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Wednesday, November 03, 2004
50-state rundown on gay marriage laws
By Kavan Peterson, Staff Writer
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For an updated backgrounder on this subject, click here.
(Updated Nov. 3, 2004)
Six months after gay and lesbian couples began legally marring in Massachusetts, opponents of same-sex marriage swept Election Day, with voters in 11 states approving constitutional amendments codifying marriage as an exclusively heterosexual institution.
The amendments won in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, Utah and even Oregon the one state where gay rights activists had hoped to prevail.
The amendments passed with a 3-to-1 margin in Kentucky, Georgia and Arkansas, 3-to-2 in Ohio and 6-to-1 in Mississippi. Bans passed by narrower margins in Oregon, about 57 percent, and Michigan, about 59 percent.
"Yesterday's vote reveals once again the broad support for protecting marriage among the American people," said Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council.
Gay-rights activists have filed challenges to the new amendments in Georgia and Oklahoma.
In Louisiana, a judge recently struck down a constitutional same-sex marriage ban approved in September on grounds that it improperly dealt with more than one issue by banning not only same-sex marriage but also any legal recognition of domestic partnerships or civil unions. Louisiana's constitution requires that amendments be limited to a single-subject.
Three other states that also have single-subject requirements - Georgia, Ohio and Oklahoma may face legal challenges similar to the one in Louisiana, said Kristina Wilfore, executive direct of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center , a Washington, D.C.-based organization that supports progressive ballot measures.
Since Massachusetts began allowing gay and lesbian couples to wed last May, 13 states have approved constitutional bans on same-sex marriage. This number includes Missouri, which approved such a measure in August.
The amendments in Mississippi, Montana and Oregon refer only to marrriage, specifying that it should be limited to unions of one man and one woman. The measures in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma and Utah call for a ban on civil unions or other partnership benefits as well.
None of these states allowed gay marriage before, but the stakes were highest in Oregon, where city officials in Portland married nearly 3,000 same-sex couples last spring before a judge halted the practice. The state's highest court will hear arguments Dec. 15 on the validity of those marriages.
National and local gay-rights groups campaigned vigorously in Oregon, raising and spending millions of dollars, but they failed to defeat the amendment, which is expected to lead to the nullification of the 3,000 same-sex marriages.
"It is always wrong to put basic rights up to a popular vote," said Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. "In the end, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide on marriage equality and it will base its decision on the U.S. Constitution, not anything in any of the state constitutions."
Currently, more than 20 lawsuits seeking same-sex marriage rights are being pursued in 11 states: California, Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Oregon and Washington. Most of the suits are modeled after a Massachusetts case filed by seven same-sex couples who successfully argued that the Bay State Constitution guarantees them the right to marry.
Washington state's Supreme Court is expected soon to hear appeals of two lower court rulings that struck down the state's six-year-old statute banning same-sex couples from marrying.
Lawsuits pending in California and New Jersey also have been appealed to their state's highest courts and could be decided in the next year.
Courts that already have looked at the issue in Massachusetts, Vermont, Alaska and Hawaii have ruled in favor of gay unions. In both Alaska and Hawaii, however, the court rulings later were overridden by state constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage.
Vermont's high court allowed the Legislature to ban same-sex marriage as long as it provided an alternative for gays and lesbians called civil unions, while the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ordered its Legislature to provide nothing less than marriage.
Since the Massachusetts ruling, more than 35 states have introduced legislation aimed at preserving the traditional definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
The legislative activity takes three basic forms:
- State constitutional amendments -- The toughest involves enshrining a ban on marriage of same-sex couples in the state constitution and were adopted by 13 states in 2004. In seven states - Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma and Utah - Legislators approved putting constitutional amendments on ballots, while in the six other states - Arkansas, Michigan, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio and Oregon the measures were advanced by conservative, church-backed citizens groups that collected signatures on petitions. All required a statewide vote to pass.
Missouri voters approved a same-sex marriage-ban amendment August 2. On Oct. 5, a Louisiana judge struck down the constitutional ban on same-sex marriage that voters had overwhelmingly approved Sept. 18. Voters in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon and Utah approved their amendments on Election Day. Similar measures were approved by legislatures in Massachusetts, Tennessee and Wisconsin, but must be approved again in 2005 before going to a statewide vote that year in Wisconsin and in 2006 in Massachusetts and Tennessee.
Three states Alaska, Nebraska and Nevada already had bans against same-sex marriage written into their constitutions. A fifth state, Hawaii, passed an amendment reserving the right to define marriage for the state Legislature, which bans gay marriage.
- Marriage statutes -- Sixteen states debated and five of those adopted -- statutory legislation this year that either prohibit same-sex marriage, strengthen pre-existing gay marriage bans and/or prohibit granting marriage-like benefits to same-sex couples in lieu of marriage such as those provided under Vermont's civil unions law. Those that toughened their marriage laws were New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Utah and Virginia.
- Non-binding resolutions -- At least 20 states considered non-binding resolutions urging Congress to pass a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, and two Alabama and Virginia adopted them. A federal constitutional amendment was proposed in Congress but the Senate in July failed to rally enough support to bring it to a vote. Republican leaders vow to bring it up again this fall.
Thirty-nine states already prohibit gay and lesbian couples from marrying with laws modeled after the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Passed by Congress in 1996, the federal DOMA bars federal recognition of same-sex marriages and allows states to ignore gay marriages performed elsewhere. Four states (Maryland, New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Wyoming) have laws or court rulings prohibiting same-sex marriage that predate the federal DOMA.
Following is a 50-state roundup of current law and proposals to change state marriage laws.
Based on information compiled from Stateline.org news reports, the Human Rights Campaign and the National Conference of State Legislatures.
ALABAMA - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law
- Legislation:Resolution urging Congress to pass a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage has been adopted. (HJR 129). State constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage introduced but failed.
ALASKA - Current law: DOMA written into state constitution and state law
- Legislation: None
ARIZONA - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law
- Legislation: State constitutional amendment was introduced but failed (SCR 1015). A resolution urging Congress to pass a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage passed the state House but failed in the Senate (SCM 1004).
ARKANSAS - Current law: DOMA written into state constitution and state law
- Legislation: A state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage placed on the November ballot through the citizen initiative process was approved by voters.
CALIFORNIA - Current law: State law, passed by public referendum, bans same-sex marriage (In defiance of that law, San Francisco issued more than 3,200 marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The state high court is expected to rule on the validity of those marriages). The state will extend certain state-level marriage benefits to those on a domestic partners' registry starting Jan. 1, 2005.
- Legislation: Assembly Judiciary committee on April 20 became the first legislative body in America to approve a measure that would allow same-sex couples to wed, but the legislation has not been considered by full Assembly (AB 1967). Resolution introduced urging Congress to pass a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage (AJR 67). Resolution introduced urging Congress to pass a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage (AJR 67).
- Court action:State Supreme Court on August 12 nullified nearly 4,000 marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples in San Francisco in violation of state law. The high court is expected to hear a separate case that will decide on the constitutionality of banning same-sex marriage at a later date.
COLORADO - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law
- Legislation: Resolution urging Congress to pass a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage was introduced, but died (HJR04-1013).
CONNECTICUT - Current law: State adoption statute refers to marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
- Legislation: Bill introduced to allow same-sex couples to marry (HBO 3069).
- Court action:Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, the legal group that won marriage rights for same-sex couples in Massachusetts, filed a lawsuit in state court Aug. 25 on behalf of seven same-sex couples seeking the right to marry.
DELAWARE - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law
- Legislation: State constitutional amendment forbidding same-sex marriages and civil unions introduced March 31, but Senate President Thurman G. Adams (D) has blocked the measure from coming to a vote (SB 246).
FLORIDA - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law
- Legislation: None
- Court action: Miami lawyer Ellis Rubin has filed 8 lawsuits 3 federal cases and 5 state cases in 2004 on behalf of about 40 same-sex couples. Two of the federal cases seek recognition of marriages performed in Canada and Florida and challenge the federal Defense of Marriage Act. The other cases were filed on behalf of unwed same-sex couples seeking the right to marry. None have gone to trial yet. The National Center for Lesbian Rights has filed a lawsuit on behalf of six same-sex couples challenging Florida's same-sex marriage ban.
GEORGIA - Current law: DOMA written into state constitution and state law
- Legislation: State constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union between a man and a woman was approved by the Legislature and by 85 percent of voters on Nov. 2.
- Court action:A trial court judge dismissed a lawsuit Sept. 29 seeking to remove the same-sex marriage ban from the ballot. Gay-rights advocates say they will re-file the lawsuit now that the amendment has been approved by voters.
HAWAII - Current law: Constitutional amendment giving the legislature the right to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples. DOMA passed by the legislature and adopted as state law by public referendum. But Hawaii law provides limited state benefits to same-sex partners.
- Legislation: None.
IDAHO - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law
- Legislation: State constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage passed the state House Feb. 11, but was not voted on in the Senate before the legislature adjourned in March (HJR 009).
ILLINOIS - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law
- Legislation: State constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage introduced but failed to pass (HJRCA 24, SJRCA 56, HJRCA 25, HJRCA 31). Resolution introduced urging Congress to pass a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage .
INDIANA - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law
- Legislation: The Legislature adjourned March 4, effectively killing a proposed state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. The measure passed the state Senate but stalled in the House when Democrats refused to bring it to a vote. Republicans unsuccessfully attempted to force a vote by stalling all legislative activity for one week by refusing to enter the House chambers. (HJR 3, SJR 7).
- Court action: The Indiana Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit on behalf of three same-sex couples challenging Indiana's same-sex marriage ban. The case was dismissed by a trial court judge in 2003 and is currently pending in the state Court of Appeals.
IOWA - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law
- Legislation: Senate voted down a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage (SJR 2002). Proposed state law that would prohibit recognition of same-sex marriage or any legal union that provides marriage-like benefits failed (SF 216). Resolutions urging Congress to pass a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage also have been introduced and approved by committees in both chambers (HJR 2002, SJR 2005).
KANSAS - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law
- Legislation: State constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and benefits that associate marriage to other relationships was approved by the state Senate May 1 but narrowly defeated in the state House May 4 (HCR 5005). A similar measure had narrowly passed the House in March but was voted down by the Senate.
KENTUCKY - Current law: DOMA written into state constitution and state law
- Legislation: State constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union between a man and a woman was approved by the Legislature April 19 and by nearly 75 percent of voters Nov. 2.
LOUISIANA - Current law: DOMA written into state constitution and state law
- Legislation: Constitutional amendment restricting marriage to opposite-sex couples and prohibiting state officials and courts from recognizing same-sex marriages or civil unions performed elsewhere was passed by a 4-to-1 margin Sept. 18.
- Court action: A district judge struck down the constitutional ban on same-sex marriage Oct. 5, ruling that the measure was flawed as drawn up by the Legislature because the provision had more than one purpose banning not only same-sex marriage but also civil unions. Opponents plan to appeal the ruling.
MAINE - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law
- Legislation: State constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage was proposed but failed in both legislative chambers.
MARYLAND - Current law: The first state law defining marriage as a union between a man and woman was adopted by Maryland in 1973.
- Legislation: State constitutional amendment and proposed state law banning same-sex marriage were introduced and defeated (HB 16, HB 728, SB 746).
- Court action: The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit July 7, 2004 challenging the state's same-sex marriage ban on behalf of nine same-sex couples and a man whose partner recently died.
MASSACHUSETTS - Current law: The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ordered legislation to allow same-sex couples to marry by May 17, 2004.
- Legislation: State constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages but establishing civil unions gained preliminary approval March 29 during the state Constitutional Convention. The measure must be approved in identical form during the next legislative session in 2005 before going to a statewide vote in 2006. Three bills introduced to permit same-sex couples to marry but are not likely to come to a vote (HB 3556, HB 3677, SB 935). A citizen initiated petition drive is under way to amend the constitution to ban same-sex marriage and civil unions, but 2008 is the soonest it could come to a statewide vote.
- Court action: Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders filed a lawsuit July 2004 challenging a 1913 law that prohibits out-of-state same-sex couples from marrying in Massachusetts. On August 17, a trial court upheld the 1913 law but GLAD said it will appeal the ruling.
MICHIGAN - Current law: DOMA written into state constitution and state law
- Legislation: State constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage placed on the Nov. 2 ballot by citizen initiative groups and approved by 59 percent of voters.
- Court action: The state Court of Appeals ruled Sept. 3 that the proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage should appear on the Nov. 2 ballot even though the state canvassing board could not overcome a partisan deadlock to certify the measure.
MINNESOTA - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law
- Legislation: State constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage was introduced but died when the legislature adjourned May 14 without voting on the measure.
MISSISSIPPI - Current law: DOMA written into state constitution and state law
- Legislation: State constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union between a man and a woman was approved by the Legislature and passed by voters on Nov. 2.
MISSOURI - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law and written into constitution Aug. 3
- Legislation: None
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MONTANA - Current law: DOMA written into state constitution and state law
- Legislation: State constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage placed on the Nov. 2 ballot by citizen initiative groups and approved by voters.
NEBRASKA - Current law: DOMA written into state constitution
- Legislation: None
- Court action: The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit in 2003 in federal court in Nebraska challenging the state's constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
NEVADA - Current law: DOMA written into state constitution
- Legislation: None
NEW HAMPSHIRE - Current law: State law bans same-sex marriage and pre-dates DOMA laws.
- Legislation: The state House and Senate have approved a bill that would reinforce a state law banning same-sex marriages and prohibit recognition of gay marriages performed elsewhere (SB 427). Republican Gov. Craig Benson has said he would sign it.
NEW JERSEY - Current law: State law provides for a domestic partners' registry with marriage-like benefits for same-sex couples.
- Legislation: Bill introduced proposing adoption of DOMA to prevent gay and lesbian couples from marrying (AB 460). Resolution introduced urging Congress to pass a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage .
- Court action: Lambda Legal filed a case on behalf of seven same-sex couples seeking the right to marry. A trial court judge dismissed the case in November 2003. Lambda is seeking an appeal to the state Supreme Court.
NEW MEXICO - Current law: No public policy
- Legislation: None
NEW YORK - Current law: No public policy
- Legislation: State law proposed that would prohibit recognition of same-sex marriages or civil unions performed elsewhere (A 2998). Bill that would recognize same-sex marriage has been proposed in the state Senate (SB 3816) and in the Assembly (AB 7392); three bills to extend some marriage benefits to same-sex couples have been introduced in the state Assembly (AB 2998, AB 3129, AB 8844).
- Court action: Lambda filed a case March 5, 2004 on behalf of a same-sex couple seeking the right to marry. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a case July 1, 2004 on behalf of 13 same-sex couples seeking the right to marry. Neither case has gone to trial yet.
NORTH CAROLINA - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law
- Legislation: State constitutional amendments banning same-sex marriage were introduced but no action was taken before the legislature adjourned July 18 (H1606, S1057).
NORTH DAKOTA - Current law: DOMA written into state constitution and state law
- Legislation: State constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage placed on the Nov. 2 ballot by citizen initiative groups and approved by voters.
OHIO - Current law: DOMA written into state constitution and state law
- Legislation: State constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage placed on the Nov. 2 ballot by citizen initiative groups and approved by voters.
OKLAHOMA - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law
- Legislation: The legislature approved putting a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union between a man and a woman to a statewide vote in November (SJR 46). Legislation strengthening the state's existing DOMA law was approved. Resolution introduced urging Congress to pass a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage (HR 1028).
OREGON - Current Law: DOMA written into state constitution (Multnomah County officials in Portland issued marriage licenses to 3,000 same-sex couples before being ordered to stop by a circuit court judge April 20. The case is likely to go to the state Supreme Court).
- Legislation: State constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage placed on the Nov. 2 ballot by citizen initiative groups and approved by 55 percent of voters.
- Court action: The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit seeking recognition of nearly 3,000 marriage licenses granted to same-sex couples by Multnomah County officials. A trial court judge ruled in April 2004 that the marriages were valid and banning same-sex marriage violates the state's constitution. The state Court of Appeals upheld that ruling in July but has stayed the decision until the state Supreme Court considers the matter. A hearing is scheduled before the high court on Nov. 17.
PENNSYLVANIA - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law
- Legislation: State constitutional amendment is expected to be introduced.
RHODE ISLAND - Current law: No public policy
- Legislation: Two bills to adopt state DOMA laws were introduced but failed (HB 7395, HB 7571). Bill that would recognize same-sex marriage has been proposed
SOUTH CAROLINA - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law
- Legislation: Bill that would strengthen the state's existing DOMA by forbidding the state to recognize same-sex marriages or to grant marriage-like benefits to same-sex couples pased the House but failed in the Senate (HB 4657). Resolution urging Congress to pass a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage died in a House committee (H 4736).
SOUTH DAKOTA - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law
- Legislation: Bill that would strengthen the state's existing DOMA by forbidding the state to recognize same-sex marriage or to grant marriage-like benefits to same-sex couples was introduced but failed (HB 1289).
TENNESSEE - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law
- Legislation: State constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages gained preliminary approval by both houses of the legislature (HJR 990). The measure must be approved in identical form during the next legislative session in 2005 before going to a statewide vote in 2006.Senate passed a bill March 31 that would strengthen the state's existing DOMA by forbidding the state from recognizing a "civil union or domestic partnership between individuals of the same sex" (SB 2661). Was voted down by a House committee but may be reintroduced. Resolution urging Congress to pass a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage passed by the Senate and a House committee (SJR 27).
TEXAS - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law
- Legislation: Resolution introduced urging Congress to pass a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
UTAH - Current law: DOMA written into state constitution and state law
- Legislation: A state constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union between a man and a woman and barring state recognition of any "domestic partnership" was approved by the Legislature and by voters Nov. 2. A bill changing state law to do essentially the same thing was passed by the Legislature and signed by the governor (SB 24).
VERMONT - Current law: State law defines marriage as union between man and woman, but civil unions created in 2000 to provide same-sex couples access to state-level marriage benefits.
- Legislation: State constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage introduced but failed (PR0005). Bill that would allow same-sex couples to marry was introduced but failed (HB 676). Resolution urging Congress to pass a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage was introduced but failed.
VIRGINIA - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law
- Legislation: Both chambers of the Legislature have approved a bill reaffirming that Virginia has no constitutional or legal obligation to recognize marriages, civil unions or domestic partnership contracts between same-sex couples (HB 751). Gov. Mark Warner (D) has not indicated whether he will sign the bill, but it passed by a veto-proof majority. Resolutions urging Congress to pass a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage passed both houses of the Legislature (HJR 187, SJR 91).
