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Re: Record Support for Gay Marriage
Cool. Aside from your personal opinions of most marriages....how about the hypocrisy of all the fornicators and adulterers that are allowed to marry? Religious people werent all up in arms trying to prevent that and the Bible puts those sins at the same level as 'laying with a man,' no better, no worse.
Or how about all the felons...in jail allowed to marry? Or the people of different faiths and NO faith? All allowed to marry.
Gays have kids, gays have families...naturally, and by adoption. Lots of straight married couples CHOOSE to do neither.
So...tell me again why gays should be excluded without looking like a hypocrite.
It's not about the "composition" of the marriage to the state....as you said, it means many things to many people. It's ABOUT a legal contract with benefits and privileges that ALL these others...felons, atheists, child-free couples...GET to have and gays are still denied. For no good reason that I have seen.
Marriage is about faith, family, and children. Always has been, always will be.
Doesn't mean you have to have kids and or believe in God, but there really isn't a lot of point to it otherwise. Just live together. I realize some couples can't, or decide not to, have children, but that is far the exception.
I consider very few marriages to actually be marriages anyway. People these days rarely take it seriously for all that it implies.
Cool. Aside from your personal opinions of most marriages....how about the hypocrisy of all the fornicators and adulterers that are allowed to marry? Religious people werent all up in arms trying to prevent that and the Bible puts those sins at the same level as 'laying with a man,' no better, no worse.
Or how about all the felons...in jail allowed to marry? Or the people of different faiths and NO faith? All allowed to marry.
Gays have kids, gays have families...naturally, and by adoption. Lots of straight married couples CHOOSE to do neither.
So...tell me again why gays should be excluded without looking like a hypocrite.
It's not about the "composition" of the marriage to the state....as you said, it means many things to many people. It's ABOUT a legal contract with benefits and privileges that ALL these others...felons, atheists, child-free couples...GET to have and gays are still denied. For no good reason that I have seen.