How can we stop from legalizing gay marriage.?
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Trust me, sometimes I feel the same way, but you cannot discriminate or make people feel less a person because of your own feelings.
243044
Because we are just not there yet.  Change takes time.  Women did not used to be able to vote, have bank accounts, own land.  Bi-racial marriages were illegal and now they are not.  Gay marriage will be legal someday.
294918
Ban religion would be about the only way.  Then you have a chance.
785967
Wouldn't it be easier to just allow gay marraige instead of thinking up ways from keeping us from getting married?  What is the big deal?  Straight people get divorced everyday and everyday someone gets drunk, married by Elvis, and anulled the next day.  Us as a society has already disturbed the "sanctity" of marrige, this still might happen with gays because we are all human, but if straights are allowed to have the opportunity to do it why can't gays? \n\nMarraige has to do with your religion, therefore it should be a religous decision not a political one.  It should really be up to the person preforming the ceromony but I doubt a priest will ever be allowed to perform a gay marraige in America.\n\nUnless you're in the situation or know someone who is there is really no way of knowing or feeling what two people of the same sex have to go through to gain extra rights towards one another.  You have to get lawyers and make your partner the person in control when you die.  It's so much messier and so much longer  and it still doesn't feel the same because your not being recognized as a lover you are being recognized as just another person... that's what the real issue is about to me.\n\n**And to people pushing YOUR religous beliefs on everyone, you're not going to have anyone wanting to go to church with you when you act like that**
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go  ahead,  do  what  ever  you   want  to,  all  the  rest  of   you  do.and  nobody  can  seem  to   do   any  thing   about   it.or  they   wont.so   eat   drink   and   be   merry,  sell    drugs,  rape   ,  steal,  this  is   america,  our   goverment  will   protect you,  and   our   laws   only  apply  to  us   tax   payers.get  married  on  a  green   card  an   orange   card,  pick   your   color.  what  the   hell,   who   cares.and  if  you   want  to   marry  someone   thats   your   same   sex,  go  ahead,  that  law probably  is   for   americans  only   too.
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Totally against it. Where does one stop in the changing of the meaning of marriage. If gays can have the right to marry, why not brothers and sisters? Why not be able to have two wives? Four wives? Why not be able to marry a 7 year old? Why not be able to marry a dead person? Why not an animal? Where does it stop once you begin the trek down that slippery slope?\n\nMarriage is a sacred rite derived from religion. I know you liberal secularists hate to hear that, but it is true. Most religions define marriage as the union between one man and one woman.\n\nJust one man's opinion.
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Listen more than you talk. Be of good moral character. Don't cheat on your wife with your gay lover.
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Boy are you inviting grief asking that in this forum...  However, my heartfelt answer is: Where-ever you find love, why not be allowed to make that committment?\n\nI don't see how the government letting you marry the person you love in any way threatens me and my marriage and my family - I would still choose a heterosexual relationship whether or not gay marriage is legal - so my family life does not need defending from your legal status.  I truly believe that you would not chose this lifestyle if you had a choice.  \n\nGood luck to you.
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I agree. I think it was Conservatives that switched Civil Unions to GAY MARRIAGE to freak out church goers to vote. Someday America will look back and regret their decisions just like they did with slavery, women and civil rights. This is clearly a violation of church and state. But I think that a grandmother and her caretaking granddaughter should be able to enter into a civil union to if they life together to enjoy the same rights. Family is more complicated these days then a man and a woman and the divorce rate will tell you that.\n\nI DON'T WANT GAY MARRIAGE!!!\nYou straight people can have it, sit on it, spin, and repeat three times.\n\nAND the fact the conservatives deny gay people marriage only further helps us to "corrupt your children" into polyamourous life styles, cause gay people are so "much cooler" role models. LIKE SEX IN THE CITY!!! and the whole metrosexual trend amoung straight huys so that they can get more punany and justify being players.\n\nOf course, some gays, but especially lesbians would benefit: Adoption, Inheiritance, Medical Insurance and Patient Rights, etc. So I do want Gay Marriage for them (Just not for me---at least at this point in my life).\n\nBut actually, here is a nifty solution:\nAbolish governement recognized marriages alltogether.\nYou get a CIVIL UNION at the Court House.\nYou get the Sacrement of Marriage at a Church.\n\nThen Priests and Ministers could be more selective and curb the divorce rate...But wait, that is how they make money by leaching off social needs. So why don't they let all those rich, over-embellishing, excessive-spending gay people get married and take their money???\n\nWell I am just as happy to keep my $ and my freedom!
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Learn to take orders, and kill your family if that's what they want you to do.\n\nThe way things are floating up to the surface of the Washington cess pool, being gay might be a plus.
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I am against gay marriage.  Committment ceremonies are fine. But marriage- no.
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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.
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Stop behaving like a f.a.g.!\n\nDont act on your gay impulses. Im violent, but I dont act it out cause I dont want to suffer the conciquences of such actions. Sure easier said then done, but you apprently have a rocky path to travel, life is seldom fair so make the best of what you got or go through life unhappy!
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Many voters and politicians are being bigots.  I have listened to radio talk shows and read tons of stuff on the Internet, and I have yet to see or hear an argument for banning gay marriage that makes sense to me.  I am a Christian.  I am against persecuting others and I expect to be persecuted.  Gay people being allowed to get married is not going to affect my heterosexual marriage one bit.  It is not going to affect my childrens' world views, but thinking that HATE is OK because it's officially sanctioned by the government might.  Let the church do as it will, but the state needs to allow minorities their basic civil rights.
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Marriage is based on a religious Principal your not going to get them to accept gay marriage. And I don't think they have to corrupt it because a minority wants to make it so. I do think that there should be civil unions without religion so gays can finally make it legal.
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Use your right to practice religion.\n\nClaim that your religion forbids you to stay sober.\n\nthen raise a stink with the ACLU, NAACP, etc....
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everyone will stop trippin' over their religious differences and judgin people and just live in peace and help out their neighbor no matter their faith. ...people well stop preaching too. \n\nall this is the only way we'll have peace in the world...oh and quit buying overly processed foods and not realizing that unconscious choices as consumers contribute to the exploitation of many people in the world.