Poll: Gay marriage- your thoughts?

[arcainia]

just don't raise children

Why?

because a young child's mind is more impressionable than you can possibly imagine. if a child is raise in an environment where there are nothing but flamboyant men, for example, they are going to truly believe that not only is gay marriage a universally acceptable practice, but even the RIGHT practice. If they are exposed to nothing but homosexuality from a very young age, they will grow to believe that heterosexuality is incorrect

This is ridiculous. Yes children are impressionable, but your talking about extreme situations which have never happened to my knowledge. The parents would have to actively show the children that being anything other than homosexual is wrong; which is what some heterosexual parents do if they are homophobic, i.e. show their children that being homosexual is wrong. [AKA: No one takes children away from heterosexual parents based on their sexual preferences...]
To immediately suggest that a homosexual couple will manipulate their children to believing heterosexual activities are wrong shows an irrational fear. It's just stupid.

that's under the impulse that the gays are INTENTIONALLY telling their children, "Johnny, straight people are bad. the right way to be is gay. If you are straight we will disown you. you better not be straight" that's nonsense!! of course that's not what i'm talking about, although a parent who says anything like that to their child at a young age should be taken out and beaten. But little Johnny seeing something as small as seeing Daddy and Daddy kissing is enough to make them think, "Well Daddy and Daddy love each other. I guess that's how it's supposed to be." This is prolonged behavior and exposure which takes a few years to manifest itself. And just because you haven't heard it doesn't mean it hasn't happened, giving how long ago that practice even became a debatable issue

So um...what exactly is the bad point here? You're scared that the children might turn gay themselves? Or that they might grow up hating heterosexuals...?
If you can, I would like to see some statistics of children being raised by gay couples and its supposed affects. The whole 'it may have happened and we just don't know about it' isn't going to get my fear factor running.

gay ppl have so much rights it mind blowings.they make shows about them they have everything and they ***** you say one bad thing about them everybody has to love them or your called a raceist its bullshit i say

Lol, God I hope that was sarcasm.

nope , have you seen this show if you wonder what is is there was a parody on south park about it.now if you go off saying "well they dont have that much" then riddle me this, why the hell can they get any job they want or they can go to any restraunt become singers hell if thats being discriminated call me fabulous matt.

Uh...what? Who said they can get any job they want? Alot of places still discriminate against gay people. And I kinda doubt that all gay people are born with the natural talent of singing. I'd also be very puzzled as to why they would go to sing at restaurants of all places if they had such talent.
I don't know what kind of reality you're living in.

 

[redeemer09]

do you need the cherry on the top of a bannana split

 

[Ushario]

Marriage is between a Man and Woman in every religion.

Sure give them the same legal status as a married couple, but don't flog it off as marriage when it clearly isn't. If they really wanted to be married they could find someone of the opposite sex.

Since when did "because everyone else is doing it..." makes it set in stone, fact???

It not really ANYONES place to tell anyone else who they can and cant marry when they are adults.

Marriage is between a Man and a Woman. As I have already said, now this isn't a "follow the sheep" mentality, I would like to see tradition continued.

The Pope can certainly say that you can't have a Christian marriage if you don't meet the requirements.

Give Homosexuals the rights, but let it be set apart from marriage. Simply because it isn't marriage.

For the record I am an athiest.

 

[arcainia]

do you need the cherry on the top of a bannana split

I do believe you just earned a Troll status. I shall await your banning.

 

[ghost02]

Well I am the 'extremeist' from the other thread, I will put this more kindly. I am agianst it, keep traditional marriage. If you want to know why, ask. Otherwise I will not say anymore.

....uhh...okay....I ask you ghost02, what is it that has you against gay marriage.

Ok I will copy and paste.

Bible says no. Sorry guys, but I think it is disgusting and should be abolished. I am being serious, I can NOT stand people who push gay agendas or even say they are. I just can't hold them up to the same moral light...

Ok. I just have a problem with it. I may be the only one, and it is not PC, but I am a homophobe. I just am. I can't change what I see, homosexuality bother me to no end, if some one is gay, and I know, I just can't talk to them, it is incredably awkward for me.

