Should Gay Couples Be Allowed To Marry??????

lovely post

Thank you

If you find the issue of how children will be affected as a result of gay marriage NOT important, I have nothing more to say.

Why should they be allowed? Marriage is designed for a man and a women to commit themselves to each other. Never mind getting married, the idea of same sex relationships is absurd in my opinion - it's unnatural, immoral and just plainly wrong! There must be someone else on this site who agrees...

Why should they be allowed? Marriage is designed for a man and a women to commit themselves to each other. Never mind getting married, the idea of same sex relationships is absurd in my opinion - it's unnatural, immoral and just plainly wrong! There must be someone else on this site who agrees...

Totally agree

Why? I don't mean the marriage thing, I mean the "same sex relationships are absurd" thing.

It's natural in the sense that it's been observed in hundreds of different species, including humans where same sex relationships can be found in all cultures past and present where anyone has bothered to look. Morality is somewhat perspective oriented, but certainly the prevailing secular standards such as the harm principle lead to no issue. Just plainly wrong isn't really an argument, unless it's one of personal taste.

So what's absurd about two people engaging in a romantic relationship?

I don't like gay marriage.

Why should they be allowed? Marriage is designed for a man and a women to commit themselves to each other. Never mind getting married, the idea of same sex relationships is absurd in my opinion - it's unnatural, immoral and just plainly wrong! There must be someone else on this site who agrees...

I don't like gay marriage.

Fix'd.

You don't need to pretend we all know your a homophobe.

Neither do I.



I have been emphasizing these points for the past few months, yet people seem to think they know better, and that gay marriage will create absolutely ZERO social/family problems.





There is no need to insult people/call names, simply because you don't agree with his opinion.

Fix'd.
You don't need to pretend we all know your a homophobe.

I'm really not a homophobe. It's just that gays generally dislike me which leads to a mutual dislike, which only gets worse when they refuse to listen to me. I have no issue with what gays do in private.

But you are a homophobe , if you weren't there would've been no need for you to PM me the other day trying to say you weren't a homophobe when you want to restrict the rights of gay people, and that's not just with regards to gay marriage, it's to do with our freedoms as people.

Uh huh, do you think that gays should get more rights than everyone else just because you are a minority? Heck, because gays are outnumbered perhaps they should get 100x as many votes. That way it would be completely fair, especially for gays.

The word 'given' is not tremendously appreciated either. To be blunt, while there are straight people out there who are allies and have done a lot of work aiming for gay marriage, the majority of straight people have not 'given' non-straight people anything. Pretty much every advance in rights for LGBT+ people has been hard-won through protests and campaigns.

As for civil partnerships, they aren't identically equal to marriages. You can't call them a marriage, you can't always hold them in a religious place of worship (I honestly can't remember if some churches are allowed to hold them if they want to, or not - it was a proposed amendment and I can't remember if it went through) and if you go abroad, they often aren't recognised the same. To the extend that some people have had problems with being allowed to visit their civil partners while their partners were in hospital in other countries, because they weren't recognised as next of kin.

It annoys me beyond belief that straight people get to vote on whether I should be allowed to marry someone I love or not - and that they can then tell me that it doesn't matter, when they're not in the same situation themselves. I don't give a toss if people think it's unnecessary or a waste of money in legal fees or whatever. I want the right in law to marry someone who I'm in love with, and I think that's a perfectly reasonable request.