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Marriage and sexuality

Kerr

Well-Known Member
this has dregged on long enough.

The reason I brought this up was to show you that we are not required, as a society, to provide benefits for same sex couples because they do not function in the same capacity as the nuclear family. That capacity being fundamental to our very existence and survival which is why the benefits for marriage was put in place to begin with.
And that would depend very much on your values. My values would actually require a society to do it.
 

Perfect Circle

Just Browsing
this has dregged on long enough.

The reason I brought this up was to show you that we are not required, as a society, to provide benefits for same sex couples because they do not function in the same capacity as the nuclear family. That capacity being fundamental to our very existence and survival which is why the benefits for marriage was put in place to begin with.

You have a very Orwellian view of things Madhatter...
 

Mr Cheese

Well-Known Member
this has dregged on long enough.

The reason I brought this up was to show you that we are not required, as a society, to provide benefits for same sex couples because they do not function in the same capacity as the nuclear family. That capacity being fundamental to our very existence and survival which is why the benefits for marriage was put in place to begin with.

the nuclear family???

:facepalm:

dude, you're 50 years too late

50 years....

nuclear family, thats hilarious
 

Autodidact

Intentionally Blank
this has dregged on long enough.

The reason I brought this up was to show you that we are not required, as a society, to provide benefits for same sex couples because they do not function in the same capacity as the nuclear family. That capacity being fundamental to our very existence and survival which is why the benefits for marriage was put in place to begin with.

Of course we're not required to, you could have saved yourself the trouble. The question is, should we? And the answer, of course, is yes.
 

enchanted_one1975

Resident Lycanthrope
this has dregged on long enough.

The reason I brought this up was to show you that we are not required, as a society, to provide benefits for same sex couples because they do not function in the same capacity as the nuclear family. That capacity being fundamental to our very existence and survival which is why the benefits for marriage was put in place to begin with.
:facepalm: While we are at it, let's get rid of Social Security, the Veteran's Administration, and the Food Stamp program. While the people on these programs may have been useful at one time, they are not currently helping the typical "nuclear family" at all. Let's just push them all aside and forget about them and just take care of the working, heterosexual, white male. :sarcastic
 

madhatter85

Transhumanist
:facepalm: While we are at it, let's get rid of Social Security, the Veteran's Administration, and the Food Stamp program. While the people on these programs may have been useful at one time, they are not currently helping the typical "nuclear family" at all. Let's just push them all aside and forget about them and just take care of the working, heterosexual, white male. :sarcastic

How does this even apply to the topic?

The latest posts since my response have been nothing but contemptuous, sarcastic drivel and/or personal attacks.

If you are unable to conjure up an argument that has to do with the topic at hand, I would suggest you refrain from posting and concede the debate.
 

Autodidact

Intentionally Blank
madhatter seems to think that he's won the thread. Of course, if that were true, he could easily tell us whether heterosexual couples who do not desire to have their own biological children should be allowed to marry. Oddly, he seems reluctant to do so. Why might that be, do you suppose? Perhaps someone would like to remind him that he has neglected this tiny little detail of his argument?
 

McBell

Unbound
How does this even apply to the topic?

The latest posts since my response have been nothing but contemptuous, sarcastic drivel and/or personal attacks.

If you are unable to conjure up an argument that has to do with the topic at hand, I would suggest you refrain from posting and concede the debate.
Well, if you were to start actually debating....

You do know that merely repeating yourself ad nauseum and ignoring everything that shows you are wrong is not debating, right?
 

Kilgore Trout

Misanthropic Humanist
How does this even apply to the topic?

The latest posts since my response have been nothing but contemptuous, sarcastic drivel and/or personal attacks.

If you are unable to conjure up an argument that has to do with the topic at hand, I would suggest you refrain from posting and concede the debate.

Delusion springs eternal.
 

madhatter85

Transhumanist
Well, if you were to start actually debating....

You do know that merely repeating yourself ad nauseum and ignoring everything that shows you are wrong is not debating, right?
Nothing presented with any credibility has conflicted with my statements.:rolleyes:

The only things people have claimed have been personal opinion or unfounded comments.
 

Mr Cheese

Well-Known Member
Nothing presented with any credibility has conflicted with my statements.:rolleyes:

The only things people have claimed have been personal opinion or unfounded comments.

wrong, I have presented scientific conjecture and evidnece from studies

that are NOT my opinion and COUNTER your statements

You just chooe to ignore them....

but that seems par of the course
 

Kerr

Well-Known Member
Nothing presented with any credibility has conflicted with my statements.:rolleyes:

The only things people have claimed have been personal opinion or unfounded comments.
Must point out that you have done the same. It is all based in our value system, really, where I come from marriage and relationships is not first hand about children, it is about love. Where I come from sexuality is not just about children either, it can be many things. For pleasure, an expression of love, and so on. Our values are the basis of our opinions and often also shape in what way we look at the truth.

Humanity would not survive if everyone only had sex with the same sex, true (not counting artificial means and so). But homosexuality has never threatened to do this, infact it seems to appear naturally in many places in nature without every causing a specie to go extinct or even be a factor for that. Same sex marriages would not change this.
 

McBell

Unbound
Nothing presented with any credibility has conflicted with my statements.:rolleyes:

The only things people have claimed have been personal opinion or unfounded comments.
you can ignore posts 96, 190, 197, 213, 265, and 270 (just to point out a few) all you want.

However, your ignoring them does not make them go away.
making comments like "Nothing presented with any credibility has conflicted with my statements." with posts like 96, 190, 197, 213, 265, and 270 (just to point out a few) glaring readers right in the face only makes you look even more desperate.
Or perhaps the correct term would be pathetic?
 

sojourner

Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
the supreme court ruled marriage "fundamental to our very existence and survival"
What makes the supreme court an authority on a relationship that reflects God's love for us?
Why should the supreme court, operating under the Constitution, even join that argument if the thing in question is a religious sacrament?
 

madhatter85

Transhumanist
What makes the supreme court an authority on a relationship that reflects God's love for us?
Why should the supreme court, operating under the Constitution, even join that argument if the thing in question is a religious sacrament?
That is actually a very good question. However, people seem to think marriage is secular. But that is also for a different debate. The reason i point this out is SSM pundits blatantly disregard not only the full sentence in the Loving v. Virginia ruling, but also forget that the Loving v. Virginia case was about ethnicity, to which homosexuality has nothing in common.
 

madhatter85

Transhumanist
you can ignore posts 96, 190, 197, 213, 265, and 270 (just to point out a few) all you want.

However, your ignoring them does not make them go away.
making comments like "Nothing presented with any credibility has conflicted with my statements." with posts like 96, 190, 197, 213, 265, and 270 (just to point out a few) glaring readers right in the face only makes you look even more desperate.
Or perhaps the correct term would be pathetic?
I did respond to those posts. I cited sources for my arguments. You are the one who refuses to acknowledge them. The actual evidence in the studies posed by YamiB only support my position. The Conjecture however, is simply conjecture.:rolleyes:
 

enchanted_one1975

Resident Lycanthrope
...the Loving v. Virginia case was about ethnicity, to which homosexuality has nothing in common.
I have explained over and over again how there is no difference between a interracial marriage and a homosexual marriage as far as discrimination goes. You just choose to ignore what you wish. You are losing what little credibility you thought you had with each and every post. I just regret that you are probably a registered voter.
 
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