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Merge this with the other questions of gay marriage please.
In response though, I severely doubt that situation would occur. It's up to the married couple in question and if one of them all of a sudden is straight.
Who knows, very interesting question indeed. Then again, it's very unlikely that'll ever occur.
If it leads to a total breakdown in the relationship, that would be reason enough to end the marriage. It's really up to the couple to decide if they want to remain married or not.
I would like to marry the person I love. It does not need to be in a church. I would feel mixed feelings of happiness and disgust if churches were forced to perform marriages. On the one hand, it shows that civil rights can trump religion. On the other it shows a clear overreach of the government. Regardless, I want the same access and opportunity as if I were getting married to a woman. I want to be able to have hospital visitation rights, the ability to put my spouse on my healthcare plan, the ability to adopt (certain states do not allow gay adoption), so on and so forth.
I guess I just want to be treated equally. I pay my taxes (even from abroad), I worked with special needs kids, I volunteered at a church, I want to work at underprivileged schools. Am I truly a threat to society?
I agree with most of your post, and I don't consider any gays a threat to society (unless they are trying to kill people, but that has nothing to do with being gay). I do not think churches should be forced to preform same sex marriage, I think that is wrong. But everything else I agree with.
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Originally Posted by Harrier
Yes - because all of those benefits are available to you if you marry a woman. I see nothing in the 14th Amendment that gives special protections to couples - the 14th Amendment guarantees equal protection under the law to individuals - and you and I have the same rights as individuals, concerning marriage.
Besides, my proposal would eliminate those benefits as being automatically in force because someone has a civil union,. The fact that you reject my solution to the controversy indicates that there is something besides equal treatment under the law that is motivating you.
I read your "proposal". So basically what you're saying is that you would cut off your nose to spite your face.
I would think so - if that's the route the couple wants to take.
If one partner in a heterosexual marriage "decides" that he or she is actually homosexual - is that grounds for divorce?
Seems like I have read about this issue before - where a husband ultimately started to have an affair with another man. Those marriages tend to be dissolved.
Haven't you read about cases like that? Why would it be different for a homosexual couple?
I would also think that you are bi-sexual if you have the ability to switch.
People shouldn't be forced to stay together if they don't want to be. If it happens it's their business if they want to or not. Many marriages don't stay together when sex is no longer an option, gay or straight. It's their choice how they choose to live their lives together or apart.
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Originally Posted by OzzyRules
Great question. I notice there is a lot of silence from the liberal crowd. Interesting.
Probably because most of those people have lives and spend them with their friends and family.
Personally I find your supposed insult a rather significant compliment to how my life is going.
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