Shouldn't all consenting adults be allowed to marry? (insurance, county, claim)

[70Ford]

Marriage as an original institution is a way to handle the control of ....property.

Samurai were gay. Think abut that when you watch the 47 Ronin.
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I think if gays want to enjoy the hell that is divorce, then by all means, why not? Straight people been doing that **** for years. Time for them to get on that gravy train of love and despair.

P.S., homosexuallity is also noted in nature, so it's as God intended. God never makes mistakes.
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[chielgirl]

Gee, let's have another anti-gay thread!
There are already dozens of threads on this topic and views aren't going to change.

The same posters start the same anti-gay threads every few months.

And every few months, we post the history of marriage; how there are gays in nature; etc. to no avail.

[thenewtexan]

It seems redundant, but as long as there are hypocritical lawmakers spouting off hate, we need to talk about it. Everyone needs to let them know this will not be accepted. As Billy Joel said, "We Didn't Start the Fire."

[Ceist]

Originally Posted by momonkey

For heterosexual couples, marriage has long provided legal, cultural and religious legitimacy to their sexual relationships based on, and requiring (at least once), vaginal intercourse. Since homosexual anal intercourse has traditionally been considered unnatural, unhealthy and abnormal, gays have set their sights on marriage as a means of eliminating the stigma associated with homosexual sex. The problem this presents for married heterosexuals is that by gays associating their unnatural sexual relationships with marriage, they will undermine and delegitimize the institution of marriage thereby depriving heterosexuals of the legitimacy marriage presently provides their relationships. Marriage will be defined as a committed relationship between a man and a woman who engage in natural vaginal intercourse and males who engage in unnatural anal intercourse with each other.


By changing the definition of marriage (legally and otherwise), are we not effectively redistributing respectability from heterosexuals to homosexuals and redefining normal in such a way that commonly accepted standards of decency will be so loosely defined as to open the door to all sorts of deviant behavior?

What a load of hooie...

And in your apparent obsession with anal sex (which not all gay males engage in- and many straight couples do) you forgot lesbians....yet again.

Guess what? Life is not just about sex.

And gays (and lesbians -don't forget all those lesbian moms) want to get married generally for the same reasons straights do.

[Calvinist]

Originally Posted by Jaymax

What a load of hoowie...

And in your apparent obsession with anal sex (which not all gay males engage in- and many straight couples do) you forgot lesbians....yet again.

Guess what? Life is not just about sex.

And gays (and lesbians -don't forget all those lesbian moms) want to get married generally for the same reasons straights do.

So let them marry--as long as they follow the exact same parameters for marriage that I'm required to.

[Bideshi]

Originally Posted by Calvinist

So let them marry--as long as they follow the exact same parameters for marriage that I'm required to.

Such as being between a man and woman.

[70Ford]

Marriage is a contract.

Divorce is a breakdwn in negiotiations over the original contract.

The Marriage Contract - By Steven E. Landsburg - Slate Magazine

[Calvinist]

Originally Posted by Bideshi

Such as being between a man and woman.

That is something I have to abide by, yes.

[momonkey]

Originally Posted by Dollymixture

Say one person likes apples and another likes pears. How does the first person's enjoyment of apples take away from or devalue the other person's appreciation for pears? I would argue that it doesn't.

The definition of marriage would remain the same as a legal contract in essentials, as I understand it. The religious aspect would hopefully remain the same for those who wish that.

More straight couples has anal sex by virtue of there being more straight people in the world, and therefore I am not entirely sure how that argument leads to to the conclusion that gay marriage shouldn't happen. (There is also more to being gay than just sex, just as there is more to being straight that just sex.)

I don't see how a relationship between two consenting adults would lead to this any more that a relationship between two consenting straight people would lead to "deviant" behaviour.

And here's me saying to myself I'd stay away from the gay threads from now on

Apples are redefined to include pears.

[stan4]

The only reason I'd want to get married is so that my wife can get my social security I worked my butt off for, can inherit from me without a big rigamarole, can make life/death decisions for me without a buttload of paperwork, etc, etc.