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What is the primary reason behind your support for same-sex marriage? [W:539/549]

What is the primary reason behind your support for same-sex marriage?

  • Because I’m gay/lesbian

    Votes: 3 2.2%
  • Because it’s an equal rights issue

    Votes: 78 57.4%
  • Because gays/lesbians love each other too

    Votes: 6 4.4%
  • Because I despise bigots/haters

    Votes: 1 0.7%
  • Because I don’t want to be labeled a bigot

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • I’m opposed to gay marriage

    Votes: 13 9.6%
  • I don’t care, either way

    Votes: 16 11.8%
  • Other

    Votes: 19 14.0%

  • Total voters
    136
  • Poll closed .
but polygamist rights are not an equality issue?

and you continue to wonder why people call you a hypocrite.... :lamo

I support polygamous marriage to. Why should several people who love each other not be able to get married? I draw the line at incest and child marriage. I don't only draw the line but build a giant ****ing wall.
 
I support polygamous marriage to. Why should several people who love each other not be able to get married? I draw the line at incest and child marriage. I don't only draw the line but build a giant ****ing wall.

a child is not a consenting adult. two (or more) grown relatives are. I fail to see why two siblings marrying should be more distasteful than two men or two women marrying.

IMHO it all comes down to your personal "ick" factor. :shrug:
 
a child is not a consenting adult. two (or more) grown relatives are. I fail to see why two siblings marrying should be more distasteful than two men or two women marrying.

IMHO it all comes down to your personal "ick" factor. :shrug:

No they can't consent but it still happens and I hope that society never goes to that corner of the darkness.
 
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I support it because I, unlike many people in this nation, don't believe that I have a right to dictate how other consenting adults run their lives.

This, plus I'm gay :D
 
I strongly oppose, based on religious, scientific and philosophical arguments.

The first is obvious, since I was raised Catholic.

Second, you can run a simple experiment. Take random pairs of living creatures, give them a hotel room to go screw, and observe how many pregnancies result after a large number of trials. You have probably already inferred from observations that two opposite sex humans, regardless of race, are capable. Similarly, a beagle can procreate with a poodle of the opposite sex. However, a same sex pair or the girl crazy enough to test riding a horse the wrong way will result in absolutely zero kids. From this experiment, you can conclude that a penis was meant to be paired with a vagina and, moreover, within a species.

Lastly, I like to commonly say people are getting so open-minded that their brains are starting to fall out. The words freedom and right are exaggerated. Many have started to notice the sense of entitlement growing in the minds of the younger generation, and it's not a side effect of the steroids put in the animals we eat. The more the rubber band gets stretched, the easier it will be to stretch until it breaks. Many have already made they point, if homosexuals want marriage then why can't the others have their desired polygamy? We've become a society like little kids crying when we see somebody else with something we don't have. The next time you're about to start complaining about the way something is, think about the reasoning behind why it is how it is. Occam's razor comes in handy. This is how you determine what is or is not meant to be changed.
 
I strongly oppose, based on religious, scientific and philosophical arguments.

The first is obvious, since I was raised Catholic.

Second, you can run a simple experiment. Take random pairs of living creatures, give them a hotel room to go screw, and observe how many pregnancies result after a large number of trials. You have probably already inferred from observations that two opposite sex humans, regardless of race, are capable. Similarly, a beagle can procreate with a poodle of the opposite sex. However, a same sex pair or the girl crazy enough to test riding a horse the wrong way will result in absolutely zero kids. From this experiment, you can conclude that a penis was meant to be paired with a vagina and, moreover, within a species.

Lastly, I like to commonly say people are getting so open-minded that their brains are starting to fall out. The words freedom and right are exaggerated. Many have started to notice the sense of entitlement growing in the minds of the younger generation, and it's not a side effect of the steroids put in the animals we eat. The more the rubber band gets stretched, the easier it will be to stretch until it breaks. Many have already made they point, if homosexuals want marriage then why can't the others have their desired polygamy? We've become a society like little kids crying when we see somebody else with something we don't have. The next time you're about to start complaining about the way something is, think about the reasoning behind why it is how it is. Occam's razor comes in handy. This is how you determine what is or is not meant to be changed.

