Do you support gay marriage?

Do you support gay marriage?

  • Yes

    Votes: 194 87.4%
  • No

    Votes: 28 12.6%

  • Total voters
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a simple yes or no.

Whether your decisions are influenced by religion or you own morals.

let's not make this into a debate, just a simple yes or no will do.

Ofcourse yes
My country was the second country to legalise gay marriage, after Holland.
This 10 years ago already...
 
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Yes because I could care less who marries who.
 

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I am against the state being involved in marriage at all.

I think it is unfair just because some people practice some traditions and go through some pomp and circumstance, that they get privileges.
 

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As long as it is made legal at a State level, it's fine with me. There is nothing in the American Constitution about marriage of any sort, therefore, the Feds should have no say, lest it truly become a "special right" that is granted to some people, but not all. I also support my right to marry my sister, in addition to my current spouse, and am willing to turn to the courts to legalize it.
 

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As long as it is made legal at a State level, it's fine with me. There is nothing in the American Constitution about marriage of any sort, therefore, the Feds should have no say, lest it truly become a "special right" that is granted to some people, but not all. I also support my right to marry my sister, in addition to my current spouse, and am willing to turn to the courts to legalize it.

Don't know about incest or polygamy, but if you ever decide to marry someone of a different race, you can thank the federal government and the American Constitution--specifically, the Supreme Court's 1967 unanimous decision to strike down miscegenation laws under the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause.

And yes, I'm in favor of allowing same-sex marriage.
 

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Yep, with the provision that heterosexual relationships are continued as the "norm" in sexual education.
 

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I am in favor of gay marriage. Why? Because gay people have the right to live in holy frustration as much as anyone else. Ok that was a joke. Look if marriage was just a religious ceremony then that's one thing, but ever since the governments stuck their nose in and decreed that married people get such and such benefits it turned marriage into a social contract. You don't even need to be in a religion to get married. You need a judge to sign a piece of paper. How sacred is that shit?

Not being allowed to get married because you are gay is outright discrimination and thus law preventing it are by definition unconstitutional. A priest can refuse to preform the ceremony that's fine, but as a right it should apply to everyone.

As for those who say "Why not just call them civil unions. It's the same thing." You go to a straight wedding and tell the newly weds "Congadutations on becoming civically unionized." Then it's the same thing.
 

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Yes, I support gay marriage without any qualifications.

As Pierre Trudeau said nearly fifty years ago, "There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation."... "what's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code."

I think the whole idea of state regulation of who you love and how you relate to them is preposterous.
 

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The norm for whom?

Couples who wishes to have children the "normal" way. I don't see anything wrong with gay marriage, and I, at least tacitly (based on WA voting records), support it, but one of the tenets of marriage is procreation, and should be taught as the norm to children. That doesn't go to say teach gay marriage as sinful or an abomination, but that it cannot physically achieve a major foundation of marriage.

Same reason that sex-ed, woefully insufficient though it may be, should not teach anal sex, regardless of gender, as the norm.

Since we like to get all indignant about perceived slights and misinterpretations, this is not in any way meant to belittle gays.

No Klingsor, not the intent at all. Perhaps you don't preach hetero marriage as "normal," which would insinuate anything outside of it is abnormal, but, again, from the child bearing perspective, it should be preached as the way to do it.
 
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Couples who wishes to have children the "normal" way. I don't see anything wrong with gay marriage, and I, at least tacitly (based on WA voting records), support it, but one of the tenets of marriage is procreation, and should be taught as the norm to children. That doesn't go to say teach gay marriage as sinful or an abomination, but that it cannot physically achieve a major foundation of marriage.

Same reason that sex-ed, woefully insufficient though it may be, should not teach anal sex, regardless of gender, as the norm.

So, as with anal sex, same-sex marriage is abnormal? :confused:

Since we like to get all indignant about perceived slights and misinterpretations, this is not in any way meant to belittle gays.

Those pesky minorities always wanting their rights. :mad:
 
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I don't support gay marriage, but I don't support straight marriage either. Why would I "support" a type of marriage? Should gay people be allowed to get married? Sure, why not?
 

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No Klingsor, not the intent at all. Perhaps you don't preach hetero marriage as "normal," which would insinuate anything outside of it is abnormal, but, again, from the child bearing perspective, it should be preached as the way to do it.

I guess I would be less concerned with teaching norms and more concerned with teaching facts.

And yes, among those facts would be that the majority of people consider themselves at least predominately heterosexual, and that this kind of sex is the usual (though now not the only) way the species is perpetuated.

But I would also impart other facts: the historical and cultural variations in sexual practice, and our present-day awareness of issues surrounding sexual orientation and gender identity.

And if we *are* talking "norms," I suppose the ones I would most want instilled are the usual good old standbys, such as kindness, fairness, and compassion.
 
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I want to share something with you. bearing children is not the only reason to be on this fucking earth. caring for children is. there are a lot of gay families in the this screwed up country that care for abandoned and abused children. many times it's older kids that aren't "acceptable" for str8 people. maybe it's because str8 people don't want certain "foreign brands" of children, you know, not complementary with the rest of the family. and, God forbid, maybe they are gay or lesbian, which is the best reason to not want them.

you probably live in a comfortable, well heated closet like most 80-20 splits. you're probably horrified by the 20% side of you. if you aren't I sure wish you were. I am 100% gay and i'm proud of it. you can damn me to hell if you want and ass-uming there is such a place you will probably get to live there after you die in you closet, and trust me, I won't.
 

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I want to share something with you. bearing children is not the only reason to be on this fucking earth. caring for children is. there are a lot of gay families in the this screwed up country that care for abandoned and abused children. many times it's older kids that aren't "acceptable" for str8 people. maybe it's because str8 people don't want certain "foreign brands" of children, you know, not complementary with the rest of the family. and, God forbid, maybe they are gay or lesbian, which is the best reason to not want them.

Excellent points, and I agree wholeheartedly!

you probably live in a comfortable, well heated closet like most 80-20 splits. you're probably horrified by the 20% side of you. if you aren't I sure wish you were. I am 100% gay and i'm proud of it. you can damn me to hell if you want and ass-uming there is such a place you will probably get to live there after you die in you closet, and trust me, I won't.

I can only assume from the 80-20 reference that you're addressing me, even though I agree with everything you've said, and I honestly don't see how my posts suggest otherwise. :frown1: