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I personally consider marriage and civil unions very different things. Marriage is sacred, and is only valid in the eyes of my Christian faith. Civil unions - I couldn't care less who engages in them.
To summarize: marriage is sacred, civil unions are not. Please don't confuse the two.
So everybody else should adhere to your beliefs? Interestingly unAmerican.
So everybody else should adhere to your beliefs? Interestingly unAmerican.
What? How did you get that?
Anyone can have a civil union. According to the government, legally recognized 'marriage' (which is a civil union), I couldn't care less who gets married.
According to my faith (the Christian church), I only want Christians to be married in accordance with my faith. How is that pushing my beliefs on anyone? I am not calling for anyone's rights to be denied in any way.
Marriage is a ceremony between a man and a woman, to further the species we call homosapien/human beings.
What the freaks of nature want, is a legal contract that they can use to fraud society, into thinking they are capable of procreation and all the benefits that marriage gives to a functioning society.
Half end in divorce. Who knows how many more are unhappy. Done for money, insurance, citizenship.
What exactly is so special about marriage that homosexuals getting a chance at it will tarnish?
And please, if your argument is that suddenly people will start marrying animals, explain that one. Explain how that marriage could possibly occur even if everyone wanted it to.
...........Sorry, I thought you meant "scared"! I get pretty scared when I pi*s off my wife.
Exactly. All of you bringing religion into this need to stop. It means nothing to the topic at hand, and is completely irrelevant. It matters not what your religion teaches on the subject, this is a matter of law and rights, none of which are granted by religion. You are free to believe your marriage is sacred, have at it. But who are you to deny the rights of others?
Well, this is part of the problem... Religion has a LOT to do with it to some that argue against gay marriage... You don't have to agree with them, but it would help to make an effort to respect and understand WHY they hold the opinon they do...
That said? Heck, if this was a Sarah Palin thread half of the content would have been deleted by mods already.... The God vs. No-God discussion needs to go...
There is no law in the origins of the universe, just thousands if not millions of theories, some more credible than others. I could present all of them to you and you'd say no and claim your theory wins by default, because some how it's exempt from the same rigors of proof that every other explanation is burdened with.
If you've proven god exist by all means, share your findings with the world.
You really need to take a hard look at causality. Your amateur arguments were dealt with about 1000 years ago.
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