How does same-sex marrage affect anyone but the people getting married?
447325
I REALLY don't understand what the big deal is all about.\nThis world is a weird and scary place. If an adult can find true love and wants to marry someone, I don't care if they are gay or black, or Hindu or little people or WHATEVER. That will have absolutly NOTHING to do with my marriage. I do understand that marriage is a sacred thing but, isn't it up to us to keep our own marriages sacred rather than poke around in someone elses business?\n\n  The divorce rate is around 50% in this country. What is so sacred about that? Since Gays and lesbians arn't allowed to marry, the high divorce rate and the lack of respect for marriage is an obvious sign that most straight people don't honor marriage. Maybe if we allowed gays to marry, they could teach us straights a thing or two.\n\n  Could it be at all possible that people are afraid to let gays marry because maybe the gays will be more successful at it? Just a thought.\n  And as for the people that quote bible passages against gay marriage, I can pop my head into the bible and find tons of quotes advocating slavery, incest and all that jazz.\nThe fact is that this country was founded on the principal of "Separation of Church and State" Look it up if you don't understand. I appreciate other peoples religous views but,\nIf we do not see eye to eye, it is because we have different opinions and NOT because one of us is right or wrong. To behave in a self-ritous way like that is ignorant and just plain rude.\n  Also, There are THOUSANDS of orphans and foster kids living in institutions. They are sent out into the world without a family once they turn 18. I bet dollars to donuts that if you ask these kids, they would much rather live in a nice home with a couple of  married gays than the orphanage. If gays could marry and adopt, it would give these forgotten children a chance to be a part of a loving and supportive family for LIFE. How happy they would be to have their own bedroom and parents to help with their homework and to see them in the school play? \nWe have already tried hating people for being different and it dosn't seem to have done much good. Maybe we can all try to be more loving or understanding to people different than us. Maybe we Christians can see past the hatred and fear to the TRUE word of Jesus Christ. I don't remember Jesus hating on "sinners" or people different than Him. I remember acceptance and UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. WWJD? In your HEART you know the answer. \nPlease forgive any misspellings, spellcheck is on the fritz.
185129
The first amendment, among other things, protects the individual's freedom to associate with whomever he chooses.  As far as I'm concerned, if two fellas want to free associate, they can do it as much as they like.  But the day you tell me that marrying another man is mandatory, that's the day when I leave the US.  Nobody's gonna force me to get gay married.
554988
I have gay friends who are in relationships a lot healthier and more honest than a lot of straight peoples' marriages.  When it became legal to marry in Toronto (where I'm from) I was proud to be a member of the first church to offer the ceremony with all the bells and whistles.  These people have children together, they share their good and bad times, and they have as much right to be married as straights do.  My friends Beth and Judy got married there and the press asked their 8 year old son what he thought about his two mothers getting married.  His response: "Now we are a REAL family!" says it all.
138126
They probably meaning that they get married and marriage is in the bible and it is the joining of A MAn and A WOman by God and in the same bible it says that homosexuality is a sin against God. That is what it is meant by saying gay marriage is an oxymoron!\nI am not saying i agree! just letting you know
128845
Marriage is learned behavior. Self actualizing people are able to be happy and get what they want from life without having to be emotionally dependent on someone else. We cannot help our lives from being influenced by other people, but making our choices merely based on tradition can take us to the wrong places, so beware...  \n\nInterestingly, isolation can be asociated to many underlying diseases (ex. depression, personality disorders...), so make sure this is not your case
440524
Everyone should have the same rights regardless of their sexual preference. If gay people want to get married they should be allowed to. I don't why there is so much controversy over this issue, it's a basic right to marry someone. They are still people who experience love just like straight people.
1078472
I'm not sure why you care. Is it for the monetary benefits they could then enjoy as a legally married couple? If it's not about money, then why make such a big deal about it? The bottom line is how two people feel about one another and not some definition of "marriage" that society chooses to make. I think I'd revere two people who were dedicated to one another who didn't need the formality of marriage as a crutch. Spend your time living life, not debating it.\n\nIn my opinion, the basis of your arguments are that you want society to accept homosexuality as a normal human condition. Unfortunately, homosexuality is not a normal human condition by definition because reproduction is necessary to preserve the species as it is with any animal on earth. It's true that 10% of the population is genetically homosexual, but so is 10% of the population deaf or blind, but that doesn't make it normal. On the other hand, skin color, nationality, culture, gender, and other potential racially related discriminant features are simply manifestations of human evolution on earth. Darwin's theory of evolution cannot support homosexuality as a normal development of mankind.
587544
Whats wrong with gay people? They are just PEOPLE. Just because they happen to be attracted to the same sex doesn't mean they shouldn't be able to get married. What if someone told you you couldn't get married because your right handed. Its not your falt your right handed so why should you suffer for it? It is the same way with gay people, they can't help it.
959301
In the UK we have recently started to accept civil partnerships, which I hope is the first step towards a better gay marriage law.  The difficulty is that a lot of pople think that "marriage" can only be between a man and a woman and a lot of people think that gay people don't deserve the same human rights as straight people, I hope that these views fall out of favour because there is no real difference and surely two people in a happy, commited relationship are better off than two single people that are living alone and miserable!
65621
I feel gay marriage will be abused just like any other law *permitting something*. Friends will marry to share in financial and tax benefits, they will marry out of a joke. For example me and my friend Mike were waiting for marriage to open up in our state and be the first married same-sex couple in school (highschool at the time). So as much as there are serious issues with gay marriage it will be abused but should still be granted.
325316
Not at all! All these people who don't believe in same sex marriages are looking at the wrong things. If they're happy, than let them be together to be happy. We wouldn't want someone getting in the middle of our marriages if we really loved someone! I would never marry someone of my gender, just based on the fact that I'm not lesbian. But some people are, and this is a country where we can all be free to marry whoever we want, as long as they aren't our immediate family. Let them be, because once you stop being judgemental and look at who they really are, you'll see that they have feelings too and they just want to be able to express love the way straight people do
145465
If what one person does does not hurt or effect another, then no, the government should not get involved. Gay marriage is a good example. The exuses I always hear against it are all religious morals. But in reality, if two gay men or two gay women get married, it will have no effect on my heterosexual marriage.\n\nAnother example is prostitution. What goes on between two consenting adults should be none of the business of the government. If a woman want to freely charge for sexual favors, and a man wants to freely pay for it, who does it hurt? Of course, if a woman if forced into prostitution by someone else, this is wrong, but if she does it of her own free-will, there is no problem.
1140244
Marriage is more of a legal issue than it is a religious one.  While many people do get married through a church of whatever their particular religion is, the church in no way makes the marriage official in the eyes of society, just in the eyes of the church.  What really makes you married is the certificate that you get from the state when you tell them you're getting married and go through the whole paperwork thing.
608396
Marriage.  Sadly, even that isn't 100% secure for some.
121796
It does not dir after marrige. It is just that it get more routine with time and pressure on couples. And on ressure I mean - work, kids, money and so on...
996635
same sex relationships dont bother me in the slightest. yes i believe they should be allowed, and yes, it should be called Marriage. I'm straight too, so i dont think this affects me on any level, but i try to look at it from a different standpoint...what if i were straight, in a world that was homosexual? what if i was the minority, wanting the right to marry someone of the opposite gender?
960912
Natural.\n\nBeing married does not cut off all your sense involving the opposite sex.  You still can become very attracted to someone else but because you are married, you don't allow it to lead to ANYTHING !\n\nBut, you may think about the other person for a while but it will pass with your help meaning get busy with something else and pray.