Religion: There are parts in Old Testament (which is where religious people get their arguments from) that allow people to sell one another into slavery. Are you gonna start obeying that as well? Also interpretation of such verses is questionable. (BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | What does the Bible actually say about being gay?)

Science: The science part you mentioned wasn't science per se, but more biology. Anywho, homosexuality can be seen in the animal kingdom (1,500 animal species practice homosexuality)
 
Religion: There are parts in Old Testament (which is where religious people get their arguments from) that allow people to sell one another into slavery. Are you gonna start obeying that as well? Also interpretation of such verses is questionable. (BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | What does the Bible actually say about being gay?)

Science: The science part you mentioned wasn't science per se, but more biology. Anywho, homosexuality can be seen in the animal kingdom (1,500 animal species practice homosexuality)

Not to mention (once again) that the ability or inability to have a child has NEVER been a condition on which marriage has been decided.

Sex is such a tiny part of a relationship. I'm always intrigued as to why there's so much emphasis on sex when it comes to this issue.

Do straight people think gay people have sex about 9 million times more often than other folks?

A marriage is so much more than sex.

A marriage is so much more than having children.

Neither one of these things should be a determining factor when it comes to granting people the rights and benefits (and in some cases difficulties) of marriage.
 
funny that you keep ignoring the fact that, under current laws, marriage for gays is also a "new" right...since they don't currently have said right.

no, this is not a fact has proven to you by me, many others and facts it would be equal rights

thanks again for proving you do not understand the concept, you help me and others with every post you make like this
 
funny that you keep ignoring the fact that, under current laws, marriage for gays is also a "new" right...since they don't currently have said right.

You are literally arguing semantics.
 
Religion: There are parts in Old Testament (which is where religious people get their arguments from) that allow people to sell one another into slavery. Are you gonna start obeying that as well? Also interpretation of such verses is questionable. (BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine | What does the Bible actually say about being gay?)

In some cases, I do in fact support slavery. If you've been convicted of a crime/sin which deserves life imprisonment then you can either make yourself of some worth to this world and work as ordered, or we can put you to death. If others are going to pay to keep you alive then you should have to earn it. I also want welfare and unemployment to require undesirable labor, which many would describe as slavery, in order to enforce efforts to become independent.

Science: The science part you mentioned wasn't science per se, but more biology. Anywho, homosexuality can be seen in the animal kingdom (1,500 animal species practice homosexuality)

Are you serious? Biology is a field of science. The experimentation I described is, in fact, known as the scientific method. I don't care if you've had a dog try to hump your leg and think that's gay. Studies of human nature and the animal kingdom show that attraction to the opposite sex is what's natural, and this is easily explained by the instinct to procreate.
 
Not to mention (once again) that the ability or inability to have a child has NEVER been a condition on which marriage has been decided.

Sex is such a tiny part of a relationship. I'm always intrigued as to why there's so much emphasis on sex when it comes to this issue.

Do straight people think gay people have sex about 9 million times more often than other folks?

A marriage is so much more than sex.

A marriage is so much more than having children.

Neither one of these things should be a determining factor when it comes to granting people the rights and benefits (and in some cases difficulties) of marriage.
Why don't you ever link any sources? Do you understand that your opinion doesn't mean very much?
 
Not to mention (once again) that the ability or inability to have a child has NEVER been a condition on which marriage has been decided.

Sex is such a tiny part of a relationship. I'm always intrigued as to why there's so much emphasis on sex when it comes to this issue.

Do straight people think gay people have sex about 9 million times more often than other folks?

A marriage is so much more than sex.

A marriage is so much more than having children.

