Is ONE NATION UNDER GOD, supposed to legalise same sex marriage!!?
546504
God has every right in everything. He has a place in the government, in schools , etc . because look at what this country is coming to with all these people wanting God out of the picture. America needs God and as for the question, God did not intend on Man to be with Man or Females to be with Female. It is wrong according to the bible. DOesnt mean I dont have gay friends. I just keep my opinion to myself around them. Just like the ones who dont believe in GOd being in the pledge need to deal with it. Because the people that started this country had the right way of doing it. NOw everyone wants to mess it up. Lets see how far we get without God. This Country is already showing the effects. I cant believe half the things people say about Bush, gay marriage, etc.. its crazy
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i do not think that the government should have any say in it.\nthey should act as a records keeping body and that is it.\n\nthey get their 35 bucks for the marriage liscense and after that they keep it on file for future records. other than that it should be the decision of each individual church, and legaly ordained minister to decide whom their religion will allow them to marry.\n\nI am an ordained minister. it should be my choice if i wish to preform a marriage or handfasting ritual for same sex couples then it should be my religious freedom to do so. and the government should have to recognise it as legal. \n\nthe violation of my religious freedom is nothing in contrast to the violation to the couple's right to life liberty and the persuit of happiness. \n\nbesides they have jsut as much right to loose half of their s**t as the rest of us.
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You definately picked the right place to ask your question!!!\n\nI don't see how the government has any right to say whether or not a gay couple should be married.  The institue of marriage is religous and therefore it should be up to the institue that will perform the ceremony to decide if they wish to do it or not.  If I decided I wanted to spend the rest of my life with a woman I wouldn't go to, say, a Catholic church and expect the priest to marry us.  What IS wrong though, is that there are Christian communities that support the idea of gay marriage and cannot perform the ceremony because it is against the law and America won't honor it.\n\nWhat I don't get is why everyone says that if two people of the same sex get married religous fanatics say that it will disturb the sanctity of marriage... meanwhile Britney Spears can get drunk with a friend, have Elvis marry her, and then have it anulled the next day.  I'm not saying that all people who are gay are perfect because truth-be-told, we are still human.  Us as a society has changed so much that with divorce at such a high rate the "sanctity" of marriage has already been dissolved.\n\nIn the constitution it says every man has rights and freedoms... our freedom to marry whomever we choose and our right to do is not present.  It really feels like the government is going against it's own rights for thier own personal, conservative beliefs.  How, in a "free" country, can a government tell certain citizens "We won't give you the opportunity to get married"?  Isn't that grounds for discrimination?  Ask any older black person how the term "seperate but equal" works...\n\nIf one man has been with another for decades and one dies the other has no right to the estate.  How would that make you feel when you not only are morning the loss of lover but will now lose your house because you weren't married?  Gays also have no say in keeping thier partner on life support or not for the same reason.  \n\nIf a gay couple also wants to adopt a child it is also harder.  For the amount of neglected, hungry, and orphaned children in this country, adoption agencies should jump at the chance of anyone wanting to adopt a child.  They do background checks and interviews to see if the place where the child will potentially go is a safe, loving, and healthy environment.  There are agencies that won't even allow a gay person or couple to adopt a child no matter financially stable or loving the household is.\n\nWhat I believe is that since gays are now "coming out of our closets" and standing up for ourselves, is an improvement in society.  When a people can join together and be proud and powerful, that's where the improvement is.  All the gay bashers and hateful people have nothing better to do than try to make life more difficult than life already is.  We have people in this country that are dieing on the street, we have kids with drug problems in middle school, and the thing that they decide to put all thier energy into is stopping same sex marraige?  People with backward beliefs like that are what is slowing down the advancement in our American Society.\n\nThe only way I will change my mind is if marriage is taken away all together.  If straight people will let it go then I will too, because to me marriage is about love and commitment not the involvement of opposite sex organs.\n\nMy name is Christine, I live in NY, I am a bi female and you can quote me on anything and everything I said becuase it needs to be known...
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With the separation of church and state, can the government even legislate what marriage is??  "Marriage" is a religious ceremony to unite 2 people.\n\nIf the government wants to have marriage be a lawful union, then they have to come up with an unbias reason (not based in religious belief) that gays should not marry.  Because it is stated to be wrong in the bible will not fly in a court of law.  Anytime that someone tries to pass a law about marriage being between a man and a woman, it gets struck down as unconstitutional because lawmakers can't come up with a good enough reason other than it's in the bible.  Thank God that someone can still look at the law without pulling the bible into the mix.\n\nI seriously think that no one ever expects the law to pass, and it is only done to make "friends" with the "moral majority".  If the Christian Right is happy, the funds keep going into the reelection accounts.  They can say "well, we tried".
