How would gay marriage affect your life?

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guntotingtomcat

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I would be slightly upset that an archaic religious ritual that seems to entitle people to free money would receive even more legitimacy and credence in what is supposed to be a modern society.
I'm pro gay, anti marriage of any sexuality.
 

zombiesinc

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Divorce rates would go down?

Seriously though, the LGBT community would be happier. It wouldn't really affect anyone else, at least I'd imagine so.

Gay marriage is allowed here in Canada (thankfully), so it wouldn't directly affect me. Still, it's about time the US most everyone else caught up. My main concern is that gay couples deserve the legal benefits that follow marriage, just as much as any other couple. I don't care if it's decided that 'marriage' shouldn't be used to refer to it though.
 

AfriXan

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Harbinger_ said:
Kingsman said:
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.
I disagree. All the things listed are damaging people who don't choose to be involved. Gays aren't forcing me to attend their weddings and their weddings do not negatively impact on my life in the same way as drunks, druggies, rapists, car accidents and paedophiles.

The only similar one is the meat one and that is in fact arguing for gay marriage rather than against.
 

NaramSuen

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Being Canadian, where we already have same-sex marriage, I can unequivocally answer your question - not at all.

This is whole "debate" is such a non-issue to me. Consenting adults can marry anyone they please regardless of whatever plumbing they were born with. As our Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau famously once said, "The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation."
 

Harbinger_

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AfriXan said:
Harbinger_ said:
Kingsman said:
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.
I disagree. All the things listed are damaging people who don't choose to be involved. Gays aren't forcing me to attend their weddings and their weddings do not negatively impact on my life in the same way as drunks, druggies, rapists, car accidents and paedophiles.

The only similar one is the meat one and that is in fact arguing for gay marriage rather than against.
If you aren't around drunks, druggies, rapists, or pedophiles then would it? Regardless your ethics and morals still are affected, You can disagree all you want and I'll agree all I want. I have friends that are homosexual and I agree they should have equal rights however that doesn't mean that I'm completely comfortable around them or comfortable watching say two guys or two women kissing or holding hands. It bothers me to my very core. I still support my friends decision because they are my friends and I respect them however I don't have to like the lifestyle. I have friends that smoke and do drugs and I support them for their decisions because it is their decision. This is no different. Its the way that my morals are, the way that my mind works and the way that I am. If I'm to be discriminated against for the way I am which isn't harming anyone then why can't a homosexual couple discriminated against for the very same reason.
 

Bek359

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I'd say "Fucking finally", then go back to eating copious amounts of cheddar Chex Mix.

In other words, not in the slightest.
 

DuttyDawn

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It would change my life as much as a divorce or living single would. Not at all. Why is a person defined by who they choose to sleep with, if that person is of the same sex? If I'm straight, then no one thinks twice and they move on. Where I gay, then that's who I am? The gay one? Please.

Give everyone the same rights already and let's move on to more important issues.
 

Canid117

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I'm not gay so not in the slightest. Why can't gay people get married again? Whats the big deal? Then again I was born and raised in a blue state so it doesn't seem like that big a deal to me.
 

deadmandancin

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If gay marriage was legal one of my best friends could look forward to her happiest day of her life without feeling like a second class citizen, I am pro gay marriage.
 

Blind Sight

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Well those damn homos would pervert my children and destroy the institution of marriage.../satire.

It's already legal here, haven't really noticed much of a change.

NaramSuen said:
This is whole "debate" is such a non-issue to me. Consenting adults can marry anyone they please regardless of whatever plumbing they were born with. As our Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau famously once said, "The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation."
That quote relates to the legalization of homosexuality in general, not marriage, which does effect the public realm via institutions and civil marriage laws, so it's a little different then what Trudeau was discussing.
 

RatRace123

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It wouldn't, like at all.
I don't think it would actually affect many people's lives, except people who are gay, and want to get married.
 

Samus Aaron

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Don't you know?! If gays married, they would shoot their gay-zer beams at us and turn us all gay! Then no one would ever reproduce, and the human species would go instinct! It's all a big conspiracy, man!

OP: In all seriousness, not at all.
 

aestheticmachine

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Obviously straight marriages only produce straight children. Gay people reproduce via spores, so I'm not afraid.

It's silly to justify human sexuality with animal behavior. There are no 'gay' or 'straight' animals, they just do whatever they damn please because nobody cares or fears for their ducklings being brainwashed by Uncle Qwakky's gay duck agenda.
 

TeeBs

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Every argument against gay marriage has been made before in previous movements.

Ill take this one for example.

GAY MARRIAGE WILL TEAR APART FAMILYS.

WOMEN VOTING WILL TEAR FAMILYS APART.

rinse, wash, repeat.
 

Shuswah_Noir

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A bi-sexual guy I used to know put this on my computer several years ago. A good read, though I'm unsure of the original source.




--- The Dangers of Gay Marriage ---


Once, I was a happy woman.

I was a mother. I had two wonderful children who knew how to behave themselves: Constance and Aaron.

I was a wife. My husband, Christian, was a good solid man I could count on.

That was just a few months ago. How could we have known, back then, that our blissful family would soon be torn apart forever by the forces of Satan?

Oh, as I look back on it now, I can see that there were signs, like when Mr. Penderglass down the street started wearing teal, or when attendance at the Boy Scouts pack meeting started going down, or when Father Hanlon, who holds mass down at the All Souls Grace Blessing Rosary of Our Lady of the Aching Lower Back Cathedral started a midnight solo boy's glee club, with rehearsals in room 204 at the Motel Six. At the time, of course, I just thought it was God working in mysterious ways.

