do you think its morally wrong to ban same sex marriages and why?
463021
I think that people should stop condemning other people because of their own beliefs. If what someone else is doing does not physically affect you or any one else, mind your own business. No one person or their religious beliefs run this country, and that is why religion and government can not be mixed and should not be mixed>>>>>>>>>>>>.
242023
Maybe it's because they've never been taught about the consequences.. i mean, so far all i've heard is how we shouldn't stop two people who loved each other from marrying, even if they're the same gender. Or, the relationship is ethically wrong. A majority of people aren't taught about the dangers of it. I don't support this kind of marriage also.. because i was brought up knowing that it ruins the marriage institution (between a man and a woman) and etc. Maybe what you said could come true, but it will take years before others  to open their eyes and see what has happened.
899147
There's nothing wrong with either gay marriage or with abortion. It should only be up to the persons involved whether they participate or not.\n\nMost normal people see that and don't approve of the neocon position against those things.\n\nPlus, in light of all the republican sex scandles lately, they would have hurt themselves even MORE by harping on that.
590125
It is better than adultery and it resolves a lot of problems in case of war when men are dead and there wives still without husbands. But I recognize that is very hard to manage and in Islam it is considered as a special solution for special cases. For example, in the modern societies, extra-conjugal relations are acceptable, same-sex marriages are acceptable too so why they don’t accept this kind of marriage that is more safe and allowed in most religions?
927002
Yes because you are discriminating against a group of people you do not know. You can personally believe *you* shoudn't marry a single parent but to push your values onto every other human being is unkind and wrong.
1058560
I do not have any problem at all with gay marriage.  If two people love each other, and want to commit themselves to each other for the rest of their lives legally, then I think it is okay.  Love is hard enough to find in this world.  Why should people who find love with the same sex be punished and not have the same rights as the rest of us.  \nBy the way, in response to one of the answers, I do believe i am a human being even though I support people's right to get married, even if of the same sexual orientation.
1184019
Yes, and I feel it's a moral issue.  How dare people discriminate against people for something that is in-born in them!\n\nReligion has no place in this argument.  This country was founded on the principal of separation of church and state.  Marriage is a legally recognized contract, and the church should have no say in the matter.  If a church doesn't believe in gay marriage, they don't have to let the gay couple get married in their church.  If individuals don't believe in gay marriage, they shouldn't marry someone of the same sex.
1038289
Alas, we do not have laws banning gay marriage. Yet. With any luck, that will remain true. \n\nI would say that for the most part being against gay marriage is a matter of fearing what you don't understand, and/or being uninformed.
1144778
yes it should be legal, the people that are afriad i twill affect their relationshiops don't have strong relations and fear losing their loved one. RIGHT TO PRESUE HAPPYNESS. Marriage is about love not religon creed or sexual orentition, if you really wanan look at it religously I'd guess that jesus would have hung out wiht the gay guy or girl or the bisexual just like he hung out with the prostitute and blind guy and the guy with lepracy, if theres anyone  who he wouldnt hang with its the guy saying no these arnt people and that they cant live happily and love who they want  to. I'm not even religous I just like to give what i think even catholics and cristians can think cuse I used to be one till I decide I was bisexual ... and I think the only thing needed for marriage is LOVE.
356143
I think that the proposal of the constitutional amendment a while back that would have banned gay marriage is a disgrace to our political system.  There are currently 27 amendments.  Not one TAKES AWAY a right.\n\nIf any given Church wants to refuse to marry same-sex couples they have every right to do so.  They also have the right to refuse to marry people based on religion, race, height, weight and the color of their shirts.  Churches are allowed to discriminate all they want.  They're effectively like private clubs in that regard (I know that many Churches are welcoming of everyone, but they're not legally required to be).\n\nThe government, however, is NOT allowed to discriminate against certain groups.  There is no reason why same-sex couples should not be allowed ot be legally married.  I think we should give same-sex  couples and their children the same rights as everyone else.  Legalizing same-sex marriage wouldn't hurt anyone, but banning it sure would.\n\n__________\njonny: Really?  Which amendment would that be?\n\njdfnv: The legal intitution of marriage has nothing to do with religion.  It may go against the Christian Church (although the issue of homosexuality in the bible is not nearly as simple as people make it out to be) to marry gay couples, and they won't have to.  However, it does NOT go against the principles of the GOVERNMENT.  Last I checked, being married in a courthouse by a justice of the peace had NOTHING to do with the Christian Church.  Furthermore, not all Americans are Christian.  If you're not Christian, you shouldn't be bound by the moral principles of the bible (or misinterpretations of said moral principles).  That's the first amendment.  If your religion recognizes same-sex marriages then in order to protect your first amendment right to freedom of religion the government MUST recognize those marriages as equal to the marriages sanctioned by the Christian Church.  The Bible has no legal standing in the United States of America.