WASHINGTON - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law
- Legislation: State constitutional amendment and state law banning same-sex marriage were introduced but died in committee when the legislature adjourned (HJR 4220).
- Court action: A second Superior Court judge ruled Sep. 7 that banning same-sex couples from marrying violates the state's constitution. If the case, argued by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of 11 same-sex couples, is taken up by the state Supreme Court, it likely will be joined with a similar lawsuit filed by Lambda Legal that resulted in the state's first Superior Court ruling to strike down the state's ban against same-sex marriage on Aug. 2. Both judges delayed implementing their ruling to let the high court take up the case.
WEST VIRGINIA - Current law: DOMA adopted as state law
- Legislation: Resolution introduced urging Congress to pass a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage
WISCONSIN - Current law:No DOMA, but state supreme court ruling and Attorney's General opinion held that only heterosexual marriages are legal.
- Legislation: State constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and civil unions has been approved by the both chambers of the Legislature. The legislation must clear both houses again in the 2005 session before going before voters in a statewide referendum. Proposed statute to establish a state DOMA was approved by the Legislature but vetoed by Democratic Gov. Jim Doyle in 2003. (SJR, 63, AJR 66).
WYOMING - Current law: State law bans same-sex marriage and pre-dates DOMA laws.
- Legislation: Legislation to enact a state law modeled after DOMA was introduced but failed.
Related Stateline.org stories
Florida lawyer seeking gay marriage limelight
Petition drives to ban gay marriage succeeding
Battle over gay marriage goes to voters
Contact Kavan Peterson at kpeterson@stateline.org
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outlaw gay and lisbean marriage in the states
By felton clark on Jan 19, 2010 7:34:48 PM
even the laws of nature prohitled the thing that is not to be, we the people knows in our heart whats right and wrong.Knowing that two males is not made for each other,nor is two women made for each other, we all knows that man laws want work equally without the laws of the creator still we fall at the feet of certain people who want nothing else but to file the laws of the up as low as low.
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Goverentment supported discrimination has to stop!
By m madison on Jan 15, 2010 12:38:33 AM
It has become common practice for a clause to be put in a divorce decree about who can stay over at the home of a divorced individual. The clause says something to the effect that "neither party will have a party to whom they are not married in their house overnight.". Well isn't that a nice tidy and "legal" way of making sure that that the bisexual or gay individual remain alone or have to maintain two households for the rest of his/her life. I will never be "allowed" to marry like a free citizen, but he could. What a cruel joke!! You have got to be kidding me!! Government supported discrimination against anyone has got to stop! People don't realize how deep the marriage ban cuts into peoples' basic rights to happiness. The law should be fairly represent and protect the rights of all its citizens. This is wrong Missouri...so wrong!
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"One GOD" no Appology
By Nes Ri on Nov 12, 2009 10:38:13 PM
It's a shame we care about more how we spell words, than how we communicate. Young people are probably smarter when it comes to grammer or spelling or what not,but now they have all of that texting that spells words halfway or just initals, it doesn't matter as long as we know what each other are saying, spelling words as long as you know it means the same thing, shouldn't change the world we just go through sentences faster. Anyway my main point is not even there, my main point is, Just like way, way, back in the days in Egypt or anywhere else the bible mentions, No matter what went down, NO MATTER IN WHAT NAME GOD was addressed, no matter how different we prayed our prayers, There was always proof that it is just one GOD, and that's the one, The One! "Am that I AM" the one that gave us the breath of life the creator. There's not many Gods, I feel sorry for anyone who trusts in any other so called God to rule this forever, What other GOd do you know that has been greater than the Most High? What will you finally say to him when he appears to you in person? ooops? You live the way you want to but that's why the word curse do exist, God forgive them for they no not know what they do or say" Their hearts and minds are lost. Just say as a spoiled stuborn kid would say to his parent, "I know I'm supposed to obey but I don't want to." Just because you decide to ignore GOD does not mean he does not exist. Just remember the same GoD created us all, because we are his creation,I don't care how much DNA we steal and plant it where ever it's the same DNA created from the Most High our ONE GOD. I know it hurts to know it's that simple, but like somebody said that's been known forever. Nothings new under the Sun, including your DNA. Proove to me another GOD besides the one,that I can trust and depend and believe in and I'll shut the H*ll up. Don't get it twisted my GoD is so great, he created us so perfectly, and we are so free, we think we're GOD, but guess who has to face who in the end? and O'yes there is an end... My GOD won every battle so far, since there's such things of lot's of Gods,What other GOD do you Know has ever won anything against him?! and Who or WHaT, hasn't GOD concorded that he wanted to? No one escapes My GOD no matter how Your illusions are of other Gods. Who says GOD hate you? He just hates the works of your hearts, people forever could pray to a shoe, or their golden statues or whatnot, but they never got a thing out of it, must you have to go through what they did? You don't have to tell me twice, because I know I didn't just drop out of the sky. A long, long, time ago a Man named Moses thought the same way, until he spoke to GOD face to face. How do I know it happened? Because Pharoh let his people go. Whoever you decide to be in life besides what GOD want you to be, it's your problem it only becomes mine when what you do cause your life to clash with mine. That's why he made rules, it's on you to believe, they were made to be broken, but you have to face the concequences for causing GOD's blessings to not come through, Maybe this is a blessing for you, to warn you that you do have to face GOD dead or alive one day.
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To be Gay or Not to be ? That is the question.
By Nes Ri on Nov 10, 2009 6:55:23 PM
We question everything but nature. How about, "How did we get here and why?" Humans don't just drop out of the sky. There is a creator of Humans, and like other species they have rules of nature.One of our rules is to take care of the world, not mess it up. We were put here by God in a certain order, for that reason, It's like your parent putting you incharge while they are gone. Sometimes things go wrong, maybe because people didn't listen in the past. Of course sometimes we have what we call "freaks" or mistakes of nature, but that's just what They are. Our creator, created us the way we are, that's the way we were meant to live. Today we do have guys named Eve and woman named steve, but the only way to create a real child of God's nature, If your name is steve You'd better be male. If your name is Eve you'd better be female. We can have sex with anything, and it can be against God's plans. If there was another way he wanted us to mate, it would have been as natural for a man to get pregnant, as it is a woman. A woman would give a baby when she gave sperm. God is not the Author of Confusion! We were made in our creator's image to create things that seems impossible, but if we keep going against God's nature pretty soon it won't be nothing real and everything will be all mixed up. Because it's possible to live the way we WANT to live, don't mean we suppost to, I would'nt want my grandchild to one day date a half dog half person one day, so it is my business. It's possible to do anything, but is it the right thing to do? If you climbed a very high mountain, and looked down without any protection, but it looked as though you could fly, Would you jump off of it? If you lived when you jumped, would you tell people it was o.k. to jump because you lived? The foolish things we decide in life to do, we may as well, because some people are crazy enough to jump, Because it feels good, and "everybody" is doing it! And since God let you get by with it, U guess it's the right thing to do. Soon all of the people that are breaking God's rules will see how they've changed the world. People are taken for granted,and God's rules of nature are ignored, but I got news, This is a small world, if everybody decided to be Gay, how will we get our children? I think it's stupid to turn to a woman to carry a hand planted baby, when we were designed as other species were, to mate as male and female. If we were born with another choice then we would be designed with both parts each, Then we say "why did'nt God do it that way so we could?" Dauh, maybe he only wanted a certain amount of people on earth, the way he want them here! Now since God created "Itelligence" And we were blessed with it, Just like your parents teach you, don't mean that we try everything, because it's there, But other people are creating other ways for us to appear, they will have to face the concequences later, and we all have to witness not just "freaks of nature", which probable happened from people messing in the past,Anyway. We'd have to deal with these "man made" freaks too. Then people will have to ask, "Are you created by God or by man", or "Are you a natural creation or a man made?" If everyone was normal we would'nt have to ask. We're not confused on what's full and empty, Hot or cold , dark or light, maybe red and blue, but we should be able to tell who we are, soon we won't even know our perpose here? Soon we won't be intelligent anymore changing our natural "being" Should an ant be more important to God since we don't hear him?
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Dear Mr. Espinoza
By Ashley Gehring on Nov 5, 2009 1:40:49 PM
Wow Mr. Espinoza. First of all, I would like you to please understand that public education is free and offered to all in this country. However, it is very clear that you either didn't go to school or decided that your English/Grammar class was the one you were going to skip. The next time you try to bash the gay culture, at least try to make yourself seem sophistcated by using simple punctuations like periods and capital letters.
I'm going to assume, but I could be wrong, that with a last name like Espinoza that you are of some sort of Hispanic ancestry. Don't you like having all of your rights in this country? Being able to marry, have benefits, things that you expect when you live in America. You don't get those rights taken away because you are Hispanic. You get to keep them. And if you did get them taken away or if they were never offered, wouldn't you fight to get them or to get them back?
The fact that religion is even brought into this is ridiculous. There are millions of religions. They all pray to different gods, have different rituals and believe that different things are divine. Your religion may not agree with homosexuality, but that in no way means that all religions don't agree with it. Even if they don't agree, they may not care. People are people no matter what angle you look at it.
Let's discuss spreading diseases. Everyone spreads diseases. I'm not sure which disease you are talking about when you speak of the gay community. People spread cold and flu viruses all the time. Should we take those people's basic rights away from them? If you're speaking of the AIDS epidemic you should do your research. While the media covers the gay communities spreading of AIDS, did you also forget about all the young men and women that have unprotected sex with several partners...which makes it spread. How about the fact that AIDS started in Africa because of religion and cultural beliefs allowing the same men to have many partners and father many children? Were you around for that news? I'm 23 and I know about it. And if you think that being gay is a disease that you can catch, you're simply a moron. It's not possible.
I would venture to say that you encounter at least 2 gay people every day and you don't even know about it. Have they turned you gay yet? Have you caught the 'disease'? Probably not.
Let's address the comment you made about animals. Would it really bother you? Your next door neighbor could be married to a goat. Does that effect you? Could you just not go on being a citizen of your community and a member of society if your neighbor was married to a goat? Again, it doesn't matter. It's not you.
The main problem is that everyone that is so opposed to gay marriage or civil unions don't realize that it only effects the homosexuals. We're not asking you to marry another man. Deal with it. You walk amongst gay people. You probably have no idea because they don't all flaunt that they're gay. And if they do, good for them for being proud and brave enough to do so.
You're a fool my friend. You live in a bubble. One that has for some reason made you think that they way you think is the right way. Homosexuals have been around for thousands of years. Really. Look it up. They've found evidence of homosexual acts in ancient egypt. The problem is people like you exist and convince the people that aren't sure that gays are evil. I'll let you in on a little secret: Those people that usually complain and fight against gay rights normally have hidden homosexual tendencies themselves. Have you ever heard the saying 'Doth protesteth too much'? Your arguemnt fits that quite well. I'd chill if I were you.
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By felton clark on Jan 19, 2010 7:34:48 PM
even the laws of nature prohitled the thing that is not to be, we the people knows in our heart whats right and wrong.Knowing that two males is not made for each other,nor is two women made for each other, we all knows that man laws want work equally without the laws of the creator still we fall at the feet of certain people who want nothing else but to file the laws of the up as low as low.
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Goverentment supported discrimination has to stop!
By m madison on Jan 15, 2010 12:38:33 AM
It has become common practice for a clause to be put in a divorce decree about who can stay over at the home of a divorced individual. The clause says something to the effect that "neither party will have a party to whom they are not married in their house overnight.". Well isn't that a nice tidy and "legal" way of making sure that that the bisexual or gay individual remain alone or have to maintain two households for the rest of his/her life. I will never be "allowed" to marry like a free citizen, but he could. What a cruel joke!! You have got to be kidding me!! Government supported discrimination against anyone has got to stop! People don't realize how deep the marriage ban cuts into peoples' basic rights to happiness. The law should be fairly represent and protect the rights of all its citizens. This is wrong Missouri...so wrong!
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"One GOD" no Appology
By Nes Ri on Nov 12, 2009 10:38:13 PM
It's a shame we care about more how we spell words, than how we communicate. Young people are probably smarter when it comes to grammer or spelling or what not,but now they have all of that texting that spells words halfway or just initals, it doesn't matter as long as we know what each other are saying, spelling words as long as you know it means the same thing, shouldn't change the world we just go through sentences faster. Anyway my main point is not even there, my main point is, Just like way, way, back in the days in Egypt or anywhere else the bible mentions, No matter what went down, NO MATTER IN WHAT NAME GOD was addressed, no matter how different we prayed our prayers, There was always proof that it is just one GOD, and that's the one, The One! "Am that I AM" the one that gave us the breath of life the creator. There's not many Gods, I feel sorry for anyone who trusts in any other so called God to rule this forever, What other GOd do you know that has been greater than the Most High? What will you finally say to him when he appears to you in person? ooops? You live the way you want to but that's why the word curse do exist, God forgive them for they no not know what they do or say" Their hearts and minds are lost. Just say as a spoiled stuborn kid would say to his parent, "I know I'm supposed to obey but I don't want to." Just because you decide to ignore GOD does not mean he does not exist. Just remember the same GoD created us all, because we are his creation,I don't care how much DNA we steal and plant it where ever it's the same DNA created from the Most High our ONE GOD. I know it hurts to know it's that simple, but like somebody said that's been known forever. Nothings new under the Sun, including your DNA. Proove to me another GOD besides the one,that I can trust and depend and believe in and I'll shut the H*ll up. Don't get it twisted my GoD is so great, he created us so perfectly, and we are so free, we think we're GOD, but guess who has to face who in the end? and O'yes there is an end... My GOD won every battle so far, since there's such things of lot's of Gods,What other GOD do you Know has ever won anything against him?! and Who or WHaT, hasn't GOD concorded that he wanted to? No one escapes My GOD no matter how Your illusions are of other Gods. Who says GOD hate you? He just hates the works of your hearts, people forever could pray to a shoe, or their golden statues or whatnot, but they never got a thing out of it, must you have to go through what they did? You don't have to tell me twice, because I know I didn't just drop out of the sky. A long, long, time ago a Man named Moses thought the same way, until he spoke to GOD face to face. How do I know it happened? Because Pharoh let his people go. Whoever you decide to be in life besides what GOD want you to be, it's your problem it only becomes mine when what you do cause your life to clash with mine. That's why he made rules, it's on you to believe, they were made to be broken, but you have to face the concequences for causing GOD's blessings to not come through, Maybe this is a blessing for you, to warn you that you do have to face GOD dead or alive one day.
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To be Gay or Not to be ? That is the question.
By Nes Ri on Nov 10, 2009 6:55:23 PM
We question everything but nature. How about, "How did we get here and why?" Humans don't just drop out of the sky. There is a creator of Humans, and like other species they have rules of nature.One of our rules is to take care of the world, not mess it up. We were put here by God in a certain order, for that reason, It's like your parent putting you incharge while they are gone. Sometimes things go wrong, maybe because people didn't listen in the past. Of course sometimes we have what we call "freaks" or mistakes of nature, but that's just what They are. Our creator, created us the way we are, that's the way we were meant to live. Today we do have guys named Eve and woman named steve, but the only way to create a real child of God's nature, If your name is steve You'd better be male. If your name is Eve you'd better be female. We can have sex with anything, and it can be against God's plans. If there was another way he wanted us to mate, it would have been as natural for a man to get pregnant, as it is a woman. A woman would give a baby when she gave sperm. God is not the Author of Confusion! We were made in our creator's image to create things that seems impossible, but if we keep going against God's nature pretty soon it won't be nothing real and everything will be all mixed up. Because it's possible to live the way we WANT to live, don't mean we suppost to, I would'nt want my grandchild to one day date a half dog half person one day, so it is my business. It's possible to do anything, but is it the right thing to do? If you climbed a very high mountain, and looked down without any protection, but it looked as though you could fly, Would you jump off of it? If you lived when you jumped, would you tell people it was o.k. to jump because you lived? The foolish things we decide in life to do, we may as well, because some people are crazy enough to jump, Because it feels good, and "everybody" is doing it! And since God let you get by with it, U guess it's the right thing to do. Soon all of the people that are breaking God's rules will see how they've changed the world. People are taken for granted,and God's rules of nature are ignored, but I got news, This is a small world, if everybody decided to be Gay, how will we get our children? I think it's stupid to turn to a woman to carry a hand planted baby, when we were designed as other species were, to mate as male and female. If we were born with another choice then we would be designed with both parts each, Then we say "why did'nt God do it that way so we could?" Dauh, maybe he only wanted a certain amount of people on earth, the way he want them here! Now since God created "Itelligence" And we were blessed with it, Just like your parents teach you, don't mean that we try everything, because it's there, But other people are creating other ways for us to appear, they will have to face the concequences later, and we all have to witness not just "freaks of nature", which probable happened from people messing in the past,Anyway. We'd have to deal with these "man made" freaks too. Then people will have to ask, "Are you created by God or by man", or "Are you a natural creation or a man made?" If everyone was normal we would'nt have to ask. We're not confused on what's full and empty, Hot or cold , dark or light, maybe red and blue, but we should be able to tell who we are, soon we won't even know our perpose here? Soon we won't be intelligent anymore changing our natural "being" Should an ant be more important to God since we don't hear him?
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Dear Mr. Espinoza
By Ashley Gehring on Nov 5, 2009 1:40:49 PM
Wow Mr. Espinoza. First of all, I would like you to please understand that public education is free and offered to all in this country. However, it is very clear that you either didn't go to school or decided that your English/Grammar class was the one you were going to skip. The next time you try to bash the gay culture, at least try to make yourself seem sophistcated by using simple punctuations like periods and capital letters.
I'm going to assume, but I could be wrong, that with a last name like Espinoza that you are of some sort of Hispanic ancestry. Don't you like having all of your rights in this country? Being able to marry, have benefits, things that you expect when you live in America. You don't get those rights taken away because you are Hispanic. You get to keep them. And if you did get them taken away or if they were never offered, wouldn't you fight to get them or to get them back?
The fact that religion is even brought into this is ridiculous. There are millions of religions. They all pray to different gods, have different rituals and believe that different things are divine. Your religion may not agree with homosexuality, but that in no way means that all religions don't agree with it. Even if they don't agree, they may not care. People are people no matter what angle you look at it.
