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Ah, we have yet another same-sex marriage debate.
Allow me to put in my own personal information; I am a male, who is homosexual. I fully intend to marry, and have children (in whatever way is most convenient at the time, e.g. In-Vitro or Adoption). At most have five kids. Marriage is a term defined too many times. Re-definition after Re-definition has made the true explanation of this word, well, into a bunch of scribbles and humorously shaped letters. That is because, people have stuck their fingers into it with opinions. I am a person, which takes information, and forms opinions all the time. Quite frankly, I would have overlooked this thread if I weren’t. But ever since grade school, we have been shown the difference between opinions and fact. Which is, Fact is always real. It is undeniable truth, which has been proven many times. And an opinion, is merely just a judgmental view on the subject, and not necessarily true, unlike fact. The conflicting opinions from numerous parties have used up all their ink writing down what they think is “marriage”. And that is how, that when we open up the dictionary, we see that typhoon of unreadability next to “marriage” n. All those opinions have made the definition of marriage just like humans. Flawed. Because no one can agree to disagree, and let things lye, and allow for peace to fill the tension. Marriage is not a religious matter. Beside, if it was, it is no longer. Marriage has existed (or at least companionship) before religion has. No religion has the right to say it’s theirs. And besides, there is a separation of church and state, and since marriage has turned into more of a state-recognition thing, it is state. And since state and church are separated, religion has no ties into it. And, the policies of America (at least) is freedom. We’re a free country, correct? Well marriage is not a right, yes. I’ll take your view on that marriage is not a right, for the sake of argument. However, it is a freedom. If you withheld a freedom, then my dear, you are breaking the first rule of the country. Freedom. It is not something that should be voted upon. If it is, then heterosexual marriage should be voted upon. It’s only fair, and serving justice, another country rule. Homosexuality is not unnatural. It happens in nature all the time, just go look at some gay penguins or lesbian bunnies or something. Heterosexuality is not unnatural. It happens in nature as well, just go look at some straight bears or straight peacocks or something. Love exists, between Males and Females, Males and Males, and Females and Females. And Marriage that contains no love, it is unhappy. Sirs and Madams, this is the only fact we have of Marriage. We shouldn’t allow that to be corrupted too by denying people of locking their love. And same-sex marriage doesn’t corrupt the sanctity of marriage. It never did. Divorce does that, but apparently, we can accept that. Why? Feel free to comment. |
@Freaky, I disagree with the presumption that marriage is deeply rooted in religion. Marriage has always been more social/societal than religious.
Marriages were, in cultures far and wide, about status and economics. Brides with dowries, marriages to make peace between warring groups, etc. Even today it still has economic and cultural overtones. While you don't need marriage to back up your claims that your son is rightfully yours and can inherit your chiefdom (well, most of us don't, since most of us don't have chiefdoms), you still have tons of economic ... stuff ... that comes with marriage. Taxes and such. Marriage also still affects your interactions with people and in some places even has legal repercussions. Think of places in the world were you are considered a criminal for having sexy time outside of marriage. Even in places where you wouldn't get lashed you can still suffer social ostracization. Whatever spiritual dimension marriage occupies it is small compared its social dimension. But if you, or anyone else, want to insist it's stepping on religion's toes then think about the religions that accept same-sex marriages. Either the gov't is stepping into religious territory by denying these religions the right to marry who they want, or religions in general are stepping out of the religious sphere and into a political one when they try to say who can and can't be married. And your whole "civil unions have the same legal blah blah as marriage" separate-but-equal thing doesn't fly. Hasn't for half a century. See Brown v. Board of Education or the 14th Amendment. Imagine if you had two institutions with the same rights only they were called "marriages" and "dirty-****-pirate-unions". An exaggeration, obviously, but it illustrates the point that names are important. |
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Also, why is it always religion v. not religion with these kind of threads? |
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If we provided civil unions/domestic partnerships to everyone and allowed it to be up the different religious denominations to determine whose union counts as a "marriage" that would be a good system. |
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I don't care how important people think the black civil rights movement was, we're talking about human beings and their right for equality on a whole. And I don't think marriage is the only thing out there. People are being murdered for being gay, they're being branded as animals and sub-human by the religious right. I believe gays are the most discriminated on group of people in this day and age. And the fact that some people would deny them equality because of some sort of genealogical vanity is just sickening. |
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Face it, the black vote on Prop 8 was a wake-up call to homosexuals who thought these kind of comaprisons would fly. |
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Okay, I'm black, I can freely admit that. If say we had the same ideals we did back before the civil rights movement, this thread would turn into a hate thread. People being killed for being gay is illegal and you will be tried to the fullest extend of the law. What you are implying is that gay people have no rights at all. I mean though I support gay marriage, you can't compare right to marriage to right to not being treated like a human being. |
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That's excatly my point. |
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^Civil Unions already exist...you know that right?
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I feel being denied marriage is a form of discrimination, and thus is treating gays as a lesser lifeform, which is in conflict with your last sentence. Sure, it's not as extreme as a slave trade, but it still treats the victim as substandard compared to the norm. The foundation for it, as many, many people have shown, is really quite lame, and I don't feel you can justify it with the legal hoo-hah that's been thrown around. You can't approach something like this with the notion of "degrees". You have to look past the extremeness or mundane-ness of the situation and see that everything is pointing toward the same idea: inequality. I just can not comprehend how anyone could even think about denying someone anything based on who they are. It's ludicrous! If this kind of stuff continues, and even worse, is embraced by the people, all I have to say is: Welcome to Nazi America, PokeCommunity. |
My question is: Every time we talk about marriage why does it always result into a religious debate??? Why is everyone a fool?
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Legally, me and you don't determine what laws are legal or constitutional, the courts do that. The U.S. Supreme Court hasn't declared same-sex marriage bans unconstitutional, has not declared DOMA unconstitutional, and state courts have upheld many of the laws, including California's Prop 8. I think the Court doesn't review them because they rightly see that the regulation of marriage is a state issue. Quote:
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Since the ratification of the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection Clause, the Court has tried to perform a balancing act over what federal Constitutional law to apply to the states and what not to. The Court many times has said that the states are free to make whatever laws they wish unless they violate "fundamental fairness" and that's when the federal Constitution will step in. Black people were discriminated against so badly that the Jim Crown laws of the South and slavery before that violated the notion of "fundamental fairness". The fact that same-sex marriage is banned in some states apparently does not in the Court's eyes. Currently the Court sees the same-sex marriage debate as a state issue. It may change its opinion in the future but until then same-sex marriage bans are not unconstitutional. Different states (like Iowa) can declare them unconstitutional based on their interpertation of their state constitutions. Quote:
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You know what's interesting? The fact that eveyone is descriminated against for one reason or another. Why? because it's different then what they are. And People are afraid of things they don't understand. It's like a dog and thunder. The dog has no idea what thunder is or how it's created, so it will freak out more and wimper at the thought. But why must everyone force their ideas onto lives of other people? Why must the general public choose which sexes can get married? And guys, how did we get into talking about Black individuals and slaves? But it does have a point here, I have to say. Blacks were treated horribly. They were inequal. Now, you have to realize that in other countries (especially the middle east), Homosexual males and females are being killed under the law. Now see the similaries? Inequality. It's sad to see many groups, are treated the same way as this. Society needs to get over itself. |
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Law should be altered to meet the fairness of the individual, not the other way around. |
Wow, I thought nobody would approach this topic here. This is the only topic I absolutely refuse to discuss on the internet, just because I see anyone that disagrees with me as a complete monster, and they see me that way too.
These discussions don't go anywhere except to make peiople angry as far as I have experienced... |
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You got me Freaky, it was us homos all along trying to turn your kids gay! Ah well you've clearly defeated us. It's time I returned to my homo lair to hatch my next evil plot! ...seriously, do you even hear yourself talk? Get real. There you go again saying "way of life". That's like saying "I can't believe all these blacks/asians spreading their black/asian way of life". For the last time it's not a "way of life" it's part of your biology. It's like saying having blue eyes is a "way of life". Also if you're going to make this argument whilst talking to me stop saying "they" and say "you" instead, because you are addressing my demographic. Actually if you started doing that, it kind of means your telling me what my own opinion is. Are you trying to tell me what my own opinion is freaky? If so that's really silly of you. Anyways Homosexulaity is normal if you happen to be gay, so why shouldn't a message of normalcy be spread? To me being straight isn't normal. Also why shouldn't kids learn about gays? So they can grow up to be ignorant of other people like you? Gays exist, and telling kids that we don't is just stupidity. |
Well done Locz, a very good definition of why this doesn't work from a non-religious point of view.
At those of you who are homosexual and intend to marry, one of the issues here is that marriage, by definition, is between opposite genders. Is it necessary to redefine the word? Why not just get a legal union, provided that union contained the shared property/similar benefits of marriage? It's also important for people to understand that by the Constitution, locz is just speaking of the US Constitution, unless I'm mistaken. And, in my opinion at least, international law has no place in defining the US Constitution, so it doesn't really apply here. Another thing that people need to understand is that homosexuality is a mental illness. ... Now if you're done with whatever expression of outrage took place here (screaming at the computer screen, having your head explode, etcetera), I'll explain. I don't hate homosexual people per se, no more than I hate people with Down syndrome. I recognize homesexuality as a mental illness because logically, it is. Think about it. Your mind is running contrary to your body's wiring. Now you see one of the issues with normalizing homosexuality. Because you see, homosexuality is, if you will, communicable, and it is possible to not be born homosexual but become so later in life, through excessive exploration into...bedroom territory, if you will. Now I'm not trying to diss anyone in this discussion. I think one of the biggest problems in this sort of debate is that people tend to get far too emotional. I'm just stating my point of view, and look forward to viewing yours. Maybe I'm wrong, but maybe I'm not. Anyway, to round things off, if the majority of Americans don't want homosexual marriage legalized, it shouldn't be. Homosexual groups should focus on swaying individuals rather than politicians, and they might garner more sympathy. |
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Marriage is a shaky issue here. I can see how denying same-sex marriage can be seen as discriminatory but marriage has never been performed by the federal government. Ministers do not say "by the power vested in me by the United States of America", they say "by the power vested in me by the State of (insert State name here)". So the federal government is being careful on intruding on what has always been and still is a state function. We have passed laws at the federal level to ensure "equality" for homosexuals. We have laws prohibiting non-discrimination in employement, for example. Turing someone down for a job because they are (or they employer thinks they are) a homosexual "shocks the conscious"; as the Supreme Court would put it, therefore violating the notion of fundamental fairness that goes beyond states rights. Quote:
Also, schools should not instill their moral ideals on children. School is a place to study academic subjects, not ideological indoctrination. If you want to teach the history of the homosexual movement that's fine as long as opposing viewpoints and healthy debates are encouraged whenever issues of policy are brought up but to instill the idea that there's nothing wrong with homosexuality is up to the parents to decide if they want their children to believe that or not. |
Oh, btw, I do believe that kids should be told gays exist. The phrase "ignorance is bliss" doesn't really work in this case. I just don't think that, for instance, they should be educated as to the meaning of "anal lubricant" (I kid you not, this has happened).
... So why did this thread pop up when I searched for "Advance-Text?" *sigh* |
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I agree young children shouldn't be taught sex ed in the first place, but sex ed for teenagers should be all inclusive regardless of sexual orientation, becuase some of those teenagers will be gay and they deserve and equal education about sex as a straight teenager. And for the last time! Homosexuality has nothing to do with morals or indocrtination. Homosexulaity is a part of human biology which last time I checked was a big part of a rounded education. How many times do you have to be told before it's clear to you. Homosexulaity is not a lifestyle or an opinion, it's a part of your physiology, like the colour of your eyes or your height. And that "opposing viewpoint" you're mentioning, that's called homophobia, which is a form of biggotry. It's not right to treat somebody differently for something they have no control over. Needless to say I think biggotry should be kept out of the classroom at all costs. |
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Secondly, people oppose homosexuality for all kinds of different reasons. Many people are taught from a very young age that homosexuality is wrong, it's hard-wired into their train of thought. They do not just all of a sudden decide to "hate" homosexuals just like you assert homosexuals do not just all of a sudden decide to "choose" to be homosexual. And lastly, what you are calling bigotry should not be excluded from the classroom. I disagree with all this political corectness we are putting into our public school system. The fact that there are people who oppose homosexuality is just as much of a truth as the fact that homosexuals exist. We shouldn't present one-sided information in the name of political corectness but rather should present all sides of the issues so that students can weigh the arguments each side makes and decide for themeselves which side to be on. |
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I mean using the Civil rights movement you have to understand that people wanted rights for all so that people could be treated as the same? In what world do you live in that gays have to use different schools, restaurants, and even water fountains. I mean it's unequal, but when we start having complete inequality then I will see some validity there. No offense though. |
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