Do you approve?

[Fox-Gal]

Originally posted by Karen

The topic of this post is a complex issue. I believe heterosexual people should hold marriage as sacred as they are screaming anout it being. If so, our divorce rate would not be so sky-high.

Ditto.

Divorce is to easy now days. When you hear people saying "If it doesn't work out, I'll just get a divorce" then the meaning of marriage have been lost some where. You should never start a marriage planing for your way out.

As for the topic at hand, I'm all for it. No human has the right to deny anyone the same rights we enjoy, just because they are so called "different". What kind of people would that make us, to say "We are better then you and intill you conform to our way of thinking, you will not have the same rights as us." And that is more our less what we are saying to them when we take away their right to marry.

[PUPGIRL]

Personally, at first I thought it was okay, but then I thought about it more deeply. When I think of marriage, I think of kids, and gay and lezbians cannot have kids. Well they can adopt right? Yes, they can adopt, but that child will be made fun of severly all through it's childhood and maybe adulthood. I do not support homosexual marriages at all.

[Kfamr]

I support them 100%.

I don't understand why some people think so badly or are against it. It's not hurting them personally, it's not stopping them from living, and it's certainly NOT hurting anyone. They just have some mental issues, IMO, if they want to stop two people of the same sex from owning a piece of paper saying they love each other.


I've heard some religious people say it's because 'God' doesn't approve of it, well let 'God' decide what's going to happen in the end, and let people live their own lives.


Personally, if I fall in love with another female, NOTHING is ever going to stop me from loving that individual.

[mugsy]

The legislating of morality IS what this is about and a lot of conservatives feel that marriage should be traditional..between a man and a woman...well, like Karen said, how sacred is it really when 50% of marriages end in divorce? Most committed gay couples I know are a lot happier than some heterosexual couples. Now, I realize that is a severe overgeneralization, but, I think you get what I'm saying. I would rather see a kid raised by a gay couple that was committed and loving than in a home with heterosexual parents who scream at each other or worse...obviously, in our society, it would be preferable to have kids raised by a committed heterosexual couple because of the harrassment the kids face, but....

[wolf_Q]

I agree with others in that the sanctity of marriage is pretty much already lost with such a high divorce rate.

The whole idea of homosexuality kind of weirds me out, and it's something I would never do. However, I don't see how we have the right to tell a person who they can and cannot fall in love with. As Twisterdog said, it's like the Jim Crow laws saying that a black person could not marry a white person. It's just stupid for the society as a whole to decide how love works. How is a homosexual marriage going to harm a heterosexual marriage?

[ILoveReptiles]

Originally posted by PUPGIRL
Personally, at first I thought it was okay, but then I thought about it more deeply. When I think of marriage, I think of kids, and gay and lezbians cannot have kids. Well they can adopt right? Yes, they can adopt, but that child will be made fun of severly all through it's childhood and maybe adulthood. I do not support homosexual marriages at all.

So I guess by your definition, when I marry my Boyfriend, even though we're a heterosexual couple, we don't want kids. So our marriage isn't going to be valid, huh?

[clara4457]

Whether you agree with homosexuality or not within your own moral code - having the government dictate that moral code to individuals is abhorent to me.

[CathyBogart]

Originally posted by PUPGIRL
Personally, at first I thought it was okay, but then I thought about it more deeply. When I think of marriage, I think of kids, and gay and lezbians cannot have kids. Well they can adopt right? Yes, they can adopt, but that child will be made fun of severly all through it's childhood and maybe adulthood. I do not support homosexual marriages at all.

SO my marriage to my fiancee will count for nothing because we don't plan to add to the overpopulation problem?!? Gee thanks.

If this is the case, please PM me, I have many more words for you.

[Foam]

Bush is a....well yeah.
I think you should have the right to marry whom you love. Who cares about sex, color, race, whatever? It's your buisness, not the world's.

[wolf_Q]

I don't think having kids is necessary to have a marriage at all.

