Give me example why gay marriage brings down  a nation?
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"I want to marry my dog"\nOk there's your example.  It is a slippery slope argument.  The institution of marriage was intended to be a sacred bond between one man and one woman.  What happens when you go outside of that?  The next step is polygamy.  Why shouldn't a man marry his favorite 12 women?  Let's take it farther: Why shouldn't a man marry a young boy, if the boy is consenting?  Why shouldn't beastiality be acceptable to the government as legit?  What about incest?  Why shouldn't a woman be allowed to marry a tree?\n\nThe danger is the cheapening of marriage and making a mockery of it.  This breeds apathy, which is what brought down the Roman Empire.
298235
No.  The federal government is currently run by morons who are afraid to legitimize gay marriage because they are under the dilusion that it might somehow impact the Church (even though the religious and legal institutions of marriage are totally and completely separate and any Chuch can refuse to marry anyone they want for any reason they want).  Same-sex partnerships essentially have no legal status in the US, so their existence is virtually irrelevent to the immigration process.  It's not fair but that's the way it is.
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.
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"The 14th amendment to the US Constitution applies equally to both gay and straight citizens.  Thus, the government does not have the right to enact laws that ban marriage between individuals based on their sexual orientation."\n\nThe 14th also bans states from enacting laws that restrict civil liberties.  Many people argue that marriage is a civil liberty.  \n\nYou can continue with the fact that we do not live in a Theocracy and under the theory of separation of church and state within the Establishment Clause (1st amendment - US Constitution) the government also has no right to impose the Biblical will of the church on the citizenry.  \n\nChurches are free to define marriage within their own systems and can certainly decline to marry same sex couples.  The government should be required to maintain a non-religious marriage system that is open and applies equally to all.
157027
I personally think gay marriage is good.  People get married all the time, why shouldn't they be allowed to?  It's a personal choice and doesn't hurt anyone any more than it would if I got married.  It may even lower the divorce rate,since they tend to stay together longer than most straight couples, at elast from my experience.  The thing I found most ironic is Elton John went to England to get married.  Didn't we fight for freedom from England to be allowed to have our own lifestyles without persecution?  Then why ccan't gay couples have more than commencement ceremonies and enjoy the legal and financial benefits that come with any marriage?  I really don't have any information on why a gay couple shouldn't get married, Sorry.
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If gay people are allowed to marry, more of them will be encouraged to spawn and reproduce gay children, eventually killing off the human race.\n\nWhatever. It doesn't matter who the next guy gets married to.\n\nI think it's silly that a lot of people use the Bible to support their facts. But maybe the Bible was written by some geniuses after all. I mean... if gay people were allowed to marry, then their divorce rate added with the heterosexual divorce rate would result in a higher cummulative divorce rate, right? And with the divorce rate as high as it currently is, it's really difficult to keep marriage sacred! =P
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Who knows why our country's doing anything it's doing. I agree with you completely. I'm sorry that you and your partner, as well as all other homosexuals, cannot show your love by marrying one another. Love is love. I don't think it matters if you're a man loving a man, a woman loving a woman, or a man loving a woman. If your heart is true you should be able to get married. Bottom line. I hope that you and your partner will one day have the same rights as the rest of us. And that this prejudice will end; to any degree it can.
1161209
ha ha h ha\n\nstop gays from marrying! stop straights from divorcing!\n\nhow bout, 'it's none of your business!'
667906
Gay marriages should not be allowed
162359
The destruction of the traditional family.  Too many divorces and too many children born out of wedlock.
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.
1101811
Doesnt seem that we have ruined marriage without the help of gay marriage. Look at the divorce rate...could be possibly screw it up anymore. Maybe gay marriage might actually benefit the divorce rate.
1030879
i  dont   get  the  whole  thing,  about   giving  gays,  such  a   hard  time  about  getting   married. this   country  has   gone  to   the  dogs. it   has   no   morals,  anything   goes. the  way  i   look  at   it  is,  as   long  as  its   not   hurting  anybody, its   not   going  to   cost   us   anything. whats  wrong  with   it?our  goverment  has   no    problem   with   keeping  up  all  these  illegals  up,  to  me  thats  worst  than,  letting   gays   get   married. but  what  do  i   know,  i  just  work  and  pay   taxes?
223697
Yes it does.  Some people refuse to open their minds to any lifestyle that does not fit their own.  Look at all the states that added anti gay marriage legislation to their state constitutions.   People should live and let live.
550952
who cares i try not to judge others and church is all about money.  as for same sex marriages why did the pres. ban that because he is a babling idoit i say if you love some one and want to make that decision you should be able to. i thought this was a free country
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People seem to think if gay marriages occur it will somehow ruin the sanctity of the institution.  They also seem to think the ethics of the world will go to pot.  I think that's crap, though.  Straight people have been ruining marriage for years.  And, homosexuality is there, marriage or not, it won't increase the amount of gay people or anything like that.
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. . You are witnessing the degeneration that happens to all Nations before there fall. \n  If gay marriage is legalized, why can't a brother marry his sister? ? After all, you who claim gay marriage is okay, what gives you the right to oppose  two brothers, are a brother-sister marriage?  You went wrong when you created your own ethics. If right and wrong are merely what you esteem it to be, What ever gives you the right to oppose others, on anything,without being a intolerant bigot yourself? Is your opinion more worthy than theirs Are, are you just arrogant enough to think yours is,and theirs is not. Situational ethics is a train wreck. There has always been right and wrong, good, and evil. God told mankind what was right, and wrong. The U.S.A. is slipping into degeneracy. Marriage is what it has always been. All through history, marriage has been between a man and woman.  That is the very definition of marriage.