Why do they have gay bars and such? Why not go to heterosexual clubs? Why? Because they are scared? Maybe. Why should they have a subculture unless they are not accepted. Drug culture: not accepted. Goth culture: not accepted. Emo: not accepted. Most cultures that have their own ways of dressing and acting are not accepted. They should not exist, they should not beleive in what they stand for. What do gays stand for? What do goths and emos and drugs stand for? Socially destructive things. Things that destroy nations. May be extreme for goth and emo, but gays and druggies destroy.

I know you think I am wrong, but these are what I think. I am not going to edit what I think, I am being honest.

 

[Jimmyjames]

I'm honestly for gays getting all the equal rights and benifits of married people, but I don't want it to be called "marriage". As long as they call it somthing else I'm perfectally fine with gays getting the same rights as married people.

Just curious- Do you still consider drunken unions in Las Vegas at a "Chapel O' Love" marriages, then?

 

[redeemer09]

do you need the cherry on the top of a bannana split

I do believe you just earned a Troll status. I shall await your banning.

and i beleive you are asshole i will await your ass kicking from somee random person

 

[arcainia]

Well I am the 'extremeist' from the other thread, I will put this more kindly. I am agianst it, keep traditional marriage. If you want to know why, ask. Otherwise I will not say anymore.

....uhh...okay....I ask you ghost02, what is it that has you against gay marriage.

Ok I will copy and paste.

Bible says no. Sorry guys, but I think it is disgusting and should be abolished. I am being serious, I can NOT stand people who push gay agendas or even say they are. I just can't hold them up to the same moral light...

Ok. I just have a problem with it. I may be the only one, and it is not PC, but I am a homophobe. I just am. I can't change what I see, homosexuality bother me to no end, if some one is gay, and I know, I just can't talk to them, it is incredably awkward for me.

Why do they have gay bars and such? Why not go to heterosexual clubs? Why? Because they are scared? Maybe. Why should they have a subculture unless they are not accepted. Drug culture: not accepted. Goth culture: not accepted. Emo: not accepted. Most cultures that have their own ways of dressing and acting are not accepted. They should not exist, they should not beleive in what they stand for. What do gays stand for? What do goths and emos and drugs stand for? Socially destructive things. Things that destroy nations. May be extreme for goth and emo, but gays and druggies destroy.

I know you think I am wrong, but these are what I think. I am not going to edit what I think, I am being honest.

I respect your opinion, but what is it that you think gay people destroy?

 

[Silvertongue]

I feel as if the government can't tell people how to love one another...even if I don't feel it's natural or even ethically right, it's wrong for me to push my beliefs on others that way. It's a misuse of government power, I think.

 

[redeemer09]

what im saying that gay people have the same rights back in the day african americans couldnt sing in public places.

 

[joeromag]

yea in my eyes i dont care what you do just dont try to make me gay and dont pull the " its just because im gay" when i disagree with somthing

 

[redeemer09]

great thing about the human brain, free will he has a right to think whatever he wants

 

[confernal]

just don't raise children

Why?

because a young child's mind is more impressionable than you can possibly imagine. if a child is raise in an environment where there are nothing but flamboyant men, for example, they are going to truly believe that not only is gay marriage a universally acceptable practice, but even the RIGHT practice. If they are exposed to nothing but homosexuality from a very young age, they will grow to believe that heterosexuality is incorrect

This is ridiculous. Yes children are impressionable, but your talking about extreme situations which have never happened to my knowledge. The parents would have to actively show the children that being anything other than homosexual is wrong; which is what some heterosexual parents do if they are homophobic, i.e. show their children that being homosexual is wrong. [AKA: No one takes children away from heterosexual parents based on their sexual preferences...]
To immediately suggest that a homosexual couple will manipulate their children to believing heterosexual activities are wrong shows an irrational fear. It's just stupid.

