Just thought I'd point something out.... We have a few gay guys posting their opinion here, some open minded hetero-sexuals and a few bigots all represented fairly equally in this post... but the conversation is missing one group... a fairly significant one considering the argument is often about whether or not gays should be able to use the term "Marriage"...
There are some gay people that are also religious, although I'm sure a few of you (and I can already guess who) will say that is some sort of an impossible Juxtaposition. These Gay AND Religious people will want to A) have the right to be religious, believe in and love the same god as you B) Have the right to proclaim their union under the blessing of God. You know equal rights...
Finding them a new word so they don't offend non-gay religious people is not a solution and akin to segregation in my mind and just as wrong. I personally think believing in God is akin to believing in Santa passed the age of 15... I find the sheer number of educated free thinking religious adults astounding... I'm all for people living their lives with some moral guidelines, but I don’t need an old book to do it... Alas to each their own and as such I believe anyone should also have the right to marry... but I certainly do not think that a religious person's religion is a justifiable excuse to be a bigot... its a hollow and silly excuse to treat one human being as a lesser human being or even different based on that.
But I'm not gay or religious and really think the whole argument is stupid. Other than the tax breaks getting married period seems silly to me. It certainly doesn't grantee you anything, including monogamy as so few take it seriously anymore and even less respect its sanctity... perhaps less people would vilify religion and its processes if it generally promoted behaving like caring accepting people, instead so many use their belief structure to ostracize and belittle their fellow human beings that are different, religion often promotes intolerance and hard line ultimatums via exclusion... less and Less of us want to be associated with such organized bigotry, even if we do not disagree with many of the additional and more enlightened moral teachings.
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