I'm sorry, but to me these people aren't "married" per se. Only a man and woman can be legitimately "married". Same sex couples are wanting this to be made 'normal'. But that's not how it is. You guys need to wake up and realize and accept what you have and take it for what it's worth. What you have is a same-sex relationship. Take it, live together and be happy with it but don't try to equate it to a marriage, because it isn't. My thought is: two men, or two women, cannot procreate and make a child, so it is not a legit marriage and cannot be called that. America is getting so lenient and letting people do whatever they want that it'll come back to haunt this country someday.
Andrew, your statement that "Same sex couples are wanting this to be made 'normal'" is far from the facts on the ground. Same-sex couples want the legal and physical protections of marriage so that they won't be treated as non-families like they have up until now.
And your distinction between a marriage and a "same-sex relationship", irrespective of the treatment of such by the institutions of civil government and society, is lacking in observational data. Same-sex couples have adopted and raised children without impact upon the children's self-sense of sexual orientation, and will continue to do so as married couples recognized by their governments.
And your suggestion to "take it, live together and be happy with it" lacks knowledge of how the government and the private sector have treated such families. No, most same-sex couples in this country cannot "take" or "live" with whatever a "same-sex relationship" (in your words) is supposed to personally mean to them unless they spend gobs of money on hiring a lawyer and working out whatever details which are not excluded against them by state bans against recognition of their relationship. Their "same-sex relationships" mean nothing in most of this country's states, no protections are provided to them at the federal level, and most businesses in the private sector do not provide domestic partnership benefits to unmarried couples.
Same-sex marriage is about protection of familial relationships under our laws, not "normality", and most definitely not about so-called "special rights". When their families are recognized as families rather than "relationships", they will rejoice, and then most will simply go home and raise their kids in the way that they've learned from their own parents.
legalbutnotjust says: Who gives a sh*t who loves who in the bedroom, in the kitchen, on the altar, on the beach, on the ski slopes, in the 'no tell' motel rooms, yada yada?
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The self-righteous among us feel they have a right to dictate to all.
Deluded lot......
POSTING__AWAY replies: I'VE GOT NEWS FOR YOU, MELBA-TOAST: I AM GOD. AND I COMMAND YOU TO GO -F- YOURSELF --- lol if we had just listened, a whole bunch of **** would have never come up.
so if majority vote in favor of same sex marriage, it's fair, and the minority must abide; but if in another state the majority vote for marriage only between man and woman, the minority throw tantrums and cry to courts.
God's Laws are again violated. Take a good at THE GREAT WHITE THRONE judgment and you will see that you are facing judgment based on God's Rules of life in this case you stand on your merits or on faith. PROBLEM: no one standing out side of faith will survive this one. One factor is the Law of God and this type of marriage is a violation of those rules ending in judgment. How about that!
Well MELBATOM (or Melba/Tom)- Why don't you let people "facing judgement" face it while married instead of shacking up? It shouldn't matter to you anyway since you'll never have to mingle with any "deviants" in your afterlife, right?
Same sex couples express glee while bigots express angst over the ending of this discrimination. I have no problem with bigots feeling angst. It's because of their own bigotry that they feel that way.
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And your distinction between a marriage and a "same-sex relationship", irrespective of the treatment of such by the institutions of civil government and society, is lacking in observational data. Same-sex couples have adopted and raised children without impact upon the children's self-sense of sexual orientation, and will continue to do so as married couples recognized by their governments.
And your suggestion to "take it, live together and be happy with it" lacks knowledge of how the government and the private sector have treated such families. No, most same-sex couples in this country cannot "take" or "live" with whatever a "same-sex relationship" (in your words) is supposed to personally mean to them unless they spend gobs of money on hiring a lawyer and working out whatever details which are not excluded against them by state bans against recognition of their relationship. Their "same-sex relationships" mean nothing in most of this country's states, no protections are provided to them at the federal level, and most businesses in the private sector do not provide domestic partnership benefits to unmarried couples.
Same-sex marriage is about protection of familial relationships under our laws, not "normality", and most definitely not about so-called "special rights". When their families are recognized as families rather than "relationships", they will rejoice, and then most will simply go home and raise their kids in the way that they've learned from their own parents.
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The self-righteous among us feel they have a right to dictate to all.
Deluded lot......
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Where can it be viewed?
I AM GOD.
AND I COMMAND YOU TO GO -F- YOURSELF
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lol if we had just listened, a whole bunch of **** would have never come up.
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Are you kidding? Angels ALWAYS cash in their frequent flyer miles!