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Post by lifebaka on May 8, 2005 15:33:38 GMT -5
How do you feel about homosexuality, and homosexuals? What about gay mariage?
I personaly don't mind homosexuality, or homosexuals. They are people, just as you and me. They deserve to be treated as equals, and this includes mariage. Why shouldn't they be allowed to be married?
Also, there's a new bill (or has it been voted on?) in Texas that would make it illegal for homosexuals to adopt. It would also let the government look into to potential adopters to check on their sexual orientation. Now, I think that it was wrong to outlaw homosexual mariages, but this is just going too far. What right does the government have to do this? And isn't the looking into the person's past a violation of the right of privacy? I mean, God! Conservative politicians have sunk to a new level!
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Post by lifebaka on May 9, 2005 17:54:36 GMT -5
Well, I agree with on two points. First off, government should stay out of mariage. They should give a mariage liscence to anyone who finds a preist (or similar in any other religion) who will marry them. Regardless of sexual orientation, race, age, or anything else.
And as far as rewarding people for their lifestyle, that is a bad thing. But you've taken mariage, and all it's benifits away from homosexuals already, and they, as Americans, are just as entitled to it as heterosexuals.
And for the adoption, confusion versus morality. It may confuse the children, but is it moraly acceptable to turn down people who want to adopt based on their sexual orientation? I would hope not.
And don't worry, I can see how you do have some points there. But so long as you're not of the kill-the-gays! atitude, you have a right to your opinion. And if you are, you deserve to be locked up for plotting murder.
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Post by DaBomb on Jun 5, 2005 14:50:39 GMT -5
I'm completely against gay adoption, but I don't mind gay marriage. I would prefer if they were joined in some other way rather than have a hetersexual "marriage". As Commando said, marriage = man + woman.
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Post by lifebaka on Jun 5, 2005 15:46:39 GMT -5
What is wrong with gays adopting kids? How should they have them then?
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Post by lifebaka on Jun 7, 2005 17:57:08 GMT -5
How? One of my freinds was adopted by two gay men who live together. It hasn't been harmful to either of us. Nor his adopted sister.
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Post by DaBomb on Jun 7, 2005 22:24:12 GMT -5
Well, it depends on the age at which they were adopted. Younger children will have a much higher probability of being brought up...weird.
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Post by lifebaka on Jun 8, 2005 7:42:04 GMT -5
What do you mean by weird? To my knowledge, neither of the two are homosexual themselves. That's something that happens regardless of how you're brought up. The only thing that'll be differnt for them then for most people is that they are tollerant (think I spelled that wrong) of gays.
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Post by lifebaka on Jun 8, 2005 14:20:58 GMT -5
It didn't seem to make him very different. Then again, my standards aren't the best to be using by this, considering the interactions of my family. See, the way we looked at it, he's lucky. Most people only have on father, he has two.
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Post by lifebaka on Jun 8, 2005 21:42:40 GMT -5
Okay, just wondering, but if you put your two cents in, why do you only get a penny for you thoughts?
Well, you are entitled to your oppinion. So long as you realize that the moral standards aren't going in the other direction. It's just prolonging the inevitible.
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Post by Gwendolyn Black on Jun 15, 2006 9:51:15 GMT -5
I'd like to say here that I'm bisexual, (yes, everyone and their cat is bisexual, so if you prefer I'll use the term Gender Confused Half Gay) and so this topic hits pretty close to home for me. I was put into Catholic school (which was hell) for nine years, and even then I never questioned whether the way I felt about girls was wrong. It's perfectly normal to me and to every other "sexual deviant", and sometimes I wonder how anyone can consider themselves straight. Therefore, I guess I can understand a little bit why people get so creeped out over the idea of same-sex couples. But I also believe that because the legal definition of marriage has no concern with any moral principles, that religion and beliefs should be left out of it. "Keep your laws off my body." Well, it's like that, except it's "Keep your holy text out of our laws."
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