Should Marriage for Same Sex Couples be Legal?

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I am very disappointed in some of the comments that are being made on this topic. I for one, firmly believe that any two people of whom love each other, should be entitled to be legally married. Why do some people choose to make this issue their business? If you don't like it that is your opinion. Stay away from gay couples then. How differently would you feel if you were told that you could only marry someone the same age as yourself, or only marry someone in the same profession? In fact, someone telling you whom to marry is a suppression of our rights as human beings in our supposedly "Free" Country. When people start telling other people whom they can and cannot marry it becomes an infringement on our rights. Anyone who wants to marry should be free to do so with all the amenities as any traditional marriage.

Marriage between same sex couples should not be encouraged, it is the last thing man should really think of doing. First of all SHAME to world leaders (NATIONS) who are trying to legalise or who had already approved it, they know that it is not good but yet still trying to make it legal. Talking about it, they will say they have the right to be happy or to do whatever they are pleased with their lives, yes but provided your rights are not violating other peoples rights. This is the cause of all this crises that are arising from parts of the world (men marrying men, wimin marrying wimin). Simple logic, had their ancestors lived on this insanity they would not be here today being proud being gay. Talking about adoption, whose child are you going to adopt if their parents were thinking the same way you (homos) are thinking now. Really is a shame seeing or hearing people who are trusted by the world thinking about legalising same sex marriage. Am really disappointed.

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Since this is a topic that has fascinated me, I wanted too generate some responses for some personal research I am doing. It seems that both sides are caught up in the notion of "rights" since in English "rights" refers both to inalienable rights granted to us by God and at the same time means those entitlements that we believe ought to be granted to us by government. If anything, constant though inconsistent use of the term rights leads to confusion rather than the ability to objectively examine the problem.

For arguments sake, let's just assume for a moment that God doesn't exist. What does that do for traditional marriage? Other than removing any religious context, I suppose procreation--or if you prefer a more secular, reproduction of the species--is still a reasonable purpose for the marriage institution. One could argue that the family-type arrangement prominent in other mammals has biological and sociological functions that predate religion. And if you happen to visit what still remains of the rain forest, you might find the denizens there living in family units that have evolved to maximize the chances of survival for the species. I haven't actually done this, so it's possible you would find a more open arrangement.

On the other hand, proponents of same-sex marriage are probably chomping at the bit to rush in once God is taken out of the picture. You probably think that God doesn't matter anyway and shouldn't be considered in our more evolved modern society in the first place. This is not an unreasonable argument.

The question I still have is when you get down to the bare bones what is the purpose of the same-sex marriage or what does it serve? I've heard the response "a financial arrangement." A financial arrangement is tautological, because the arrangement now serves as both a cause and a consequence. I have also heard "equality" and "recognition by society" as reasons put forward. But equality in Western liberal democracies is already taken as its own end. In other words, equality serves only to further the cause of equality and lands itself on a slippery slope. Recognition by society is not a prerequisite for traditional marriage, so why would it be necessary for same-sex marriage? The only answer of purpose I can determine is that if it has a purpose then that purpose must in some way serves the state. But this would take some explaining. What is the way in which same-sex marriage serves the state? And does it serve the state in the same way traditional marriage does? In fact, does traditional marriage serve the state at all or just the human species in ways that are now irrelevant in industrialized modern society?

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same sex marriage is not wrong i dont care what anyone says guys dont mind watching two girls make out so why cant they get married and have the same sucuradies that we all do they love each other and nothing else should matter and that goes for two guys as well

i strongly believe that acting out gay feelings in a sexaul way is tottaly wrong and i dont belive that god wants that. i believe that the devil got envyious of man and woman and thats why gayness is here. also i used to like to dress up in my moms underwear when i was about 6 or 7 but my mom caught me and she looked at my and and said what are you doing? i new she did not approve. i believe that reinforcement is helpful for sexual orientation. if your gay its not bad its only when you act on it.your kids will be so much happier if there brought up straight. But that means not just one thing but many things to train and educate a child. Plus people that are straight also have a great responsibilty to be attractive to the opposite sex. not to let them selves be fat or lazy. bassicaly to avoid the 7 deadly sins and commandments. our country would be 100 times greater. why be gay? you have to think to much about nothing. if your gay, i understand, evolution will eventually get the best of you anyway but if you change before nature changes you then youll like the outcome better, promise. that goes for everyone.