Let's discuss spreading diseases. Everyone spreads diseases. I'm not sure which disease you are talking about when you speak of the gay community. People spread cold and flu viruses all the time. Should we take those people's basic rights away from them? If you're speaking of the AIDS epidemic you should do your research. While the media covers the gay communities spreading of AIDS, did you also forget about all the young men and women that have unprotected sex with several partners...which makes it spread. How about the fact that AIDS started in Africa because of religion and cultural beliefs allowing the same men to have many partners and father many children? Were you around for that news? I'm 23 and I know about it. And if you think that being gay is a disease that you can catch, you're simply a moron. It's not possible.
I would venture to say that you encounter at least 2 gay people every day and you don't even know about it. Have they turned you gay yet? Have you caught the 'disease'? Probably not.
Let's address the comment you made about animals. Would it really bother you? Your next door neighbor could be married to a goat. Does that effect you? Could you just not go on being a citizen of your community and a member of society if your neighbor was married to a goat? Again, it doesn't matter. It's not you.
The main problem is that everyone that is so opposed to gay marriage or civil unions don't realize that it only effects the homosexuals. We're not asking you to marry another man. Deal with it. You walk amongst gay people. You probably have no idea because they don't all flaunt that they're gay. And if they do, good for them for being proud and brave enough to do so.
You're a fool my friend. You live in a bubble. One that has for some reason made you think that they way you think is the right way. Homosexuals have been around for thousands of years. Really. Look it up. They've found evidence of homosexual acts in ancient egypt. The problem is people like you exist and convince the people that aren't sure that gays are evil. I'll let you in on a little secret: Those people that usually complain and fight against gay rights normally have hidden homosexual tendencies themselves. Have you ever heard the saying 'Doth protesteth too much'? Your arguemnt fits that quite well. I'd chill if I were you.
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By L. Bratcher on Nov 3, 2009 6:49:05 PM
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."
Clearly an act of separating church and state.
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Same-sex marriage is a fundamental right
By L. Bratcher on Nov 3, 2009 6:36:34 PM
So Mr. Espinoza (hope I spelled that correctly),
I'm sure you've heard of babies born that are not distinctly male or female, but born with anatomical features of both. This is a fact of nature so, knowing this, why would you assume that humans cannot be born feeling more closely linked to one or the other in spite of their outward anatomy? I am a heterosexual female so I'm not speaking from a personal perspective here, but I fully defend the homosexual’s rights to marriage and any other basic right that the rest of us enjoy. There was a time that this country was so in the dark that we thought slavery was acceptable. Isn't it time for us to come out of the dark on the issue of same-sex marriage as well? As others have asked, what do you lose if a homosexual couple marries? How is this any of your concern? In my opinion, it shouldn't even be a question for the law - it is a basic human right. No one tells you what religeon to practice - how can you think it's ok to tell someone else who to love?
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gay rights.
By Jay P on Oct 30, 2009 9:58:09 AM
First i would like to say to edward espinoza that your religion is your buisness. Everyone has their own religion and some do not believe in the god you may believe in. A diesease you say? So you think i woke up one day and thought i was going to be gay? i know that did not happen. I always thought i like guys but i still dated girls. Its an attraction that you have that you cant help. I believe that all 50 states should legalize same-sex marriage. Marriage was declared a basic right and to take that away from people who cannot help who they fall in love with is wrong! plus how would someone who is gay marry someone who is of the same sex affect you in any way. they wouldnt Marriage i know is based on procreation but their is some people who are capable of having children and decide not to but they are still allowed to get married? So does god hate them too because they didnt have kids? oh about eventually going to marry animals. WHY WOULD THAT MATTER TO YOU ANYWAY. ITS NOT YOUR BUSINESS!
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gay marriage should be banned
By edward espinoza on Oct 27, 2009 2:08:00 PM
many gays say give us our rights and let us be happy but gay marriage is wrong im against it many people say it is normal but why does a woman who is gay dress like a man and why does a man who is gay try to act like a girl the gays and lesbians say just let it be it is love but its not its an abomination to everyone and god would you like your child endup being gay it is wrong what your doing is spreading diseases and later everyone is going to marry their animals this is wrong and i ask the question why do gays avoid pastors because they hear a voice say inside of them saying that gay marriage is wrong and everyone says it is their contious but it is god. i know their is gay churches but those churches are built on lies they say that the bible is wrong but why do they avoid it. and another pice of evidence is that we are made with two different sexes man and woman that it is the way it should stay.
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seperation of church and state
By jenni natkin on Sep 27, 2009 6:58:08 PM
the seperation of church and state is not in the constitution. The phrase came from Thomas Jefferson in a letter he wrote to the Danbury Baptists in 1802. Sorry, but the seperation of church and state is not in the constitution, the articles of confederation, the bill of rights or any other document that founded our country.
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Our constitution protects me from your God
By Kelly Reyes on Sep 13, 2009 9:47:09 PM
Our constitution is written with specific and clear instructions that every citizen has the right to choose their own religion. When someone uses God as their rationale for being against gay marriage they are forcing their religion and Bible on everyone else in this country. This is very clearly unconstitutional.
Your religion is your choice. You can choose to believe and worship any way you wish without being discriminated against by me or anyone else. Just don't expect me to abide by laws that are based solely upon your version of God. There is no place in government institutions, laws or contracts for your religion or mine. Separation of church and state was written into the constitution for a very good reason!
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God?
By Trina Grant on Aug 30, 2009 6:21:21 PM
Why is god involed when making this law?
Ok like with the death peneity, thou shall not kill. Was He involed in making that one?
I myself am bisexual, I'm all for gay marriage because it's about love. We do not choose who we fall in love with it just happens. I don't see how it's right that hetrosexual can marry more then once, wheater it be dievorce or a loss of a partner but gays can't marry at all. In the wedding vows it says til death but then why is the dievorce at its highest. I'd be ashamed to agree with that. There are some people in this world that have been married or are married for the wrong reasons, but the gays can't marry because God does not agree, ok for those how think gays are going to hell, well then just let them why are you stopping love?
Those who want to banned it all together are MONSTERS. If you don't want to support it just don't vote.
I'm not a well educated person, I'm not an adult and this statement is not while organized but what is being done is horrible. To stop two people who actually love each other from the happiness of marriage is wrong.
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Same Sex marriage
By stephanie malone on Aug 5, 2009 8:18:27 PM
Everyone talks about how GOD created us and that the bible says this and says that. I truly believe HE created us, but we are all created different. We are all sinners in our own ways and HE gave his son for our sins. NOONE is perfect, we will never be, there are murders out there, GOD created, Rapists, GOD created, Thieves, GOD created, so why does it matter if we are gay? Are we bothering you ? NO, we just want to live the same lives as you. Unless I am out there killing and raping and stealing from you, please leave me alone and let me live my life happy and not have to beg and plead to be with someone I love even if they are another woman.
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same-sex marriage
By Sandy Monen on Jun 18, 2009 3:28:45 PM
I quote the article, "began marring" is pretty much what same-sex marriage is doing to heterosexual marriage. Your slip; not mine.
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God's Law vs Man's Law
By Katie Smith on Jun 16, 2009 6:04:55 PM
God created Adam and Eve not Adam and Adam or Eve and Eve. Just because man's law says it's ok doesn't make it ok with God. The Bible is clear, read it and believe it. I will pray for all of you that you can see that what you do here on earth determines where you spend eternity. God Bless You All!!
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Gay Marriage
By Tina Brandon on Jun 15, 2009 2:15:41 PM
Everyone keeps going on and on about gay marriage and they seem to forget one important fact. Gay marriage is against the will of God and no arguments can refute that. He said that it is an abomination. Any other arguments are irrelevant. Not only that, but back in the 1970's homosexuality was classified as a deviant psycho-sexual disorder by the medical comunity but they were intimidated into deleting the diagnosis by gay activists, not based on new information but on violent hate tactics by the gay community. If gay marriage passes in this state, they can then teach it to children in the schools. I guess when little boys come home and want to have gay weddings with their little male friends, maybe then people will wake up and realize what is going on here. God was totally against Homosexualtiy and if we embrace it, then we are outside His will. Take a look at Sodom and Gomorrah. The scientists have discovered it and found that exactly what the Bible said happened to it, happened to it. If you look at a satellite picture of the area, you will see two white dots over it because of the huge amount of ash covering it. Also, the remaining structures are embedded with 98% pure sulphur in round balls, something that is not found anywhere in nature unless there is geo-thermal activity and there is none there. The other structures show signs of intense heat and melting. The gay community keeps telling the lie that Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed because of a lack of hospitality but that is not what the Old Testament says. It says that ALL the men in the town wanted to have homosexual sex with the two angels God sent. And God sent his angles to investigate Sodom and Gomorrah because the people cried out against what was going on there so I beg the people of God to cry out against this abomination or we will be creating a law designed to send generations to hell through wrong actions and wrong thinking.
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Procreation?
By Mandy Yeatrakas on May 8, 2009 7:36:26 PM
How would the world procreate if we were all homosexuals? Artificial insemination? Is that really how it was meant to be?
If homosexuality is so acceptable in these religions in Africa, then why would you all want to stay here?
I am asking serious questions. Not trying to start an argument.
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gay marriage.
By katelyn everett on Apr 27, 2009 6:34:39 PM
i don't see the problem with same-sex marriage. it's their life. and their life has NOTHiNG to do with anyone else. if it's a sin, it's their sin, not yours. you can believe in it if you want or not, but just because you don't, doesn't mean they have to believe what you do. they have their own minds, they can think for themselves. i'm sick and tired of people judging them for what gender they like. the gender they like has ABSOLUTELY NOTHiNG to do with who they really are. so, all you people who have a problem with it, can keep it to yourselves. your belief's and opinions are not gonna change anyone else's. you're not that special. so keep it inside, and stop trying to change people's thoughts. it's called freedom. and to the gov't and all you other people, you shouldn't care who gets married to who. as long as it's a person, who cares? love is love; whether it's a boy and boy, boy and girl, or girl and girl. if someone falls in love with someone who, "heaven for bid" is the same sex, you should be happy for them. at least they found love. and again, it's no one else's business other than theirs. keep your opinions to yourself. no one cares what you think.
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Same Sex Marriage
By Autumn W. on Mar 25, 2009 9:55:39 PM
I just want to note that it is obvious which people are against legalizing same-sex marriages, just by the sheer ignorance of their words. I honestly cannot believe that so many people are really so narrow-minded and just plain stupid. How can people say that they "deserve" the rights guaranteed by the constitution, but others do not?! This all just makes me sick. I can't even believe there is still an issue regarding discrimination left? Why haven't we provided equal rights to all by now? Honestly. It is up to us people, the intellectuals, to become more involved and ultimately take control of our own destiny. If you want something done right, you've got to do it yourself. So, apparently it is time to get rid of all of the "holier-than-thou" religious extremists in Congress and get some open-minded, free thinkers into office. Don't even waste your time trying to make them understand, it'd be like trying to teach calculus to a pig. Just stay strong and continue on, but most importantly, never stoop to their level. Keep your heads high and your hearts happy. Justice WILL prevail.
-FYI, all of you morons out there, I am a very happily married heterosexual female, but I know some pretty awesome homosexual people. It all comes down to the content of one's character, and that's it. ;O)
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Same Sex mairrage
By Shawna Pifer on Jan 27, 2009 9:42:48 AM
same sex mairrage should be legalized. no matter where at. Banning peoples rights on it is wrong, its seggregation just the same. telling someone they cant get married because they are lez, or gay, or bi, is telling someone they cant be free because of race, or anything else. Its not as if you have to do it. Let them live their life its not hurting you. God let us choose our own path so let them choose theirs. how would you feel if you couldnt marry the person you love? think about it.
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WHAT IS THE BIG DEAL?
By alicia anderson on Oct 10, 2008 2:20:33 PM
So what if people of the same sex want to get married? It's not that big of a deal!! IT'S THEIR RIGHT!!! Everyone has a right to be happy and live with whomever they want and for anyone else to say it's wrong is crazy!
I believe that same sex marriage should be allowed. Who are we as a Nation to tell someone that they can't marry the person they love? Oh, I forgot, it's a sin! WHATEVER! No one in this world is perfect and not one of us can say that we haven't sinned in one way or another! It makes me sick to hear people say- IT'S A SIN!
It's time to stop trying to control people and the way they live and let them be happy!
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LEAVE US ALONE!!
By Samantha Green on Sep 8, 2008 2:22:11 PM
If you're gay, thats your choice but my problem is, why can't homosexuals just do their own thing and stop dragging heterosexual morals into it? When it comes to marriage, just leave us alone, marriage is RELIGIOUS and has been defined (for many centuries now)as a "man & woman", so just let it be. Why can't homosexuals create their own believes w/ a gay personnel that focuses on their same sex life and just let heterosexuals and their marriage morals alone? We're not the same and obviously, we dont have the same believes, so why try and force us to? Why are homo's stirring things up? Just go about your business and live your life without dragging heterosexuals into. Gayness makes no sense at all based on this reason: To produce a child, one MUST go the opposite sex to get one right? oh wait a minute, or adpot? right. So regardless, God and if you dont believe in God, NATURE tells you that a man and woman is to be united to produce offsprings and population, without a man & woman, mankind would die out if Homo's were left unless a gay man has sex w/ a lesbian.Makes sense right? How come we werent then produced w/ both genitals to accommodate what we want? YOU CAN CHOSE TO BE GAY, JUST LEAVE STRAIGHT PEOPLE ALONE. STOP FORCING CHURCES TO RECOGNIZE HOMO'S UNDER GOD, again go create your own thing. You (homo's) know that church is strongly religious but yet you still stirr the pot! Go create your own place to get married and leave the churches alone. Did they bother you? I dont think so, YOU CAME TO THEM. I dont want to see 2 men or women kissing on television that my family watch. Dont homo's have their own gay network? Do hetero's say "thats not fair, how come they dont have straight people on their gay network? Do we sue the gay televisions for discrimination? No. We LEAVE YOU ALONE, SO LEAVE US ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I DONT JUDGE YOU, IN THE END, IT'S BETWEEN YOU AND GOD BUT IN THE MEAN TIME, STOP PESTERING HEREO'S AND LET US AND OUR BELIEVES BE. Thank you.
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Is marriage not a right.
By Merike Mueller on Aug 26, 2008 9:05:11 PM
I honestly dont see what all the fuss is about, i went to what was once an all white school in indiana. We changed only five or ten years ago, now look at us were a five star school that is now integrated, and is actually inviting people to come stay with us from diff. countries. We have at least ten or twenty teaches that are gay, our gay population is rising. We have a little over two thousand students enrolled and thirty five percent of them is gay/les./bi. I myself is gay, ive been with my girlfriend for six years, it takes a lot to maintain a stable relationship. We are all human all im saying is the gay population is rising ,and should be reconized as humans. To be allowed marriage , and benefits like everyone else. To be able to have a family like anyone else here without being looked down upon.
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Leviticus
By Arthur Pendragon on Aug 9, 2008 7:42:50 PM
"Do not lie with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable". This is not about homosexuality. You have to know who god is talking to. Is it a man or woman. Read earlier on, he is telling Moses to tell this to his people. Are all his people male?
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Human Rights
By Kathleen LaFrance on Jul 23, 2008 4:20:39 PM
To all the people dragging God and religion into this, Stop! This is not a Theocracy! This nation was based on freedom and equal rights for ALL! Frankly if you don't like homosexual marriage don't enter into one. All the arguments saying that this would threaten marriage are incomprehensible to me. I can see no Logical reason that allowing my neighbor the same rights I enjoy will cause any harm to my marriage rights. This is our generation's major civil-rights cause! All Human beings deserve the same rights under a just and fair legal system!
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When will humanity become reality?
By Rebecca Raab on Jun 20, 2008 8:45:36 AM
I am a human inhabiting the planet Earth. I was born in a small town and then raised as a military brat. I was raised in a Catholic family. I was a Girl Scout for twelve years and a Ballet student for two years. I went to four high schools in my junior year before graduating with a 3.9 from Frank W. Cox High School. I am the daughter of a divorced family due to alcohol and cheating, and I am the sister of two beautiful and strong women. One day, I will save the world and create peace for all places with occurring genocide and murder. In six more years, I will have a masters in Psychology and Linguistics with a minor in education. One day, I will be married, start a family, and have two children. There is no classification for gays. I am a twenty-year-old white, Austrian-Irish, agnostic, homosexual woman, but I am still human. Am I wrong for loving the woman that I have been with unconditionally? I have one of the biggest hearts in the world which is why still I am not angry at the ignorance of so many humans. I am just that...I am human and my blood is the same as anyone else's.
And to respond to that gay man...HIV comment...ANYONE can contract that disease or any other STD...if you use a condom and have safe sex...it won't happen. Basically do not categorize a group of people for something that is the responsibilty of TWO people.
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Gay Marriage
By april gibson on Jun 19, 2008 8:46:54 PM
Wow...I've never seen so much hatred being spewed on this website. I'm just here doing some research, but I'm shocked by what people are saying about gays and lesbians. How does a married same-sex couple interfere with your personal life? It doesn't, does it? You people with your bibles standing on your soap box preaching about God and abominations...when did you become God? I thought he was the one to judge us in the end. What do you think he'd say about your hateful, disgusting prejudice? But I know, you're going to keep preaching because you really have nothing else to do and you think that by spewing hate you are serving God in some way. God is a loving God I thought? I don't think he's very pleased with your behavior. In fact I think he'll cast you down to Hell for hating that which you know nothing about. If you don't like gay people then don't look. Just like turing off your TV when you don't like what's on. You are miserable people and like it says...Misery loves company.
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constitution
By kristy chance on Jun 17, 2008 9:15:32 AM
it's amazing how they figure out how to take the rights of the people everyday that are against our "constitutional rights" but gay marriage is just totally against the constitution. hypocritical?
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First Liberty
By Phyllis Wood on Jun 17, 2008 3:21:41 AM
The founders of our country believed our "first liberty" was religious freedom. That can be taken in many ways. First we ought to know what a liberty is. According to Merrian-Webster Online dictionary liberty is...1: the quality or state of being free: a: the power to do as one pleases b: freedom from physical restraint c: freedom from arbitrary or despotic control d: the positive enjoyment of various social, political, or economic rights and privileges e: the power of choice. So if religious freedom is our first liberty than why are gay people persecuted? No I don't see homosexuality as a religion, but if you do not believe homosexuality is against your religion(whatever your religion is and who says you have to have one?)then how is it wrong? By banning gay marriage people are being robbed of their rights. I understand that most(no not all) Christians believe homosexuality is wrong, that is your right, if you don't want to marry someone of the same sex because of your religious beliefs(or just lack of homosexuality...lol) that is your right, however banning gay marriage infringes on others' rights. Our Declaration of Independence states "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.....". Homosexuals are trying to pursue happiness by making a formal commitment to their partners and since they are equal to everyone else, I wonder what the problem is?
