Gay Marriage

[BALLAHOLLIC]

I cant find the original topic, I'm sure it's too old to be bumped anyway. What are your thoughts on Gay Marriage?Here's how I look at the situation. What does it matter whether they are boyfriend-boyfriend or married? They are going to live together and interact together every day anyway. Getting married would change nothing.In my opinion being against homosexuals is the exact same thing as being prejudice against another race. Homosexuality is here, It's not going to go anywhere. Regardless of of mine or anybody else's Convictions. Gays should not be looked down upon because they happen to live a different lifestyle than normal. I am not saying we have to embrace it, but it has to be accepted.

 

[Wade3]

Theres always going to be people for and against it. And, theres no way to change that... unless we kill em all. But, Im not really for it. Or Against it. I just think its wrong.

 

[BrewCityBuck]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BALLAHOLLIC? @ Nov 6 2006, 09:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I cant find the original topic, I'm sure it's too old to be bumped anyway. What are your thoughts on Gay Marriage?Here's how I look at the situation. What does it matter whether they are boyfriend-boyfriend or married? They are going to live together and interact together every day anyway. Getting married would change nothing.In my opinion being against homosexuals is the exact same thing as being prejudice against another race. Homosexuality is here, It's not going to go anywhere. Regardless of of mine or anybody else's Convictions. Gays should not be looked down upon because they happen to live a different lifestyle than normal. I am not saying we have to embrace it, but it has to be accepted.</div> Exactly. Nothing would fricken change if gays were allowed to marry. Nothing. They would have basic rights they deserve and people would go on living their lives. Instead, we have all these douchebags that won't just end it so we can move on from this.

 

[The Captain]

I look at issues like this as one thing.If it doesn't effect me, I don't have a care in the world. Homosexuals could do anything they want together and I would be A-OK with it.

 

[redneck]

if its two consenting adults who should care? let them do as they please.

 

[Hang Eleven]

I'm went through a big debate related to it before, so my views should be very clear about this.<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>In my opinion being against homosexuals is the exact same thing as being prejudice against another race.</div>The difference between the two is that homosexuality is a choice. Being colored is not.

 

[1331]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Hang Eleven @ Nov 7 2006, 06:33 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I'm went through a big debate related to it before, so my views should be very clear about this.The difference between the two is that homosexuality is a choice. Being colored is not.</div>Colored? What the F*ck? Being homosexual isn't a choice. Ted Haggard w just got caught having a gay affair. If being gay was as simple as a choice, he would have chosen not to. Being gay is natural; it has been since the beginning of time. It occurs in the animal world, and at the end of the day we?re all just animals. But what else should I expect from someone who still says colored?

 

[Hang Eleven]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Being homosexual isn't a choice. Ted Haggard w just got caught having a gay affair. If being gay was as simple as a choice, he would have chosen not to. Being gay is natural; it has been since the beginning of time. It occurs in the animal world, and at the end of the day we’re all just animals. But what else should I expect from someone who still says colored?</div>What is the big deal with the word colored? I was going to say "yellow and black", but I just decided to say a general word with general. But what can I expect from someone who said "my parents were INSANE Christians. Thank god they are cured from that ***."?Look at my reasonings in this thread. Mainly on page 4 and 5.

 

[yankshater213]

I think gay marriage, and gay people as a whole, are F*cked up. but if they wanna do that they can. im not going to let something that doesn't affect me anyways affect me.

 

[ASUFan22]

Oh guys...Ted Haggard is my English teacher's uncle! ahahah...she never liked him but that's pretty funny. She said her family was pretty strange.

 

[DRob-50-Forever]

Althoguh morally I think it is wrong I say sure why not? It doesn't affect me or any aother straight person. This way homosexuals will actually have to get married to share health benefits instead of how it is now which is not fair to straight people.

 

[Opal]

I could care less about this subject. There are people dying and starving to death all over the world and we are worried about two guys or two girls getting married? Give me a break!Who cares if it isn't Catholic. We have done a lot of things un-catholic as a nation and we are worried about this? Jeez I hate this topic.

 

[1331]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Hang Eleven @ Nov 7 2006, 07:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>What is the big deal with the word colored? I was going to say "yellow and black", but I just decided to say a general word with general. But what can I expect from someone who said "my parents were INSANE Christians. Thank god they are cured from that ***."?</div>Well my Mom and Dad were crazy Christians, but don?t confuse that with calling all Christians crazy. I grew up in an extreme sect of evangelical Christian movement. Mom and Dad spent 20 years in that movement and they too thank god to be free from that. Put it this way, during the next few days call all the minorities you encounter ?colored? -right to their faces. Come back and let us know how that works out for ya.As far as gay marriage I?m all for it. Homosexuality is a normal way of life for a small percentage of our neighbors. I don?t think it is a choice, as much as I think some folks are just wired that way. But even if it is a choice, who are we to deny consensual adults from a way of life that has no effect whatsoever at our house? My wife and I have 3 daughters. What if one of them should be a lesbian? It wouldn?t change how we feel about our daughters, it wouldn?t make us love them less, or less proud of them. If our daughter was to meet someone, whom she loves and wants with to spend her life with, why should she be denied that right? It?s easy, if you don?t support gay marriage, don?t marry a gay.

