Posted on 02/16/2005 9:29:38 PM PST by Dan19
how does everyone feel about homosexual marriage
I think we've bottomed out, blank. And Dan led us here. Think it's time for some shut-eye.
That's CHIEF Inspector Clouseau.
"For civil union, against marriage."
Same here.
do you have a lee sanse.
no but i have a bimp on my hed.
Hyperbole.
Read your history. For the greater part of the history of Western civilization, marriage was about money. It was a contract between families to exchange one thing for another. Everything else is just window dressing added within the last 150 years or so.
I was being sarcastic.
What was the exchange? The girl for the money or family connections or whatever?
Jenny Guv (MI) got smacked on this issue here. Something tells me her re-election campaign is going to be selfish fun.
No hope for a senate seat in the near future but these endless "fees" or tax increases just may PO the blue collar tier who takes the brunt of these layered tax hikes, and will hopefully backfire.
With a strong governor, MI would be a red state. Again.
Girl + Dowry = Connections, one less mouth to feed, the eventual merging of two families resources.
It's hard to be for or against something that doesn't even exist. Marriage isn't marriage if it's between anything else but a man and a woman.
Same here.
Late 70s perhaps, I'm in that ball park.
Give a Liberal an inch, they go a mile.
It's not just a contract. It's an adventure.
That's what the radical gay lobby would have you believe. Marriage is much more complex than simply a "contractual agreement between two people".
I have no problem with civil unions for Gays, and I also believe they should be able to obtain any kind of insurance coverage for their partners.
I also believe that the Gay Marriage movement is not about civil rights for Gays, it's about marginalizing the Christian beliefs that led to our Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the foundation of our Constitution.
Homosexuality is not a natural act, and only represents a very small segment of our society. They deserve the protection the Bill of Rights affords them, but we must never compromise the Christian beliefs this great Nation was founded on.
[i]I don't care what gays do in their home, but I don't want my tax money paying for it with benefits.[/i]
Kind of agree... as a straight single person, I think it's unfair that any relationship of any kind gets a governmental blessing in the form of a tax advantage.
The gov't should define all as civil unions... churches should be allowed to decide if they want to perform marriage ceremonies. The gov't shouldn't butt into the picture (no pun intended LOL!).
"If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other. "
Carl Schurz (1829 - 1906)
I think that the business of the individual should remain the business of the individual until it becomes the business of the state. Gay marriage isn't a threat to conventional marriage, it's an issue of individual belief and therefore none of the government's business. Let the homosexuals get married. If they go to hell for it that's no skin off my back.
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