No one should be forced to play a role in a celebration they want nothing to do with, or to hire themselves out to clients they would prefer not to serve. Well, the Bible also talked about no sex before marriage. The Bible clearly teaches that homosexuality is a sin. There is no person or group of persons on Earth who have the right to restrict who someone can marry. You can be placed under oath without that practice.
My question to you is whether the State's financial losses according to you override those civil rights issues. I can find a statistic that says the exact opposite if I so chosed, but it would just be as biased as your sources. As well, I thought it was interesting that Con said that he had nothing against gay couples, yet stated that that it is wrong. Get Spirit-filled content delivered right to your inbox! I could have sworn God is love. Words: 992 - Pages: 4. Is that really our decision to make? There is no civil-rights discrimination involved when the law refuses to recognize my auto club as a church.
A difficult issue in writing this booklet was to make it informative and frankly discussing the issues without being graphic. So, ladies and gentleman, I think I have rested my argument. Any situation which institutionalizes the circumvention of the purpose of the sexual act violates natural law and the objective norm of morality. Throughout history, marriage has been between a man and a woman. The argument about the structural identity of marriage is not a legal argument about how people should be treated within the bonds of that structure. We even have bulk discounts which make it even easier to do so. Even if gay people get married.
But even by a non-religious view or moral view, gay marriage is wrong regardless by what I have stated. Our relationships are just as loving and valid as heterosexual relationships, but our current marriage laws suggest it is not. Your stereotypes about gay people are not valid evidence in any way. Fortunately we have millions of rational people who don't believe that being attracted to someone of the same sex is somehow a horrible offense to some jealous and hateful god floating in the sky with a white beard. Do a little more digging into history and you can find in modern history where being gay in England often resulted in a punishment of life in prison breaking rocks.
Each of the examples above were and still are met with similar forms of resistance we see to gay marriage. Perhaps there is good discrimination and bad discriminationā¦ and we can just impose which discrimination is good and which is bad ā¦ using the democratic process? Can someone please run down the rights and privileges a heterosexual pair gets when they're married and the rights given to those civilly united and then maybe we'd get somewhere here. Same sex marriage existed in places such as China dated as far back as the Ming Dynasty. For clarification, I have absolutely no personal problem with anyone who is homosexual. Two entirely different things cannot be considered the same thing.
Society pays dearly for at least 2 decades for each helpless human brought into it, and the cost for unhealthy humans quickly skyrockets both in terms of money outlays and lost productivity. I beleive it is a chocie that people make, many have come out of the closet only later to decide that heterosexuality is what they prefer see Anne Heche. Nonetheless I wasn't saying you were racist. I think it would be a valuable read for you given your sentiments as it displays a lot of compassion for those trapped in the lifestyle. I will use a Christian argument to prove my point.
They are both lesbians and want to get married someday when the law allows. All over the world, homosexuals exists whether openly or hidden. The United States focuse Gay marriage is also referred to as same sex marriage. Just because they 'feel like' and 'want' to, they are thinking of themselves not the society. We pray for those who fall into homosexual sin out of human weakness, that God may assist them with His grace. These rights include the freedom of speech, freedom of press, the right to vote and the right to equality in public places. Most of you have been doing just fine with religion so far but some of your arguments seem a little vague.
Two adult males or females can. I am catholic and I believe in God but I think the catholic church is messed up in more ways than one. All the rest of the stuff in the paragraph stands all my examples of costs. I believe that everyone has a right to be happy. Proponents of legal gay marriage contend that gay marriage bans are discriminatory and unconstitutional, and that same-sex couples should have access to all the benefits enjoyed by different-sex couples.
In rallying against the introduction of equal marriage, religious campaigners have frequently stressed that their objections are not driven by homophobia, and have deployed numerous arguments to demonstrate this. Unfortunately, I can't because I wouldn't know which version of the Bible to read for it has been reprinted, translated and quite possibly re-written over 200 times! Over the pastā¦ an opinion on gay marriage and whether gay couples have the right to marry. I don't know if they have yet, though. Just like we didn't consult Jesus or Buddah when we gave blacks or women the right to vote. Children need both a father and a mother. If three or more people want to willingly and knowingly enter in to a multi-marriage, what is the harm? Thus, if they love each other, what makes it wrong for them to get married? There is no civil rights discrimination against an eight-year-old youngster who is denied the right to enter into marriage.