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Originally Posted by calgaryrocks
...first off its my opinion, so you are welcome to state your own, but there is no need to attack mine.
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Well the whole point of discussion is to attack opinions
But I understand what you mean and of course I'm not going to attack you, but asking to clarify and justify an opinion should be fair game.
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Originally Posted by calgaryrocks
my point of view is that God made marriage as a thing for a man and a wife, in certain ways men and women fit together (not just in a physical sense). what complicates it is that people want to get married because they get financial benefits and society is more accepting of married people. why does a gay couple need to get married? i still think guys having sex together is not what God intended, but if they want to then thats what they want to do. why get married? same thing with marrying multiple partners, why marriage? cant they just commit to the other person? isnt marriage a commitment to one other person? a guy is supposed to just have sex with his wife, not other women(or men). same thing the other way around. again, my opinion/beliefs here.
the argument of course is that people should be allowed to do what they want...come up with a new term or something for a permanent(how permanent is marriage nowadays tho) union that isnt marriage but essentially the same thing. if people want to get married, who is the governement to stop them as consenting adults, as was stated by another poster. its a valid argument, which is why im not going to protest it or something, but i would still vote against it. i hope that makes sense.
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Whew, lots in there. I think we should avoid the whole semantic debate around the word marriage and definition, what it means, etc, as I think that is secondary to the main issue, and don't want to derail too far.
I can appreciate your opinion, but that still doesn't really answer the "why?" question.
Usually in the Bible when there's limits placed on behaviours, there's a pretty clear natural reason. Not murdering makes good sense, Bible or no Bible, murder does clear harm to society in general. You obviously wouldn't expect every standard of thought and behaviour in the Bible to be legislated into law (just like you wouldn't want standards of other religions enforced on you), society is secular and should accept everyone.
So laws should be derived in part from what's good for and what harms society. No one would expect you to participate in polygamy if you didn't want to.
So I guess the why I'm looking for is what harm does polygamy bring to society?