I have always been taught that being gay is wrong, however I am gay. I did not choose it, quite the opposite, I fought it with all my strength but that didn't change me. I am who I am, I walk among you and you cannot see a difference. I look like the girl next door and most people rather like me. If I was straight my right to marry would not be questioned.
I can only hope that we continue to fight for our rights and do not let them be taken away because we are made to feel inferior.
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MARRIAGE
By Julie Basch on May 29, 2008 8:26:16 AM
Many bright people have written extensively on the reasons why we DON'T want gay marriage legalized. Rebecca Hagelin commented "To redefine marriage so that it is not intrinsically related to the relationship between fathers, mothers, and children formally severs the institution from its nature and purpose . . ."
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GAY RIGHT'S
By Charles Black on May 26, 2008 4:59:55 AM
What a joke, I don't get anyone these days i am still very young 21 years old have been with only one person since high school and and now we are going to take the next step. I mean why not i have a house with my partner Francis and we have two bran new cars and a dog, So what makes us any diffrent then any of you. Have i or my partner did some thing to any of you out there who hate the idea of gays having the same rights as you. I would also like to point out that if any of you are have a diffrent skin color other then white you know how we feel, or a religion who hasnt faced this kind of issue where others try taking control of everything untill it back fires and hit them in the face then you drop the issue and run away with your tail between your legs and dont take any responsiblity for te issue or the damage you have caused.
I don't care who you are ir what religion you are or what skin color you have or anything else for that matter if you want to talk to me about the issue at hand then e-mail me at
blackcharles13@yahoo.com
thanks lets all try to grow up
p.s leave the topic of stds at the door everyone and anyone can get them next topic!!!!!!!!!
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It wasn't that long ago....
By Andrew Holder on May 20, 2008 3:14:41 PM
It wasn't that long ago that marriage between a black person and a white person was looked down on, if not compleatly illegal. We need to stop looking at people in terms of their race, religion, or sexual orientation. Humans are humans, for all the good and evil that dictates. Gays should have the same rights as any other person in this country. Stop thinking of current social issues by compairing them to a book written two thousand years ago for political reasons and political control.
P.S. Jesus taught to love your neighbor, Jesus was love not hate.
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Dear Nicole Gibbons,
By Sarah G on May 19, 2008 1:22:09 PM
The only feelings of remorse I have are for you and people like you. It saddens me that you could be so closed minded to the needs and feelings of other human beings. I'm no different than you. I have eyes so see, ears to hear, and a heart that loves. What makes me so different from you? Are you married? Have you ever been in love? That helpless, blissful feeling is not unknown to the gay community. We're not asking for the world here, we're not asking you to change you religion, or march in a pride parade, we're only asking for the same civil rights as every other human being. We're not the "red-headed step child" of humanity. And if my being in love with a woman is a sin then so be it, but what gives you the right to judge me? What gives YOU the right to say that I am a lesser person than you? That, my dear, is between God and I. So let me live my life and deal with any consequences that may or may not bbe waiting for me on the other side.
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one more thing....
By clint mcc on May 16, 2008 1:57:48 AM
Its not about the dresses and the church and the big wedding. ITS ABOUT THE SAME RIGHTS. I want a piece of paper that shows I get the same tax benefits, heath insurance, the ease of buying a house, even down to buying a car together...
Dont worry homo haters, you will not catch "gay"
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Damn Breaders
By clint mcc on May 16, 2008 1:54:51 AM
For all you bible thumpers.. thou thall not judge! dont judge us for who we are.
2nd-- Why should I not have the same constitutional rights as any other american? The govt. is pretty much saying "we the constitution...except homos"
Isnt our country based off the constitution. all of us with equal rights?
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Gay Marriage grants equal rights-not special rights
By Michael Weihn on May 15, 2008 9:43:36 PM
I have been in a same sex relationship with a man whom I consider my husband for 14 years come this June. We just want the same rights as everyone else. 40 years ago blacks & whites couldn't marry legally. Don't we want to continue to move forward. Arguments people have against it always state the bible. The bible is a reference. If you're going to take everything in it literally then everyone who shaves their heads or curses their parents are supposed to go to hell so there you go-that's about everyone. Also, no one around today was here when the bible was actually written so there's no way of knowing what was actually meant by each passage. God would want us all to love one another & not judge-so let's try that from now on. As for homosexuals being a main cause of spreading AIDS, we are not the main cause of AIDS. Especially lesbians who are the lowest risk group. We just want to have the same legal rights to marry so two people can totally be committed to each other so they can make decisions about the other if something should happen. How would you like it as a heterosexual if you had no say about you spouse in their death or if they had no brain activity? The family could just come in, claim their belongings, and decide their fate? Put yourself if someone else's shoes.
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Gay Marriage/Relationships
By Nicole Gibbons on May 15, 2008 8:14:55 PM
It's wrong...it's as simple as that. Anyone in a same sex situation who reads this that feeling you get sometimes...that feeling of remorse...think about it...you know it's wrong...you can't deny it no matter waht reply you have to this...you know it's wrong
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Honestly
By Sarah G on May 13, 2008 2:24:09 PM
Yeah, it angers me to read the opinions of some of these people. It upsets me that there are actually people out there that would HATE me because of who I love. Honestly though, I'm not worried about it. I will be married to the love of my life and I will be recognized as part of a married couple, by my friends, my family, and one day by the entire U.S. and I don't care what i have to go through to ahcieve this. People have fought stupidity like this since the begining of time and this is no different. Just like freeing the slaves, women's suffrage, and yes, even making interracial marrige legal, this will happen. It's never been a question of whether or not it will happen, it's only a question of when. I can only hope that I live to see the day when two men or two women can be legally recognized as a lawfully married couple. If not, then I hope I can do something to help my children see that day. Here it is folks.
The newest fad, the latest rebellion, the next revolution, and hopefully another step in the evolutionary process.
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LIVE AND LET LIVE
By NECOLLE PEARCE on May 13, 2008 10:44:11 AM
IF I WANT TO MARRY A WOMEN WHAT IS THE PROBLEM ? REALLY CAN SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN IT TO ME .. THE WHOLE WORLD IS SO QUICK TO STATE WHAT THE BIBLE SAY'S .. THE BIBLE ALSO STATES THOU SHALL NOT KILL...( THE WAR ON IRAQ ) SO I SAY THIS MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS AND LEAVE OTHER PEOPLES ALONE AND THIS WORLD WOULD BE A BETTER PLACE ALL I WANT TO DO IS BE HAPPY AND MARRIED ....THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME
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NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO JUDGE !!!!!!!!!!
By NECOLLETTE HBIN on May 13, 2008 10:35:39 AM
EXCUSE THE MISS SPELLED WORDS TYPING TO FAST
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NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO JUDGE !!!!!!!!!!
By NECOLLETTE HBIN on May 13, 2008 10:29:48 AM
I THINK THAT EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO BE HAPPY WHO R U TO TELL SOMEONE WHO THEY CAN MARRY @ FIRST FOR A BLACK MAN TO DATE A WHITE WOMEN HE WAS HUNG PEOPLE HAVE WE NOT LEARNED ANYTHING. LIFE IS TO SHORT TO BE WORRYING ABOUT HOW SOMEONE ELSE LIVE THERE LIFE IF MIKE & JEFF OR TAMMY & LISA WANT TO MARRY LET THEM THEY ARE LAW ABIDING CITIZENS AND WHO IS IT HURTING. I THINK THE REAL PROBLEM IS THTA PEOPLE ARE AFRAID OF WHAT OTHER WILL THIK OR THAT A FAMILY MEMEBER WILL COME OUT THE CLOSET..WILL YOU DIE YOU ARE THE ONLY PERSON THAT HAS TO GIVE ACCOUNT FOR YOUR SINS... SO LET GOD BE THE JUDGE NOT YOU... WE ARE LOSING TO MANY LIVES IN THE WAR,FROM HURRICANE KATRINA, ALL OF THE FIRES,FLOODS, TORNARDOES,9/11, WHY CANT WE JUST LIVE IN PEACE AND STOP TRYING TO BREAK UP SOMEONES HAPPY HOME.... WHY NOT FOCUS ON THE MURDERERS,RAPIST,CHILD ABUSER,DRUG DEALERS THE REAL CRIMES ............. TO PEOPLE THAT LOVE ONE ANOTHER SHOULD NEVER BE A CRIME ESPECIALLY IF THEY ARE OF LEGAL AGE,THAT IS ONE WOMEN OPINION THAT WAS RAPED BY FAMILY MEMEBERS.. AND HAS A FEAR OF MEN... AND ONLY DATES WOMEN I AM IN LOVE WITH A WOMEN AND WE WANT TO MARRY..............
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LET IT BE!
By Raech Miller on May 9, 2008 5:39:59 PM
Ok…you know what? Every single person in this world has the right to happiness! Gay or not! I don’t care! You all are so concerned with gay rights when it doesn’t even matter to you; you’re just out looking for a fight! We do nothing that straight people don’t do, it just happens to be with someone of are own kind! Anyway back to the point, your fight to make sure that gay marriage is not legal when in the future you could be hurting a family remember! And you know what there is a whole hell of a lot more wrong with this world or the USA, like the war, the starving children, the health of are people…and your wasting your time fighting to make sure that gay marriage is not legal! You’re sick and wrong! You need to be fighting for a real better tomorrow by helping the starving people, the families without health care, the children in the hospital with diseases, I mean come on the list goes on!!!! Get your life and your country together, go help and pay attention to what really matters, not something that doesn’t affect you!
My next point… to the ass hole who wrote that we choose to be gay…hmm, lets see, yeah buddy I fucking chose to be gay, to have my own mother who I cared about and that entire side of the family hate me, for the longest time walk down a hall were the students would spit and yell and curse and throw shit at you if they knew you were gay! Yeah…I really chose to be gay! WRONG!!!!!!! I didn’t and every gay person (real gay person) will tell you that it’s not a choice! We live a hard enough life as it is and to have that on your back and people you once thought cared turn on you because you come out, and your whole life changes! And your right, some do it for attention but you know what they’ll grow out of it! They just want attention and the real gays don’t like them either, but we are not all them! Just like you’re not me and I am not you! We live are own lives! EVERYONE IS DIFFEERENT!!! Just please, don’t judge us, don’t be rude, and for Gods sake let us live are own lives just as we are letting you!!!
As for the military stuff, you know what if they want in, they’ll get in! All they have to do is lie! So let them be! They’re helping you and everyone else anyway!
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She makes a good point...
By Sarah G on May 7, 2008 1:09:01 PM
The girl above me, even if her grammer, spelling, and terms (i.e. lesbos) are severly incorrect. This brings me to the "gays in the Army" discussion. Apparently homophobia in our country is so bad that people can't even suck it up and let homosexuals into the military DURING A WAR. We can fight just as well as anyone else, especially lesbians (haven't you heard the stereotypes?.) Plus, if out gays were allowed to enter the Army there is no doubt in my mind that the number of "troops" would double. Which is more important? Keeping equality from one group of people who want to fight for the lives of the bigots who are torturing them or going into a war without nearly as many soldiers as there would be otherwise. Think about it.
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Gay let them be married
By Amanda Rhodes on May 6, 2008 1:49:01 PM
I am 15 and reading all this one of my friends is gay and i dont mind. let gays or lesbos get married there not hurting us. as far as im concerned the bleed the same blood and they can die just like us. some gays even go to war for us they are fighting for he rights of everyone so there fighting for themselves to. let them get married.
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Gay Marriage: It's NOT Hurting You!
By Mandie Destrick on May 5, 2008 6:55:03 PM
Hey, people out there who say they're Christian, then spout incoherent babble about how homosexuality is against the Bible, you're wrong. Nowhere in the Bible does it say the word homosexual (or, it shouldn't) because there was no word for it at the time the Bible was written. Back in the day, sex was sex, and it didn't matter what gender it was with. The line everyone refers to ("lie with man as with a woman") is actually "lie with mankind as one would with a woman..." which is odd, considering every other noun in the rules before and after (even in that same rule, "woman" is used instead of "womankind") is singular. They would have just said "man", but they didn't. Some Bibles are now edited to say "man", but not the more accurate ones. Go read a few versions of the Bible before spewing hatred everywhere.
I also think you're forgetting the prime rule of Christianity, the Golden Rule, if you will. Tolerance is supposed to be your identifier as a Christian, you must pray in your closet (ie not out in front of people), and you have to accept people no matter what. Note, I'm not calling you stupid- I'm pointing out the flaws in your arguments, and your gross misinterpretations of your religious texts.
Homosexuality is nothing new, it's been around since the dawn of time. If you believe in creation, then it's been around since God created animals (which is first, in one of the creation stories in the Bible, Genesis 1), as there are homosexual animals. It's as natural as heterosexuality, as it's found quite often in nature, and is completely acceptable in most other species. God may not have made Adam and Steve, but he did make the birds and the beasties, which are just as natural as we are- and without sin to boot- and quite a few of them are homosexual.
Final point: Don't judge others in the name of your religion, considering one of the things you're supposed to believe is "Judge not, lest ye be judged." and I doubt most of you are sinless.
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gay marriage
By Corinne B on Apr 29, 2008 9:43:08 PM
And what makes everyone so sure that there even is a god? And where in the bible does "god" say no to homosexuality? There is nothing wrong with gay partners: they're not mentally deranged, they're not incompetent of attention by the opposite sex, and they're certainly not morally corrupt. What should it matter what gender you love, or marry, or have sex with. WE ARE ALL PEOPLE. We all have equal rights. Marriage is NOT a heterosexual privelage.
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To the iggnorant
By Cassandra McCord on Apr 29, 2008 11:22:35 AM
To those who say "you can chose", why would i chose to have people insult me everyday of my life, why would i chose to be different, why would i chose to have people tell me they never want to talk to me again, why would i chose to "be a sin". I through the mall holding my girlfriends hand and i am stared at. Who would honestly chose to have that kind of atention. I am Bi-sexual with a girlfriend that i love very much and i am tired of people saying that you can chose your sexuality. Did i chose to be gay in the second grade when i had my first kiss on the playground with a GIRL. I live everyday just like you, I go to school, I go to work, I go home to a family that loves me (excepts me), I walk with one foot infront of the other. I listen to country music, I watch American idol, top chef, the evening news. Then right before i go to bed I call my girlfriend and tell her i love her. Do i sound different? Do i sound like I deserve your discrimination? If i was walking down the street you would never know that i was on my way to her house.
To those men out there who think that it's hot for two girls to be together but gross for two men. Go to hell!
Thanks for your time
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To Trey Patterson
By Sarah G on Apr 25, 2008 1:29:22 PM
First of all, allowing us marriage wouldn't change the number of gay people in the world. There would be the same number of homosexuals either way...idiot. Being able to get married won't all of a sudden make people want to be queer. And second of all, it's only gay men who can't give blood and it's NOT because of a genetic mutation. It's because of the rediculous stereotype that every gay man is plauqued with HIV, which is completely untrue. Get your **** right.
Oh, just to let you know, if you end up needing a blood transfution there's still a pretty good chance you'll get the blood of a homo... We lie on the application. :)
Have a nice ******** day.
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OMFG!
By Scott Sheets on Apr 22, 2008 2:48:19 PM
People say God created Adam and Eve. That may be true, but what the Bible doesn't tell you is that Adam got tired of Eve and went and found Steve!
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Gay Marriage
By Emily Poquette on Apr 17, 2008 9:04:03 AM
Honestly, people forget that not every single person in this country is Christian. I feel that if people want to have a same-sex marriage, let them do it outside of the church. It's not hurting anyone. People should have the right to love and be able to show their love through that union, whether it be between a man and a woman, two women, or two men.
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SAVE YOUR BREATH!
By Jessika Nepo on Apr 17, 2008 8:43:27 AM
ITS NOT WORTH IT! the issue today is same-sex marriage, but what will it be tomorrow? that you cant go to church? freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and FREEDOM TO THE HOMOSEXUALS! I am SO SICK of hearing people say that people are going to hell cuz theyre gay! and who ever was the brave person to type, "if God was against homosexuals, why did he create them?" i think thats what thye said. if i got it wrong i apologize, but i think its a very valid point! FREEDOM TO THE HOMOSEXUALS!
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"Home of the FREE!"
By Jessika Nepo on Apr 17, 2008 8:19:15 AM
Let gay marriage be legalized around the USA! The Declaration of INDEPENDENCE states, "life, liberty, and pursuit of happyness." those who are homosexual should have the right to spend their lives with the people they love, whether their love happens to be hetero- or homo- sexual! and they should be at liberty to do so! and wouldnt it make them happy to marry whom ever they want! i understand if the clergy doesnt want a same-sex couple to get married in the church, because of freedom of religion in amendment number 1. but there are other places to get married other than a church. go to vegas! there are tons! in fact, im writing a research paper on same-sex marriage. and i think that it should be legalized. if you hadnt already gotten that hint! i feel so strongly about same sex marriage because i know several people who are homosexual. and i think they should do what makes them happy. they were confident enough to tell us who their true identity is, i dont think they expected this reaction to their sexuality with so many opposed. to those of you who are married and have a spouse, imagine being denied to marry them. you would be unhappy right? a homosexual has a lover that they love! just like you love your spouse! it would be harsh to make it illegal for gay marriage! so many around them are getting married because theyre straight. so why cant someone get married because their gay?
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ALSO ALEXANDER
By Trey Patterson on Apr 16, 2008 3:01:53 PM
it says in the bible that homosexuals will not go to heaven. so yeah, if you think you are, your wrong.
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I would leagalize it
By Trey Patterson on Apr 16, 2008 3:00:19 PM
because then all the gay people would die out from lack of reproducing. Then straight people would be happy again.
also gay people cant donate blood because if it is a genetic mutation, WE DONT WANT IT!!
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Hear me out...
