How would gay marriage affect your life?
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So if I were to say that I am not straight, and find the idea of heterosexuals morally reprehensible, would that mean that it would be all right for me to pass legislation banning heterosexual marriage? No. I'm sure there would be an uproar over that idea.Kingsman said:
The drinking age (In the United States at least) is supposedly based off of the science of brain develpment. So there might be an uproar there.
I don't do drugs, but if you're going to make them legal, I want to know where the money is going, from growers to sellers.
What would legalizing the abuse of males do if your female? Better yet, what would the legalizing of abuse all around do? Its abuse. It's not about morals/ethics/opinions... well, maybe opinions, but still. You can't walk around popping people in the jaw just because you want to.
Speed limits are based (in theory at least) off of safety. I don't always agree with them, but if I were trying to cross the street by my house in a residential zone and you were doing 120, it would probably end badly for the two of us, you in jail and I would be dead.
If child abuse were legal, I know of someone who would not have to check in with local law enforcement were he to move in the next ten years, and some one else that would be out of jail. But, there would still be the point of the damage done to the child involved with the abuse. And yes, taking sexually lewd pictures usually does screw the child up when they get older.
On the point of being a vegetarian, this is probably the closest you come to actually making your point, but only because its a choice. All of the others at least have the potential for harming someone else, wither it be on purpose or accident. Where is the potential for me harming someone else with marriage? You tell me how it would result in the loss of your job, ability to freely move about your house/city/state/country? Where would the potential health risks be? There are none.
I am bisexual, and it has not stopped, nor slowed down your life. Not in the slightest. But if I were to meet a man that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with, and have benefits, like being able to see him in the hospital were he to be injured, I presently do not have them. Allowing gay marriage would simply allow me the same rights that all hetero couples currently have.
The question, How would gay marriage affect your life?, is not asked because others do not have opinions about gay marriage. It is not asked because others do not feel a moral outrage towards it. It is because the most used answer, in regards to legalizing gay marriage is based upon religion.
*Edited to make less combative. I felt it got a bit to personal for me at the end
Fuckk...it's still illegal, and yet 99% of people in this thread are for it
This is why the world is fucked up. Screw you, world!
This is why the world is fucked up. Screw you, world!
Gay marriage would not affect you in any wayKingsman said:
Eliminating the drinking age would mean more drunken teens on the streets, more alcohol related crimes/deaths, plus your children would probably drink from age 12, possibly abuse it, and die before they're 25 of liver failure
Eliminating the drug bans would stop authorities assuming people will obey the law and turning a blind eye to illicit drugs, increasing awareness of safe use
Legalising abuse of female may hurt many of your female friends, or even your girlfriend/fiancee/wife/whatever if another man abuses her
Abolishing the speed limit may kill or injure your friends who do drive to work, and if you walked to work, an out of control speeding driver may hit and kill you (also don't bikes use roads as well? in my country they do). It may also mean your employees get to work on time more often and better rested, resulting in more efficient workers for your business
Making meat illegal...yeah, you got me on this one
Legalizing pedophilia would endanger your children
Think about that
I'd be able to cross off yet another inequity on my list, for a grand total of two down! (The first was the banning of Wobbuffet at tournaments. Christ, that thing was ridiculous. "Dick sent out... Wobbuffet! Automatic win!")
Anyway, we don't have it here, and no one seems to care too much. Conservative government for a conservative people, I guess...
Anyway, we don't have it here, and no one seems to care too much. Conservative government for a conservative people, I guess...
Well for me if I'm given those rights I could marry a man now instead of after the operation, or marry a woman after the operation.
I'd love to see it finally be legal nationwide at least.
I'd love to see it finally be legal nationwide at least.
GAYS ARE ALREADY FUCKING ALLOWED TO GET MARRIED.
And with no government intervention to boot! LUCKY. FUCKING. BASTARDS.
Making it into a government institution, however? Tons of cons. Read an article on it by Michael Medved. He can explain way better than ANYONE on the Right. Much of the Right, unfortunately, tends to be fucking retarded in making the case when they DO have a good motherfucking point.
And with no government intervention to boot! LUCKY. FUCKING. BASTARDS.
Making it into a government institution, however? Tons of cons. Read an article on it by Michael Medved. He can explain way better than ANYONE on the Right. Much of the Right, unfortunately, tends to be fucking retarded in making the case when they DO have a good motherfucking point.
Seeing how we can divorce pretty easy I don't see much "religious" backings behind it, since it's supposed to be a union in the eyes of god (but oddly enough a man could divorce a women easy in the bible but a women needed witnesses). Anyway it wouldn't bother me, makes more people happy.
Oh no gay people can marry in some states!!! That is sure to mean that my wife and kids will leave me to be gay!!!!.
Thats what the argument of most people boils down to.
Personaly I dont see the harm.
How about this, Getting married can only be done through your favorite religeous intitution but for any government benifits you have to get a civil union that doesnt take gender into account. (forgive the bad spelling, I have had more then a few)
Thats what the argument of most people boils down to.
Personaly I dont see the harm.
How about this, Getting married can only be done through your favorite religeous intitution but for any government benifits you have to get a civil union that doesnt take gender into account. (forgive the bad spelling, I have had more then a few)
As a straight male with a girlfriend it wouldnt have any affect on my life if they decided to let gay people get married.
I was wondering, do people in the States get civil union even in heterosexual marriages?Finebrew said:
'Cause I remember it was pretty common where I live. My mum and dad's marriage photos are just them dressed like lawyers signing a great big book before a court official and then exchanging rings. I mean, the whole church-wedding-dress-2-metre-cake thing is a bit ostentatious.
Paradoxically, that is because of ex-socialist secular attitude in my country. Which recently reverted to christian bullcrap (to compensate for the socialist years), so now I'm not sure gay people even have civil union rights. Damn bishops acting like they're members of parliament.
It wouldnt effect me since none religeuos people get married the word no longer means taking an oath under god Iam not gay so it really doesnt effect me.
The only thing that probly would have back in school would have been if homosexuals could adopt as the poor kid/kids would have had the piss taking out of them on an hourly bases hopefully that doesnt happen but it probly does.
The only thing that probly would have back in school would have been if homosexuals could adopt as the poor kid/kids would have had the piss taking out of them on an hourly bases hopefully that doesnt happen but it probly does.
It wouldn't. At all.
Except my brother could get married now if he wants to.
I know Europeans seem to be obsessed with sensationalist news about the USA and they make a lot of assumptions based on that but, seriously, I'm not anti-gay.
Except my brother could get married now if he wants to.
I know Europeans seem to be obsessed with sensationalist news about the USA and they make a lot of assumptions based on that but, seriously, I'm not anti-gay.