It's Monday and you know what that means!!!! Question time! I had some left over questions from the New Year's Contest so here's a combination of 2 of them. This is Roni and Becca's questions combined! Thanks for submitting you guys!
What are your feeling toward homosexuality/gay marriage???
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I've always thought that marriage was a sacred bond between a man and a woman. However, I think that if you love someone, it doesn't matter their gender, age, or skin color. If you're in love with someone, it takes a lot of guts to say "Hey, that's wrong!". But, marriage is different. Marriage is supposed to be between a man and a woman and nothing else. If we keep making exceptions to this, then people will be marrying animals and objects (Please don't get me wrong, I'm not saying gay marriage is as crazy as marrying a cow, I'm saying if we keep making exceptions and new requirements for what marriage is, it might come to that)! But if you love someone, it really doesn't matter if they're the same gender as you, as long as it's love. I'm not saying gay people shouldn't be allowed to be together, because they should, if they want to. You can choose your own gender preference. Being a homosexual does not make you a bad person.
But I think people say that gay marriage is okay as long as the people are in love, why should it matter? But, when someone close to them "comes out of the closet" they rapidly switch sides and perhaps become defensive and maybe become in denial. Like Patty of The Simpsons once said to her sister, Marge, "You can't handle it when your sister finds love in her own locker room!"
Anyway, that's what I think and I'm anxious to see how you guys feel.
Same-sex couples want the rights that opposite sex couples get, but then again should they? The reason that the government gives marriage benefits to opp sex couples is that they benefit society by, generally, reproducing. Would it make sense that the government would provide costly benefit to couples because they "love eachother?" The government is only interested in the country's well being, in this case keeping our population at a safe level. Love shouldnt be of concern to our government.
The slippery slope argument is also good. If same-sex couples feel discriminated against for not being allowed to marry and we change that, how can we deny polygamists, cousins, siblings, animals and humans, and group marriages? Marriage could become really pointless really quick.
I really don't think marriage is going to become a "reck" is people who are gay are aloud to get married. Marriage is when you decide to legally bind yourself to someone our government shouldn't care what there gender is. Gays are just as good at caring for children as any other couples. I don't think our government will have problems with our population rappidly decreasing. Our country is too populated as it is in my oppinion. Gay people can take care of all the millions of orphans that don't have parents. I think we are being extremely unfair not to let gay people get married in some states. It is just not fair. I can really see nothing bad with having gay people get married. And seriously skittles I don't think people are going to want to start marrying cows!!
I think that it is horrible to not let gay couples get married. If you where gay and you loved someone very much and you wanted to marry them, why should you not be able to marry because your love was different? People who love eachother should be allowed to get married and not be disscriminated against for there sexuality. If you dissagree with gay marrige then fine. But if you are gay and you love someone and you want to marry them, then you should be able to. That way people who don't beileve in gay marrige don't have to marry gay and people who belive otherwiese can. Then both sides get there way. Isn't God all about love anyway? Why should it matter what form it is in?
Ok, first of all, there are people who want to marry animals. No joke. http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=bc04c02 - read the beginning of this, or just read what I have to say: A Missouri man wants to marry his horse named Pixel. He loves her and wants to marry her, his horse. Why does the government discriminate against him? I, nor Skittles, are comparing same sex marriage to animal and human marriage. What we are saying is that the premise is the same: they feel discriminated against and want to proclaim their love. If we legalize same sex marriage, than we are forced to legalize all types of marriage.
I didn't mention Bush, I mentioned the government. It doesn't make sense that the government would basically shell out money (which is what happens with these pricey benefits that same sex couples want)to people because they love eachother. Does that make sense? The government does not concern itself with love, it concerns itself with the country and the population.
Yes, there are married heterosexual couples who cannot or will not produce children. Still, the government gives them the same rights, correct? Well, let’s imagine that the government didn’t. It only gave those costly benefits to those who produced children. That would require an invasion of privacy and would create a new league of bad parenting, who only have children to receive benefits. THus, they give these benefits the the group of people (heterosexual couples) who are theoretically capable of reproducing. Likewise, the amount of same sex couples who reproduce, with help of course, is quite small. In an example, the amount of people under 18 who are mature and intelligent enough to vote is small, just like the amount of same sex couples who reproduce. Does that mean we change the law for this small amount? No.
And for the population, of course we are fine right now. But what would happen if same sex marriage was legalized? People might not be as willing to marry if the slippery slope occurs, when everyone can marry everyone. Our population could seriously and drastically decrease. We have to think ahead, not make hasty decisions.
I never mentioned religion! That has nothing to do with my argument. And marriage would become pointless if the slippery slope occured.
There is a difference between interracial marriage and same sex marriage. Interracial couples can reproduce (and as I've said few same sex couples do), so the government still has a reason for providing benefits to these couples.
I am not a racist and it is not racism of any form to not believe that couples of the same sex should marry.
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