Same sex marriage should be legalized. By not legalizing it, these people are being violated of their rights. Depriving same sex couples of marriage is a violation of the 1st and 9th ammendment of the American constitution. I believe that all people should have the privilage to marry a person who makes them happy. Think of it this way... heterosexual people, think if someone forced you to marry someone of your same sex, I'm sure you would not like the idea of that. Just like heterosexual people have the right to marry who they love, I think the same right should be granted to homosexual people. I just don't understand why people think same sex marriage is so bad; I have friends who are homosexual, and they are great people. All human beings should be able to love who they please without ridicule and prejudiceness (too bad society will never allow that due to pure ignorance and closemindedness). I'm straight, but I have a great deal of respect for people who are openly homsexual, and are not afraid to say, "this is who I am." They are stronger than the average person, by facing others who may shun them because of who they are sexually attracted to. Long story short, I have no problem with gay marriage, and I think it should be legalized because every human being has the right to marry someone who can enhance them and make them happy.

SSM: The Wrong Side of Intellectual History The Ostrich Manifesto The core case against gay marriage is extremely simple: If a mother's missing, that's important; if a father's missing, that's also important. We should think of it this way: When you were growing up, didn't you notice the psychological difference between your mother and your father? Wasn’t some of the difference obviously attributable to the fact that one was a man and the other a woman? There has been an ideology, a kind of religion since the Seventies that says that psychological differences between the genders were mere social constructs, but the advent of brain scanning devices and new research in social psychology are now shifting the balance back to show that nature shapes us to some extent after all. All this has enormous significance in the area of child-rearing, which is far-and-away the most important reason why society should keep committing itself to giving economic benefits and social recognition to mother-and-father couples. Social Psychology. Studies in social psychology confirm the common observation that women tend to describe themselves more in relational terms, welcome more help, experience more relationship-linked emotions, and are more attuned to others' relationships (Addis & Mahalik, 2003; Gabriel & Gardner; 1999; Tamres & others, 2002; Watkins & others, 1998, 2003). In conversation, men more often focus on tasks & connections with large groups, women on personal relationships (Tannen, 1990). When on the phone, women's conversations with friends last longer (Smorda & Licoppe, 2000). When on the computer, women spend more time sending emails in which they express more emotion (Crabtree, 2002; Thomson & Murachver, 2001). When in groups, women share more of their lives and offer more support (Dindia & Allen, 1992; Eagly, 1987.) When facing stress, men tend to respond with fight-or-flight; often, their response to a threat is combat. In nearly all studies, notes Shelley Taylor (2002), women who are under stress more often “tend and befriend”; they turn to friends and family for support. With children, women tend to coddle, men to challenge. Neuroscience. Imaging technology permits us to examine the brain without opening the skull. Behavioral differences between the sexes are the result of compelling forces set in motion before birth. For a woman, emotional structures in the female are larger than the male, while a male has about 20 times more testosterone than the female. So we're talking about hormonal influences and brain structure. All of these play important roles that make male-female relationships radically different than same-sex relationships. It's wired right into the chemistry of the brain. Progesterone, prolactin, and estrogen skyrocket during pregnancy, making a woman specially equipped to care for an infant, with the progesterone level going 40 times what is normal. What has to be recovered is a rational and balanced sense of what men contribute and what women contribute. The idea that men and women are psychologically interchangeable is being increasingly undermined by these findings (Research by Dr. Louann Brizendine and many others). Social Science. Children lacking the distinctive love and authority of a father provide further evidence: Youth suicides (US Dept. Of Health/Census)-5 times the average; homeless and runaway children -32 times the average; children who show behavior disorders -20 times the average (Center for Disease Control); high school dropouts -9 times the average. (National Principals Association Report); youths in state-operated institutions -9 times the average. (U.S. Dept. of Justice, Sept. 1988); youths in prison -20 times the average. (Fulton Co. Georgia, Texas Dept. of Correction). Back to the Real Basics. Marriage is not about endorsing an attachment between adults. It is about creating the conditions in which children can come into the world fully protected and with a fair chance of being loved. Marriage is, above all else, a system of privileges bestowed on a man and a women because it's in the interest of society to have the maximum number of its members be raised with both a masculine and a feminine parental influence from the psychological standpoint. No matter how well-intentioned a same-sex parent might be, the valuable, gender-specific contributions of either a father or a mother are missing. Men and women are not interchangeable. The time has come to celebrate the psychological distinctives of men and of women and to stop denigrating either men or women by discounting or diminishing these. Either the relevant and constructive aspects of brain structure and hormones exist or they don’t. There is no middle ground. Common experience, common observation, and common sense provide all the rationale needed for refusing the special support of marriage to any sexual relationships that are alternatives to male-female marriage. The studies merely confirm the self-evident. To dismiss these as they pertain to child-raising is to play the ostrich and to be on the wrong side of history. The stability of civilization depends on restabilizing sexual and family life.  Public Domain