that's under the impulse that the gays are INTENTIONALLY telling their children, "Johnny, straight people are bad. the right way to be is gay. If you are straight we will disown you. you better not be straight" that's nonsense!! of course that's not what i'm talking about, although a parent who says anything like that to their child at a young age should be taken out and beaten. But little Johnny seeing something as small as seeing Daddy and Daddy kissing is enough to make them think, "Well Daddy and Daddy love each other. I guess that's how it's supposed to be." This is prolonged behavior and exposure which takes a few years to manifest itself. And just because you haven't heard it doesn't mean it hasn't happened, giving how long ago that practice even became a debatable issue

So um...what exactly is the bad point here? You're scared that the children might turn gay themselves? Or that they might grow up hating heterosexuals...?
If you can, I would like to see some statistics of children being raised by gay couples and its supposed affects. The whole 'it may have happened and we just don't know about it' isn't going to get my fear factor running.

gay ppl have so much rights it mind blowings.they make shows about them they have everything and they ***** you say one bad thing about them everybody has to love them or your called a raceist its bullshit i say

Lol, God I hope that was sarcasm.

nope , have you seen this show if you wonder what is is there was a parody on south park about it.now if you go off saying "well they dont have that much" then riddle me this, why the hell can they get any job they want or they can go to any restraunt become singers hell if thats being discriminated call me fabulous matt.

Uh...what? Who said they can get any job they want? Alot of places still discriminate against gay people. And I kinda doubt that all gay people are born with the natural talent of singing. I'd also be very puzzled as to why they would go to sing at restaurants of all places if they had such talent.
I don't know what kind of reality you're living in.

The fact that childern grow up with two parents of the same sex is not natural and I don't mean that in a whole "gays are bad and should be burned way". I mean think about it, anything from our food, to our enviorment that isn't natural is killing us... It gives us cancer, makes us fat and slow and turns us into idiots. While I don't think having two parrents of the same sex will give a kid cancer(although with cancer you never know) but neither do I believe that it is as Physiologically healthy as having parrents who are a male and a female. And for the tests and stastics we simply don't have a large enough sample to make an acurate measurment nor the long term affects.

 

[dagens24]

If you're a tax paying citizen of the United States of America you are constitutionally guarenteed the same rights and benifits as every other tax paying citzen.

Not allowing gay marriage is unconstitutional. And before I have anyone barking that 'the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation!' Wrong. It was founded as a secular nation by people who may or may not have been Christian. The first amendment promises freedom of religion (and thereby freedom FROM religion), and so the only arguement made against gay marriage is a religious one which doesn't stand, regardless, on constitutional grounds. End of story. GAME OVER.

 

[HonorableChairman]

The fact that childern grow up with two parents of the same sex is not natural and I don't mean that in a whole "gays are bad and should be burned way". I mean think about it, anything from our food, to our enviorment that isn't natural is killing us... It gives us cancer, makes us fat and slow and turns us into idiots. While I don't think having two parrents of the same sex will give a kid cancer(although with cancer you never know) but neither do I believe that it is as Physiologically healthy as having parrents who are a male and a female. And for the tests and stastics we simply don't have a large enough sample to make an acurate measurment nor the long term affects.

Homosexuality is perfectly natural. It has been documented in almost every species of mammal.

 

[Ushario]

Well techincally they aren't furthering the gene-pool and all that, which probably isn't destroying anything, its more like an apathy for evolution.

 

[HonorableChairman]

I honestly don't see the problem with homosexuality.

The only realistic argument I can imagine is that it doesn't produce children, and by that logic people should have to have sex and give birth by default.

 

[ghost02]

I respect your opinion, but what is it that you think gay people destroy?

Culture. Look at Ancient Greece, homosexuality was rampant in greece and familys where ruined when the father ran off with his gay partner, the culture eventually was left in shambles. Homosexuality is slowly destroying american culture [not much to destroy!] also. We have more shows for homosexuals than for heterosexuals! Also it is destroying sexual taste, males are becoming attached to lesbian porn, so much so that it is a turn on, same goes for females but the porn is of the opposite sex.