A Gay Marriage Surge

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  • Posted By: sueg @ 12/05/2008 11:10:39 PM

    So who realy believes a Newsweek poll?? Not me

  • Posted By: nothatejustright @ 12/05/2008 11:05:01 PM

    Look, as much as you all think you need the ???right??? to marry you don???t???forget it. First you should be banish to the ???back of the bus??? hidden and left in secret societies. Just because you feel it is right does not make it right. Therefore your view of what is right and the idea of ???let us just be like everyone else??? is WRONG. Your way on loving should be kept inside buried and banished forever. Yes, you will not be happy; you will need to conform to the rest of the world. If a person is born with a cleft pallet, they might extremely inclined to repair the condition. Why? Something is not like the rest of the world. If they have no resources to correct the condition, then they live as such. Probably not much of a move career. They want to be like everyone else but they are not. They are different maybe even a monster to small kids. You all want to be accepted for what you are, but you are different. You have the wrong view on who you should marry. So like the cleft pallet person without a movie career, you all should be left to the same fate; back in hiding. Only option.

  • Posted By: Tap4hd @ 12/05/2008 10:57:51 PM

    Its probably the same poll that thought Obama was going to win by 15 points.

  • Posted By: Tap4hd @ 12/05/2008 10:55:42 PM

    This is probably the same poll that thought Obama was going to win by 15 points.

  • Posted By: tonka6655 @ 12/05/2008 10:36:18 PM

    I believe that people have a growing acceptance of those who are different--maybe we would call this tolerance...
    I see compassion growing for gays who are denied options like healthcare, medical visitation, financial benefits, etc. This seems like the decent thing to do. Strangely though, I don't see gays looking to do the same. I see that demanding so many rights, yet not honoring others--like trying to redefine marriage. Curios...

    • Posted By: seti2008 @ 12/05/2008 10:42:58 PM

      Redefine?
      marriage
      10 entries found.

      1. marriage
      2. Boston marriage
      3. celestial marriage
      4. civil marriage
      5. common???law marriage
      6. marriage of convenience
      7. mixed marriage
      8. open marriage
      9. proxy marriage
      10. shotgun marriage

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      Main Entry:
      mar·riage Listen to the pronunciation of marriage
      Pronunciation:
      \??mer-ij, ??ma-rij\
      Function:
      noun
      Etymology:
      Middle English mariage, from Anglo-French, from marier to marry
      Date:
      14th century

      1 a (1): the state of being united to a person of the opposite sex as husband or wife in a consensual and contractual relationship recognized by law (2): the state of being united to a person of the same sex in a relationship like that of a traditional marriage <same-sex marriage> b: the mutual relation of married persons : wedlock c: the institution whereby individuals are joined in a marriage2: an act of marrying or the rite by which the married status is effected ; especially : the wedding ceremony and attendant festivities or formalities

  • Posted By: Mickeylogan @ 12/05/2008 8:47:32 PM

    If being gay is so right. How come it goes against Nature. Gay people cannot reproduce . Put two gay people on deserted island and come back two years, five years, twenty years, eighty years...ect.
    And their will be know reproduction. All you will have is a deserted Island.

    • Posted By: lovesIrony @ 12/05/2008 9:51:34 PM

      put two sixty year olds on an island come back....no reproduction....shouldn't they still have a right to marry?

      • Posted By: anelder @ 12/05/2008 10:10:50 PM

        Are you just not thinking. Put two sterile people on the same island and what do you have? Where does this even make sense.

  • Posted By: expatincebu @ 12/05/2008 9:58:52 PM

    Most Americans are reasonable people, but slow to change. They have no problem with homosexuality, they have gay family, friends, and coworkers. What is happening is that they see these good normal people, and then they see the Jesus praising hate monkeys attacking them without logic and with much irrational vitriol. This is helping them change their minds. Fifty years ago the same thing happened with interracial marriage, today it is common and accepted. In another fifty years gay marriage will be common and accepted as well.

    • Posted By: seti2008 @ 12/05/2008 10:03:37 PM

      You're right. My relatives accept their gay family members, until someone mentions the Bible. That's when I remind them that slavery was once justified on the basis of black people being the children of Ham. I also let them know that we live in a country where there is a separation between church and state, and even if the Bible says that I'll burn in hell tomorrow, I still am to be treated like any other citizen.

  • Posted By: seti2008 @ 12/05/2008 9:34:32 PM

    Mickeylogan, perhaps the role of homosexuality in nature is birth control.

  • Posted By: seti2008 @ 12/05/2008 9:25:12 PM

    tired and old, it is really devaluing and blind to equate the love and romance that I have for my girlfriend as the same as the love I have for my friends. I sleep with my girlfried, make love to my girlfriend, want her to feel wonderful and special during sex. I do none of those things with my friends.

  • Posted By: Justinteim @ 12/05/2008 9:21:46 PM

    If gay people would get a life, they wouldn't need a marriage.

  • Posted By: UltimateTruth @ 12/05/2008 9:15:25 PM

    i would dearly love to strip heteros of their marriages and make them grovel for a "civil union" so they could see what it feels like to have a majority of bigoted americans demote them to the status of toddler.

  • Posted By: seti2008 @ 12/05/2008 8:18:14 PM

    14th Amendment

    Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

    Note the last clause "nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

    Note without due process of the law.

  • Posted By: edpeepers @ 12/05/2008 8:15:08 PM

    No one asked me either... and I don't know anyone who is against gay marriage. I guess individual opinions in an online comment section should be taken with a grain of salt!

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