Should Marriage for Same Sex Couples be Legal?

Should Marriage for Same Sex Couples be Legal?

The tide of marriage for same-sex couples has ebbed and flowed over the last decade with no end in sight. Because marriage sits squarely at the intersection of religion, law and society, the discussion around same-sex couples’ inclusion into the institution of marriage has been one of the most complex and hotly contested topics in America.

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Gay Marriage is Not a Civil Rights Issue
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  • silverwhisper
    surely you aren't serious with this argument?

    a parent cannot marry their child (even if he or she is of age), two or more spouses, or the husband or wife of another person. such restrictions are based upon the accumulated wisdom not only of societies and cultures around the world for millennia.


    i'm sorry, are you seriously comparing homosexual relationships to *rape* (incest) or adultery? is that really what you mean to suggest here?



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    - silverwhisperUS July 15, 2008 10:42PM

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  • Llantha
    Muslims

    First of all, Muslims and other religious practitioners not of the Judeo-Christian persuasion have and do allow muliple marriages.
    Secondly, if being allowed to marry is not a civil right, I don't know what it.
    As for natural, how come same sexual mating behavior exists in the same proportion in the mammal world in general as it does amongst homo sapiens?

    - LlanthaUS July 27, 2008 9:41AM

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  • sharky
    Perhaps you should read your arguments aloud.

    I couldn't keep a straight face reading this. It would also have helped you realize your last sentence isn't even a sentence.

    To put more care into rebutting your argument than was put into framing it:

    A parent can't marry their child because it would be psychologically abusive; the parent is in a position of authority over their child. This is not comparable to relationships between consenting adults.

    Two- to three-partner marriages have died out not because of wisdom, but because of social equality between the sexes and the rise of industrialization, which means money is no longer represented in land, families are more mobile socially and geographically, and marriages have lost diplomatic value. It means that a rich man no longer needs to collect wives as representatives of the land he's acquired and tokens gathered to assure good relations with his neighbors. Polygamy and polyandry are also usually inequal-power relationships.

    None of this has anything to do with two unrelated adults who are in love, want to marry, and cannot based purely on the laws of the society they live in.

    - sharkyUS September 24, 2008 10:45AM

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  • runner03
    YES IT IS A CIVIL RIGHT ISSUE

    People of the same sex should be allowed to marry. Amendment 14 states that allpeople should be treated equally. Not letting two people who love one another no matter if the same sex is not being treated equally. You can not help who you love. I vote YES for gay marriage.

    - runner03US October 24, 2008 10:24AM

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  • QuinceyQuick
    Social Contract

    Imagine a social contract entitled "married with a man". Imagine a man (who can give legal consent) being unable to enter such a social contract. Under these very limited circumstances, is it not true that the man is being discriminated against on the basis of gender?

    Granted, marriages are more complicated than other social contracts, perhaps...

    - QuinceyQuickUS January 25, 2009 2:50PM

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  • buckeyes121
    wow.

    this is such an ignorant argument.
    gays can marry whoever the hell they want.
    IT'S A CIVIL RIGHT.

    - buckeyes121US April 16, 2009 7:31AM

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    • mike1948
      Iowa

      When Iowa legalized gay marriage the argument was over! Article IV, Section 1of the US Constitution, the Full Faith and Credit Clause says public acts ( marriage , drivers licenses, ect.), of one state must be recognized by another. Gay marriages done in Iowa will have to be recognized in all the other states.

      - mike1948US July 31, 2009 1:48PM

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      • countryboy
        Iowa

        Is that a fact what about the concealed carry permit holders?

        - countryboyUS July 31, 2009 7:11PM

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        • mike1948
          Concealed carry permit?

          I would say yes but I'm not an attorney. What is needed is for the NRA or some other group to start a test case.

          - mike1948US August 1, 2009 12:31AM

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          • countryboy
            concealed carry

            Less than two weeks ago the senate stopped a bill that would of made it legal for concealed carry permit holders to be recognize from state to state.
            As it stands today no state haves to recognize the permits.

            - countryboyUS August 1, 2009 4:45PM

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            • mike1948
              Test case.

              Someone would to start a test case to prove it but I think the Senate was wrong. States not recognizing the concealed carry permit of other states should be unconstitutional.

              - mike1948US August 2, 2009 12:23AM

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