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Gay Marriage Debate and defend your political beliefs as to whether or not marriage should be only defined as a union between a man and a woman.

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Old 11-26-2007, 01:42 PM   #11 (permalink)
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What is and should be are differant things, i hope that marrige is never totally taken away from its routes with Religion.

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Old 11-26-2007, 01:58 PM   #12 (permalink)
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I belong to a mainstream Christian church...which supports, sanctions and perform same sex marriages. There are many other churches which sanction, support and perform same sex marriages. In America, Reform Jews (the largest sect of Jews in USA) and the Conservative Jews all support sanction and perform same sex marriages (the Orthodox Jews, the smallest sect of Jews in USA are the only Jews who don't recognize same sex marriages).

Why should the government recognized SOME of the marriages performed by churches and synagogues - but not others? It's the same religious denomination - the same clergy - the same address. Why are some worthy of government recognition but not others?

I don't find anything particularly "religious" about that.

And, by your statement, are you suggesting that atheists not be allowed to marry?
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Technically they shouldent be, but ive no wish to take away the privalges and social benifits that are criticle to modern day life, that are a part of marridge.

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And they are critical to gay families as well.
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And they are critical to gay families as well.

What's a "gay family"?
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If you don't think marriage is supposed to be based on religious tenets, what do you propose we base it on. IMHO no matter how you look at it, there is no way you can come to the conclusion that the gay union is the same as the hetero one. It takes extreme rationalization to justify same gender love as any thing other than a manifestation of a defective sex drive.
My marriage is not based on any religion and its still a marriage. Marriage can be a religious ceremony or not. As you claim to be not religious I assume your marriage is purely secular like mine or maybe you just pretend not to be religious.


How do you know how someone else you've never met feels about another person?? You seem to have an inflated sense of your own importance...or is this again your obsession with gays manifesting itself..you really should get help its really odd

..there is no justification for excluding gays from the legal definition of marriage that doesn't revolve around religion no matter how many times someone says well its always been because what has always been was based at least in our society in religion...but marriage isn't always a relgious ceremony it can be and is for many people a purely secular lets go to town hall event...
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My marriage is not based on any religion and its still a marriage. Marriage can be a religious ceremony or not. As you claim to be not religious I assume your marriage is purely secular like mine or maybe you just pretend not to be religious.


How do you know how someone else you've never met feels about another person?? You seem to have an inflated sense of your own importance...or is this again your obsession with gays manifesting itself..you really should get help its really odd

..there is no justification for excluding gays from the legal definition of marriage that doesn't revolve around religion no matter how many times someone says well its always been because what has always been was based at least in our society in religion...but marriage isn't always a relgious ceremony it can be and is for many people a purely secular lets go to town hall event...
Exactly what I said earlier based on your first paragraph, Gadgetory. I guess the JOP's, if they perform such marriages, don't really care about if the marriages be religious or not. They would do their job, and be done with it. I saw the same JOP do it three times for my uncle's family.
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