What do you think about the same-sex marriage?

What do you think about the same-sex marriage? I have a friend getting married with the same sex uder the help of the site biloves.com and now they have a great life.

 

this is an LGBT forum.....what do you think people will say? :S

 

It's a big steaming pile that it's ever been an issue at all...

 

that's wonderful for your friend. hopefully, one day all societies will appreciate people who love. gender should not fucking matter.

 

Agreed

 

Gender should'nt matter if you love someone and they love you;and you want to get married.Everyone should have legal rights like any straight marriage.Personally I don't understand what the law and church have to do with marriage and love,It's bullsh*t!.

 

Sometimes I don't understand why two people in love would even want to be recognized by a church that doesn't accept them the way they are. Personally, I don't think marriage is such a fantastic institution anyway. I think love is what is important. Now as far as the legal rights granted to married people, OF COURSE they should be granted to same sex couples just the same. I don't even see how that could be up for debate...

But as for the conservative churches that will never recognize a same sex marriage...Who cares what they say anywho?

 

Who gives a shit what the conservative churches have to say about same-sex marriages?

Whether the conservative churches can refuse to accord the religious sacrament of holy matrimony to same-sex couples is their own business. Whether the state can issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples is the state's business.

Contrary to popular belief, marriage and holy matrimony are NOT the same thing. Holy matrimony is a creature of the church. Marriage is a creature of the state. The two have been unconstitutionally intertwined for far too long.

The thing that drives me crazy about this brouhaha over same-sex marriage is the utter failure of people on both sides of the issue to recognize it as a matter of the separation of church and state.

The conservatives churches have every right under the First Amendment to refuse to accord the sacrament of holy matrimony to same-sex couples -- and they likewise have the right to protest same-sex civil marriage all they want.

But they have NO constitutional right to force the state to bow to their anti-gay dogma and ban it legally To do so would clearly violate the Religious Test Clause (Article VI, Section 3) of the Constitution.

Likewise, the state has no constitutional right to force those conservative churches to accord the sacrament of holy matrimony to same-sex couples if it violates their religious principles.

It's mind-boggling to me how Americans have forgotten the history of civil marriage. It began at the turn of the 19th century in response to the then-widespread practice of religious institutions to refuse to accord the sacrament of holy matrimony to interfaith couples (particularly Catholic-Protestant and Cristian-Jewish unions).

Just as the state is barred by the Constitution from interfering with the church's authority to accord -- or deny -- the sacrament of holy matrimony to same-sex couples, the church is equally barred by the Constitution from intefering with the state's authority to accord the legal entity of civil marriage to same-sex couples as well.

 

It makes me so depressed, sad, and angry that same-sex marriage isn't accepted, socially OR in the "government". shouldn't be a question- if marriage is about LOVE, and LOVE doesn't care about GENDER, then the government is a hypocrite! (shock shock.)
so are the people who support this silly law.
And people want to know why laws and America is so fucked up? here's one of the reasons.

 

Because, in the words of Frank Zappa,
"The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced."

 

well not for me but I don't see how its anyone else's business but the couples' in question. to be frank I think it's pretty cool. don't understand why everyone gets so worked up about it...