred, the other says don't eat pork- but then you have the Protestants that can eat both, and then they go home and have a little fireman time, but oops, the Catholics get riled up because "every seed is sacred." See the conflict? Best to keep religion out of my government and my government out of religion.

I'll even one up you there...how about we leave it up to the state governments? There doesn't have to be a federal law, just leave it up to the states. If a state wants to legalize gay marriage, then great. If you don't want to live somewhere where gay marriage is legal, then just move. I realize it's not as cut and dry as that in practical application, but really if it bothers you that much then moving would become a priority. If you really want to live in a state that has laws on the books that reflect Biblical (or Muslim or Jewish or Buddist or Hindu) principles, then move to one that is willing to do that.

[bellavite1]

Equal legal and civil rights yes.
Marriage no: these days of common-law union one does (or should) get married only for the traditional value of it.
Nothing traditional about same sex marriage.

[T-Giv]

Equal legal and civil rights yes.
Marriage no: these days of common-law union one does (or should) get married only for the traditional value of it.
Nothing traditional about same sex marriage.

That I agree with. If they want to have their union for tax and insurance purposes so be it but they should not be married.

[Ronin13]

Never in human history has there been so much controversy of the mislabeling of a word. The way I see it, and it should be this way- Marriage = You, and man/woman you're engaged to (opposite sex) goes before a preacher/priest/rabbi/imam/whatever and before the eyes of [your God here] and witnesses and becomes a union of two people. Civil Union = same as marriage only legal in the eyes of the government and no religious affiliation at all. Man and woman need both, gays need only the latter. Done! Problem solved we can all dance around the campfire singing kumbaya!

[Rucker61]

Never in human history has there been so much controversy of the mislabeling of a word. The way I see it, and it should be this way- Marriage = You, and man/woman you're engaged to (opposite sex) goes before a preacher/priest/rabbi/imam/whatever and before the eyes of [your God here] and witnesses and becomes a union of two people. Civil Union = same as marriage only legal in the eyes of the government and no religious affiliation at all. Man and woman need both, gays need only the latter. Done! Problem solved we can all dance around the campfire singing kumbaya!

I thought about this earlier and came up with "church-marriage" and "court-marriage".