A Gay Marriage Surge

No, what you have is a viewpoint that's twisted around. Gay men and women want YOU out of THEIR lives, not the other way around.

"But by trying to push homosexual marriage on the rest of us, you are in fact demeaning heterosexuals and the sanctity of traditional marriage, whether you realize it or not."

How?

The majority are not empowered to vote away the rights of a minority, because we are a constitutional republic, not an Athenian-style "pure" democracy.

" Sure i'll tolerate the face that you want to publically flaunt your sexuality, but i'm not going to accept it, so keep it away from where I live."

No.

Good thing you types are so justified in your ignorance.....we wouldnt have anything here to comment on!

How are gays ruining your life?

I mean, are you THAT obsessed with what other people do? Is your life that empty?

"The gays don't want "EQUAL RIGHTS" they want "SPECIAL RIGHTS" "

Which special rights?

"Thank God I live in a state where homosexual marriage will NEVER, EVER be recognized."

Never say never. This will be a federal issue, eventually, argued as equal protection under law.

If the federal courts agree with the argument, your state WILL recognize gay marriage.

sickntired52 'Deviant' in your vocabulary is obviously a loaded word. Like so many people who purport to be Christians, you want everyone to be exactly the same and try to bully Mother Nature into pigeonholing everybody.

Deviating from the 'norm' is something you consider to be terrible. Now let me ask you, what makes a Norm the only valid state of being? And why is something that is not the Norm, ipso facto bad? First let's establish what a Norm is - I assume you will agree it means 'the behaviour or accepted practice of the majority'. But why is only the majority worthy of consideration? Doesn't anyone else get a look in, in your perfect world? Geniuses are not in the majority, nor are red haired people, neither are left handed people, but I am sure you won't be calling them deviants any time soon, especially if the red haired left handed genius also happens to be a 6 foot prize fighter towering over you.

Let's face it, you're only picking on us because we are a minority and our difference allows you to feel superior, congratulating yourself on a daily basis for having been born a heterosexual. The rest of us have to earn our accolades by working hard and being upright citizens. It doesn't matter how many charities we give to, how much tax we remit into the exchequer to pay for the education of your kids, you will find some reason to misinterpret our good deeds and paint us in a bad light. A close Jewish friend of mine was imprisoned in the Auschwitz concentration camp for being 'a Jew' and was made to wear the yellow star. Her life was saved by a young man imprisoned for being a homosexual who was forced to wear a pink triangle to show he too was a deviant. He shared his meagre food rations with her, which saved her life. He was eventually shot, but she left the camp when it was liberated by the Russians in 1945, aged only 15. She never forgot the gay man's kindness and eventually became an ardent advocate for gay rights as a result. But if you were in the war, and your life was saved by a homosexual, you would still call him a deviant. That is the way you think.

You proved my point.

Unfortunately, God doesn't hold a seat in the legislature or the judicial branch.

Your new President is against it.

And Prop 8 never would have passed had it not been for all those "Tolerant" liberals voting for it.

Of those polled who voted for Obama for President (60% of those polled), 32% voted Yes and 68% voted No.
CNN reported that of the approximately 224 African Americans polled, 70% (approximately 157) voted in favor of the measure. No other racial or ethnic group in the poll backed the measure by more than 53%, the figure for Latino support
--CNN exit polls

sickntired52 The word 'marriage' seems to be the sticking point for most opponents, as has already been observed several times on this page, and I personally would be quite happy just to have the equality if the straighties are getting all uppity about the etymology. But that has not really been what most of this debate has been about. For most posters, it has been a chance to get on the soapbox and evangelise about something they know nothing about and belittle people whom they've never met and who never meant nor did them any harm in their lives.

All you self appointed experts here, jawing on about homosexuality, why not ask the homosexuals themselves? Surely we know better than you what is best for us. We are the ones who have endured centuries of your persecution and repression, and only now do we finally have a shot at using our hard won freedom of speech to articulate. Thankfully a majority of heterosexuals are far less mean spirited than you, otherwise we would still languish in prisons for the crime of loving somebody.

Yet again, you paint homosexuality as a choice, much like you go to a supermarket and choose a different brand of breakfast cereal. Homosexual marraige or Civil Union, or whatever you want to call it is not an 'alternative'. The only way I would choose the 'option' of a hetereosexual marriage would be at gunpoint. I am simply not interested in the opposite sex. You can't make me like something just because you like it.

It may surprise you to know that I, and I am sure millions of homosexuals the world over, actually greatly revere and respect the institution of heterosexual marriage. For most of us, it was the fount of our birth. We do not seek to demean heterosexuals or heterosexuality, the way you demean us.

JKennedyMD Interesting view point. Your belief is based on what someone told you, and what you read uncritically in a book. No other science or research comes into your stated rationale and I am sure the 'Steve' in your Adam and Steve cliché would be surprised to hear you think God didn't make him. But putting that aside, it is apparent that you regard marriage as a deed born out of duty and not out of love, notwithstanding your comment about Adam and Eve. You cannot order someone to love someone else, 'intimately'. Love is a piece of pure magic and it cannot be turned on and off like a tap. It saddens me to think you do not regard love as having any importance in a relationship for a homosexual. I wonder whether you are currently doing what you believe God wants for the homosexual, marrying someone you find repugnant, trying to have kids with that person with a complete absence of any sexual desire for them. If you are true to your word, any person would do, so long as they are of the opposite sex, since neither love nor sexual attraction are relevant. I can't imagine how awful it must be for kids to grow up in your house, knowing that you only stick with your partner because you read something in the Bible.

It is even sadder that you don't consider the intense suffering that befalls the other partner who may very well feel true love for the person who marries them solely out of a civic duty, to fulfil God's edict to utterly swamp this planet with people it cannot possibly feed.

As a homosexual, I have never had the slightest desire for an opposite sex partner, but there is an overwhelming love and sexual desire for a person of the same gender, of a force comparable to that of other heterosexuals, who, unlike yourself, find love and sexual attraction to be of the greatest importance in their lives.

When fundamentalist Christians tell us that we must not mate with someone we love dearly and intensely, and instead marry someone who repels us, it is the biggest turn off to your religion that you can imagine. Who would want to carry on like that, unless they were a person with no humanity in them? 4 billion people in the world have never heard of and don't believe in your version of God, and quite frankly they're far better off. You are the worst advertisement for a Heaven there is. No-one wants to go to the same place you believe you're heading for because they will be surrounded by sanctimonious, self-congratulatory ersatz heterosexuals spouting religious dogma all day, and who don't truly believe in love.

joe 6pack Actually maybe you were out of the US recently, but the population voted in recently a Democrat president, and a Democrat congress, all 'gay' according to you. At the same time, the same electorate, in California at least, passed Proposition 8 which as anti-gay. Since you talk nothing but complete nonsense, it makes it super easy not to take any of the folderol you utter seriously.

joe 6pack And you're just a sad sack, have a few too many last night did we? Many gays are advocates for other causes, such as World Vision, Freedom From Hunger, but I guess according to you, that is still only BS because it was pushed by 'the gays'. Thank goodness your opinion doean't matter to me or people who really count in this world, in the slightest degree - as I have the respect of far worthier people (both straight and gay) whom I know, love as equals, and respect in return.