By Alexander Meyer on Apr 15, 2008 1:58:23 AM
I have two issues to address here:
First issue 1. To all of you who fervently maintain that people who are homosexual are that way due to a concious choice: this is a lie. To say this is likened to saying that a black person chooses to be black, or someone with Down Syndrome chooses to have that illness. Unless you are a homosexual, you have no clue how it came about and you should make no attempt to try to explain it. I am gay. I know what it is like and I know why I am gay. I am gay because: I was born that way. I made no choice to do it at all. Around the age of eleven or twelve, when most children begin to have a sexual awakening, I too had this same sexual awakening. But it just so happened that during this period, I happened to find myself attracted physically and emotionally to the same sex, not the opposite. It just came about that way. If you are straight, I can give this to you in a way you can understand. When you were younger and you had your first sexual awakening, did you find yourself faced with the choice between the same or opposite sex? I personally don't believe you did, rather, you just happened to prefer one gender over the other.
While now (I am 15) I am coming to a point where I accept my homosexuality, I did go through many a period when I felt so horribly disgusted and horrified by it that I hated myself. I felt for a long time that it was wrong and I was a filthy person. It was hard to get myself through those struggles but I did. To ANYONE who thinks that I chose to go through those struggles...YOU ARE WRONG!!! NO ONE CHOOSES TO FEEL THAT WAY ABOUT THEMSELVES! It personally insults me.
Second issue 2. To all of you who fervently maintain that to be a homosexual is to sin and be an abomination to God: you let God and I figure that one out. I, contrary to some beliefs and stereotypes, am not a perverted, sex addicted, drug using low life as gays are so often stereotyped to be. I lead a happy and respectable life. I make good grades, I participate in clubs, I have good friends, I am a good person. It is these positive qualities that say I am going to heaven. God made me exactly the way I am, homosexuality included. God has some big plans for me and he certainly wouldn't have made me inherently "sinfull". I have a good relationship with God and through this relationship He has communicated to me that he accepts me for who I am (who He created me to be) and that I am perfect in His eyes and He loves me. This is all the more I need to feel like a more perfect human being. Don't try to judge me for being gay because A. this is a very small and trivial part of who I am and B. the matter is solely between God and I, no one else. So before you try to deride me for happening to be attracted to the same sex, take a good look at all my positive qualities. Who knows, they may just sway you...
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The truth: This is all crap and none of it matters.
By Alexander Meyer on Apr 12, 2008 5:28:38 PM
Imagine a world where many people believed that marriage should only exist between two people of the same sex. Imagine that laws were passed almost everywhere that banned the marriage between a man and a woman. Imagine if proponents of man-to-woman marriages and heterosexuals were derided for their stance. Imagine you were a heterosexual man or woman and you strongly wished to marry a person of the opposite sex. Now, imagine how stupid you would think it is that you couldn't get married to that person simply because they belonged to the opposite sex. Now imagine a world where this entire scenario is flipped. Do you now see how trivially useless all this fuss about gay marriage is? It is no different than heterosexual marriage. Its just marriage. Leave it at that. It is simple and the fact that we argue about it every day and make laws about it is so unbelievably stupid, trivial, and childish that I find it hard to believe that we are all adults here. Just give to whoever wants the right to marry...THE RIGHT TO MARRY. It is too petty and useless to argue about. And also, if marriage between two people of the same sex is an abomination to God, why did he create gay people? Don't try to answer that question because He works in so many mysterious ways we can't even begin to imagine. It is very stupid to try to use His reasons in our own petty arguments, it is disgusting. God works on a level so far above our own we can't begin to fathom what he thinks...so people...DON'T TRY TO USE GOD AS AN EXCUSE TO JUSTIFY AN ARGUMENT CONCERNING SUCH A SMALL AND TRIVIAL SUBJECT ABOUT WHICH AN ARGUMENT DOESN'T EVEN DESERVE TO BE MADE!!!!!
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What sorry day to be an American.
By Steven Jarabek on Apr 11, 2008 5:26:07 AM
I try very hard to take pride in the country I live in. I continue to better myself by furthering my education and obtaining skills that can help every man woman and child I come in contact with. While I do this some of my so called fellow American's decide that I am not worthy of the same legal right's as they are. That is all it boils down to. A legal issue, not a moral issue. And for all the bible thumpers out there, with your "It's Adam and Eve Not Adam and Steve" or "I can show you where it says in the Bible.."
Try finding the passage in the yellow pages of god that says "Judge Not, less you wish to be judged.."
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equal rights to everyone!
By brenda finn on Apr 8, 2008 7:03:53 PM
predjudice not only in races but sexual preference is just as bad. it teaches our kids hate. everyone is a person and deserves to feel how they feel without hiding it. you dont see or hear gay people going off on straight people do you? no, its called respect. some people live by a book,"how its suppose to be,"gay people arent afraid to show there real feelings. so, with that said, all you predjudice straight people who go off on gays and lesbians, take one look at your home life and children and be sure thats what you want to teach, HATE. you should just give your kid a gun now. everyone should no that what you choose and what makes you happy is ok.
BRENDA FINN
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Legalizing same gender marriages
By Boogie Down on Apr 5, 2008 9:56:30 PM
Its was very interesting to see the comments that had been left on the site. I honestly don't care what those people choose to do in their life just like I don't care what rapist, gang bangers, murders or child molesters do with their life UNLESS it affects me whether directly or indirectly. Most criminals will give you a 101 reasons why they should be set free. The thing is will gay marriage and all the things that gays promote be hindering my rights; For example my right to not want to hear about gay life cause I don't care but now I have to because they are promoting everything they want to and its everywhere. What about all the little children's rights to have pure thoughts and not think about gay rights and have gay thoughts be put in their heads to make them believe their gay. My right to walk down the street and not have a gay dude look at me and if I knock him out its considered a hate crime when he violated my rights to feel at peace that day. What about the right I have not to be stressed about homophobia; when If I don't like something I don't like it. I don't respect pimps I think they are weak cowards should they come out with pimpaphobia. what about my right not to allow other peoples preferences to be a topic in my child's classroom. Gay people want to be gay go and do your own thing and leave us who can careless about your choices in life stress free from your personal agenda's. I DON'T care but I look up marriage and your issues pop up. My point exactly. Most Animals don't reproduce without an opposite gender mate and the ones that do replicate themselves because they have both male and female reproductive abilities. The she/man that we saw on T.V if Im not mistaken was a female that changed to male. Lets use reasoning over foolishness. Anger and thoughts to kill or harm people run through our brains does that make us murders no, not unless we kill someone. Its all about controlling your thoughts i know feminine men that love woman and are happily married so you can't say its genetic its a choice. Lets atleast be rational and if ya'll so pro gay than why you wanna be down with (marriage) it a man and woman thing anyway. Ya'll some funny people I will never agree with it because is depraved and disgraceful just like being a slut(male or female)but keep your issues out of our lives.
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disgusted in Va
By ryan wissen on Apr 4, 2008 10:57:00 PM
I know this may be difficult for you to believe but some people, just a few don't believe god created adam and eve. oh and also last i checked there is a separation between church and state. which means you can't hold me to your religious beliefs, just as i can't hold you to mine.
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Just for you
By Sarah G on Apr 3, 2008 2:25:07 PM
Ok, you want me to "cut the crap?" Fine, here we go. I had my first crush in kindergarten. I'm pretty sure that I did not CHOOSE to like girls at six years old. I believe that there are definitely people out there who "chose" to be gay due to some tramatic experience in their lives, however, the majority of us did NOT choose it. I did NOT choose to have my family question me, I did NOT choose for my grandmother to tell me that I'm going to hell, I didn't choose to have less rights than anyone else, I didn't choose to be gay bashed, I don't choose to be known as "the dyke," and I certainly didn't choose to fall in love with the girl I fell in love with. Honestly, who would choose to be discriminated against when they could be "normal." If I could have prevented being gay and saved myself all the hell I've gone through I would have a long damn time ago but that's just not how it works. I'm happy being myself inspate of everyone else and I'm in a very happy relationship with an amazing girl who also went through hell to be with me. So DON'T EVER tell me that I chose to be gay. I chose to be gay like you chose to be straight. I was born gay, I was born to fight through all the hate and I think I'm a better person for it. Before you ever think that we choose to be gay think about this, could you go a week without looking at a member of the opposite sex? A day? An hour? Didn't think so. Get your shit together. If you're not gay then you can't possibly know what it's like so don't try to pretend you do.
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all for it
By carrie myers on Apr 3, 2008 8:52:49 AM
so if a man can have a baby is that in the bible cuz im sure god is turing on his cross right now. maybe you all should watch oprah today and see this guy with a baby in his tummy and then tell me the world is not changing and that i cant get married to my girlfreind that i have been with for 3yrs and have 2 kids with that a very happy with there 2 mommys and go to church every sun. maybe just let gays get married for the next 3 yrs and let see the divorice rate between gay relationships and straight bet we win
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Same-Sex Marriage
By Katie Rottman on Apr 2, 2008 12:02:47 PM
Why should it not be legalized?? How are homosexuals who love each other bad? There are hundreds of thousands of children who need good homes that these couples could provide for, but because there are not allowed to get married! The DOMA laws, as well as FMA laws are unconstitutional! There are not hurting you (all you homophobic people) by loving each other... if you don't agree with it becuase of religious reasons... guess what FREEDOM OF RELIGION!! No need to force Jodeo-Christian faiths on everyone! Welcome to the 21st century... some people are gay GET OVER IT!! it is not going to change... think of when interracial relationships were looked on as wrong, this is no differen! Let them get married! It is not up to there closed minded people to decide everyone else's lives!
I SAY LEGALIZE SAME SEX-MARRIAGE!!!!!!
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Legalize!
By Julee Reece on Apr 1, 2008 10:55:03 AM
Gays and Lesbians are people as a whole. They love and share the same feelings that "normal" couples share. If they would like to get married, so be it. They should have the same rights as a citizen of the U.S. as the other people do. Religion should not be considered a factor in this because God clearly states that we as people are equal. He knows what people's lives will be before they even decide. He knows that they will either be gay, or straight. He wouldnt put those thoughts into a person's head if he didnt think it was right!! So, stop discriminating against others. They deserve every bit of rights as any other individual. It's a personal decision not yours!
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Gay Marriage
By Adrianna Reed on Mar 27, 2008 3:52:32 PM
This is a big issue for all. Here is my take-
I noticed a lot of comment referring to the bible in this post. Basically what is being said is that it is ok to have incest within a family but not have gay marriage?! Bottom line is this-if you all would kindly turn to Genesis in YOUR bible, you will see where it clearly states so and so begot so and so-What in the world do you think that means? If Adam and Eve created us all, there had to be incest running rampant! With that said, gay people have just as much right to a union or marriage as the rest of us. Who are you to say they cannot have happiness. This is the same as the discrimination woman had when it comes to voting and black people had when it came to slavery etc. It is a tragedy that 2 people who love eachother cannot be under God in their union. The last time I checked-God does not make mistakes. Every time someone points a finger at someone who is gay-that is what is being said-that GOD made a mistake! How dare you and shame on you! Gay and straight people have the right to love and marry whoever they want-just like interracial marriage. It was felt in the 60's that a black person marrying a white person is wrong but here we are-doing what we like and loving who we want. That is what makes the United States a wonderful place to live in. I often wonder why all of these straight people are worried about an issue that has absolutely NOTHING to do with them. Bottom line- GET A LIFE AND LET 'EM LOVE AND MARRY!
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response
By Allison L on Mar 25, 2008 5:05:52 PM
they did not choose to be gay... did you choose to be straight? no that's how you were born. you didn't just decide that you wanted to like the opposite sex just like they didn't just decide to like the same sex.
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ABOUT GAY MARRIAGES By Prince
By prince v on Mar 24, 2008 12:41:14 PM
First of all I would like everyone to know all of you have great opinions. This is the main reason I choose to talk about mine. First of all all those who say they are born gay, cut the crap. You are not born gay you choose to be gay. Second point gay people deserve many rights every other couples deserve, but our government is messed up so it would take a lot of hard work to fix it. When it comes to gay marriage, I believe it is wrong because I am a Christian. BUt if you choose to be gay go right ahead, it is not for me to judge you.
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they didn't choose to be gay... it's genetic
By Allison L on Mar 20, 2008 9:25:31 PM
I'm 17 years old and a few months ago i found out that i have a herniated disc and 2 degenerative discs in my back and i have to get surgery on my back which will lead to more surgeries in the future. the doctors found out that it was genetic and i got it from my mother. the surgery will cost thousands of dollars but luckily we have insurance to pay for it. if we didn't have insurance i probably wouldn't be getting the surgery and i would probably be in pain for the rest of my life. this year(my junior year in hight school) i am doign a term paper for english. i decided to do in on legalizing gay marriage because 4 years ago i found out that my older sister was gay. as i was researching i found out that being gay is genetic. and i asked my mom and she said that she has 2 cousins that are gay, so it most likely came from my moms side. since it is genetic, my sister was born with the gay gene, she didn't choose to be gay and she didn't ask to be gay. denying her the right to marry her partner that she is in love with would be like my insurance company denying me the money i need to pay for my surgery. i didn't choose to have this bad back, i didn't ask for it, and i DEFINATELY did not ask to be in this much pain 24/7. that's why gay marriage should be legal... because they are born gay and they should be able to marry the person they are in love with... whether that person is the same or the opposite sex.
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Constitution leaning in our favor?
By Sarah G on Mar 19, 2008 1:03:52 PM
It's true, there are plenty of laws and constitutional amendments that support us and our right to marry, yet the constitution will actually have to be changed to officially make it illegal. What's the point? Do you all not see that this has happened before? We're just repeating history and as history shows we will get our rights, we always do. The African Americans got their rights, the women got their right, and no matter what it takes the queer community will get theirs. I've said this over and over again, it will happen. I believe that the God that so many people think will condemn us will, in reality, help us on our journey to equality. This isn't about "right" and "wrong", it's about basic human decency.
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Well...
By Morgan Gulley on Mar 16, 2008 12:44:16 PM
Hi, I am 15 year old student. I am a Freshman in High School and in my honors English class I have to write a research project. It's only 950 words or so, but I chose to write it about gay marriage/adoption. I have sort of come to a standstill on the subject of religion. So much so that I have been the subject of even ridicule form my fellow classmates in choosing this subject. In this class I have been the butt of many religious debates. I have stuck by my choice to reseach this topic, however, for the fact that I believe that it is a growing 'problem' that may be a social division that could be substantially problematic to our society. I had many lesbian friends and believe that their rights, not only as people, but as lesbians, should be the same no matter what their orientation. The only problem I am having is trying to make my paper unbiased. I feel that, yes, the bible plays a big part in it, but people are people and you can't help who you love. I, myself, have been struggling with this. I don't know how many statistics are against me. For example, 1 in 9 softball players are lesbians. I play softball, outfield. :) 1 in 4 goalies are lesbians. I play soccer, goalie. :) So I don't understand why it's pressuring me to decide when I know who I am.
I also would like to know why there are so many states making gay marriage illegal when doesn't it say somewhere that the unalienable rights are 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' So if loving someone of the same-sex if making you 'happy' then isn't it your right to be with that person? Sorry, to get so off-topic, I just feel that some of these people commenting this article are just trying to put people down in a malicious way. It's not right.
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A challenge
By Negi Konno on Mar 16, 2008 3:42:46 AM
I would like to issue a challenge to all those who think that being gay is a choice. Try for, lets say a month, to not be straight. You dont have to look at people of the same sex sexually, but you cannot look at someone of the opposite sex inaproppriatly even once. And this includes having any sexual thoughts about them or checking them out. I just want to see how long you will last before you inevitably fail. And, if you claim that you did it, i can only imagine it drove you nearly insane. This challenge is under the assumption that you do have a sex life with a member of the opposite sex.
I hate to talk about religion... but it has to be done. Now I may be wrong, but i thought God created all in the image of himself... so does that mean.... OMG...GOD IS GAY... (ps that was just a joke, dont get your undies in a bunch. Not that you really can say that you know God is not because the fact is you have never met him face to face in real life) I may also be wrong about this too but doesnt the bible say that God loves all. Why would he create something that he didnt love? Besides that, why would you want to worship a God that condems those that he loves.
It is my belief that gays are hated because white, male, heterosexuals see gays as breaking the ranks amoungst them. That because of this betrayal that they will loose power in a society that is dominated by white male heterosexuals. Also that white male heterosexuals see the breaking of these "ranks" as showing a loss of power and because of this women will see this and take advantage of their weekness to end misogyny. Because of these thought gay men are often the victims of vicious hate crimes. On Febuary 12th, 2007 Lawrence King, a 15 year old high school student at E.O. Green School in Oxnard, California was shot in the back of the head twice by a fellow student, Brandon McInenery (14 years old), who he had asked to be his Valentine. Lawrence had come out openly as being gay a few weeks prior and had been harassed until the day he was shot and killed. How is it that we as a nation can condone this? When a 15 year old boy is murdered for being openly gay we as a nation are sending out the wrong message. It is use as adults that have taught this behaviour to our children. If it had not been through adult influence, such as parental and influence through media this boy may still be alive. We shape our children as they grow, and because of this it is indirectly us as a nation that pulled the trigger on the gun that killed this boy. I dont want tolerence for gays, that is not enought. Every human being should be seen as a equal to everyone else, this includes gay's, lesbians, men, women, disabled persons, the elderly, and racial minoritys, etc. What i want is acceptance by all with no acception and equal rights for all. And if you wish to argue the point that this is a free nation, I will argue the point that every individual is free, no matter where their are from. You are free to go out and steal something or speak your mind, its the consiquences that may follow that sets us apart. This is a free country, you can choose to be gay, but you may just end up being shot in the back of the head. This is something that we must change at all costs. Our individual freedoms are at stake. We must make this a country where you can openly be who you are without the fear of being murdered.
When was the last time that a gay couple getting married actually affected you? Get over yourselves... I live in a state where gays can get married and I'm proud of that. I live int he state leading a social revolution and I support my state with all my heart and body.
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Wow...
By Sarah G on Mar 14, 2008 3:22:54 PM
First of all, I'm not even going to take the time to correct your grammer and spelling, just know that you should probably look into some special ED. classes. Secondly, it is indeed ok for women to be gay, as so for men. Honestly, I don't know why you're getting your panties in such a twist over gay men, as long as you're not having sex with them you shouldn't worry about it. They're not going to slither out of a dark alley and steal your innocence, I promise. In fact, the probability of you being hit on by a gay man is slim to none I'm sure... Unless you like to hang out in gay bars. You know, for someone who is so against homosexuality you seem to know quite a bit about it. Do you always write about sweaty muscular men? Sounds like you do. Lastly, I also think we should have an island with free lube, toys, and Elton John parties, and if that ever happens just know that you are not invited. No more sweaty men for you sir, you seem to have had enough.