Neither one of these things should be a determining factor when it comes to granting people the rights and benefits (and in some cases difficulties) of marriage.


Why don't you ever link any sources? Do you understand that your opinion doesn't mean very much?

actually the bolded are facts :shrug:
you should take your own advice
 
actually the bolded are facts :shrug:
you should take your own advice
Why do you even post on here, OJ? You have even less credibility than Dragonfly. :stooges
 
Why do you even post on here, OJ? You have even less credibility than Dragonfly. :stooges

translation: you cant refute the facts presented to you
as always if you disagree please prove what i said wrong with facts, ill wait
 
translation: you cant refute the facts presented to you
as always if you disagree please prove what i said wrong with facts, ill wait
No facts have been presented, my friend. Besides, I'm not sure you have the attention span to wait. ;)
 
No facts have been presented, my friend. Besides, I'm not sure you have the attention span to wait. ;)

if thats your opinion it should be very easy for you to proof the bolded parts factually matter to legal marriage then right :)
weird everytime you are asked to back up your claims with logic, reality or facts you never do, you dodge, deflect or try failed insults :shrug:
it exposes you everytime
 
if thats your opinion it should be very easy for you to proof the bolded parts factually matter to legal marriage then right :)
weird everytime you are asked to back up your claims with logic, reality or facts you never do, you dodge, deflect or try failed insults :shrug:
it exposes you everytime
I asked for sources from Dragonfly. The kid is long on opinion and short on facts. I'd ask you to help him, but I'm starting to understand where he might be getting his bad habits from.
 
I asked for sources from Dragonfly. The kid is long on opinion and short on facts. I'd ask you to help him, but I'm starting to understand where he might be getting his bad habits from.

wired, another dodge, another failed insult and nothing to back up your false claims, why am i not surprised.

Why cant you just prove what i said and he said wrong if thats the truth? you expose yourself more ad more with each poster you cant support your false claims. Maybe next post youll actually have something logical and factual to add.
 
wired, another dodge,
It's impossible to dodge someone who can't back up his arguments, OJ. You have no sources. Somehow you have this notion that anything that drips from your keyboard is an actual fact. I want to see credible sources to Dragonfly's opinions. Seeing that you've swooped into the rescue, you will be just the one to do this. Good luck.
 
It's impossible to dodge someone who can't back up his arguments, OJ. You have no sources. Somehow you have this notion that anything that drips from your keyboard is an actual fact. I want to see credible sources to Dragonfly's opinions. Seeing that you've swooped into the rescue, you will be just the one to do this. Good luck.

LMAO
oh look another dodge, wow, again not surprised, let me know when you have ANYTHING factual or logic to back up your false claims.
Keep exposing yourself though its funny watching you try to spin things, nobody falls for it. maybe NEXT post youll be able to back your false claims.
 
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I almost said "I don't care either way," but that's not quite it. I don't think this it's important to prevent homosexuals from marrying, and so when it doesn't really matter I opt toward letting adults do whatever-the-**** they want assuming they're not breaking laws.
 
I don't think this it's important to prevent homosexuals from marrying, and so when it doesn't really matter I opt toward letting adults do whatever-the-**** they want assuming they're not breaking laws.
You mean like going contrary to the legal definition of marriage?
 
I seriously doubt that. ;)

And still no links.....

dont need links YOU made the false claim

here ill make it easy for you

list your proof that:

1.) the ability or inability to have a child matters to legal marriage

2.) Sexual intercourse matters to legal marriage.

I cant wit to hear this LMAO
 
dont need links YOU made the false claim

here ill make it easy for you

list your proof that:

1.) the ability or inability to have a child matters to legal marriage

2.) Sexual intercourse matters to legal marriage.

I cant wit to hear this LMAO
I asked first. Seeing how you've proven unable to keep your opinions to yourself, you get to answer on behalf of Dragonfly.

Good luck.
 
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