Question:
WHO HERE BELIEVES THAT GAY OR LESBIAN COUPLES SHOULDNT BE ALLOWED TO MARRY AND START A FAMILY????? IF YOU DO THEN IM SORRY BUT I DISAGREE. MANY PEOPLE I KNOW INCLUDING FAMILY AND FRIENDS ARE GAY OR LESBIAN. WHO KNOWS MAYBE ONE DAY ME OR YOU WILL GROW UP AND FALL IN LOVE SOMEONE OF THE SAME SEX. SO THIS IS WHAT I HAVE TO SAY:
MARRIAGE IS A HUMAN RIGHT NOT A HETEROSEXUAL PRIVLEAGE

Choices:
YES I THINK THEY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO MARRY
NO I BELIEVE THEY SHOULDNT
I DONT FEEL STRONGLY EITHER WAY

 

Sometimes people need to think. Why is marriage recognized by the government at all? Why are two people bound by legal contract till death do them part and have to go through the struggles of a legal divorce?

Because such laws were founded under the presumption that most people were only engaging in the procreative act when they were married and thus to protect the children conceived by the sexual act.

I'm not saying it never happened that people were not virgins, but it was not as common as it is today. The whole purpose of marriage, and especially of the whole marriage where if you live together with one person for a long enough time in one state you're considered married and have to go through a divorce if you want to seperate, was for the children born of the sexual embrace so that both parents would be required to work out their differences and support their family.

Of course, we lost the whole point of this with no fault divorce and with the whole promiscuity of the American culture, legal marriage almost seems pointless.

I'd much rather marriage declared as a religious institution and not a civil instituation at all, than for the government just to decide that because of equality rhetoric, it needs to be spending its money on legally binding two people who can't procreate till death do them part.

There's absolutely no purpose in this. And at most, I'd argue that marriage was first a religious institution before it ever became a civil institution and in no historical culture or religion will you ever find marriage including those of homosexuals even in the cultures that embraced such activities and unions.

It goes against all logic. Call themselves husband and husband or wife and wife all they want, have their ceremonies, but there's no reason for the government to get meddled into their romantic affairs.