On a more serious note I would just like to say that you need to be carefull about who you hate. It could turn out to be a fireman who saves your life, or a doctor who performs an operation on you or a family member. Gay people are everywhere and we're not all shirtless men dancing to techno, or flannel wearing dykes driving stick shifts.
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Constitution & Biology
By Benjamin Kates on Mar 10, 2008 12:51:36 AM
First off this article is about a constitutional amendment preventing states from recognizing same sex marriages. It has nothing to do with religion, and it absolutely says nothing about getting into heaven or not if you’re gay. So let’s tackle the issue that concerns this article. The United States is a democracy based on the system of federalism. Federalism is a system in which there is a division of power between state and national governments. The constitution clearly states in the first amendment, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.â€? Marriage is a religious ceremony and participating in this ceremony is exercising your religion, so therefore, “congress shall not prohibit the free exercise of religion.â€? So an amendment preventing states from recognizing same sex marriage: unconstitutional.
Now time to look at my second issue. I am a senior college student studying psychology, currently taking a gender psychology course. I am in the middle of doing research for my class, and no study has definitively proven that sexual orientation is a product of chromosomes. Nothing can be proven when it comes to this situation primarily because there is no chance for a scientific experiment, just as you cannot scientifically prove that smoking causes cancer. Why? Because you cannot take a control group that does not smoke and assign a group to smoke for their entire lives and see what the percentages of lung cancer is. It’s unethical. It is true however that it is widely believed that gender identity, sexual orientation, and sexual preference could possibly be biological. The ring Y chromosome is usually associated with deletions in telomeric regions. It often provokes the loss of the ring chromosome during mitosis. The SRY gene, which is involved in gender determination, is located close to the telomeric region. If the deletions in the telomeric region might include this SRY gene, then gender determination would become corrupt resulting in gender identity disorder, transgender fetishism, and possibly (but not scientifically proven) homosexuality.
My opinion on the subject of gay marriage is not relevant but if anyone was curious I am for it. Who am I to pass judgment on another human being?
P.S. people please use spell check or something.
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Legal gay marriages or unions whatever!!!!
By Gerald Shilling on Mar 8, 2008 7:14:51 AM
I have to just set a few of these comments STRAIGHT, gay relationships isn't what causes, the spread of AIDS or other STD'S. What spreads disease is solely ignorance of humanity as a whole, not just one group. As some statics show the rate of disease would be; I believe in the heterosexual community. Give some examples: We have the highest divorce rate ever, I believe that would be in the straight community, Priests and other so called god loving christians having sex with children that attend their churches, The same god loving people who preach about the word of god, seem to forget the bible also says thou shall not judge, so why with all this, but their shame on us. Anyway the bible also says god makes no mistake, and god created all of us in is image, So I guess we need to read our bible more and understand the meaning. Just as closer: in the beginning before Eve was made from Adam, god gave Adam a choice of any creature on earth for a mate, mind you their was no other humans. So I want to leave you so called christians food for thought, was god trying to promote sleeping with animals, "thou shall not lay with beast" 2 problems: bible has some issues, and who is the sick ones now. Christians or Gays and their Straight friends.
God Bless
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i agree
By ashley hafer on Mar 7, 2008 9:44:42 AM
not everyone does follow religion and sexuality is a beautiful thing. Gays can be just as happy as heterosexuals. The only difference is that they like the same sex.
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religion
By Derek Post on Mar 5, 2008 7:29:16 PM
not everyone believes in the divine power of jesus. if you don't agree with this, maybe we shouldn't allow jewish people to get married... homosexual or not. (kidding)
its horrible how people get ostrasized, humiliated, and feel bad about themselves for being gay. i think sexuality is a wonderful thing, and when appropriately done, (like gay sexuality) it can make people very happy. it certainly does for me.
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Random though.
By Sarah G on Mar 3, 2008 1:16:18 PM
Ok, I know how I got to this site. I googled "Laws on gay marriage." So...how did all of the people who are against Same-Sex equality get here? Did you guys google that too or did you actually got to stateline.com and search for gay marrige? Either way, it's kinda pathetic to go out of your way just so you can piss people off. I hope none of you have kids because if this is how you spend your time then they are being seriously neglected.
Anyway...
I love you Raechel, but use correct grammer when you help me make fun of ignorant fools. :)
By the way, I would like to point out that I just told my girlfriend I love her and NO ONE'S COMPUTER EXPLODED. Kind of like how when two men or two women get married the world will not stop spinning.
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To: Nicole Watkins&Melissa Boyd
By courtney mcgowan on Mar 2, 2008 5:00:17 PM
--Okay,here we go.
Both of you are extreme hypocrites.
Nicole,
you say:
"A person probably mostly decides to be gay, because they're down on their luck and every one else is doing it."
Then you later say:
"If you've been abused by the member of the opposite sex, that doesn't mean you should categorize all of them as being bad. Make better choices!"
-You say not to categorize,&yet you categorize all gays as trying to fit in.wth?
--Next..
Melissa,
you state:
"God's word(the Bible) is clearly specific about this issue. Same Sex marriage is an abomination to God."
Yes, your right. In the bible,it does say this.. but in the old testament it also says that shaving,or cutting your hair is wrong.
It also says that incest is wrong,&yet, our leaders allow this over same-sex-marriage.
...I completely support gay marriage.
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to the last three
By Raech Miller on Feb 29, 2008 3:28:49 PM
ok...Sarah, first off, im in class laughing my ass off right now with my class and teacher looking at me! but that was funny! and the person who wrote that your a dumb ass, but ill get to that in a min... and second, you are correct about how it truly doesnt affect their lives!
now for Jenkins... ok, you seem to be either a hick from hell, or a redneck..so ill keep it simple for you... yes, a lot of things may say in God we trust, but you know what? there is also this thing called seperation between church and state! and not to mention that you can be christian and gay at the same time! i am! and i know many say it contridicts, however i think most people are scared and so they pick and choose what they feel to be worse in the bible! So the next thing you have to say, wrather it be a question or a comments or just something stupid like last time...remember that i did my homework, and i know my facts! I WILL BACK UP how i and several other people feel! so now you can get pissed and you can say what you want but i can almost promise you that iv heard it before, so say anything, but at the end of the day... we atleast know who we are and we are not alone and confused with no deffinate answer! you however do!
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To Ashley
By Sarah G on Feb 28, 2008 1:28:25 PM
I know! It really makes me question all of the "evolution" that has supposedly taken place over the years. It's bad when high school students are more mature and accepting than an adult. Furthermore, I would like to point out that according to a Harvard University study about 78% of homophobic men showed signs of being sexually aroused when shown gay porn. What's the matter Jenkins? Truth hurt?
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in response to sarah g....
By ashley hafer on Feb 27, 2008 8:48:59 AM
that was great!! i found that to be so hilarious...and i thought it was the free and BRAVE not free and straight...wth? why would you even say something like that i think its retarded in the first place hitler's rolling in his grave..and the dude cant even spell right.......we all need to show our gay pride!!
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In response to Thurgood Jenkins
By Sarah G on Feb 25, 2008 2:31:20 PM
This is what you wrote:
Hitler is rolling in his grave right now. what is this bullshit, them faggets have to many rights in this here country. this is the United States of America. The home of the free and straight. Our money says "In God we Trust," but now we are shitting all over god with this homoerectus bullshiit.
This is how it should be written:
Hitler is rolling in his grave right now. What is this bullshit? These faggots have too many rights in this country. This is the United States of America, the home of the free and straight. Our money says "In God we trust," but now we are shitting all over God with this homoerectus(?) bullshit. P.S. I'm a filthy, ignorant Nazi bastard. Please pay no mind to my grammically retarded and illogical rant on something that is none of my concern. I wish only to get attention and to make an ass of myself. P.P.S I was just burned by a homo.
:)
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It makes me sick...
By Sarah G on Feb 25, 2008 1:47:22 PM
to read the comments of the pathetic people who say that we should not be able to marry. Maybe the Bible does say it's a sin, but then again so is divorce and that's not stopping anyone. Not to mention the fact that laws are supposed to honor ALL religions. Homosexuals are praised in Buhddism and some African religions. But all of this is beside the main point which is why do you people care so much about what I do with the person I love? My marrying a woman will not affect your lives at all so why are you so concerned with it? If I go to hell for being a lesbian then that's between God and I. It is NONE of your concern and has NOTHING to do with you. It's plain and simple, if you don't approve of same sex marriage then don't have one.
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same sex marriage
By Jessica Bergstrom on Feb 25, 2008 12:32:23 PM
I think that "Gods Word" says a male sodomizes another male..SODOMIZED not HAD SEX WITH.. Sodomise is rape..something you do not like, and do not consent to..Rape. Sex is something you do because you love a person..
Oh and your joke..not funny. I have been lashed out at giving a girl a hug..They said "Adam and Eve one boy and one girl"..who knows if i am a lesbian or not..you sure don't..why lash out at me..
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religion? beastiality? problems much?
By ashley hafer on Feb 20, 2008 8:07:04 AM
if you're so concerned with religion did you ever stop to think about how many people dont really have a religion? Well granted everyone has a religion but still not many people ever go to church and learn about the bible..take me for example i dont go to church yes i believe in god but i dont follow anything in the bible..so you cant sit here and try to convince me same sex marriage is wrong according to the bible b/c honestly idc...i agree this country is free there are so many religions throughtout the us and every one has their own opinion. You may think its wrong but there are still those who think its right.. And marriage is the bringin together of two people that love each other dearly..weither or not they are the same sex...it doesnt matter...and honestly do you really think they would let you marry an animal? thats just rediculious even saying it........
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in response to Mandy
By amy larsen on Feb 19, 2008 3:55:30 AM
I love how you think the nest step after legalizing gay marriage would be to allow humans to marry their beastiality partners!!! You know you're right! If a dog can stand up in front of a room full of people and deliver his vows so they can all understand. Oh, and don't forget he would have to sign a marriage certificate. Then why shouldn't we allow a human to marry him! In case you missed it Mandy, that was sarcastic!!!!!!
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get a life!!
By sandy crux on Feb 18, 2008 11:50:46 AM
this is bs!! last time i remember there was a seperation of church and state and there was a good reason for it!! the u.s is the most diverse country in the world and its only obvious that we all have different religious belives! Not every one is christian! Why do ya care so much about what other people do with their life!! just let them be! this is a free country therefore everyone should be allowed to make their own personal decisions...stop trying to convert everyone to what you think is "right"! let america be free! get a life! p.s the bible isn't very reliable to all of those quoting it... i can find a quote on there to support whatever i want shit if they found it somewere in there that it was right to have slaves then i can find a quote that justifies murder or practically anytihing! stop trying to monipulate the bible! everyone intreprates the bible differently! the bible is not a reliable source!! sorry but true!!
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Its just not right.
By Mandy Yeatrakas on Feb 17, 2008 1:51:33 AM
Next we should allow the people that pracitce beastiality to marry their companions...right? I am not trying to compare gays and lesbians to animals, but same sex partners is just not how we were made. Men and women were not made to have same sex intercourse therefore they should not be given the right to have a same sex marriage. My belief is based on my religion, yes, but isnt marriage based on religion? Marriage was established so that God could recognize the union between a man and a woman. Gays and lesbians should be given limited rights but why would you want to have your "union" recognized by a God that believes it is a sin in the first place?
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BY THE WAY.
By ashley hafer on Feb 14, 2008 9:51:15 AM
The above comment was posted by Ashley's friend Megan. I forgot to mention that :)
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Most people make no sense.
By ashley hafer on Feb 14, 2008 9:49:06 AM
Saying that it is against your religion to condone homosexual behavior is not logical. It's against some religions to believe in more than one God, but other religions have their rights in the United States. America is "A Melting Pot" which means we mix many races, and cultures together. We accept EVERYONE. Maybe not individually, but our country does. This has NOTHING to do with religion. It's a personal choice. Who we marry should also have nothing to do with the law. Unless, of course you are under the age of 18, then obviously you wouldn't want your 13 yr old to marry a 40 yr old petifile. Legalizing gay marraige is like giving women the right to vote, and emancipating slaves. It's something that should be given to them, because women voting hasn't hurt this country, and freeing slaves has made this country more tolerable. Giving homosexuals their rights would only make this country better and stronger. Besides, we should be more focused on ending this war.
P.S. I'm also a freshman who is doing their report on rights for homosexuals. I feel strongly on this topic, mostly because I have many family and friends who are homosexual. I respect other opinions on this topic, and I hope everyone respects mine.
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come on now!
By ashley hafer on Feb 7, 2008 9:16:20 AM
Im a freshman in high school and my topic is same sex marriage.im not understanding why you people think its wrong!! I mean think about it gays are people they are just like you except the like the same gender.. If you are in love you want to marry the person you are in love with.am i wrong? i mean if youre in love youre gonna wanna marry that special someone why not let gays have this same freedom? They are in love and wanna spen the rest of their lives with that someone... And for those of you say that god created people to be straight and that its in the bible well honestly half our country doesnt beleive in god so you cant make that a valid argument...find better reasons to fight this..and gays will not harm our society there are so many out there its become acustom to know at least one gay or bisexual...so let them live a normal life like you people...
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No to the homo question!
By Thurgood Jenkins on Feb 6, 2008 2:07:55 PM
Hitler is rolling in his grave right now. what is this bullshit, them faggets have to many rights in this here country. this is the United States of America. The home of the free and straight. Our money says "In God we Trust," but now we are shitting all over god with this homoerectus bullshiit.
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Queer Marriage
By Ami Lorretta on Feb 4, 2008 7:43:40 PM
I believe queer marriage should be legal everywhere. I mean, if you think that QUEER MARRIAGE is bad- then you must think that inter racial marriage is bad too. (If you had lived at that time where THAT was the worst thing you could ever do. Christians are way too out there. I mean you all come here to America for "freedom of religion" but that was not true. Because if they did not follow you- we were the bad people. There is no pleasing you people. Everyone but you is in the wrong. I don't understand. Marriage is a sign of love. So much love that you want to be together forever. I don't see why you people, or any other person has the right to take that sign of deep love away from someone. People say that it is not morally right...to you- but i dont think anyone is holding a gun to your head saying you HAVE to marry the same gender person. Do u? It might not be for you, but it is for someone else. Everyone has their own path. Nobody is forcing you to walk it! Don't tell me queers cant procreate and that is why it is not ok. Becauseif procreation defined marriage or partnership a lot of straight people should not have that right to be married either. Love is love. Marriage is a legal right to EVERYBODY or NOBODY.
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I'm For It!!
By Kirjah Huff on Jan 26, 2008 11:06:10 AM
I'm proud to say that I support gay marriage. I have many friends that are gay and will one day want to get married. i just hope that by then this whole argument will be over with a great result!
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straight or gay
By Robin Daniel on Jan 24, 2008 12:18:41 PM
does it really even matter? im a junior in high school and yes i am straight. but im also writing a research paper suppoting gay rights. if anyone has any statistics or info on gay laws that i could put in here, then just send them to me. i feel like, no one really has the right to judge anyone. so what if it says something in the bible. lyings a sin too, and everyone does that. you dont see people making stupid laws against liers. people just need to mind their own business. and to those people that made all those rude comments in december. seriously, talking about right and wrong, how does god feel about the way ya'll treat your neighbors. probly not that great. discrimination against gays is seriously getting a little out of hand.
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Honestly?
By Hannah Oak on Jan 20, 2008 1:53:17 PM
I am a freshman in highschool, and i am writing a paper. My paper supports gay marriage and so do i.
You people against it need to realize that no matter what people will be gay!
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to amanda
By reyna pearce on Jan 16, 2008 4:44:42 PM
hey whats up yall'
what are you doin
im sitting next to amanda mcclough
and i really have to pee.
aand omg... i just splurted
hey howd you guys find this site anyway
losers......
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GAY ISSUES!
By amanda mcclough on Jan 16, 2008 4:31:33 PM
i am a sophomore in high school and i am not gay!
i just wanna say. that we as americans should be able to express ourselves without having to feel discriminated
i know we will anyways
yyou say its a free country but yet people arent allowed to express the way they feel?
and using the words queer and faggot are so hurtful what is the point!
your all stuoid anf have nothing better to do with your lifes!
there are greater issues going on in the world!
like poverty and crime
what other people are doing with there life is not our concern.
were focussing to much og this subject
we need to actually put more tiime in improving our country
noit critisizing it!
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Leviticus 18:22
By Virginia Seganos on Dec 26, 2007 9:58:51 PM
In response to a previous comment and being a gay woman, i completely agree. Leviticus 18:22 states "Do not lie with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable". I have to say I very much agree. I also believe people should be aloud to whatever makes them happy.
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WHY CAN GAY PEOPLE NOT MARRY
By CHAD STOKELY on Dec 17, 2007 2:58:35 PM
I AM IN A GAY RELATIONSHIP AND LIVE IN THE STATE OF TN. AND FEEL THAT IT DOES NOT MATTER WHO YOU LOVE AS LONG AS YOU FEEL IN YOUR HEART THEY ARE RIGHT FOR YOU WHY SHOULD YOU BE STOPPED FROM MAKING THAT BOND WITH SOMEONE. BECAUSE THERE IS SEVERAL STRAIGHT COUPLES THAT CONTINUE TO REMARRY OVER AND OVER AGAIN WE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO FREELY SHOW OUR LOVE TO ANY ONE AND BE TREATED THE SAME.......
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are you guys out of your minds???
By jon grifin on Dec 13, 2007 1:43:49 AM
well first of all all u straights sure have alot of opinions. let me ask you this?miss know it all about diseases.I am soooo sick of you self rightous small town george bush loving people!!!! this country is going to pieces and all you can think of is how u want to bann gay marrage.do you realise that there are woman in our country from russia trying to marry american men?just so they can get into this country?/and pay big bucks i know cause i work with one!!Im trying to get out of this countrymaybe canada!! i am born and raised in america and I think that most of you complainers probably wernt.you drive your earth destroying hummers thinking your hotshots !!and your gonna judge us. we do YOUR NAILS AND HAIR we are your servers.WE HELP YOU PICK OUT YOUR CLOTHES. but dont worry because IM YOUR NURSE ILL SEE YOU IN THE NURSING HOME!!!!!!!
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Gay Marriage!
