Should gay marriages be outlawed???
143265
10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage is Wrong  \n\n\n01) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.\n\n02) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.\n\n03) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.\n\n04) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.\n\n05) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.\n\n06) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.\n\n07) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.\n\n08) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.\n\n09) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.\n\n10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.
170197
No.  If pseudo-religious zealots so disapprove of gay marriage then they should probably abstain from marrying people of their same genders.  That's all the power they should have under the law or otherwise--the power to manage their own behavior and the behavior of the minor children.  Any further commitment by the federal government is an  unconstitutional involvement in organized religion.\n\nAnd by the way, I happen to be a straight man who believes in protecting privacy from religious posers.
107314
Why not?  But the churches will still publicly fight it just for calling it marriage.  I say let people do what they want and just fix the issue with the benefits problem so it's not abused, and totally ignore the churches just like they totally ignore facts and science and other opinions.
570712
I personally think that anyone who wants to get married should!  To me, the what happens behind closed doors should remain behind closed doors and I do not think that any judicial system should have the right to say if it is wrong or right!
198559
YES! YES! NO!\n\nI don't understand this witch hunt that seems to be going on against gays.  And that's what it is... they get one right taken away after another... after the 'ban of marriage' succeeded, now, people are going after their right to adopt children.  What's next?!  Their right to breathe our air?!\n\nThis is a huge hot spot with me. I'm not gay, but I believe in EVERYONEs rights.  They aren't criminals, they have a different life style, and they should not be punished for that.  I mean, they can't help the way they feel... that's just the way you are born.  And WHAT HARM is it doing anyone if they get married, or adopt children?  It's actually doing the adopted child a favor, they'll have a loving family.  A lot of times gay couples will adopt children that other (straight) couples won't adopt because they're too old, or have behavioral problems or what not.  Are we going to punish this child by making them NOT have a home until they are old enough to go off on our own, JUST so we can punish someone for being gay?\n\nAnd as far as I know, the children that they have would NOT be confused.  They'd be well adjusted, and learn to be more TOLERANT towards others who are different.\n\nI could go on for a while about this, but I won't.  I'm afraid to see what all the other answers will be though... sigh.\n\n(but I just submitted and looked at other responses and was so far pleasantly surprised.  Thanks guys!)
121341
I'm not really sure if marriage is a federal issue right now.  It will be a federal issue if the right-wingers get their way and change the Constitution.\n\nIt will be legal on a state by state basis when enough people realize that the only real argument against it is of a religious nature and that there is a constitutional separation of church and state.\n\nThink about it, gay people should have the same rights as every other American and allowing them to be legally married would harm no one!
1087413
I think its' ok. Look at it like this. If gays are allowed to marry, some will want to adopt and have a family just like everyone else. They dont mind adopting the children that others dont want. If abortion is made illegal, there will be a huge increase in children being given up, right? Who's going to adopt those children? Gays dont 'raise children gay'. There has been many studies on this. They are actually less rigid and judgemental to the children they care for, probably because they were given hell by their own parents. Most children raised by gays turn out straight. This makes sense cause only 3-10% of the population is born gay and gay people dont generally 'recruit'. Banning gay marriage is just like the Jim Crow laws of the last century. It is discrimination and bigotry. The problem is that gays are only a small percentage of the population. Even if every single one of them marched to make their voice heard, it would be dwarved by the Civil Rights marches of past days. Is it ok to bigot against them just because they are too small a minority to force change? Look into the other reasons for gay marriage, like your gay partner being able to make medical decisions for you in emergencies, power of Attorney, inheriting property or estate, funeral decisions. These people are mostly in commited loving relationships that last for many decades, but when a crisis happens they are pushed aside, have no right to decide care for their lover, can be called to testify against their partner, can be shoved aside by the sick ones family.