Hi eveyone. Its just really hard for me to accept that people being gay is morally right. I have never been around it before until hitting high school. It can just b hard for me to understand.

I am a christian and proud of it! I believe in god's word ,but I also believe in EQUALITY. Who am I to say If two loving human beings can get married? Who am I to interfere with what they want?If they are in love and want to get married, I am no one to stand in the way of their happiness!Many people quote the bible and talk about how God said that being gay is a sin and all this other stuff.My view on that is ONE PERSON'S RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD IS BETWEEN THEM AND GOD! Why can't we let two people be happy?Marriage is a matter of love.

Here is my opinion. It truly infuriates me when people say gay marriage is unnatural. Love is a delicate thing and I strongly believe that when you are born you are giving a soulmate in which you are to spend your life with. If people are in love you can't deny the heart. I think it is in no body's place to tell someone else they can't love another person, and if someone were to tell me I couldn't love the person I love, I would be a wreck. Love is a natural thing and if you have feelings for another person, no matter what sex organ they posses, who are you to tell them they can't love who they love. It should not be a discussable topic because it is quite clear that you cannot deny your feelings and having someone tell you it is against the law to marry the person you are in love with sickens me beyond belief. Which is why I thank the lord I am Canadian. I would be deeply ashamed to live in a country where two people in love can't marry each other. Not saying being American is something to be ashamed of, I just DEEPLY & STONGLY disagree with that law.

What's always troubled me about homosexuality in general is the seeming "let's pretend" aspect that seems to be a necessary part of it.. Homosexuals (some, anyway) seem to be saying, "Look, I may be completely physically a man (or a woman), but in my heart of hearts, I KNOW I'm a woman (or a man), so let's, everybody, pretend that I am.

I would have loved to have been a world-class champion athlete, but unfortunately I wasn't born with the necessary physical equipment. Wishing I were one doesn't automatically qualify me for an Olympic medal.

I don't know, but homosexual marriage seems to be a bit dishonest. It seems like an attempt to hijack a social institution that traditionally represents a heterosexual relationship to somehow validate a "pretend" heterosexual relationship.

I'm totally for everyone in the US having equal rights, but that does not include having to buy into someone's delusional view of him or herself, no matter how desperate they wish it were true.

ok so this may seem a little different but my brother and I love each other and have a sexual relationship... We both dream that we could get married one day but it seems like a long shot however I do believe that if it was legal for two people of the same sex to get married then this could possible open the door for my brother and I so I support gay marriage..what do you think??

I often hear SSM opponents claim that marriage has *always* been defined as a union between one man and one woman. If this is so, then how do they treat/explain away the passages in the Bible where it explicitly contemplates marriage as a union between one man and *multiple* women? Here are some examples:

1) And Lamech took unto him two wives.Genesis 4:19.

2) Elkanah ... had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah. 1 Samuel 1:1-2

3) Solomon ... had seven hundred wives ... and three hundred concubines. 1 Kings 11:2-3

4) But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives. 2 Chronicles 13:21

5) Jehoiada took for him two wives. 2 Chronicles 24: 3

If marriage has *always* been defined as a union between one man and one woman, then how should I understand these passages? Should I believe that the Bible is wrong in implying that marriage has *sometimes* been a union between one man and multiple women? Or should I believe that the historical claim advanced by SSM opponents is simply false? Which is it?