By Katie Schug on Dec 12, 2007 11:28:03 PM
I'm an 18 year old straight senior from an Iowa high school. I'm currently writing a paper for my college prep class and ran across this website. After reading some of the comments, I'm a little upset! First of all, I believe that people are gay by birth, not by choice. If it really were a choice, do you really think people would choose to be gay if they knew they were going to have to endure ridicule from their friends, family, society, and lastly, people on this website? I don't think so. Second of all, what are they hurting you? They are human beings trying to live out their life, just as you and I. Maybe they think that being straight is weird; what if the tables turned and they started bashing straights? That would suck. I feel bad for the people out there that are too immature to be open to other people's beliefs and preferences - grow up.
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I Hate
By Carson Wangee on Dec 12, 2007 5:17:37 PM
First of all I'm not going to bring God into this becouse you sesitive gays would probobly cry about it. Why do you cry so much when people make fun of you or kkick your A, I mean thats what you quers are signing up for when you make a choice to be gay. thats right I said choice, your not born gay it is a choice you make at one point in your life. don't give me any X, Y cromozone crap. I hope all you gays can sit down on your sore buts long enough to read this. Just for the record I ecspecially hate Native American Gays.
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~~~Dont hate~~~
By Jasmine Wade on Dec 12, 2007 2:11:49 PM
i am a student that is a senior in high school and i am gay. there are many student here that are gay also. yes, others have the right to say they dont like it but your opinion doesn't matter. i hate the fact the people that dont like gay people say that in so many words that we dont believe in God.... when that is not even that fact. most gay people do attend church and practice a religen. i just feel that hateful stright people need to think about what they say and put theirself in our shoes. gays want to be loved to just like everyone else.
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Just shut up
By Mike Jakele on Dec 11, 2007 5:17:53 PM
I don't care if you are all gay, but stop whining like a bunch of little girls about your little rights. as far as i'm concerned you can all move to amsterdam and stop giving this great country of america a bad name you quers!
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Marriage
By amy larsen on Dec 9, 2007 4:02:03 AM
I have been with my partner for eight years. I love her! We live in Utah. A state completely governed by a christian religion. Most of my family believe in this religion. We have stood up for our relationship from day one. My family has come to realize that it's not all about religion. It's about choices. They taught me their religion. I choose not to believe it. They choose to love me and my partner regardless of their beliefs. Most religions practice unconditional love! I find it hypocritical when religious people can say some of the nastiest things about people who are homosexual. LOVE is LOVE! I hope everyone can find someone they love and experience the happiness that somes with it.
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As a student
By Asia Warren on Dec 5, 2007 10:36:05 AM
As a junior in high school, I feel uncomfortable at times being around gays and I just cant help it. It's not my fault if they make me feel that way. I think they are nice people but I was raised in a christian church and being GAY was never even a subject until anout a year ago. It's like a social trend, skinny jeans are in now but will get old sooner sooner or later and everyone will get tired of them. I think that you should be happy that you dont have to hide yoursel from the public anymore. If you are so against what the bible saids, why even get married? Just be happy your together!!!!
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Reality Check
By Nioka Grubenhoff on Dec 4, 2007 12:10:53 AM
Have all of you people forgotten what life is all about, because the last time I remembered my life is about finding the one I love and growing old with them! Those of you talking about SEXUALLY transmitted diseases need to remember that they are called sexually transmitted diseases and not homosexually transmitted diseases. Anyone having sex can get these diseases not a specific person.
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Your Approval is neither Required nor Desired!!!!!!!
By Randy George on Dec 3, 2007 1:34:15 PM
I think this is a stupid topic for straight people to have any comment in. See now what if us Gay,bi,lesbian people banned you straight people from leaving comments on anything that's got to do with gay issues.Wouldn't you feel singled out. and if not and it doesn't matter, then why are you taking the time out of your so called perfect normal life to leave comment's about other people that you don't like or that you don't approve of. that is just stupid if you think about it. Why does it even matter to you straight people anyways. And plus the bible was de-worded and was wrote over many times. And plus where is the bible from...the OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD.Do you even know if there is a heaven or hell. Think of the reality of how you sound when you are talking about a place that noone knows is real or not. When you die you die, there is NO AFTERLIFE. Your body rots in a box and you stay there. Your soul does not go no where. You just rot and get old and sick and ugly and turn to bones. If it's our lifes let us live it. Noone is forcing you to like it, it's just something that we feel is right. It's not our fault we were BORN like this. ohhh yeah....and another thing....your not TURNED gay, your BORN gay it's a misbalance in your brain and your "x" and "y" cromozones get more then is needed. It's scientifically proven. Because if you think that we are turned gay, then you don't pay attention. Being gay is something you cant just turn on and turn off.I hate when people try to say that "ohh I was bi or gay" no.....it's not like that.Either your gay or straight!! There is no such thing as "PERFECT". And if you people do believe in what the bible says then we would have read the part where it says "everyone was created equal"....right?? yeah and then there was the saying that God created everyone different and special in HIS OWN EYES!!....see now what kind of b.s is that. You people talk about the bible like it's the greatest thing.When if fact it's a book full of lies and deception.You people are paying to freaking close to the the words and it's that book that's turning it around. Half of that book may sound good then the other half makes it sound bad and wrong when in fact it's not. I think the bible should just be burned and we should believe in something else. And not everyone Believes in the same thing. There are different races, most white people believe in christianity, then you got the African American's who also belive in god. Then you got the Native American..(like me)....who don't belive in the bible ....we got our own beliefs, we don't judge people cause the way they are born.Some tribes look at gay people as a strong and a good person because they can take on the traits of both sexes. that is why some tribes look at gay people as good people. We believe in a god but not your kind of god. See not everyone is the same. Think about it. And this is coming from a 18 year old Bisexual Native American in Wapato, Washington state. And if you dis-agree you can go ahead everyone is giving the right to have their own opinions.
But either way Gay couples are going to get together. NO MATTER WHAT YOU NORMAL PEOPLE SAY!! HAHA because you Approval is neither Required nor Desired!!
~*~SmEaGoL~*~
aka
Randy George
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Your Approval is neither Required nor Desired!!!!!!!
By Randy George on Dec 3, 2007 1:23:28 PM
I think this is a stupid topic for straight people to have any comment in. See now what if us Gay,bi,lesbian people banned you straight people from leaving comments on anything that's got to do with gay issues. Why does it even matter to you straight people anyways. And plus the bible was de-worded and was wrote over many times. And plus where is the bible from...the OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD.Do you even know if there is a heaven or hell. Think of the reality of how you sound when you are talking about a place that noone knows is real or not. When you die you die, there is NO AFTERLIFE. Your body rots in a box and you stay there. Your soul does not go noone where. You just rot and get old and sick and ugly and turn to bones. If it's our lifes let us live it. Noone is forcing you to like it, it's just something that we feel is right. It's not our fault we were BORN like this. ohhh yeah....and another thing....your not TURNED gay, your BORN gay it's a misbalance in your brain and your "x" and "y" cromozones get more then is needed. It's scientifically proven. Because if you think that we are turned gay, then you don't pay attention. Being gay is something you cant just turn on and turn off.I hate when people try to say that "ohh I was bi or gay" no.....it's not like that.Either your gay or straight!! There is no such thing as "PERFECT". And if you people do believe in what the bible says then we would have read the part where it says "everyone was created equal"....right?? yeah and then there was the saying that God created everyone different and special in HIS OWN EYES!!....see now what kind of b.s is that. You people talk about the bible like it's the greatest thing.When if fact it's a book full of lies and deception.You people are paying to freaking close the the words and it's that book that's turning it around. Half of that book may sound good then the other half makes it sound good. I think the bible should just be burned and we should believe in something else. And not everyone Believes in the same thing. There are different races, most white people believe in christianity, then you got the African American's who also belive in god. Then you got the Native American..(like me)....who don't belive in the bible ....we got our own beliefs, we don't judge people cause the way they are born. We believe in a god but not your kind of god. See not everyone is the same. Think about it. And this is coming from a 18 year old Bisexual Native American in Wapato, Washington state. And if you dis-agree you can go ahead everyone is giving the right to have their own opinions.
But either way Gay couples are going to get together. NO MATTER WHAT YOU NORMAL PEOPLE SAY!! HAHA because you Approval is neither Required nor Desired!!
~*~SmEaGoL~*~
aka
Randy George
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keep it banned
By aaron davis on Dec 2, 2007 6:26:29 PM
now im a christian and i believe in God and all but i aint gonna be one of those people that say it should be legal cuz its a sin. theres plently of stuff thats legal even tho its a sin. and i cant say i have never sinned cuz i have. but in my opinion it is totally and completely wrong and is a sin in Gods eyes. i think it should stay banned and if it is legalized be called something else cuz last i checked the definition of marriage says a bond between men and women not women and women or guys and guys.
and for those who dont believe in the Bible. think about it. all other religions have massive flaws. you cant twist what the Bible says into your own word to make it false. you cant judge if its real or not by the corrupt people that teach it. and you cannot convince me that it was just a miracle that all these people wrote about a guy that had the same name and wrote about what he did for us when they never knew each other or lived at the same point in time. ya'll can continue to believe in people that made up a false religion and then died. but i'm gonna believe in the 1 real religion and follow Jesus sense ya know he died die on the cross for our sins and come back to live ya know.
when ya'll can show me some1 that has died and come back to life that Jesus didnt raise from the dead i'll think about changing my believes.
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i stick with these words
By lottie Thumbsburg on Nov 29, 2007 11:39:55 PM
i believe in god as somebody who would be accepting, someone who will love you for whoever you are, and not deny that love just because of the gender you choose to go with. same-sex marriages are fine, and i stick with those words.
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free country
By lottie Thumbsburg on Nov 29, 2007 11:31:37 PM
same-sex marriages should be legal in EVERY state! We are in America- land of the free, who's to say it's free when we can't even get married to the sex that we want in any state!
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gay marriage.
By Ryan S. on Nov 16, 2007 2:33:09 PM
I believe that gay marriage should be legal simply because every single argument I've ever heard against gay marriage has to do with ethical or religious reasons. This is supposed to be a free country where you can believe what you want and it isn't based on religion. Everyone should be able to choose whom they marry. You can't choose who you love.
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A sin is a sin
By Daniela Melendez on Nov 13, 2007 10:42:56 PM
Yes, God created Adam & Eve, man & women he also created sin homosexuality is just as much of a sin as pre-marital sex. God also forgives us all for our sins. He also created everyone to be equal. HIV/AIDs & STDs are spread by man to woman man to man, and woman to woman. All sins are equal so where are we as society to judge,only god has that right. Doesn't everyone have the right to be happy someone cant change the feelings they have. How does who someone marries effect other peoples life. Let them be we allow people to marry murders, rapest,etc.
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gay marraige
By becca ryan on Nov 4, 2007 4:21:46 PM
Laws should not be passed based on religious veiwpoint.... seperation of church and state, duh. I dont think anybody should be denied the basic right to marraige, it doesnt harm anyone if two men or two women get married. This is not the feudal ages anymore! people need to be more accepting.
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gay
By candice moore on Nov 2, 2007 2:27:15 PM
As I read some of the posted comments it shocked me to see that people really believe God is ok with Homosexaulity.God is not for gays and lesbians. it is a sin.of course he created you and me but there is no evil associated with God .he didnt create gays and lesbians..homosexuality is an choice you can't be born gay!!! in the bible God destroyed an town because of their being gay. God grants each and everyone of us FREE WILL which means you decide if you want to live a life pleasing or unpleasing to God. So therefore homosexuality is a sin ,you can ask God to deliever you from the sin. The only prayer God can hear from a sinner is a prayer of repentence. Everyone should read the bible ,it gives a clear asnswer on what God's views are on homosexualality especially if you are one claming to be a christian. but for those who dont know christ ,all you have to do is repent to God,ask him to forgive you of your sins and deliever you from them. He's able!!!!
get right or get lefted,because HE'S coming back!!!!
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WTF
By ash brown on Nov 2, 2007 9:40:59 AM
alright, I'm getting pretty sick and tired of this whole religious debate. let's put it to rest with something that everyone can agree on. fact. i did some research and found that not only is the "word of god" horribly corrupted, but if you insist on taking it at face value then please, research your belief.
the Hebrew word for abomination has more than one meaning
1. concerning food
2 concerning worshipping other gods
3. a sin
now, if being homosexual was "a sin" #3 would have been used, but instead #2 was. that and coupled with the fact that a cult was whoring off male prostitutes to other men at the time makes me think that THIS is what they were talking about.
http://www.reluctantjourney.co.uk/
also did you know that the first anti gay law (loooong ago) was made during a population crisis. this was only to help boost the population.
and again, if state and religion are supposed to be separate, then separate them. believe me we have no population crisis here. make laws to help the people and protect them from harm but allow them their religious and personal freedoms and let those with religion live in dictation to their own morals. i myself am christian, but would never think to push my moral beliefs on my muslim or athiest friends.
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GIVE US RIGHTS!
By Crystal Franklin on Nov 1, 2007 8:13:49 PM
I don't understand what the big deal is... I just want the same rights as everyone else out there... Everyone here is trying to force the "bible" down my throat but the last time I checked I was free to pick which religion I wanted to accept in my life... What have I done to anyone to deserve not to have the same rights?!?!?!?!?!
Besides that the straight people at 3 out of 5 marriages end in divorce so whats the big deal with letting us have a shot at it??? We can't do any worse then any of you!
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Gay marrige is right
By lilly longs on Nov 1, 2007 2:24:06 PM
If you love sombody u need to love them! it shouldent matter what you do behinde closed doors!!!!!
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wow.
By K Dylan on Oct 31, 2007 2:09:23 PM
"Not only are same -sex marriages morally corrupt, they're part of the reason the growth of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases are rapidly increasing across the United States."
You are an idiot. AIDS and STDS can be spread by anyone, not just those who are gay. Straight or gay, you can get AIDS or an STD...since when the sexual preferece of someone matter when it comes to diseases? That's like saying only gay people can get cancer or only straight people can get the flu.
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Gods View and WHAT OUR VIEW SHOULD BE
By Michael Robbins on Oct 30, 2007 7:08:43 PM
Last time i checked i was taught as a little child and by multiple Men of God the He loves all and that He will love you for WHO YOU ARE AND NOT FOR WHAT YOU DO!!! If people think that you CHOOSE to be gay then that is just another stereotype...we are born gay and cannot be reprogrammed as robots for people are people and we have emotions, feelings, things to do and places to be just like any other heterosexual person on this earth. God does not have anything to do with giving us the rights we have on this Earth because "We the People" need to choose for ourselves what we need to give one another. God does not have any influance 'unfortunatly' in what laws we pass and what we do when we deal with other people. I may be 18 y/o and you might think i am young and nieve but i have been beaten, my eyes swollen shut with blood everywhere and almost killed because i am gay and i know what i am talking about. Just dont bring Leviticus into this because if you look closly you will find that he said, "You shall not lie with a man as a woman for it is an abomination" but He states later that He loves all for WHO THEY ARE and not what they do if i may stress that again.....
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Gay Rights
By Michael Robbins on Oct 30, 2007 6:37:02 PM
I am Currently a GAY student age 18 and why is there a problem giving us the same rights as heterosexual people? Last time I checked I am a human being too...or has the classification changed because i am gay? I dont think so... Just because there are people who are Gay or Lesbian doesn't mean that people should deny other people their rights when we are people as well. In the Constitution and the Declaration of Independance it says that all peoples rights within the Union is protected equally under the law. If we dont have the same rights then how are we supposed to get equal protection under the law?
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love is love
By April Lange on Oct 30, 2007 1:10:55 PM
Marriage should be legalized for same-sex couples, they want to take God out of the constitution, schools and everything else, but when it comes to marriage, all of a sudden they want to bring God back into it? Where is it fair? Marriage is about love, not about what sex u are, everyone should have the same rights, if thats the case, then you should ban people of different races or religions from getting married also! Its getting ridiculous, its not hurting anyone for two people in love to get married, whether same sex or not!
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Why Not?
By Richard England on Oct 22, 2007 11:33:29 PM
Im a 22 y/o gay male been with my partner for over 2 years we are very happy.... of course we have our ups and downs just like any straight couple.... I hate it when people say "o u just want to be that way"... you think knowing that we may never be allowed to get married... or that we cant have the same rights as a sraight married couple... if somthing were to happen to me, I would want the person I love and have shared so much with to be able to have a say so in medical and legal issues.... just as a married couple would who has shared so much... yea its only been 2 years for us NOW but what about 20 years down the road.... love is love it means as much or little as you want it to...I just wish that people would look at it as more that just being gay... this is human rights.. the right to equality.. we cant change it... can u change your skin color or your sexual preference... all I hope is some day we can have equality..... and maybe get married :) if we want....
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Gay Marriage
By Chris Garner on Aug 31, 2007 9:41:35 PM
My wife and I are nurses in our late fifties and early sixties. We have been together for 11 years. MY wife can no longer work, she has a chronic degenerative illness.
I would like very much to have insurance coverage for her from my employer, but we are not a legal couple, not a domestic partnership, when she dies or when I die we may not be able to inherit, be buried in together, leave "our" estate to "our" children.
How odd. How wrong.
I hope each and every one of you who are so viciously and stupidly opposed to our union comes helpless and sick into my hands, under my care, or some other non person's care, and realize just how very sick you are.
I am just a little angry, and a little afraid, and more than a little desperate and disappointed in this country it's small and silly people.
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Gay Marriage
By Eileen Brennan on Jul 29, 2007 12:33:30 PM
I believe two people that are in love should have the same rights as any other person that wants to solidify their relationship be it through marriage or a civil union. Too much emphasis is being placed on whats right or wrong. Love is love and commitment means many things to many people. People are too quick to catorgize and cast stones, imagine one you your family members fighting the fight to have their partnership legalized. You would give all you have to fight to protect their thoughts and ideas. I would fight to my last breath to protect my loved ones and help fight for what they believe is right for them. Gays are NOT freaks they are normal functioning human beings with feelings that have morals, beliefs and some have some damn good jobs that provide to the benefit of every community. Lets stop judging and catagorizing people and let us live our lives. If its not bothering you leave it alone. Government needs to lighten up and realize the many contributions millions of gay people are doing for everyone everywhere in every day life. You need to legalize gay marriage and equal rights for everyone.
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THIS IS A RESPONSE TO ALL OF THIS FROM A FRIEND OF MINE
By Colton Lichty on Jul 18, 2007 10:39:51 PM
"see...that's what makes me mad...when people say the whole, "marriage is the sacred union between a man and a woman." They all focus on the man vs. woman part, but never acknowledge the sacred union....because heaven forbid that Brittney Spear's 55 hour marriage is more sacred compared to a male couple who have been together for 20+ years."
