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Opinions on same sex marriage/homosexuality

ninerbuff

ninerbuff

godless wonder
I don't believe individuals resort to becoming homosexual. Like a drug can chemically affect you, imbalance of hormones do the same. Inject testosterone into a female and she takes on male features with the exception of genitalia.
Hormone imbalances at birth happen, think hermaphrodite for example, and those imbalances will affect the individual. So IMO, homosexuality is just part of nature.
When it comes to marriage, I don't care if two people of the same sex want to be married. It doesn't hurt my marriage nor does it affect me personally. And what is marriage anyway? It's a LEGAL CONTRACT. Without a license, you can't prove marriage. You have to go to court to get divorced. The ritual of marriage of any religion in the US isn't considered a marriage unless there is a marriage license. That's why I don't get why people who are against same sex marriage are so angry.
As for offending the "sanctity" of marriage, I scoff because of the 50% divorce rate.
 
Penumbra

Penumbra

Veteran Member
Premium Member
ninerbuff said:
I don't believe individuals resort to becoming homosexual. Like a drug can chemically affect you, imbalance of hormones do the same. Inject testosterone into a female and she takes on male features with the exception of genitalia.
Hormone imbalances at birth happen, think hermaphrodite for example, and those imbalances will affect the individual. So IMO, homosexuality is just part of nature.
When it comes to marriage, I don't care if two people of the same sex want to be married. It doesn't hurt my marriage nor does it affect me personally. And what is marriage anyway? It's a LEGAL CONTRACT. Without a license, you can't prove marriage. You have to go to court to get divorced. The ritual of marriage of any religion in the US isn't considered a marriage unless there is a marriage license. That's why I don't get why people who are against same sex marriage are so angry.
As for offending the "sanctity" of marriage, I scoff because of the 50% divorce rate.
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I'm for homosexual marriage for the same reasons you listed.

Britney Spears was married for 55 hours once, and then had an annulment. Marriage itself is just a word, and not one with much sanctity. Whether sanctity exists in a given marriage is up to the individuals involved, and nobody else. If anti-gay marriage activists were actually concerned with sanctity of marriage, they'd be attacking the legal ramifications of a 55-hour marriage with as much zeal as they attack the rights of gays and lesbians.

Since sanctity refers to that which is holy or sacred, the State has no business defending or attacking the sanctity of anything, at least in countries where state is separate from any religion.
 
Riverwolf

Riverwolf

Amateur Rambler / Proud Ergi
Premium Member
Not another homosexual-issue thread... guess it's just the result of being the hot topic these days...

I'm all for homosexual marriage. There's no legitimate reason to forbid it.
 
ninerbuff

ninerbuff

godless wonder
Riverwolf said:
Not another homosexual-issue thread... guess it's just the result of being the hot topic these days...

I'm all for homosexual marriage. There's no legitimate reason to forbid it.
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Sorry, I'm new and didn't bother to search if was recently posted.
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
I don't care if homosexuality is genotypical, phenotypical, normal, perverse, common or uncommon.
I say let'm marry each other.....why should only straight people suffer?
 
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angellous_evangellous

Guest
Homosexuality is perfectly natural and such folk should not be denied basic human rights for any reason.
 
MysticSang'ha

MysticSang'ha

Big Squishy Hugger
Premium Member
Same sex marriage rights and equality for all GLBTQs are a must. I'm bisexual, and have identified myself as one semi-openly since I was in my early 20's, and secretly since I was in my early teens. So obviously my opinions on homosexuality are extremely favorable. :)
 
tumbleweed41

tumbleweed41

Resident Liberal Hippie
Kilgore Trout said:
There are already plenty of homosexual marriages consisting of a lesbian married to a gay man.
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I have a lesbian friend who is 'legally' married to a gay man. They are both in the Army and did it to quell any questions as to their sexuality. (This was before DADT).
They are, however, waiting for a repeal of DADT and DOMA and an open policy in the military before getting a legal divorce.
 
LuisDantas

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
There isn't, and there has never been, a good reason to deny any adult, informed, willing, mentally capable couple the right to marriage.

Certainly not due to homosexuality, transexuality, bisexuality or travestism. It is strictly a private matter.

It is sad that so many people fail to see such a simple fact.
 
Smoke

Smoke

Done here.
tumbleweed41 said:
I have a lesbian friend who is 'legally' married to a gay man. They are both in the Army and did it to quell any questions as to their sexuality. (This was before DADT).
They are, however, waiting for a repeal of DADT and DOMA and an open policy in the military before getting a legal divorce.
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I used to know a lesbian (not in the service) who was married to a gay man in the service. He got cover for his sexuality, and she got military benefits, so it worked for both of them.

I also knew a gay man and a lesbian who decided to marry each other because they were best friends and honestly felt the other was the person each wanted to build a life with, though they didn't have a sexual relationship with each other and both had sexual relationships with other people.

And of course there are countless heterosexual marriages where one partner is gay and the other either doesn't know or believes it's possible to change with prayer, willpower, counseling, or whatever.
 
Nerthus

Nerthus

Wanderlust
Smoke said:
And of course there are countless heterosexual marriages where one partner is gay and the other either doesn't know or believes it's possible to change with prayer, willpower, counseling, or whatever.
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Absolutely. If someone is gay, they cannot change that fact despite what their religion might say about it. Deep down, they know that they will always be a gay person in a heterosexual relationship.

When someone starts to dictate how I should or should not be living, is when I get annoyed with religion.
 
Jeremiah

Jeremiah

Well-Known Member
Riverwolf said:
Not another homosexual-issue thread... guess it's just the result of being the hot topic these days...

I'm all for homosexual marriage. There's no legitimate reason to forbid it.
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"guess it's just the result of being the hot topic these days..."

It is not a "hot topic these days"; it has been an ongoing issue, in the States, since Thomas Jefferson, got the punishment for homosexuals acts upgraded from death to castration; to 1962 when Illinois become the first state to decriminalize homosexuals act; onward to today, where we are still have to fight for our unalienable rights. The only difference today is that our voice has become so loud that not even the people with their head up their *** can ignore us anymore.

What astounds me, is how apathetic, some of you appear, to an obvious violation of the unalienable rights, not of homosexuals, but fellow Americans.
 
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