Gay Marriage
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- mrdobolina
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp…
//yeah this is important business that needs to be dealt with immediately...
- Sven_sk0
why are republicans such homophobes?
stoopid conservatives.
- grunttt0
gay marrige is the gate way drug to terrorism.
- jevad0
Fuck Arlen Specter
- mrdobolina0
Feingold is a dope senator and also from my state.
- jevad0
fucking retarded republican scumbags
- ********0
My uncle way married to another man for many years.
- ********0
*was
- k0na_an0k0
I just can't bring myself to care about gay marriage.
- mrdobolina0
exactly, Kona. Noone is negatively effected if gay people are allowed to get married.
- mrdobolina0
if they pass the anti gay marriage amendment, they should outlaw divorce as well.
- flagellum0
exactly, Kona. Noone is negatively effected if gay people are allowed to get married.
mrdobolina
(May 18 06, 12:25)http://www.equip.org/free/JAH044…
Sure there are.
- mrdobolina0
oh dear god.
- mrdobolina0
I would say divorce is more detrimental to society than gay marriage, discipler.
- theplanet0
the reason this is being dealt with now is that the republicans are losing their base because everyone is looking at the war.
If they can make gay marriage the issue again then they will get there base to step in rank and file again.
Look for more bills on prayer in school and maybe abortions before the upcoming elections as well.
Josh
- flagellum0
"How Would Homosexual Marriage Hurt Traditional Marriage?
Homosexual activists maintain that homosexual marriage would not affect traditional marriage, but they are wrong. Legalizing homosexual marriage would degrade traditional marriage, especially among future generations.
Right now, the legal benefits our society gives to married heterosexual couples affirm the fact that we consider traditional marriage to be the most valuable sexual relationship. If, for example, sexual relationships were players on a sports team, traditional marriage would get the most valuable player (MVP) award. In sports, that award is esteemed because it’s given only to the player whose performance is truly the most valuable. Suppose, however, that the league redefined the qualifications for the MVP award to the point where everyone in the league received the award, even those who performed poorly. Would anyone think the MVP award was special? Obviously not! Everyone would think it was meaningless. In the same way, the value of traditional marriage will be diminished if the government redefines the qualifications for marriage to include homosexual relationships (especially when it confers the same benefits on those relationships).
We need to face the facts: just as all players are not equally valuable to a team, all relationships are not equally valuable to a society. Evidence from 5,000 years of human history, the self-evident complimentary design of the male and female bodies, and the documented beneficial results of traditional marriage to individuals and our society prove that the most valuable sexual relationship to any civilization is the union of a man and a woman in the bonds of matrimony. If we allow any other sexual relationship to have the same legal status as the heterosexual relationship in traditional marriage, we will degrade marriage itself (just like we degrade the MVP award by giving it to everyone). If we degrade marriage, heterosexual couples will be less inclined to participate, which will further weaken our civilization."
- ********0
why are republicans such homophobes?
stoopid conservatives.
Sven_sk
(May 18 06, 12:13)because they're all homo's that never can come out of closet as their conservative background will not permit it.
hence they are prisoners of their own beliefs.
thus living an unhappy frustrated life, prevailing conservative religious drivel over living life to a full extent and become happy and bearable to other people.
but these people will forever be cunts.
- flagellum0
"How Would Homosexual Marriage Hurt Children?
If government endorses the idea that marriage is just a legal contract between consenting adults of any gender, regardless of procreative realities, then marriage will no longer be seen as a prerequisite for bearing and raising children. Marriage will be seen as nothing more than coupling. In fact, that’s exactly how Sullivan sees marriage now. He writes, “Coupling — not procreation — is what civil marriage now is.”19
If Sullivan’s view of marriage prevails — as it will if homosexual marriage is legalized — many more couples in our society will forgo traditional marriage and have more children out of wedlock. That will hurt children because illegitimate parents (there’s no such thing as illegitimate children) often never form a family, and those parents who simply live together break up at a rate two to three times that of married parents. When illegitimacy rises, not only do children suffer, but the rest of us are forced to pay high social costs to deal with the problems that result from it, including increases in the number of neglected and troubled children, as well as in crime, poverty, and social spending.
Are these just the hysterical warnings of an alarmist? No. We can look at the results in Norway, a country that has had homosexual marriage (without legal sanction) for about a decade. In Nordland, the most liberal county of Norway, where they fly gay “rainbow” flags over their churches, out-of-wedlock births have soared. In Nordland, more than 80 percent of women giving birth for the first time do so out of wedlock and nearly 70 percent of all children are born out of wedlock! Across the entire country of Norway, the out-of-wedlock birth rate rose from 39 percent in 1990 to 50 percent in 2000.20
Social anthropologist Stanley Kurtz writes, “When we look at Nordland and Nord-Troendelag — the Vermont and Massachusetts of Norway — we are peering as far as we can into the future of marriage in a world where gay marriage is almost totally accepted. What we see is a place where marriage itself has almost totally disappeared.”21 Homosexual marriage is probably not solely responsible for this growing problem, but it is certainly a contributing factor. “Instead of encouraging a society-wide return to marriage,” says Kurtz, “Scandinavian gay marriage has driven home the message that marriage itself is outdated, and that virtually any family form, including out-of-wedlock parenthood, is acceptable.”22 When the entry standards for marriage are weakened to include same-sex couples, the perception of marriage will also be weakened; marriage and childbearing will just be considered incidental. That’s one reason why the number of illegitimate parents is exploding in Norway and it’s a major reason why we shouldn’t bring homosexual marriage to America."
- ********0
Why is that country run by a bunch of bible preaching rednecks. It really puzzles me how this issue is still being debated. Just fucking let people marry whoever they want and deal with some of the real problems instead.
- cadillac210
What's to deal with... sounds like its handled to me.
- flagellum0
More facts and statistics.
Less emotion.
Please.