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Gay marriage
By Christen Murphy on Jun 28, 2007 7:09:00 PM
God accepts everyone...all sinners...even murderers can ask for forgivness and get into heaven according to the bible...so why not homosexuals...let everyone in america who pays bills, gives to the economy, and pays taxes be happy...life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness is something that EVERYONE deserves! If, of course, you are a citizen...and also remember separation of church and state...everyone seems to forget that in the huge confusion of this issue...i don't understand that...state law should have NOTHING to do with religion, neither should federal law...because guess what? THAT IS THE LAW!
kay, im done ranting now...i feel better =)
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GAY MARRIAGE
By Vito DiLillo on Jun 10, 2007 4:07:20 PM
My lover Christopher and I have been together for 2 years. He is my life. This year we will be married come hell or high water. We plan on adopting 2 girls and making a home in SF California. I DARE anyone to stop us. I am 50 and he 32. So all you bashers come to my house and I have a big suprise for you!!!!
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LEGALIZE IT!!!
By Daisy Vasquez on Jun 5, 2007 11:30:45 AM
Hi my name is Daisy and I have been with my girlfriend for 19 months already. I love her til death she is my everything. People should just leave the bible and "God" out of this because everyone has committed atleast one sin. But anyways I dont need a paper saying that I've beeen married with the person I love because its only a piece of paper and words that a man has made up. wether they legalize it or not, we will continue being gay and having relationships with people we fall in love. THEY CAN'T STOP THAT!!!
ONLY GOD COULD JUDGE ME!!!!!!!!
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Yes to Same Sex Marrage
By Jacqui Bell on Jun 1, 2007 11:45:30 AM
If you don't think it's right then don't marry someone of the same sex! IT'S THAT SIMPLE!
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gay marriage
By vanessa gonzalez on May 30, 2007 11:22:57 PM
if gay marriage is a abomination to God let God take care of it. we aren't God. Everyone is responsible for their decisions and its consequence. If they decide to sin against God thats their problem. So just let them get married.
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Another Opinion
By Kimber Dadurian on May 19, 2007 12:40:05 AM
For those who are Christians or say that same sex marriages are wrong because the "bible says so" I would like to ask you something, How do you know that the bible is 100% true. You beleive in the bible on pure faith. Why do compare it as a law. I could take any book and make it my faith. I am for the rights of same sex marriages. There will be a day where the entire US will recognize them as marriages and not just unions. There was a time when people owned slaves and women were viewed as property. They may have fought for years but in the end did they not achieve their goals. Laws will be made but in time they will crumble and those who choose to have the same sex partners shall rejoice! It is only a matter of waiting and patience before all marriages will be equal.
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LEGALIZE IT
By michael coons on May 16, 2007 6:07:28 PM
I'm so fed up with the choice factor its not a choice im gay and i didnt wake up one morning and say o i want to be gay! I was born this way and in the bible doesnt it say god loves everybody well then whats wrong with homosexuals! you can't help who you fall in love with. I may only be 16 years old but i know i didnt choose to be this way! People get married anyway regardless of the law and they should just open their eyes and relize that this is not a wrong thing it is descrimination! SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE
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GAY MARRIAGE!!!!!!!
By teniel johnson on May 9, 2007 2:12:10 PM
That qoute that your friend has said before is so very old, and i would say unreasonable... God may have made Adam and Eve, but he also made every other person on this earth, He planned our lives out and if He didnt want us to be gay then He would not have made us this way!i also believe that He loves everyone, not just people who force their beliefs on others, i say let us marry who we want to marry, love is love, not gender!!!!!!!!
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gay marriage laws
By Jolene Mavis on May 1, 2007 3:59:05 PM
Gay marriage should be aloud in almost everystate.
Gays and lesibians everywhere are gods creation. God made man,both gay and straight just as god made women both lesibian and straight. God wouldnt have made gays and lesbians if he didnt want them here. God loves everyone even if they love the same sex they are.
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Read your Verses closer!
By J D on May 1, 2007 12:49:55 AM
I just love how everyone loves to always quote Liviticus in the bible. If some people would acually read the bible, and stop making adam and steve jokes, they could see that leviticus is outdated. In the same paragraph which everyone loves to quote abominations verse 22, they will read that it also says it is an abomination to plant more than one type of seed in a farmers field, to eat ANYTHING from the sea, etc... so everyone who eats fish is an abomination as well acording to Liviticus.
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Gay Marriage.....
By Jaime Delaney on Apr 27, 2007 10:42:34 AM
My name is Jaime and I have been in a same-sex relationship with Darrell for 6 yrs. Darrell had a son with his ex-wife, who died of Cancer. I have been raising my step-son for 6 years. Who is the one to tell my son that if his father were to die, he would have to move away from the security and family that he now has. Losing all of his parents?? How shameful of anyone to tell me that my son has to suffer because of your insecurities and biotry. Not all gay prefer "Marriage" because quite honestly it is the biggest joke in this country. The "Sanctity of Marriage" today, is violated on by divorce constantly. The average "Marriage" lasts 5 years in this country. "Man shall not lie with man, for it is an abomination to the Lord"? how about "Thou shalt not commit adultery"? I am happy with my partner. We are in this for life. I adore my step-son. His face lights my soul. He is a very well adjusted 12 1/2 year old making all a's and b's in school, with several little girls wanting to "go out with him". So don't tell me I am corrupting him. Neither you nor your "God" can judge me for loving a man. Isn't God Love? I don't want a marriage but if that is the label that you need, so be it! Grow Up! Get a Life, and Live and let live.
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Separation of Church and State decides this issue.
By Chris Gerstle on Apr 25, 2007 10:27:47 AM
In my mind, separation of church and state means keep religion out of politics. If you do that, gay marriage clearly is legal. Plus, scientific studies show that people can't choose to be heterasexual or homosexual. Banning someone from a right because of something they have no control over is nothing more than discrimination.
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**** SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE ****
By Stephan B on Apr 24, 2007 3:54:02 AM
Since our country is at war we should be focused on the bigger issues such at making sure that our wounded soilders are taken care of , that we take care of our veterans, that we make sure that our elderly are taking care and that they get the medication they need and that we ensure the safety of our children instead of making gay marriage a major issue. The U.S is supposed to be a free country but, I guess we are not so free after all if we can not marry the person that we love, weather that person is of the opposite sex or not. If we pay taxes just like a straight person does then we as gays should also have the right to marry and qualify for the same benefits as the straight folks do. The lady that made the comment that the cases of aids virus in the gay community is rising is WRONG. The cases of aids virus is spreading more in the heterosexual community due to so called "straight married men" steppin out on their wives and having sexual encounters with other men. If gays and lesbians can fight in wars and fight for the freedom of our country then we should be able to marry anybody that we love and not have our government tell us who we can marry.
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On the subject of gay marriage.
By JoVonne Sweany on Apr 8, 2007 9:45:14 PM
Lets just start off with, I respect every single person tough enough to stand up for the people they love. I know that being different in this society draws a finger and I have the upmost respect for you.
Gay marriage is a lifestyle people may choose to have or may not choose to have, it just comes natural. It is not people's place to judge one another, and to all you people quoting and referencing the bible, i believe something along those lines is in there. Take it to heart. There's only one man who has that power and He is the big man upstairs. This is a "free country", lets start showing it. If that is truely were someones heart is, then let them be. our country has MUCH bigger things to worry about than some man or woman wanting to share their life with another man or woman. Come on people, open your eyes to the real world and get off your pedistals. This country is full of diversity and we as citizens have to be more open-minded and stop living in the past centuries. Our world and our people are changing, what better way to live than to respect other's decisions and accept it.
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For all of those throwing the Bible into this
By Velisa Norton on Mar 20, 2007 12:44:21 AM
You can't go completely by the Bible...how do we know what God told man to write? It's supposed to be God-inspired, but the Bible has man interpretations. We don't even know what is right anymore. We only know what MAN has told us. And again..what about the separation of church and state? It is impossible to separate church and state when our laws were based on our religious forefathers...Times have changed..some laws are old. It is time for us to stand together and get them changed. It was also thought, not so many years ago, that it was a sin for interracial marriages to happen. Yet is it widely acccepted now. How is this different? People swore that was in the Bible too..but it was shot down eventually. The US as a society does not like anything out of the normal. But what is normal? I don't mind it not being called a marriage. I don't mind it being called a Civil Union..or just give me a piece of paper let me sign it and give me and my partner the rights as a same-sex couple. It is just going to take more of us to actually do something about this..we have to be louder..and we have to stop hiding!
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Separation
By Drew Pierce on Mar 19, 2007 1:25:43 PM
The United States has this thing that we call "Separation of Church and State." There is more than one religion in this country, that's one reason we call it a MELTING POT. The United States is a so-called "free country," well if so then let homosexual couples marry. Love is Love. If a homosexual couple gets married, how in the world is that hurting anyone else? IT ISN'T. If you don't want to see it then don't look. It's no one else's business anyways about what they do, people should be more concerned with their own lives. Make sure your own marriage is ok before you go trying to tell people who they can and can not marry.
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I support gay marriage.....
By Tina Lynn on Mar 13, 2007 3:20:03 AM
I am an Alabamian female who you would consider a 'straight' female. I have been around the glbt community for a long time, and within the last year, have really come to know a lot of the people in the gay community in my home town. One of my best friends is a gay male ... I cannot imagine having a better friend ... I now work at a gay club and spend every weekend within this community. There is such a bond with them that you do not see in the straight community. I admire many of them for the trials and conflicts they have had to overcome in their lives because they were considered 'immoral'. I do not judge race, religion, gender, etc. I believe God created us all the way we are ... I love ALL people... I have friends of different colors and religions and sexual preferances... the hatred of the world cannot end until we stop hating those around us.... Stop stereotyping people and let them live their lives and you live yours...
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A Straight Man's Response
By Daniel Dick on Mar 3, 2007 4:02:27 PM
I am pretty moderate when it comes to most things and the issue of same sex marriage does not seem to strike me as some earth shattering catastrophe. It is not like if homosexuals are allowed to marry, the sun will explode. It will merely mean that two, consenting adults will live together. That seems reasonable to me. They are not asking for your religious beliefs to change, they simply want the 1,138 federal rights, responsibilities, and benefits that our Nation grants to married couples. You can still believe what you want. That is what our Nation is about, offering the freedom of Religion, and not being forced into one that you do not believe in. While the Bible does say homosexuality is a sin, it also states that if a woman marries and is not a virgin, she could legally be stoned! Another interesting fact about America is that not everyone is a Christian. I am one, and even I do not believe that homosexuality is a sin. I believe that God is a forgiving and tolerant God. He would not condemn love. I DO remember Jesus saying "He who is without sin cast the first stone." I do not believe anyone ALIVE can make that claim. If same sex marriage is as truly evil as you believe it is, then let God judge people. I do not believe you have the qualifications.
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Same sex marriage make it LEGAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Afsanah Cunningham on Feb 24, 2007 12:16:24 AM
My name is Mickey and my partners name is Jerzee. We have been together for 10mths. I love her and we look forward to getting married. There is no reason why same sex marriage should not be allowed. Just because you have a different sexual preference doesn't mean you should be treated different. I put my pants on one leg at a time like everyone else. I wear a bra like most weomen should. I pay taxes as well. She is the love of my life I wouldnt have it any other way. There is many men and women who are on the downlow about their lifestyle we are open and honest. Respect us and treat us like you want to be treated.
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Same Sex Marriage
By Meghean Rosenbach on Feb 23, 2007 12:26:19 AM
This is response to Nicole who posted something back in Jan. My partner and I have been in a life partnership marriage for almost six months and we had the support of most of our family. I can respect others opinions and all but I do have to remind you of something Nicole. If God can sit down with the Gypsies and the Whores and have a meal with them and love them and accept them as his children then he can sit down with the homosexual community and accept us and love us for who we are. He made us all very diffrent and that is what makes of all of amazing creatures of his creation. Yes he did make Adam and Eve, and I love that but if you look at the "hertosexual" marriages you will see that there are more families spliting up than in a homosexual marriage (wheather its leagal or not people are still getting married gay or not), and also another while I am on my soap box, what is the issue of gay couples having children. I don't see what the problem is, hell if a crack head woman and her drug dealing husband can a few hundred then I think that gay couples can have a couple of kids too. well there's my peace I look at this way religion and law are suppose to be seperate and thats the way it should stay I am not saying you have to accept it, but that doesn't mean that you can't turn your head. Because people do that everyday when it comes to the war, drugs, rape, murder, and much and this is something that shouldn't become an overwhelming thing, just pass law that gives everyone the same rights we pay taxes we vote, and we can be in the armed forces so why can't we all have the same rights.
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discrimination
By Heather Powell on Feb 19, 2007 5:39:54 PM
For a country who prides itself on being welcoming, open, free, and accepting of all, we seem to discriminate a lot. There is a lot of hate against many groups in this nation.
1. I do not think that gays should be allowed to marry because of the sanctity of the word "marriage". The meaning goes back very far and it is set aside for man and woman.
2. I think that homosexuals should be able to enter civil unions and given the same benefits as a married couple.
It is not our right to judge whether it is right or wrong for someone to be gay. That is GOD's JOB not ours. So everyone on here taht says that gays are bad for it and that they have no right getting married -- that is not YOUR right to say that and to judge them. We are the land of the free. If youa re gay and you want to enter a civil union with your loved one, you have the right to do so as far as I'm concerned. I leave the judging up to God, and I dont' think that gays should be oppressed because they choose to be with someone of the same sex. Whatever happened to everything this country stands for?
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Don't Fall to the Choice
By Christopher McGraw on Feb 14, 2007 3:11:55 PM
I realize that many gays and lesbians say that it's who they are, and that it's part of them. That's how they were made, etc. I'm here to testify that it's a choice! You choose to live that way. You have the choice to live a moral life and do the right thing. I'm not going to slam it either way. I fight for the right to make the choices. However, I know that in the end, our Heavenly Father will judge with righteousness over all his children, and those who chose wrong will not be able to spend eternity with him. Instead, they will spend an eternity suffering for the choice they made in life.
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correcting misinformation!!!!!!
By Lakeshia King on Feb 2, 2007 12:26:40 AM
I saw a comment on the wall that was inaccurate. The fact is that HIV/AIDs, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, and several other diseases are more prevalent among men having sex with men. If you do not believe that, check some of the AMA (American Medical Association) and APA (American Psychiatric Association) findings. I do not however condemn gay people. I am a Christian and I refuse to 'cast the first stone.' Just wanted to present the facts.
Good Day
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Gay Marriage ban=descrimination!
By Ben Murray on Feb 1, 2007 10:03:27 PM
There are over 1000 benefits granted, by the government, to gay people. Now, it doesn't matter if you are for or against gay people...does it not stand to reason that in a country, not ruled by religion, that there should be a way to extend EQUALITY to everyone? withholding these benefits is discrimination. What ever happened to "All men are created equal"
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Legalize it.
By Dezy Carrillo on Jan 29, 2007 1:36:48 PM
"Each individual's journey through life is unique. Some will make this journey alone, others in loving relationships - maybe in marriage or other forms of commitment. We need to ponder our own choices and try to understand the choices of others. Love has many shapes and colors and is not finite. It can not be measured or defined in terms of sexual orientation." From the Statement of Affirmation and Reconciliation by the Quaker meeting in Aotearoa.
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News to Nicole:
By Angie Billings on Jan 29, 2007 12:57:17 AM
I don't know where you went to school, however more heterosexuals have aids than homosexuals. Homosexuals are the case of aids is just another stero-type. So please get your facts straight before you dishonor the homosexuals.
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why can't gays and lesbians get married and be happy too.
By CHARLOTTE HENTON on Jan 11, 2007 5:41:09 PM
HELLO MY NAME IS CHARLOTTE HENTON AND MY PARTNERS NAME IS PHYLLIS BINKLEY AND WE HAVE BEEN TOGETHER FOR 9MO AND WE WANT TO GET MARRIED AND LIVE A HAPPY LIFE. BUT WE CANNOT BECAUSE THOSE PEOPLE WON'T LET US BECAUSE THEY DON'T THINK THAT IT IS RIGHT WELL THEIR WRONG WE AS GAYS AND LESBIANS ARE PEOPLE TO LAST TIME I CHECKED WE ARE HUMANS WE PAY TAXES JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE WE ARE NOT HURTING ANYBODY.
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Gay Marriage
By Kelly Gerritz on Jan 10, 2007 7:38:47 AM
You also seem to forget that the word of god (the bible) is a document that was massively edited by a society that had worshiped multiple deities for the majority of it's existence. It was compiled by some of the most conservative and greedy man of their time. If you insist that god wrote it. Then your just hiding from the light.
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Gay Marriage: A Christian's Point of View
By Nicole Watkins on Jan 9, 2007 10:58:58 PM
I applaud the recent ban on gay marriage. Not only are same -sex marriages morally corrupt, they're part of the reason the growth of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases are rapidly increasing across the United States. Now why settle for your own gender, if you're having trouble with dating the opposite sex, maybe the opposite sex is not the problem, maybe it's you and the poor choices that you choose for a mate. If you've been abused by the member of the opposite sex, that doesn't mean you should categorize all of them as being bad. Make better choices! Homosexuality is not who a person is, it is a secular trend! A person probably mostly decides to be gay, because they're down on their luck and every one else is doing it. Well all I can say is this, if you choose to be stubborn and live your own life, the people around you may be accepting, but God is watching. He is the one you will have to deal with in the end. In Leviticus 18:22 God states in his word "Do not lie with a man as on does with a woman; that is detestable."
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No to Gay marriage
By Melissa Boyd on Jan 3, 2007 12:47:39 AM
God's word(the Bible) is clearly specific about this issue. Same Sex marriage is an abomination to God.
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gay marrige
By jerold snyder on Dec 23, 2006 5:32:10 AM
it's very sad to see that they can take our rights away but we can go over other countries and spead freedom to the very same people that oops... i forgot we queers can't fight for our country ether
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Gay Marriage
By R Gupta on Dec 11, 2006 8:11:09 PM
Haha, your joke was funny... not! Gays should have all the rights that we do. What part of the constitution says that they shouldn't? The only thing stopping them is religion. Whatever happened to the separation of powers? Religon and politics are separate and never the two shall meet.
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Dont legalize it!!!!!
By amanda covington on Dec 4, 2006 5:38:56 PM
As a friend once said to me when we had a day of silence for the gays, " God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!"
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