If I had to choose one moment when my denial finally started to crumble, it would be the time when I found a smudge of bright red lipstick on the front pocket of Christian's best short-sleeved white wrinkle-free Sunday dress shirt. You see, every night when Christian comes home from work, I greet him at the door with a nice kiss on the cheek. The thing is, I only wear purple shades of lipstick, ranging from a light violet to a medium mauve. A few years ago, the Mary Kay representative on my block let me know, confidentially, that anything outside of this color range would be considered indiscreet, given my complexion. I don't even own any red lipstick. Too much red can give men the wrong idea.

Well, I was pretty upset seeing that red lipstick on my husband's collar. I confronted Christian that very evening, right after I kissed him at the door and brought him his evening glass of beer.

He didn't deny anything. He told me that had spent the afternoon in an alley, french kissing a woman named Tanya he had met in a tavern, after getting drunk on Schlitz malt liquor using money he had withdrawn from our children's college fund.

When I demanded an explanation, he looked at me with a confused expression on his face and asked me, "Haven't you heard that the Supreme Court in Massachusetts has said that it's legal for gay couples to get married?"

Suddenly, everything became clear.

I ran across the living room and fell into the Lazy Boy where Christian was sitting, and threw my arms around him. "Oh, you poor baby," I cried. "You must feel awful! Why didn't you just call me to let me know?"

Christian gazed deeply into my teary eyes. "What's the point of being honest with each other anymore, honey, now that gays can get married in Massachusetts?"

"Do you mean to say..."

"Darling, let's admit it. Our marriage is over."

To hear these words from my husband was a difficult thing. The more I thought about it, though, the more I realized that I just didn't care about him anymore, now that gay people were going to be getting married. The love was gone, thanks to that damn homosexual agenda.

I was about to ask Christian if he would like to experiment with some non-traditional lifestyle choices when I heard the front door opening. It was the kids coming home from school! How would we break it to them?

Aaron set down his backpack to kiss me on the cheek. He was wearing a navy blue blazer with a matching tie, ornamented only with an American flag lapel pin. "Gosh mom," he said as he passed us by on the way to change into his Eagle Scout uniform, "what a long day at school! Still, I know that the Lord wants us to study hard so that we can read the Bible."

As Constance walked into the kitchen, her ankle-length grey flannel skirt brushed up against Christian's wrist, and I saw his cheeks grow red. "Hey, honey," he leaned over to whisper, "Now that we're going to get a divorce, do you mind if I ask Constance to go out with me to the drive-in tonight? I promise I won't go past third base until she's ready."

What the hell, I thought. Sure, she's our daughter, but now that gays are going to be allowed to get marriage licenses in downtown Boston, all concepts of morality are destroyed, and it doesn't really make a difference anymore. I wondered to myself which of my neighbors' houses would be the easiest to break into - I needed a cup of sugar.

Constance turned on the radio in the kitchen to the Christian AM station we always listen to, and that's when our family's fate was finally sealed. The Lord's news update was saying that gay people in San Francisco were being allowed to get married right then and there!

Constance turned around suddenly, with a strange look on her face that I had never seen before. All of a sudden, she started running towards the front door, ripping off her clothes. The last I saw of her, she was skipping down the street, wearing nothing but a flower in her hair, screaming, "I'm sexually promiscuous now! Does anyone want to have some casual sex so that I can get a sexually transmitted disease and then have an abortion?"

Aaron came downstairs with a hurt and confused look on his face. "Golly," he whispered to Christian, "do you think that Constance has been influenced by the 1960s culture of permissiveness?"

Christian frowned and said, "Son, all that you need to know that gay people are getting married in San Francisco."

Immediately, Aaron ripped the merit badges from his uniform and threw them on the floor. "Fucking shit, Mom," he said to me. "I guess I'd better drop out of school and join a gang of juvenile delinquents."

"Okay," I said, feeling all my parental authority melting away, "But try to be home before midnight. We'll be getting Cinemax now, and I'll bet there will be a really sexy and violent movie on after prime time. Maybe we can even illegally record it on our VCR."

Aaron told me to shut up, then burped and walked out the door.

Christian and I sighed. It was hard to say goodbye to him, but I knew the time had come. The homosexual agenda had succeeded in destroying our family, even though we had been happy, secure, and God-fearing just a few hours before.

Who knows what will happen next? I suppose that as the news of gay marriages in San Francisco spreads, everybody in town will be getting divorced.

I'm not sure where I'll end up, of course, but I'm taking my first steps in this new world shaped by homosexuality. I suppose I'll have to become a lesbian now. I've put in a call to the local Lions Club asking if they know about where I can get in touch with a baby-killing satanic cult in our area, and I've cancelled the check I wrote last week to the Christian Coalition.

To think that it all could have been different, if gay people had just left well enough alone and not wanted to get married.
 

Gardenia

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Here in Norway we legalized gay marriage a while back, and it hasn't affected me at all. Not one bit. Nada.
Some right-wing christian nuts were outraged, but it died down and nobody talks about it anymore.
 

Drake_Dercon

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Erm... not in the least. I've always held the ideal that being gay should be normal. I know married gay people and they're completely normal, I know kids of gay people and they're completely normal and many of my best friends are gay and they're as normal as I am (which isn't saying much, but I think that says more about myself and my friends than it does about homosexuals). I don't get why the idea of gay marriage scares so many people where it's not legal yet. It's been legal in Canada for almost a decade, it hasn't degraded into anarchy and civil war, and I'm pretty sure Satan hasn't marked all our souls for future damnation.