231122
Gay marriage is absolutely a civil rights issue.  By preventing any two consenting adults from marrying, solely because of their homosexuality, you are discriminating against them.  It is unfair for gay couples to be prevented from marrying.  \nA common argument (of fundamentalists) is that since a gay couple cannot naturally reproduce, they should not be allowed to marry. But many straight couples cannot naturally reproduce either. Another common argument is that gay marriage will promote pedophilia. Statistically, most pedophiles are straight white males. \nGay marriage does not affect anyone but the couple themselves. It will not "turn" anyone gay. It will give couples equal rights to insurance, shared property, and the same rights as a heterosexual married couple.  \nWhile each of us has the right to our own personal belief about whether or not homosexuality is, as you said, an "abomination", we do not have the right to force our personal beliefs on others in such a way as would affect their lives and happiness permanently.  \nAfter all, if someone told you you could not marry solely because you were straight, I imagine you would be upset. Straight may be normal to you and I; but to gay couples, being gay is their reality.
1112316
The theory that gay marriage is wrong because it somehow threatens male-female marriage is a crock of shite.  Tradition is no reason to continue a practice.  To say that we should prohibit gays from marrying because we have not allowed it up til now and marriage has traditionally be between a man and a woman it no different that that standard answer your parents gave you when you asked why you could not eat your dessert first -- "because we say so."  Makes no sense.  It offers no logic.  Guess what else is tradition -- traditionally we don't let jews play at our golf courses.  And traditionally we don't let blacks marry whites (there were actually laws on the book in most states, so it went beyond tradition, it was the law).  Traditionally, children slept on their stomaches, until the scientists told us that the chances of SIDS skyrocketed when an infant doesn't sleep on its back.  So don't give me that tradition garbage.  We don't continue doing things just because that how it has always been done.  The american people deserve better than that -- we deserve to know how it benefits the overall society.  The bottomline is that monogomy and marital committment is a major benefit to modern society, whether it is between opposite sexes or the same sexes.
81509
Absolutely. I'm married and am hetero. And I think ANYONE (with certain AGE exclusions of course) should be able to marry ANYONE else. What is the freakin problem with that? Are people afraid that gay couples are going to multiply and spread their "disease" across America? That's total crap.\n\nNOBODY can come up with a rational, intelligent reason why gays should not be allowed to marry, Most people's sorry-arse theories include something like, "Well if gays can marry...WHAT NEXT, cats and Pygmies? The abolishment of polygamy laws???"\n\nLive and let live, America! Stop being so spineless and narrow-minded.
330580
GOOD BYE "LAUNCH".  I believe that same sex marriages should be outlawed by the Supreme Court.  And since Conservatives now have a majority on the bench I believe it will happen.
147167
no it should not be legalized. Marriage is between a man and a woman. What you want to be with someone of the same sex that is fine. But to get the same benefits that married men and women get is in my opinion not right. This is sending the wrong message to our children. It's in the bible" a man should not lay with another man ". That;'s gotta say something!
42528
I'm a gay man and i don't know if i'll ever get married or not but i would like to have the option to. Outlawing gay marriage is just like forceing tens of thousands of natives to live on reservations, just like after Pearl Harbour all those Japanese familys put into "interment camps", hell its even kinda like that thing we had, i can't remember what it was called, but i think we might have gone into CIVIL WAR BECAUSE OF IT......Oh yeah SLAVERY. The only differnce between a Slave circa 1850 and a gay Man or Woman circa 2006 is that the slaves were forced to work. This is suppost to be a religious free state, but all of these "leaders" are shoving their religion down americas gullets. What has happened to countries that have an offical state religion, must of them are in turmoil. YOU telling me that i can't marry a man is the same as me saying that ur wife or husband or whore or mistress whatever (Christians, right!)can not give u oral sex or u can not ejaculate or orgasm. It's pathetic. RAINBOW POWER!!!!