I also don't think just because the kids parents are married and heterosexual they will necessarily be happier and better taken care of. There's bad situations that happen in every kind of family.

[wolfsoul]

I'm 100% for gay marraiges. They are going to be together anyways. I don't think a contract of marraige will really make a difference.

People say that God doesn't like it. Well, if there really is a God, and He made the earth, and He made the people...then He shouldn't complain that He made some of his people gay. That is my honest opinion. Some peope will say that people are not born homosexual. Well, scientific evidence is starting to say otherwise. I watched a video where they took several different types of animals and put them all under severe stress while they were pregnant. When the babies were born, the males' testosterone levels were significantly lowered, and the same with the females' estrogen levels. It's actually really interesting stuff.

My brother's friend has two parents who are lesbians. My mom was talking to me about it, and my brother goes "Austin has TWO mommies?! Boy, is he lucky!"

[Fox-Gal]

Originally posted by PUPGIRL
Personally, at first I thought it was okay, but then I thought about it more deeply. When I think of marriage, I think of kids, and gay and lezbians cannot have kids. Well they can adopt right? Yes, they can adopt, but that child will be made fun of severly all through it's childhood and maybe adulthood. I do not support homosexual marriages at all.

If their children are made fun of it's only from closed minded peole and so if we stop looking at it with a closed mind that won't be a problem any more. Right?

It's the same as children from mixed races, years ago we made fun of them. Now today it doesn't happen as offen and in time it wont be a problem at all. It's up us as a whole to change our way of thinking and accept everyone as who they are and what ever background they came from. Don't deny a child a loving home just because their parents might be gay, single etc.

[wolfsoul]

Originally posted by Fox-Gal
Don't deny a child a loving home just because their parents might be gay, single etc.

I agree. The parents' sexual status is not important -- the child's loving home and family is what's really important. If we support same-sex marraiges, soon society will become accustomed to homosexuals, and children who have gay or lesbian parents will not be made fun of.

[Twisterdog]

Originally posted by PUPGIRL
Personally, at first I thought it was okay, but then I thought about it more deeply. When I think of marriage, I think of kids, and gay and lezbians cannot have kids. Well they can adopt right? Yes, they can adopt, but that child will be made fun of severly all through it's childhood and maybe adulthood. I do not support homosexual marriages at all.

Soooo ... if a heterosexual couple choose not to have children, then you would say their marriage is not valid? What about a heterosexual couple that try to have children, but one partner is sterile? What about a homosexual couple, where one or both partners were married before, in a heterosexual marriage, and have biological children? Linking children to marriage is outdated, hurtful and ridiculous.

I personally think it would far, far better for a child to grow up with two loving, kind, educated parents, even if they are of the same sex ... than to grow up with some of the pathetically trashy, inadequate and abusive heterosexual parents I've seen.

Children are teased for all sorts of things ... their weight, their height, their intelligence, how much money their parents have, what their names are, the brand of shoes they wear, if they wear glasses, the street they live on, etc., etc., etc. Teasing, sadly, is a very real part of childhood. What if two overweight heterosexual people decide to have a child? Should they not have children, because someday some other kid might tease them about having fat parents?

Every generation is more tolerant than their parents generation. Small children today do not seem to be nearly as bothered or affected by homosexuality as their parents and grandparents. As it should be. People of my generation never blinked an eye or thought twice about inter-racial relationships or bi-racial children ... but to our parents and grandparents it was practically, or literally, a crime.

[moosmom]

Quoted by Mugsy:

Most committed gay couples I know are a lot happier than some heterosexual couples.

I would rather see a kid raised by a gay couple that was committed and loving than in a home with heterosexual parents who scream at each other or worse

I agree with Mugsy. Personally, I think everyone has the right to live their lives the way they want to, as long as they don't hurt anyone else. Homosexuality is NOT going away. And the government has no business dictating how people should live their lives.

Speaking of which, Rosie O'Donnell married her partner last Thursday.