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Originally Posted by cSpooge
I have no problem with them getting "married", but as a catholic I have a problem with them using the term marriage which is a sacred word for us.
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So then would you have a problem with a child molester using the term as long as he was heterosexual? What about a wife-beater?
Much like the post above this one, I am an athiest, yet I rarely see a protest to null my marriage. Many like to proclaim that gays can't use the word because of it's religious roots, yet there seems to be absolutely no problem with marriage for sinful people or even people who don't believe in god.
I'm sorry, I just don't buy that the word is "sacred" when so many treat it as a joke. I think suddenly the word gets a lot more "sacred" when somebody wants to use it that you don't agree with.
The reason gays deserve the right to marry is quite simple: if we neglect them rights then there is no reason we shouldn't be able to neglect the rights of people of a certain race, people with blue eyes or individuals of a particular height.
The idea that there is a choice regarding sexual preference is perhaps the most ignorant thing I can think of. It's a train of thought that I am unable to understand and after several years of this debate I've come to the conclusion that I really don't care to understand the mental processes of the people who can't put the pieces together.
I apologize if I'm coming off as harsh, but I've just grown tired of people who display incredibly homophobic or discriminatory behaviour and proclaim it ok because they go to church every sunday. I'd have much more respect for somebody who proclaims that they don't want gays to marry because they simply don't like them.
To see the African-American population in the states take such a strong stand against gay marriage is unfortunate. You'd think a group of people so strongly discriminated against would feel negatively towards discrimination of any kind.