Marriage is a legal contract that can only be dissolved by a write of divorcement. It is a legally binding contract that is being denied to a certain portion of society based on a religious bias. Therefore, a ban on gay marriage is illegal and unconstititutional.
Thanks for the compliment!
If that's how you take it, then you're welcome.
I am not either one ;]
I agree and can support that notion, as long as the insitution of marriage is there then everyone should have access to it. My beef is with the insitution of marriage all togather and that is really what it is about here, I have met gay couples that do very well with kids and are well respected members of the community but they simply want to get married for more money and that is what it comes down to, they want to take more money from single people and that is why I would vote yes on a ban on gay marriageonly if I can also vote yes on a ban on straight marriage. Fuck married people they are annoying and do not deserve special bennifits over single people IMO. Personally I don't want to pay for them because I will never get married myself lol...You want to be fair then what about people that can't or won't get married?
If you say so.
Me and the Webster Dictionary.
A living will is very limited and has nothing to do with recognition of family members. Do you know how many contracts a gay couple would have to create in order to have similar rights to a married couple? Even then, there are benefits and rights that cannot be contracted for in any situation, especially when it comes to third parties like places of employment, insurance companies, and any place a spousal benefit is granted. These are the same situations that make civil unions a less than satisfactory substitution for marriage.
totall agree with this but you can't have it one way really, as long as straight marriage is legal then gay marriage shouldn't be illegal.
I am with you on this. I think marriage largely senseless. However I am not sure if a voting yes on a ban is a vote against marriage, or a vote for marriage with religious based exclusion. Id want to be sure my ideology wasn't tricking me into supporting a ridiculous paradigm becoming even more discriminatory.
Yea I rewroded that shortly after writing it to say that I would only vote for gay marriage ban if I could also vote for a single marriage ban.
Ughh,,,It's Legal,,,and so is religion,,,Tax wise i was better off single
,,,What ever the church thinks I could care less kinnda like the government or the church care's about you
,,,10% 15%,,,etc...
So atheists don't get married? Religion has tried to appropriate marriage for itself, but it is not a solely religious function, it is the joining of two families.
Ah, gothcha. Then I pretty much agree with your point of view. I am ok with monogamy, spousal benefits, wanting to make someone officially part of the family, ect, but I am not for the social engineering aspect, AND I don't like to hear any whining about how someones marriage didn't work. I personally don't understand the need to stand up an announce a relationship in front of people, solicit gifts, decorate with flowers, ect, but I guess I can understand why other people like it.