Can We Please Just Let Gay People Get Married?

A good write from you nice work

The whole reasoning behind banning gay marriage is loaded with holes. I just love the arguement that marriage is about rasing kids – so why not ban sterile people, and old people from getting married?

I am 100% behind gay unions, I feel gay couples deserve to get benefits like healthcare from peoples employers, I found your article offensive in your portrayal of Republicans as blindly following the GOP. Come on you can do better than that there are conservatives that genuinely believe that the gay lifestyle is inappropriate it has nothing to do with what the GOP tells them to think. I personally could care less if people are gay. Some of the best people I know are gay. I agree with you that this issue will eventually be behind us as a country and the gay lifestyle will eventually be accepted by most Americans as an acceptable way of life.

Now as for Gay Marriage as opposed to Unions I think they are forcing a change that many people are unwilling to accept. Marriage has always been between a man and a woman and breaking a tradition that has been in place as long as people can remember is not going to happen without a vicious fight. I am for Gay Unions because I believe it will have the effect of slowly introducing this “new” idea to people and will help them gain acceptance.

Once people realize that their lives are not in any way harmed by the gay guy in accounting getting benefits for the love of his life they will become more accepting of the lifestyle. This is a pragmatic approach intended to ease the country into something that frankly greatly disturbs a great number of people.

I think everything can and should be included in the Gay Union that is included in a marriage- rights of survivorship, rights of making medical decisions, death benefits, pension benefits, etc etc.

It is time to stand up and confront the unfair standards imposed on gay people by those who refuse to understand. If you consider the gay lifestyle a sin it is time to hate the sin and love the sinner. God gave us free will who are you to deny it to your fellow citizen.

i’m actualy part of a club called straigt men for gay rights.
good write

I am a straight, married man. I support the right of a church or synagogue to withhold a marriage sacrament, blessing or religious status from couples they do not approve of. But I oppose the government using tax dollars to discriminate against Americans. Legally “marriage” is an agreement supported by the government between two people allowing for mutual risk management and shared property. It’s sexually discriminatory to allow one person to enter into this agreement but not another, based solely on who they find attractive or the shape of their bodies (and when was the last time a court clerk, much less a clergyperson, actually checked?). It’s comparable to requiring both parties involved in a title transfer to have two different eye colors. If a church wants to withhold a certain blessing or religious status for a relationship, so be it, but laws pronouncing the “sanctity” of marriage (as in “sacredness”) are unconstitutional. The government shouldn’t be involved in sacredness.
The best solution: Everybody gets a civil union regardless of gender, and governments get out of the marriage business entirely and leave “marriage” to the churches. Whatever we call the legal agreement, it should offer exactly the same benefits to the Americans involved regardless of the shape of their bodies and who they find attractive. So let’s make ALL of these agreements legal partnerships in the eyes of the government, which they already are, regardless of gender, and let churches, if they so choose, bestow or withhold some special religious status at their discretion. People who adhere to those belief systems can abide by their churches’ expectations as they see fit.