279219
I wouldn't give a damned dime for the "traditional" view of marriage for there is NO good reason that anyone can state that justifies denial of marriages rights to human couples made up of individuals -- same sex or different sex -- who want to accept the responsibilites that come with that package.  This is the 21st century, and it's time to move on and make changes just as with other matters -- civil rights, women voting, age of voting, black and white marriages, Magellan's voyage, C. Columus's voyage, Open heart surgery, space exploration -- and on and on all the changes go due to eradication of myths, acceptance of reason and justice as how we do things now. \n\nGays can make marriage worthy to be admired.\nGays can effectively lead children into adulthood.  \nGays work jobs, own homes, and pay taxes.\nGays perform admirably in uniformed services.\n\nThis is a civil matter, not a religous one.\nThis is a matter of justice.\nThis is a matter of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.\n\nOnly people who choose stupidity, prejudice, bigotry, prideful ignorance, and hypocrisy with human existence over reason, justice, and facts of the real world in which we live would get in the way of Gay Marriages.  Opposition to Gay Marriage is nothing other than sheer insanity.
192672
Yeah it does but most people are scared of changing tradition or thinking outside the box. Gay marriage shouldn't be a matter of morality. It's a matter of rights. Gays have a right to pursuit of happiness like the rest of us. I don't think it's right that the government should say who and who can't be married. That just opens the doors for them to step into other issues that they should stay out of.
70876
One of those above answers is simply rediculous.  Allowing same sex marriage is not an attempt to squelch the religious objections to it.  That post was simply a more tactful way of saying the same thing as those signs that Phelps and his lunatics wave around declaring that, if we're going to be tolerant of others, then we need to tolerate intolerance as well.  That is nonsense.  You have a right to believe what you will, you do NOT have a right to dictate how others live their lives.\n\nThere is a great difference between allowing same-sex marriage and attempting to squelch some church-goer's complaints about it.  Is it so hard for people to go about their own lives?  What could POSSIBLY be wrong with allowing same-sex marriage?
1119301
Probably the same reason a lot of US states won't.  They say it's wrong because God created man and woman to be together.  and the devil created homosexuality.  People in general just don't accept things that they don't understand and what they have been taught and always have thought was wrong.  I think if two people love eachother who cares.  Does the governor or all these protestors or the judge of the courthouse have to go to the wedding or go to their house?  NO they don't.  I think there are bigger issues than this that states and countries should worry about.  This shouldn't even be an issue.  Its not fair that when two people of the same sex want to get married they get a protest outside their wedding but if two people who have a 60 year difference want to get married they can without any problems from the outside world...Its just sad to think that a 80 yr old man can marry a 20 yr old woman and its ok, even though the woman is only marrying him for his money but two people, of the same sex...which shouldn't even matter, who love eachother want to make a commitment to one another the entire world thinks its their right to come in between it just because God says its not right.  Let God do His job and they should do theirs.\n**by the way I'm not a lesbian...I'm married to a man**
187875
It's idiotic to outlaw marriage for a group of people.  And turning it into a word game of "defining" marriage to be only between differently-gendered people is obviously an attempt to do that without the honesty to acknowledge it.\n\nThe idea that the government has to encourage hetero marriage to perpetuate the species is obviously crazy.  The species has always perpetuated itself, including during the vast majority of human history when marriage didn't exist at all.  Anyway, it's not like gay marriage is going to lure anybody away from a healthy hetero marriage.\n\nAnd if you think gay people are Hell-bound, great.  Why interfere?  They're obviously only going to be marrying each other.
654402
I agree.  Women should also be able to marry multiple men.  This is just the legislation of morality, and there is no victim, as long as the participants are all of legal age.  We have legalized a lot of other things (such as domestic partners and sodomy), and there is no real reason in my mind for this last holdout.  If you are going to legalize some of it, you might was well legalize it all.
691592
i havent read all the responses to this ques so sorry for any over lapping ideas.\ni am of the opinion that being attracted to the same sex is the most natural thing, and man woman marriage is a part of conditioning. well now that may be refuted. but marriage, relation or watever is a very personal choice. its like telling someone publically not to wear a bra but continue with a breif! i mean its ones choice whether he/she wants to b with a man a woman or both. if any one tries to stop this sort of personal desire or right, they are coming in the way of a person's regular life - and that my dear friends is the very basic threat to all our natural, basic and fundamental rights. this is the root cause of a lot of evil, disharmony and unhappiness to many people. live and let live. support those who want to b with people of their own sex. its healthy for them as well as people around them. being gay is like saying i'm happy, why come in someone's way of happiness? \nso yes...ultimatum - lesbian/gay marriages should be supported ad not banned. everyone has the right to a happy pesonal life that is spent in the loving wake of the one they chose to loose their heart to.