how do you feel about same sex marriage?

[MustangPoser]

Letting 2 gay people get married forces you to get married to another man?

If gays gain more rights he may be tempted to act on his latent urges.

[Forever_frost]

How about prohibition of alcohol sales on Sunday? It's a blue law, clearly motivated by religious moral interpretation, and it prevents me from buying a bottle of tasty scotch whisky on Sundays. Saying I can buy it at another time is exactly the same intolerant gesture as saying I can't buy it on Sunday. I'm being told I cannot do something for no other reason than because someone doesn't agree with it. Am I intolerant of Christian beliefs if I want to buy on Sundays? Why?

Exactly the point. You remove government from the equation. But I'm not seeing people screaming to take the power to decide what marriage is from government, I'm seeing idiots yelling we need MORE government to tell us what marriage is

[Forever_frost]

Letting 2 gay people get married forces you to get married to another man?

Nope not at all. Do you also support polygamy Tali?

[Forever_frost]

If gays gain more rights he may be tempted to act on his latent urges.

My only latent urges are violent. VERY violent. Promise you don't want me to act on them again

[BERNIE MOSFET]

Exactly the point. You remove government from the equation. But I'm not seeing people screaming to take the power to decide what marriage is from government, I'm seeing idiots yelling we need MORE government to tell us what marriage is

As you said elsewhere, states define marriage. They honor religious ceremonies in lieu of their own, but they issue the license.

If marriage had no legal implications, it would be a non issue. Agreed. But it does, so it begs that we evaluate those definitions from a legal point of view. Keep religion out of it. They don't have to perform ceremonies or validate marriages that oppose their beliefs.

[Forever_frost]

As you said elsewhere, states define marriage. They honor religious ceremonies in lieu of their own, but they issue the license.

If marriage had no legal implications, it would be a non issue. Agreed. But it does, so it begs that we evaluated those definitions from a legal point of view. Keep religion out of it. They don't have to perform ceremonies or validate marriages that oppose their beliefs.

True and the union of same sex couples doesn't have to be called marriage. It can be called civil unions and carry all the same legalities.

[KBScobravert]

71% could give a fuck less.

[mustangguy289]

True and the union of same sex couples doesn't have to be called marriage. It can be called civil unions and carry all the same legalities.

They already have that don't they? I know at my work you can get insurance benefits for a same sex partner without being married. If you are opposite you must be married.


Seems like they have more rights without all the BS.

[BERNIE MOSFET]

True and the union of same sex couples doesn't have to be called marriage. It can be called civil unions and carry all the same legalities.

I think that's fair. If a real distinction is made, more people might get behind it.

Language is connotative, so we get caught up in the words. It happens here all the time where definitions get debated back and forth and the intent gets lost.

[Nash B.]

It happens here all the time where definitions get debated back and forth and the intent gets lost.

There's a pretty big difference between the definitions of "belief" and "fact"!

[Forever_frost]

And I just solved it. Leave marriage alone, create your civil unions and give it the same legalities. OR

Remove teh power of government to decide who is and isn't married.

[majorownage]

Not addressing the point scooter. Homosexuality is an evolutionary dead end.

I'm going to have to disagree with you there sir. It's been observed and oppressed for millennia.

It's been observed in other animal species as well. If it serves no purpose, why wouldn't that gene been long removed before there were so many other species?

[BERNIE MOSFET]

There's a pretty big difference between the definitions of "belief" and "fact"!

LMAO!

See, you're a programmer so you think primarily in denotative ways.

Sales guys are connotative, typically.

[Baron Von Crowder]

There are weddings all the time for same sex partners. What they are looking for is for the same rights as a married couple in the eyes of the law. Im ok with that, and Im not sure what the big fuss is about, and have never gotten a good justifiable reasoning as to why that isnt legal. Sodomy is Illegal, so any sexual contact that isnt for reproduction is technically illegal. That's fine and dandy, except if this was truely an issue, condomns and birth control would be illegal also. Sorry for you criminals that cant reproduce!

I will say that Im tollerant of homosexuals. I choose to associate with people who tend to be most like myself, so that doesnt include g/l very often. In cases when I happen to be in a group setting and that does include a gay or lesbian person or couple, I evaluate if I would like to continue to associate with them, just as I do in any group.

[VaderTT]

Same sex marriage is gay.