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One of the most heart-breaking stories I've heard in a while. Gays are not trying to ruin marriage, they are trying to live their lives with dignity, and protect their loved ones. This is just sad for 2008. ::: Lost For Words :::
The video is really sad.
wow that sucks. I didn't even click on the link to the video. I don't agree with gay marriage, but its a law and i have respect for it that way. I also have respect for gay and lesbian partners be it that they don't go around touting or shoving their sexual orientation in peoples faces ( this goes for straight people too).Me personally, I don't agree with gay and lesbian lifestyles but that is my opinion and otherwise thats my personal belief (not religious) but everyone is an equally important human being no matter what
One of the most heart-breaking stories I've heard in a while. Gays are not trying to ruin marriage, they are trying to live their lives with dignity, and protect their loved ones. This is just sad for 2008. ::: Lost For Words :::
The video is really sad.
WOW just saw the video , yea that is soooo wrong. sexual orientation should not be an issue when going to see a loved one at a hospital on their deathbed. I hope the hospital pays for it all. In this case the hospital did make the "Gay thing" an issue and that is wrong. I don't agree that this is why gays would need marriage. In this case the hospital would have done this regardless. It is wrong of the hospital, but them being married would have probably made the situation worse, even though its still wrong of the hospital.
Its not about pride, its about not spitting in the face of God in a time when we need His blessings more than ever. .
That's not spitting in the face of God. Two people that love each other have a right to see each other, especially if they have a power-of-attorney. What Jackson Memorial did was immoral. It's not even about gay marriage really, they had a legal document saying they must have visitation rights. You can't void those kinds of agreements simply because you see somebody as "living in sin".
Having said that, I think there are two sides to the issue. Conservatives want to feel that they aren't being attacked for believing what they believe, something some on the liberal side are eager to do. That's not really compassion, either, trying to change other peoples views to match yours for your own sake. There's a self-righteous smugness to some progressives that's wearisome.
You know this still is just so sad to me. I have some good friends who are in a lesbian relationship and their kids go to school with mine. Great people and great friends. One is in a big battle with her ex for custody of a child that they decided together they wanted. The ex had in vitro and gave birth to him. The other was right there through it all and helped pay for the procedure. She is more of a mother to the boy than the biological mother who has major issues (drugs, mental, many others things it would take a book to tell, etc.). The one who didn't give birth could not legally adopt him as her own with her ex b/c the law says parents are man and woman. So after 8 years of being a great parent to this child that loves her and needs her, she may lose any contact with him b/c of a jealous, stupid person who can't see what is best for the child. All she sees is revenge against someone. If gays and lesbians had legal rights with regard to marriage and children, things like this couldn't happen. It just makes me so mad. I don't pretend to understand being gay or lesbian, but love is love people. I know what the Bible says about it but it also says to love one another. They deserve the same rights as a human being that I do. What goes on in the bedroom shouldn't dictate those rights.
One of the most heart-breaking stories I've heard in a while. Gays are not trying to ruin marriage, they are trying to live their lives with dignity, and protect their loved ones. This is just sad for 2008. ::: Lost For Words :::
The video is really sad.
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There is a large gay population here in S.Florida but they as a whole are not as political as they need to be.
South Florida's politics is controlled by what I call the Cosa Nostra Cuban politician's .
They are beyond extreme right unless it has to do with illegal immigration that they adore .
In other word's everyone here loses with them in power .
So if everyone is so afraid of it changing religious doctrine and crap, why not allow them to have a civil marriage?
My husband and I did that, no religion involved at all. I wouldn't even want a religious ceremony.
I have no problem with same sex, opposite sex, kinky sex, no sex (although that might be a bit boring......) marriages.
Everyone has the right to get married as they see fit and make a public commitment to each other.
Thank you.
If gays are not given the right to marry, then the government is saying that we are second class citizens, who don't deserve the same rights as anyone else. I pay taxes, and my father, uncles and cousins fought in our wars. I should get the SAME rights.
If gays are not given the right to marry, then the government is saying that we are second class citizens, who don't deserve the same rights as anyone else. I pay taxes, and my father, uncles and cousins fought in our wars. I should get the SAME rights.
If bisexuals are not given the right to marry a man AND a woman at the same time, then the government is saying that we are second class citizens....
If people are not given the right to marry their pets, then the government is saying that we are second class citizen....
If NAMBLA members are not given the right to marry pre-pubescent boys, then the government is saying that we are second class citizens....
If bisexuals are not given the right to marry a man AND a woman at the same time, then the government is saying that we are second class citizens....
If people are not given the right to marry their pets, then the government is saying that we are second class citizen....
If NAMBLA members are not given the right to marry pre-pubescent boys, then the government is saying that we are second class citizens....
Really? You don't know the difference between consensual loving relationships of two adults and bestiality/pedophelia? That speaks VOLUMES about your character.
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