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Yes, in all provinces. And in Spain, and South Africa. \n\nThe Columbian Senate just considered and passed a bill, though it hasn't become law yet.\n\nMexico City is now recognizing same-sex domestic partnerships.\n\nIn the Netherlands, gay marriage has been legal for years.\n\nIn Israel, the Supreme Court ruled that the state  must recognized same-sex marriages solemnized in other countries, so that a couple married in Canada will also be considered married in Israel.\n\nIt's just America that doesn't get it.
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Actually the issue is not a big deal.\n\nChurches and religious organisations are not forced to marry same sex couples.\n\nIt should simply be based on couples leaving together in order to get fair legal social benefits....\n\nThe recognition should have stayed at that ...\nIt's actually the churches that brought the issues and named it marriage per say... and so it became an issue.\n\nI am not bothered by same sex marriage at all on the contrary, I am not peaking and sneaking into my neighbors life on order to watch on which side of the bed they sleep.\n\nAs for children, Same sex parents or not, societies around the world are being challenged in many was and there is no past models that seem to be the answer for all....\n\nAll what I know is this, mistreatment of children in the name of religion, or alcoolic hetero parents or abused children or any other form of child neglect is a major societal issue. Instead of focusing on offset issues such as same sex marriages we should be more concern on the welfare of children and dignity of our elderlies and their be kind to our neighbors.
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Because like it or not there are people out there who truly believe things like "god started marriage". They also happen to be the same people that make up most of the laws.\n\nMoral of the story. Vote!
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Actually 'marriage between gays and lesbians' is legal everywhere in the world, as the gender definition fits...\n\nGay marriage, or lesbian marriage, is legal only in a few countries (the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Canada, South Africa, and the U.S. state of Massachusetts).\n\nI'm looking for information about family law in the UAE but I haven't been able to find it yet.\n\nAnyway, to answer your question: sooner or later, they will probably realise that they will have no choice but to secularise their laws. A few well-publicised trials might raise enough noise among the foreign community (which is the vast majority of the resident population of the UAE, as I understand), and they'll probably wind up not repealing but decriminalising a lot of family crime.
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They can in certain countries. If you want to marry a same gender person, you could try changing your sex, but personally - same sex marriages are just not natural and strictly forbidden in many religions.
1090623
It depends upon the person and the country.  If the leader is able to keep his or her mind open to what is best for the majority of the people rather than "my {religious text of choice} tells me that this is wrong so we're going to make sure it's illegal," there's not a problem.\n\nSorry, I'm having major problems with President Bush's view on same sex marriage right now.
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I guess this isn't a question for me. I'm for it. They just want to be a family like anyone else. And it's unconstitutional that they don't have equal rights. Marriage is not a religious institution. It is practiced all over the world in all religions. IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH GOD. It is about 2 people coming together, making the promise to love each other solely, and starting a family together. More over it does not effect anyone outside of their marriage. What is it hurting? I don't know, you tell me.
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I don't think the government accepts gay marriage in any form yet, you will have to wait until gay people are given the right to be miserable and need a prenup!
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Yallah ya Mooddy!  U tell me which country policies are the best in the world?  No one is not perfect, but only by GOD himself. His rules/laws are perfect for us to follow. Sad news is that we are living in struggling world right now. Some of us wants to follow and some dont want to follow God's rules/laws. So? Why should we worry about the imperfection of manhood's polices?  You and I are not perfect. So i cant say or judge what i think about US polices or Your country polices...  =)maa el salama
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who cares i try not to judge others and church is all about money.  as for same sex marriages why did the pres. ban that because he is a babling idoit i say if you love some one and want to make that decision you should be able to. i thought this was a free country
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Who knows why our country's doing anything it's doing. I agree with you completely. I'm sorry that you and your partner, as well as all other homosexuals, cannot show your love by marrying one another. Love is love. I don't think it matters if you're a man loving a man, a woman loving a woman, or a man loving a woman. If your heart is true you should be able to get married. Bottom line. I hope that you and your partner will one day have the same rights as the rest of us. And that this prejudice will end; to any degree it can.
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>>>If the United States is so perfect and so fair then why don't people have equal rights?? Gays should be able to marry!! <<<\n\nYou're so right!   Gays don't have equal rights because they can't marry each other!\n\nAnd while we're at it, how about it for all the pedophiles, bigamists, polygamists, incest committers, and those who are prone to bestiality -- because all of them are prohibited from marrying the objects of their sexual desires!\n\nThree cheers for the idea that "marriage rights" should encompass any and all sexual desires whatsoever!\n\nAnd to hell with the fact that 45 out of 50 states have laws specifically defining marriage as a man-woman union.   Who in the hell needs respect for the democratic process, anyway?
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While I agree with you that banning gay marriage is neither helpful nor within the government's most important jobs, I have to disagree with you. Marriage is, beyond any spiritual or moral arrangement, a civil, legal one, and as such, the government is supposed to define the arrangement. Obviously it shouldn't do so in a way that so blatantly discriminates against another group.