The reasons for opposing gay marriage

Now that's not very Christian of you.

Scientific research has repeatedly shown that children raised by different-sex parents do better than children raised by same-sex parents.

Scientific research has repeatedly shown that children raised by different-sex parents do better than children raised by same-sex parents.

It's a Christian country in name only really. There are rather a lot of atheists in this country should they all leave too? Are you going to make them leave?
Honestly I tolerate religion but when they start infringing on things that ought to be common sense because of their laws that are two millenium old I tend to take them less seriously. As should anyone with half a brain and an ounce of common sense.
I'm not insulting religions beacuse I don't believe in them and even if I did I'm not sure it would be hypocritical. Care to explain that one?


I know but honestly I don't think having a male role model is the be all and end all so I think that using that to say two lesbians raising a child or children is more hazardous is pretty thin. It's a pretty weak argument.

Not really clutching at anything, just proving a point . You don't follow everything you only choose what you want. So now the real question is why are you choosing the scripture on homosexuality? How is that any more ridiculous than the passage on mixing fabrics?

To create a child biologically you need a mother and a father. That is what a child needs naturally. Simple.

"My right to make things up." Not gonna bother talking to someone who's just going to belittle me because you don't have an argument with any weight to it.

Wow how stupid are you? JOSEPH WAS A MALE ROLE MODEL TO JESUS YOU RETARD.

Actually there's a lot of scientific research that children do better with a parent of each sex as opposed to two of the same sex.

It's not nonsensical at all. I don't know who these perfect children you know are, but I know plenty of gay people who were bullied at school for it. That's just what kids are like.

But love isn't the only thing that matters in life, and thinking that it is isn't going to get you very far I'm afraid.

No, it isn't evil, blindness or a lack or tolerance that makes me believe that a heterosexual couple will GENERALLY SPEAKING do a better job of raising a child than a homosexual couple, it's scientific fact.

Grow. Up.

Britain is legally a Christian country. Simple.

"Am I going to make them leave?" Wow you're ridiculous. Seriously, grow up. If you don't like how a country is run, go somewhere else. That's pretty simple really.

And it's only your opinion that it's 'common sense'; that doesn't mean that it actually is!

If religious people insulted what atheists believe half as much as atheists insult religious believers then you'd kick off big time! Hypocritical.

Do you have any evidence to back that argument up or just "what you think?" Because my cousin has two same-sex (female) parents and honestly it's impacting on him big-time in a bad way that he has no male role models.

Britain is legally a Christian country. Simple.

"Am I going to make them leave?" Wow you're ridiculous. Seriously, grow up. If you don't like how a country is run, go somewhere else. That's pretty simple really.

And it's only your opinion that it's 'common sense'; that doesn't mean that it actually is!

If religious people insulted what atheists believe half as much as atheists insult religious believers then you'd kick off big time! Hypocritical.

Do you have any evidence to back that argument up or just "what you think?" Because my cousin has two same-sex (female) parents and honestly it's impacting on him big-time in a bad way that he has no male role models.

Do you have any evidence to back that argument up or just "what you think?" Because my cousin has two same-sex (female) parents and honestly it's impacting on him big-time in a bad way that he has no male role models.

To be honest it's not just for the legality, marriage is one of the big final steps of commitment in a relationship, I don't think such a thing should be confined to only two people of the opposite sex.

The fact that civil partnerships are almost the same as marriage shouldn't mean that they should settle for civil partnerships.

If there is little to no difference between the two then it really shouldn't matter or make a difference to allow them the right to marry. It's really not a big deal to allow them.

They already have the right to say that they are married, don't they? Nobody's going to come an arrest them for it. They can proclaim "we're married" as loudly as they like already. But since many of the rest of us understand the term "civil partnership" to refer to this union, then we have just as much of a right to call it that.

To be honest, I'd consider this sort of sentiment to be more demeaning to homosexuals. I mean, civil partnerships do contain the same contractual elements as marriage. Essentially, they are marriages. The only difference is that they are between members of the same sex. So why should civil partnerships be considered something to "settle for", as though it somehow isn't as good? You say that marriage is one of the final steps of commitment in a relationship. And what, civil partnership isn't?

I mean, you don't get straight people complaining "I want the right to have a civil partnership!" They're perfectly happy to call it "marriage", the same word we have been using all this time. Gay people wanting to describe their own relationships as "marriage" as well, using the term traditionally ascribed to straight people, trying to blur the distinction between straight and gay marriage looks like some kind of inferiority complex to me. It just indicates a feeling of "civil partnership isn't as good as marriage", even though aside from the fact that the participants are same-sex, civil partnership is marriage in all other respects.

This really misses the point. They're already allowed to engage in whatever kind of relationship they want. It's not that gay people aren't allowed to marry. We simply call it "civil partnership" instead of marriage. In practice their rights are exactly the same. They can live together, share property, inherit from one another, get tax reliefs and everything else that marriage includes. The whole campaign for "gay marriage" is purely just a case of changing the name.

They already have the right to say that they are married, don't they? Nobody's going to come an arrest them for it. They can proclaim "we're married" as loudly as they like already. But since many of the rest of us understand the term "civil partnership" to refer to this union, then we have just as much of a right to call it that.



To be honest, I'd consider this sort of sentiment to be more demeaning to homosexuals. I mean, civil partnerships do contain the same contractual elements as marriage. Essentially, they are marriages. The only difference is that they are between members of the same sex. So why should civil partnerships be considered something to "settle for", as though it somehow isn't as good? You say that marriage is one of the final steps of commitment in a relationship. And what, civil partnership isn't?

I mean, you don't get straight people complaining "I want the right to have a civil partnership!" They're perfectly happy to call it "marriage", the same word we have been using all this time. Gay people wanting to describe their own relationships as "marriage" as well, using the term traditionally ascribed to straight people, trying to blur the distinction between straight and gay marriage looks like some kind of inferiority complex to me. It just indicates a feeling of "civil partnership isn't as good as marriage", even though aside from the fact that the participants are same-sex, civil partnership is marriage in all other respects.



This really misses the point. They're already allowed to engage in whatever kind of relationship they want. It's not that gay people aren't allowed to marry. We simply call it "civil partnership" instead of marriage. In practice their rights are exactly the same. They can live together, share property, inherit from one another, get tax reliefs and everything else that marriage includes. The whole campaign for "gay marriage" is purely just a case of changing the name.

Scientific research has repeatedly shown that children raised by different-sex parents do better than children raised by same-sex parents.

What I think you're missing is that a marriage is not simply a contract, it's also a symbol. No matter how similar the legal effect of marriages and civil partnerships may be, they have different connotations. The very fact that they are separate institutions is symbolic.