A Gay Marriage Surge

Our President presides over COngress. The Speaker of the House presides over the House of Representatives, the Vice-president over the Senate, a rabbi over his synagogue, a minister over his church, and a priest over his parish......Religion and personal beliefs belong in places of worship. Secular governance and rule of law belong in our US Capitol. Our democracy was built on the firm principle of Separation of Church & State and the civil liberties of the citizens of the U.S.A. are protected by the US Constitution. The laws of this nation are not to be determined by the personal beliefs of one's religion...God Bless America

And this completely, statistically iunscientific poll is interpreted to mean that support is INCREASING?
Last time I checked...prop. 8 PASSED...
I'm not seeing an increase in support among the masses, there, Newsweek.
Nice spin, tho...

You are correct, my approval is not required however you need my approval in a vote to accept your way of life and be able to marry the same sex and you will never get that from me.

I think gay marriages are wrong. Lets talk about the BIBLE and what it says. GOD destroyed Sodom and Gomorra because of there homosexuality. They wanted to rape the Angels of GOD. And GOD blinded them. I also don't think that we should be exposing our children to all of this trash.

Mostly African-Americans.(70%) Without whom the vote would have failed. Ironic, isn't it? Be that as it may, no one voted to ban gay marriage. What they voted for was to override a California court's earlier decision to invent gay marriage.

Homosexual behavior is always discussed in the Bible as a serious sin. There are those who take some of the passages of Scripture above and attempt to show that they do not really mean to condemn homosexuality. But these arguments fall short, and upon investigation become an obvious ploy to distort the plain meaning of Scripture. As applies to other doctrines of the Bible, one must avoid trying to interpret Scripture in light of one's proclivities, and instead, interpret one's proclivities in light of Scripture. The Bible is the grid. It is wrong to overlay your own grid on the Bible.

Go to the following link for more facts about this topic:
http://www.faithfacts.org/christ-and-the-culture/gay-rights#bible

I'm aghast that gays will liken themselves to blacks! Being black is something one is BORN into. Being gay is a CHOICE! THEY need some EDUCATION!

Against my religion, beliefs and the law. I respect you but not your way of life and expect the same in return. When and if your way of life becomes law then I'll shup up and deal with it. Go on and be happy do what you want to do and be with whomever turns you on. I don't have to accept it or like it. I am only expressing my opinion and the is my constitutional right as well as yours

Marriage is between man and woman. Civil Union or Civil Partnership is between Party A and Party B. I want my descendants to know that they are descended from a two gender family - man and woman. I want them to have the right to be a bride or groom - to have 'man' and 'woman' on their MARRIAGE certificate. I don't want them to think they came from a genderless union but actually are descended from a man and a woman who cared enough to continue our species in a natural and normal way that our bodies were made for. I'm a traditionalist. There has to be something that lets our future know that there IS a difference in unions or joinings and one of them is MARRIAGE is defined as being between one man and one woman.

Consider the consequences if there is anything else. Poliygamy will be reinstated. Unions between adults and children of 10 years or so will be granted. Bigamy, polyandry, whatever will then be accepted. IT DOES NOT STOP WITH GAY UNIONS!! Civilization is in a downward spiral. I will fight for tradition. Start a new one - but leave Traditional Marriage for one man and one woman.

Some of these comments really make me sad. I graduated from a catholic high school 5 years ago, and I remember in my Senior theology class my teacher had us write these letters to the Bishop explaining how homosexuality was wrong (quoting some document from the church). Some of us refused to write the letter, and she said she wouldn't send it, but if we didn't write it we would fail. I still feel ashamed I actually wrote the darn thing. I felt sick to my stomach the whole time writing it and for one of the first times ashamed of myself and my religion. I'd just come from history class, learning about women's rights, civil rights etc...feeling somewhat proud of those accomplishments and then I was sitting in a class an hour later being taught how a certain group of people were immoral, unnatural, and thus somehow less than me because I was heterosexual an dthey weren't. I just hope someday when I have kids, they're not taught such hateful things...

Frankly, in response, I think that the homosexual community is the one doing the "shoving" down the throat of every american their corrupt morals and lifestyles. Forcing every american into thinking they deserve "equality" when in fact, it's too easy to see for anyone that has any sense of morality that gays are the ones with the aggressive tactics.

The people of California spoke,...move on and get over it!

Only Newsweek could run a poll in which 39% of those questioned support Gay Marriage and then claim increasing support for it. How much more credibility do you have to lose? The operative numbers are 30 out of 30: the number of states who have voted on and approved bans. Let's face it: gay marriage is never going to be legal in every part of the United States unless the Supreme Court foolishly mandates it. And as long as it is illegal in one state, militant gays--and Newsweek--don't win.

To those who are issuing ignorant and poorly-spelled diatribes against "the gays", keep in mind that it's not just some ill-defined Other that you're railing against. You are also condemning by kid brother, who is studying to be a nurse and who wouldn't hurt a fly.

No, you poor, put-upon "moral folks" just couldn't bear that my brother was attending the same high school and yet was different from you. You taunted and harrassed him on a daily basis, you drove him to depression and therapy, you even physically beat him on more than one occasion. To this day my family and I are eternally grateful that you didn't drive him to the thing that gay teens are driven to in disproportionate numbers - suicide.

Because of your "morals" and your "values" you made his life miserable, and now you have the nerve to say that he and others like him are somehow a threat to YOU. You have the nerve to say that my brother and so many others who suffered abuse and ridicule at your hands are somehow asking for too much, as if asking to be treated with respect and dignity instead of contempt and scorn is some kind of trespass onto your turf.

I hope that every single one of you lives a long life so you will be around to witness the day when marriage equality is made the law of the land. I hope you will see the happiness and joy among people like my brother who have fought so long for this. And when that day comes, I hope you realize not only how wrong you were, but how hurtful, hypocritical, mean-spirited, and completely, utterly un-American.

I, for one, can't wait to attend my brother's wedding so I can congratulate him on becoming the person he is today. Because despite all the abuse he took from those who couldn't stand the fact that someone with different feelings than them was walking being himself without their permission, today my brother is the kindest, most caring person I know. And while he won't be attending his high school reunion, he has put the past behind him and is optimistic about the future.

I, however, am not so forgiving.

Who were all the Democrats that voted to ban Gay Marriage?