How would gay marriage affect your life?

[ckam]

A few of my friends can get married. It doesn't really have much to do with me unless I get invited to the weddings, though I doubt that would happen.

 

[Signa]

I live in Finland, where we have the civil union and there are talks about gender-neutral marriage law, and gays getting married hasn't destroyed the society or anything.

As for myself, it's not like marriage is at the present topical for me personally, but I'd like to marry at some point in my life, and it's good to know I can marry a person of same sex if I choose to. Marriage, for me, holds no religious meaning, but the commitment and legal perks of marriage do.

And well, I know people who have gotten in a civil union, and of course I'm happy for them.

Also, think of the children. There are, and will be children living with gay parents, and if they are married, it would be better for the children, since they would legally be a family, and if for example the relationship ends, the both real parents of the child will have rights, and the child will have rights to see his/her divorced parents, and other legal benefits.

My mom has used your country as an example of why gays shouldn't marry. Supposedly you guys have the lowest marriage rate or something. Mind expanding on those points so I have some ammo or something next time? I mean it's plainly obvious to me that society doesn't run on marriage rates, but do you see anything regarding a low marriage rate and how that may have affected anything in the people around you? Something as subtle as "broken homes" that don't put out bad people?

I'm just grasping for straws here. I really don't know what to suggest to look for that lack of marriage could change things for the worse while still having a happy, running society.

 

[The_Echo]

Some of my friends would be happier, and I wouldn't have to waste so much time reiterating the same notions of "if you don't like gay marriage, don't have one" or "we have a little thing called equal rights."

I see no downsides.

 

[Squidden]

There probably wouldn't be this many threads about seeking approval for the gay community.

 

[Turbo_Destructor]

It would not affect my life in any way at all, except that I might like humanity a little more.

 

[DevilWolf47]

Good question. I've been fighting for gay marriage for some time now, and if it were to pass, i'd find myself with quite a bit of free time. I could take Hoshi for longer walks. Maybe devote some more time to a video game concept i've been working on. Maybe improve my love life, i would have more time to pit my reach against my girlfriend's flexibility. Go ahead and allow gay marriage, i'd have a bit of a break before the bigots would move onto a new thing to hate.

 

[ae86gamer]

Not at all, but I know for a fact that a few of my friends would be overjoyed.

 

[warprincenataku]

All the dinosaurs will be killed. WAIT... what... OMG IT'S TOO LATE!

 

[Nannernade]

Not at all, I'm not sure why it would affect it in anyway, besides the dirty looks from some people and harassment I can hold my own and tell them to back the fuck off.

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

Not in the slightest. I'll just have a few friends who'll stop complaining about it to me.

 

[Okuu_Fusion]

My life would not be affected... Although, I think the economy would improve... Probably...

 

[willsham45]

What is up with all the gay, posts today?...but ye, it has no real effect. Maybe a little resentment and moral standards being something but in general I would say it means nothing.

I would think it is more of a political thing. X% of people don't mind gays, Y% don't like, we will make a move to make the larger percentage vote for us again.

 

[Reaper195]

I might see a feminine guy wearing a diamond on his finger....but as to how that would affect my life? I would wonder what the obsession is with diamonds maybe an extra time I see them.

 

[JenkinsTR]

Wouldn't affect me at all, so long as i'm not the one getting married lol i haven't got a problem with gay marriage, i think if two people love each other and stuff, they should be able to make up their own damn mind and not have some government tell them how to live their private life

 

[Wereduck]

I'd be proud of the USA for overcoming one of our long-standing hypocrisies regarding the separation of church and state.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I would be invited to at least 1 wedding. My cousin is a lesbian and has been dating the same person for a long while so, I would assume they would get married and I assume I would be invited. I say 'at least' because although she hasn't come out yet, my sister could very well be so, that would be a second wedding for me to attend. As for me personally, not counting any weddings had by other people, it would not affect me. Then again, I think I would be officially registered as either agnostic or, pagan (depending on the Moon of course) so, the Government wouldn't give two rat-farts about my opinion.

 

[gravitii]

Umm it wouldn't. I thought by now that everyone knows at least one gay person and there's nothing different about them unless they make it that way. Gays aren't different they're people and deserve to be able to marry.

 

[Imat]

I'd be slightly more annoyed by the accent so many of the gay men I've seen and/or met take on, and by accent I also include pitch, but other than that I'd have no problems with it. It is a choice, like any other, and people are free to make their own choices, within reason.

And yes, the way many of them talk annoys me. I'm not sure why, it just causes an adverse reaction for me.

 

[TheBoulder]

Well, my mom would be happier, so to an extension, I would be.

 

[Harbinger_]

Can I ask what the point of posting in this topic is if you're just going to say the exact same thing as everyone else? Just look at all the answers on the first page. Good grief. You'd think that one guy had ten accounts or something.

Might as well drop the controversy bomb here and make a different post:
You ask what gay marriage being legalized would do to affect my life.
Can I ask what eliminating the drinking age would do to affect your life if you were over 21?
Can I ask what eliminating all the drug bans would do if you don't take any of them?
Can I ask what legalizing abuse of females would do if you're a male?
Can I ask what abolishing the speed limit would do if you had no license, or walked/biked/etc. to work instead?
Can I ask what making meat illegal would do if you were already a vegetarian?
Can I ask what legalizing pedophilia and child abuse would do to you if you were an adult?

If you say "nothing" to all of the above but STILL found the concepts more than objectionable, you now know that just because homosexuality does NOT affect heterosexuals, does not mean they cannot find it against their own ethics/morals/opinions/whatever.

I agree with your post 100% sir.