Poll: Do you support gay marriage?
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The thing is, this same argument was used when interracial couples wanted to get married, now look where we are. It is the equivalent of saying back in the civil rights movement "The Blacks should be happy we let them on the bus anyway." I want complete equality, and if you do not want gay marriage, don't get gay married.Khazidhea said:
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Of course gay people should have the right to be married. Why shouldn't they?
They're relationship and love is just as valuable as that of a man and a woman's. I think it's bloody disgusting that people are still against it. I mean, come on, it's 2012. I don't see how some people can be so ignorant. What gives you the right to determine this?
And I'm sure you meant now harm by putting marriage in quotation marks in the title, but it's extremely derogative.
They're relationship and love is just as valuable as that of a man and a woman's. I think it's bloody disgusting that people are still against it. I mean, come on, it's 2012. I don't see how some people can be so ignorant. What gives you the right to determine this?
And I'm sure you meant now harm by putting marriage in quotation marks in the title, but it's extremely derogative.
This is why I love this community. Sure I disagree with many of you and your ridiculous love of anime and MLP. I am sick of the whinging and 'i feel old' threads started by 16 year olds, appalled by the 'don't want to live on this planet anymore' because of some ridiculous triviality threads, confused by the transgender/transsexual threads, and thoroughly bored of the friendzone threads. And then I see something like this:
330 votes in, and support for gay marriage at over 95%.
You guys are awesome.
330 votes in, and support for gay marriage at over 95%.
You guys are awesome.
I haven't been here long, but I think if this place ran the world it might be a nice place to live.BringBackBuck said:
We wouldn't get very much done, but it would be friendly.
I just dislike the way they're going about it. Arguing that anyone in love should be allowed to marry is not how you're gonna win anyone over.Kakulukia said:
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Please stop saying "gay people should have the right to get married." Gay people can get married. However, just like heterosexual people, in many places they can't marry the same sex as themselves. You won't win anyone over by using that line because they aren't hearing "people should be allowed to marry the same sex." They're hearing "give gay people more rights," and as soon as they hear that, they shut down and the argument is over.
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Please stop saying "gay people should have the right to get married." Gay people can get married. However, just like heterosexual people, in many places they can't marry the same sex as themselves. You won't win anyone over by using that line because they aren't hearing "people should be allowed to marry the same sex." They're hearing "give gay people more rights," and as soon as they hear that, they shut down and the argument is over.
oh great, here we go, let's see my response file after this
I do not support gay marriage
I have no problem with homosexuals at all, I just believe marriage is the coming together of two people who can create genetic offspring.
I do however support the idea of gay union, to be honest I think they aught to have their own version of this coming together, although I suppose many would disagree on the basis that this is setting double standards, and making it seem more different to be homosexual.
But that's just what I think, it's my personal opinion, nothing to do with religion or any of that nonsense, just how I see this matter.
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Yeah, don't want to offend anyone now do I ^.^
I do not support gay marriage
I have no problem with homosexuals at all, I just believe marriage is the coming together of two people who can create genetic offspring.
I do however support the idea of gay union, to be honest I think they aught to have their own version of this coming together, although I suppose many would disagree on the basis that this is setting double standards, and making it seem more different to be homosexual.
But that's just what I think, it's my personal opinion, nothing to do with religion or any of that nonsense, just how I see this matter.
Capache: Goody two shoe
Yeah, don't want to offend anyone now do I ^.^
well if you don't think the term marriage can be applied to homosexual couples you discriminate them. even if you provide the option to have an "official recorded life partnership" that gives them the exact same legal and tax advantages you still discriminate them. kinda like having bathrooms for black people, even if they are exactly like and next to the ones for white people it will still be racist.
I do, in an apathetic way. I don't really "support" it, but if people want to do it, I'm not gonna try and stop them.
A few questions related to that:Random Fella said:
- Would you support a law forcing a marriage of a man and a woman to divorce once the woman reaches menopause?
- Would support a law making so that infertile men or women are prevented from marrying?
- Should couples be forced to undergo a fertility test before marriage?
- Would you support a law to prevent married couples from adopting? (since if they adopt, they will generally produce fewer genetic offspring)
Of course I support it.
I'm gay, and at the moment my country (Finland) only allows civil partnerships for gays, but even if I'd just be able to have that, I'd use the word 'married' to describe my relationship with that person.
Because religious people don't own that word. Some people will say that my mother and her husband aren't really married because they aren't religious and didn't have a church-wedding, but that's their problem, not my mom's.
Step 4 includes highly trained bees and an orbital death-ray.
I'm gay, and at the moment my country (Finland) only allows civil partnerships for gays, but even if I'd just be able to have that, I'd use the word 'married' to describe my relationship with that person.
Because religious people don't own that word. Some people will say that my mother and her husband aren't really married because they aren't religious and didn't have a church-wedding, but that's their problem, not my mom's.
Well, there's the fact that it's Step 3 on the Gay Agenda for world domination.Vault101 said:
Step 4 includes highly trained bees and an orbital death-ray.
It's the same "separate but equal" stance I thought the civil rights movement proved was a bad idea. It's a shame that this is still an issue when really we could be focusing efforts on more pressing matters.
Okay, let me rephrase thatCaffiene said:
I just believe marriage is the coming together of two people of different gender
Look, marriage to me has always been between a man and woman, it has always been that way, that's why it's marriage
You don't need marriage to have the same perks as marriage, sure it's just a name, but it has meaning to some, like me
Again let me state I have no problem with the joining of two of the same sex, my argument is simply on opinion
Because honestly, this is an opinionated argument, not factual.
I don't really see any valid arguments against gay marriage.
Sure the term "marriage" has been used to describe man/woman for the longest time.
But then again, the term "human" or "citizen" has been used to describe upper class white men for most of the time. But we are totally fine with redifining it to include all races and genders.
Why should the term "marriage" be more sacred than the term "human"?
Terms result from social values, not the other way around.
Sure the term "marriage" has been used to describe man/woman for the longest time.
But then again, the term "human" or "citizen" has been used to describe upper class white men for most of the time. But we are totally fine with redifining it to include all races and genders.
Why should the term "marriage" be more sacred than the term "human"?
Terms result from social values, not the other way around.
I chose yes because I don't care either way, honestly, people do what people do, who am I to control other people's lives.
I say have at, go for it, it's not like anything really matters in this world, on a realistic scale, we're all just meaningless specks of shit on the asscheek of the galaxy anyhow.
Hell even in a humanistic scale, almost none of what we do will be remembered 200 years from now, at least not accurately, or individually.
I say have at, go for it, it's not like anything really matters in this world, on a realistic scale, we're all just meaningless specks of shit on the asscheek of the galaxy anyhow.
Hell even in a humanistic scale, almost none of what we do will be remembered 200 years from now, at least not accurately, or individually.
Check your facts, marriage really isn't that old.
There really is no reason not to support it. Does it hurt you to see two people of the same gender marrying each other happily?
[small]psst, the answer is "no"[/small]
There really is no reason not to support it. Does it hurt you to see two people of the same gender marrying each other happily?
[small]psst, the answer is "no"[/small]
because sterile people, old people and transexual people can't get married at all, so you're not being really hypocriticle. marriage is about children the same way that TV is about talent shows, certainly there's an aspect there, but it's not the main point.Random Fella said: