Eggs Mayonnaise
All In With The Nuts
Well, the ban on gay marriage isn't going to pass in Congress AGAIN, so this issue doesn't even have a proper majority opinion behind it.
Eggs Mayonnaise said:What's the point? That social justice takes time to be reflected in our laws? That's not arguing for a ban on gay marriage, that's arguing AGAINST it.
Eggs Mayonnaise said:But that's why this issue remains divisive: people are unnecessarily applying a religious definition to a word where its context is strictly legal.
Which is why opponents keep writing the bill as a ban on gay MARRIAGE rather than bothering to qualify the legal definition of a domestic partnership. It's meant to make people react emotionally to the issue rather than consider its legal ramifications.
SSgt_Sniper said:Legally speaking (and marriage started out as a LEGAL union, not a religious one) a marraige is one man and one woman. That's what it is. That's what it should be.
My whole point here is to point out that the Gay community is just as hung on the word as the straight community. It's more of the in-your-face attitude that backfires on them EVERY time. The radical fringe of the Gay community (the loudest part of the community as a whole) has decided to make it an attack on straights. They want that word, they want to slap Joe and Mary normal in the face, they want to take something of theirs (J&M) and make it their own.
While the main part of the community just sits and goes "I'd like to be able to visit my other at the hospital, or insure them, blah blah" stuff that people ultimately don't care about, it's the fringe that seems to run the movement, and I think hurts it on nothing more than the fact they are detirmined to shock and more or less assault middle america. Not thinking about the fact there's more middle america then radical gays.
Eggs Mayonnaise said:Preserve your culture all you want. Churches can still refuse to perform gay ceremonies all they want, they wouldn't be forced to change.
That's not what this law is about. This law is about denying rights to some citizens based on bias.
Eggs Mayonnaise said:It's like debating through a time machine with the past.
Or with an acne-riddled geek pretending he's a puffy-shirted elder and his cardboard box is a time machine to the past, anyway...
Messenger said:Biologically? Yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual
There are many different factors which contribute to a person becoming a homosexual instead of a heterosexual. Biology is one of them. I can show you even more if that isn't enough.
SSgt_Sniper said:A marriage is one man and one woman. That's what it is.
That said, civil unions between whomever and whomever I have no problem with. Just don't call it something it's not.
Astral said:Again let me ask you this! You are saying that there was no such thing as marraige until a gubermint came around and etched it into law? Dont be an assclown! Of course marriage is religious in every facet!
Eggs Mayonnaise said:And for the record, you have been debating with a gay man who isn't hung up on the word, doesn't care what the legal term is called, and who pointed out the in-your-faceness of it from the start.
SSgt_Sniper said:No, it's not. Marriage wasn't actually in the good book until about Babylon. There was no instution capable of creating such a concept until roughly that time. There was the concept of commitment between a man and a woman, but it was a government that put the word marriage out there.