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Who cares what it called as long as all the rights and responsibilities are granted.
I hear conservatives complain that the church protects marriage and that they would be forced to perform gay marriages. Not true, people get married every day and not in a church and not with any religious inflection what so ever. I was raised Roman Catholic, would I want to get married in Catholic Church? NO. Churches perform the marriages they wish to and should never be forced to perform one that they don’t agree with.
Now, the other arguments that people have is when they through things into their argument that have nothing to do with this subject. So don’t go off talking about something other than gay marriage.
People say it weakens marriage please explain how? If two people want to formalize their commitment to each other how does this weaken marriage? I know what most people fear, that we can do it better. I’ve been in a committed relationship with my partner for over 8 years almost 9. The best that any of my straight friends and even most coworkers have done is 5 years, most of which are single again.
The best example of why we need these rights happened several years ago. My partner got sick and ended up in the hospital. He was so bad that they didn’t think he’d make it. When I complained about the crappy treatment he was getting they threatened to throw me out. I wasn’t a blood relative or married to him. Two things saved me, one was that I was still on active duty and would show up still in uniform so it wouldn’t look good for them to be forcing me out, second was I had full medical power of attorney. They wouldn’t even think of throwing me out if we were a straight married couple.
Then people say that it weakens the family. In fact it’s quite the opposite it strengthens the family. They say that a family is a husband and wife, guess what people quite a bit of the families out there aren’t a husband and wife. Straight men run out on their responsibility every day and leave women to raise the children created. And the fear that we would raise children to be tolerant to others is intolerable to the religious right. I was hoping to adopt a child one day and would hope that I could do as good of a job as my parents did with me.
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Posted by usapegasus2007 on 2007-10-22 11:16:19 | Rating: | Views: 114
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I personally feel that if two people love each other - there is no reason why they shouldn't be married.
Who are we to judge or to tell someone they deserve a license. Love is love - that is what should be important.
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Posted by Whitters
on 2007-10-24 13:24:54
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i believe that we shoudl be able to get married where ever we want to. i'm him a man that wants to get married downt he road and i'm angry that we can not because of these dumb ass people telling me no. hell i'll take my ass to one of those states i can get married and get married. the only problem with that is, i can't move to out of that state and stay be considered married. i don't understand america...Land of Free! fuck being free!
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Posted by Killa0707
on 2007-10-24 14:46:04
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You know what’s really interesting is that the politicians say they want to protect the “sanctity of marriage”. The definition of sanctity is, 1) Holiness of life or disposition; saintliness. 2) The quality or condition of being considered sacred; 3) inviolability, something considered sacred.
I thought the government wasn’t supposed to be in the God business. People that have no religious faith get married so would that go against them. No one has ever given a real honest to god good answer on who allowing gay marriage destroys the sanctity of marriage.
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Posted by usapegasus2007
on 2007-10-24 14:49:31
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If someone wants to put down gay unions let me say this.
So many straight couples are an abomination to the marriage rite...running around cheating on each other.
Real marriage is an issue of the heart anyway.
I am sorry that you cannot get the financial and legal benefits of it.
Marriage is a commitment of love.
No one can take that from you.
Peace.
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Posted by DifficultSoul
on 2007-11-01 15:44:46
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