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You can get divorced legally right now, and go to a church and have your sacrament of marriage. No one is stopping you.
I can go to a church and marry my partner right now too, but I don't have the option of the federal and state benefits and protections that you have.
So you go first. give up your state and federally recognized marriage, and get the rest of the married people to join you. Until then I will keep fighting to be treated equally under the laws of this country.
Because it is cheapening the sacrament. And it's offensive for a Catholic like myself.
I am for gay rights, have always voted that way. But leave marriage alone.
I GUARANTEE you that as soon as they get the right to marry someone will walk into a Catholic Church and demand to be married to a same sex partner and they'll have their lawyer with so they can get back on camera and shove their BS onto my TV again.
Finally, an answer! OMG! A right winger finally answers!!!!
Okay, please tell me how you feel it is being "cheapened." Let me tell you why I ask.
I'm getting married. We're setting the date for October, and we're all excited about it. In fact, we're practically jumping out of our skins, that's how excited we are. Know why we're excited? Because we're making, before the law, a promise to one another to stay together, to love one another, to help one another, to be one. We're going to do this before the law, and before family and friends. HOW GREAT IS THAT???? He's my soulmate, my heart, my love, he's just everything I wanted, not a perfect man, but he's perfect for me, and we're getting married.
NOW, who is going to take that kind of JOY away from someone that gets married? How on EARTH can YOUR marrying someone be diminished by someone else marrying? There's something somewhere I'm not quite understanding about your comment concerning how gays being allowed to marry will diminish marriage. I've explained how my bf and I feel about our upcoming marriage and how thrilled we are, and how it's a bond between 2 people, before the law, family and friends. Now, how can anything RUIN that?
In fact, to be perfectly honest, FOR ME, the fact that gays are able to get married in some states and countries, and the hope that they will soon be able to marry all over this nation, only adds IMPORTANCE to the act of marriage.
Please, explain what you feel will be taken away from straight marriage in your view, and why it would ruin it for straights.
I'm getting married. We're setting the date for October, and we're all excited about it. In fact, we're practically jumping out of our skins, that's how excited we are. Know why we're excited? Because we're making, before the law, a promise to one another to stay together, to love one another, to help one another, to be one. We're going to do this before the law, and before family and friends. HOW GREAT IS THAT???? He's my soulmate, my heart, my love, he's just everything I wanted, not a perfect man, but he's perfect for me, and we're getting married.
We're discussing MARRIAGE, pure and simple. What's so difficult to understand about MARRIAGE?
Marriage is between a MAN and a WOMAN, the combining of the sexes, husband and wife, bride and groom. Period. Anything else is invalid. Not so difficult to understand is it?
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The hate and ignorance in this thread is truly pathetic, the only positive I can take is that this kind of bigotry towards homosexuals is slowly disappearing and the homphobes are on the wrong side of history, the same way that segregationists were. Their children look back on their hatred with shame.
Marriage is between a MAN and a WOMAN, the combining of the sexes, husband and wife, bride and groom. Period. Anything else is invalid. Not so difficult to understand is it?
Not according to several countries, and 9 US states.
I have heard that gay marriage will lead to the legalization of polygamy. I am extremely anti-polygamy thus am anti-gay marriage.
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