Category: Let's talk
If you want to get married then you should have to go to a church and that church should decide weather to marry you. If you want the tax breaks you should be able to get civil unions, but the government shouldn't be allowed to "marry you" since that carrys strong religious conotations.
hey dave. this is wonderful news. I am definitely one who will benefit.
can't gay or lesbian peple have religious beleifs too? aren't the teachings of all the world religions baiscally to treat people of watever creed, coour or sexuality as you would like to be treated yourself? I am from the UK, where we've just had a major step forward in gay and lesbian legislation, allowing them to have very similar rights under the law as married heterosexual couples. and btw, look at nature, homosecuality is not as uncommon as you might think. it's all over the place, so nature can't be wrong can it? if nature says you are attracted to your own gender, then so be it. love should be able to flurish between same sex couples as within hetro sexual couples. If they want to get married in a church and that is acceptable then so be it, but everyone should have the oppotunity to legalise their relationship be they same sex or opposite sex relationships.
that's great.
To post 4 write something semi coherent that doesn't look like one of the things the first graders my mom used to teach would write at the beginning of the year and I might dignify it with a response.
I believe that everyone should be able to marry whom ever they wish. I'm all for free will and all that. One of my best friends for a long time was gay. He showed me that just because someone is gay/lesbian/bi/transgender that doesn't mean they are any less human than us and we have no right, in my opinion to say what they shouldn't or should be able to do. They should have free will just like us.
Thanks,
Dawnielle
Queen of R&B, you're in Massachusetts?
yay! mow if we can just get the rest of the states in the same place.
As for the marriage issue of all of this regarding church/state I won't give comment.
Maybe because on one level my thoughts are not that far considered
to where I feel I would give my own deep down personal considerations.
It really though is not my business to enter in behind another's
closed bedroom doors, in the sense of what legal age consenting adults
partake of or don't partake of.
I suppose what gets me most is that when there are those adults consenting to live with one the other in a loving caring relationship
and for say years on end are there for each other,
Sharing in the joys as well as life's heartaches, never minding same sex or no.
It is that oft when it comes to say the monetary issues or issues of medical treatment that yes, there needs to be protection provided that pensions are received of when the one partner/spouse in a relationship dies, that the other gets those monies due.
Also in event of serious illness, who makes the determining decisions like if there were to a rise a decision regarding life support.
Seems it is only right to have that life partner, the one whom another has turned to, sharing concerns and who it is desired that if incapacited would make what may be those critical life/death decisions.
The sex of a persons matters not, rather who knows deep down
the desires of that other person.
Thanks for listening,
~*Thunderous MidNight*~
I don't have a problem with homosexuals marrying each other. However, I don't support those who were campaigning against the referendum in Massachusetts. Massachusetts is a democratic state. Therefore it is only right that the decisions which are made by the government there are what the people would want. After all, politicians are public servants and are elected to do what the majority of the public wants them to do. If there were a referendum, then the majority of voters would get what they wanted. If the majority want gay marriage to be legal, it could continue to be legal. However, if the majority don't, then their will should be respected. To disrespect the will of the electorate is to disrespect democracy. That is why if I was a Boston resident, I would accept whatever the outcome was to the referendum.