Originally Posted by MitchHM Wow James!! I pretty much always agree with you, but that was the worst arguement ever.
But that's what the people in favour of homosexual marriages are saying! "If you love someone you should be able to marry them". My beef isn't with them, we have civil partnerships already and I'm all for that. It's when mad heads say "well I love my horse" and question why they can't marry that, I mean it has happened (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-animal_marriage). With these kind of knee jerk alterations to beliefs and practices that have gone on for hundreds of years it usually ends in giving an inch and later giving a mile.
I've been to a civil partnership ceremony, nowt different to a registry office wedding.
Just I was always brought up to think of a husband and bride getting married, are they allocated that or are they both husband (or both wife, in the case of lesbians and such)?
I'm really quite surprised about the amount of people against gay marrigge! Especially if it's for religious reasons. I mean, come on. If god doesn't like gay people he shouldn't make them. It's kinda sick to make a person knowing he can never live up to your rules, and still punish him with an eternity of pain. Who do you worship?
Originally Posted by -Adam- To be honest, is this thread actually appropriate for a site with mainly teens and kids on it? Your profile says you're 32, Id have thought you'd have known better.
I agree, there should be less talkage of these things in the forum. It's not really relevant.
Ok I can respect that. The fact that you're for civil partnerships shows it's nothing personal against gay people, just that you want to keep the ritual intact. I still don't understand though how you can compare a horse to a person. 2 people can both claim to love each other. A horse can't claim anything. So an animal would always be forced into the marrige, where gay people both want to be married. That's the big difference!
We don't let horses vote. A hundred years ago black people couldn't marry white people here. A hundred years before that, black people couldn't marry each other. And people compared black people to horses, back then. Honestly, I don't understand how Gay Marriage is an issue in the first place. I thought the conservatives were a bunch of "Not in my back yard" sorts, not "I'M GONNA BE IN YOUR BACKYARD NO MATTER WHAT BUT YOU BETTER NOT BE IN MINE OR I'LL SHOOT YOU" hypocritical sorts.
You are kind of right Pixel thief. I as a conservative am for small/limited government. Therefore, under my ideology the government should have no right to say who can get married and who can't. :/
Originally Posted by MitchHM So an animal would always be forced into the marrige, where gay people both want to be married. That's the big difference!
There are forced marriages though.
This is what is a bit scary. If "marry anyone you love" comes into play and you have forced marriages and bigamy already then some mighty big floodgates could be opened.
And hey, if you're not religious and you want to get married (like what Adam was saying about the folks he knows)- then get a civil partnership! Marriages were founded in religious practices. If you're not religious then why get married?
Oh and for kicks; I'm for abolishing religious schools. Religion shouldn't have a place in the education system.
Yeah I think the whole "Government not funding religious schools" falls under separation of church and state, but they should definitely be free to choose where to send their kids if they want to. But thats pretty much how it is right now anyway.
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