 

[G=K]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BALLAHOLLIC? @ Nov 6 2006, 08:37 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I cant find the original topic, I'm sure it's too old to be bumped anyway. What are your thoughts on Gay Marriage?Here's how I look at the situation. What does it matter whether they are boyfriend-boyfriend or married? They are going to live together and interact together every day anyway. Getting married would change nothing.In my opinion being against homosexuals is the exact same thing as being prejudice against another race. Homosexuality is here, It's not going to go anywhere. Regardless of of mine or anybody else's Convictions. Gays should not be looked down upon because they happen to live a different lifestyle than normal. I am not saying we have to embrace it, but it has to be accepted.</div>I agree 100% tolerate. and yet many are fine with two women making love but two men? never. double standards as well.

 

[valo35]

I think everyone should be for more gay marriage, because the more men that like other men, the more women there are for me. Really though, it doesn't hurt me or anyone else if some male or female is gay, that's their choice. No one comes into my house or comes into any of your houses and tells you not to watch basketball, or to stop dating women. So where do people get off telling others that they shouldn't be gay?

 

[Combs]

It doesn't affect us directly, but you can't say that it doesn't affect us indirectly. I'm all for giving them the same benefits as other married straight couples tho.

 

[BrewCityBuck]

S. Africa Parliament OKs Gay MarriagesNov "When we attained our democracy, we sought to distinguish ourselves from an unjust painful past, by declaring that never again shall it be that any South African will be discriminated against on the basis of color, creed culture and sex," Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa- Nqakula told the National Assembly. http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/14/D8LCTCSG0.html

 

[Combs]

They aren't being discriminated against if they get the same rights.Guys can't go in the womans bathroom. Young people can't live in a senior citizens home. You have to be 21 to drink. You have to be 16 to get a drivers license. You have to be a man and a woman to get a marriage license. Like I said..getting the same benefits a married couple is fine. However, marriage is for a man and a woman. The sanctity of the marriage is how people would be effected. Over time, more than likely it could dramatically effect the way we view marriages.I respect the other side and see their point however. And if the majority agreed, and it won in a vote, than it should be done. But from what I have seen, the majority are against the idea.

 

[redneck]

I think thats what most homosexual people want, is the legal rights that come with marriage. marriage itself is a religious institution set up between a man and a woman. so I can understand heterosexuals not wanting homosexuals having the same institutions. but having a Civil Union between homosexual couples would be just fine.

 

[Noah]

This is a non-issue IMO. Some have already stated it... This country is far from being "free" as long as this continues to BE an issue... People should be able to do whatever the F*ck they please, however the F*ck they want to, so long as it doesn't hurt anyone else in the process.In this case, it's not a question... There's nothing "wrong" about it... It's not anymore "wrong" than two women, or men and women getting married. Let them be together, they're not hurting ANYONE!

 

[melo]

What's the difference between marriage and them being a couple? There still having a relationship, a meaningful relationship. I'm totally against it but if governments are going to allow them to be together outside of marriage then there's no use of now allowing them to be married.

 

[redneck]

Married people get certain perks, which gay couples want. such as tax credits, legal rights in courts, and what not. gay sex isn't a crime, the Supreme court ruled that a few years ago. but whats got a lot of gay people upset is, that they can be a couple for 20 years, and when one dies the other one doesn't get anything. in some states even if the deceased leaves everything to their partner in a will the partner still doesn't get anything.

 

[RashadzMcCantz]

Gay marriage is disgusting and wrong but I don't think you can help being attracted to men. I am not against gay marriage because I think that everyone should have equal rights but I think that God made men and women for a reason. I'll leave that discussion for later but let them do whatever they please.

 

[BrewCityBuck]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (RashadzMcCantz @ Nov 19 2006, 04:24 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Gay marriage is disgusting and wrong but I don't think you can help being attracted to men. I am not against gay marriage because I think that everyone should have equal rights but I think that God made men and women for a reason. I'll leave that discussion for later but let them do whatever they please.</div> God made men and women for a reason...so we could mate and have babies...whats your point? God makes people that can't have children and god makes people that have different brains that make them attracted to the same sex.

 

[LaxD]

You guys have to remember that gays are people too.

 

[BrewCityBuck]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (LaxD @ Nov 20 2006, 05:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>You guys have to remember that gays are people too.</div> But they are people that like to have anal sex in the privacy of their own homes...and that disgusts me and it's unacceptable.

 

[.cabangbang]

You know you would go anal on Alba. If straight people can do thatm why can't they.

 

[Noah]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (BrewCityBuck @ Nov 20 2006, 06:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>But they are people that like to have anal sex in the privacy of their own homes...and that disgusts me and it's unacceptable.</div>Must be somethin' about yourself you don't like... An ass is an ass, and you'd be lying if you haven't or wouldn't F*ck a girl you were attracted to in the ***hole.... It's only unacceptable when it comes to YOU... Why the F*ck do you care about what OTHER people do? How does that concern you? Who the F*ck are YOU to judge what others do in their lives? They're not hurting you or anyone else for that matter, so F*ck your opinion.

 

[BrewCityBuck]

Exactly the point I was making...my post was sarcasm by the way.

 

[Noah]

My mistake, it's practically impossible to hear/get sarcasm on an online message board