860865
You definately picked the right place to ask your question!!!\n\nI don't see how the government has any right to say whether or not a gay couple should be married.  The institue of marriage is religous and therefore it should be up to the institue that will perform the ceremony to decide if they wish to do it or not.  If I decided I wanted to spend the rest of my life with a woman I wouldn't go to, say, a Catholic church and expect the priest to marry us.  What IS wrong though, is that there are Christian communities that support the idea of gay marriage and cannot perform the ceremony because it is against the law and America won't honor it.\n\nWhat I don't get is why everyone says that if two people of the same sex get married religous fanatics say that it will disturb the sanctity of marriage... meanwhile Britney Spears can get drunk with a friend, have Elvis marry her, and then have it anulled the next day.  I'm not saying that all people who are gay are perfect because truth-be-told, we are still human.  Us as a society has changed so much that with divorce at such a high rate the "sanctity" of marriage has already been dissolved.\n\nIn the constitution it says every man has rights and freedoms... our freedom to marry whomever we choose and our right to do is not present.  It really feels like the government is going against it's own rights for thier own personal, conservative beliefs.  How, in a "free" country, can a government tell certain citizens "We won't give you the opportunity to get married"?  Isn't that grounds for discrimination?  Ask any older black person how the term "seperate but equal" works...\n\nIf one man has been with another for decades and one dies the other has no right to the estate.  How would that make you feel when you not only are morning the loss of lover but will now lose your house because you weren't married?  Gays also have no say in keeping thier partner on life support or not for the same reason.  \n\nIf a gay couple also wants to adopt a child it is also harder.  For the amount of neglected, hungry, and orphaned children in this country, adoption agencies should jump at the chance of anyone wanting to adopt a child.  They do background checks and interviews to see if the place where the child will potentially go is a safe, loving, and healthy environment.  There are agencies that won't even allow a gay person or couple to adopt a child no matter financially stable or loving the household is.\n\nWhat I believe is that since gays are now "coming out of our closets" and standing up for ourselves, is an improvement in society.  When a people can join together and be proud and powerful, that's where the improvement is.  All the gay bashers and hateful people have nothing better to do than try to make life more difficult than life already is.  We have people in this country that are dieing on the street, we have kids with drug problems in middle school, and the thing that they decide to put all thier energy into is stopping same sex marraige?  People with backward beliefs like that are what is slowing down the advancement in our American Society.\n\nThe only way I will change my mind is if marriage is taken away all together.  If straight people will let it go then I will too, because to me marriage is about love and commitment not the involvement of opposite sex organs.\n\nMy name is Christine, I live in NY, I am a bi female and you can quote me on anything and everything I said becuase it needs to be known...
65621
I feel gay marriage will be abused just like any other law *permitting something*. Friends will marry to share in financial and tax benefits, they will marry out of a joke. For example me and my friend Mike were waiting for marriage to open up in our state and be the first married same-sex couple in school (highschool at the time). So as much as there are serious issues with gay marriage it will be abused but should still be granted.
1103199
In response to Pieceo..whatever, are you comparing gay men and women to monkeys?  You probably don't think Americans of African descent should be allowed to vote either huh?  Our present government is a fascist regime that feels the need to micromanage its subjects.\nCivil unions are not an exceptable substitute.  Why?  Because they do not come with the tax breaks and financial advantages that marriage does.\nPeople say that the "sanctity of marriage" should not be tainted by gay love.  I challenge that.  I think that the "sanctity of marriage " is tainted by people who are abusive, and in loveless marriages because society says you should not get a divorce, or society says you should be married by a certain age.  Isn't love the basis for marriage?  To have and to hold for better or for worse?  What part of those vows can a homosexual not fulfill?  \nBIG BREATH. okay, I need to stop ranting now.  sorry  Oh and by the way, the reason people first came to live in this great country was to get away from oppression, because there ARE countries that are much worse.  Let us never forget this is the Land of the FREE and Home of the Brave.\nI'm really done now.
124540
My view is this: If two people want to be married, fine go ahead and it doesn't matter if they are gays or not! But also they should know if they get divorced or have kids they should have the same rights as everyone else! Not because they gay or straight they should be able to take the responsibilities of what they law says it's accordance to the law!