The easy fix for gay marriage

[zeke105]

Gay marriage comes across as a complicated issue in the media, but it’s very trivial if you look at it from the right perspective.

Marriage is a religious institution and it should have remained as such. The separation of church and state should have kept this from becoming a government issue, but with our current laws, that’s where we are. Does anyone think the government should regulate religious ceremonies? I would imagine that God disagrees with government influence.

The way it stands now gay people cannot get married in most states, because the religious, non-homosexual majority does not approve of it. Whether this is right or wrong won’t be discussed, because the solution makes this a non-issue.

Lastly, the half solutions that some states have come up with only end up annoying both sides. The religious feel like they have been given marriage even though it is called civil unions, and the gay people feel denied some liberties by not calling it by the same name.

The solution is simple:

    * Return the concept of marriage back to the realm of religion. Let each church and it’s members decide if they approve of gay marriage.
    * Regarding the civil benefits of marriage, let all types of couples obtain civil unions, which are not marriages, but simply cohabitation with benefits.

http://newsx.info/bp/2009/03/30/the-easy-fix-to-gay-marriage/

[thought_criminal]

 If gays want insurance benefits, and tax benefits, etc. etc. etc.  then they should be happy with "civil unions"
 It allows them all the legal rights marriage provides without actually calling it marriage.

But that isn't good enough for them!

  They want to split hairs and make it so that they can get married in *CHURCH*

  This is where I draw the line!!  

  If they want joint life insurance and tax benefits...  Fine.

  But when the gays start demanding to stand in a house of God and do something that's 180 degrees opposed to most
(excluding Catholic who apparently have no problem whatsoever with homosexual and even pedophile clergy)
 religions ... they are trying to impose their culture/beliefs onto others!!

  Reminds me of something hat set me off this morning.
 A caller to Washington Journal was asking what Obama (the savior! ugh)  would do about "women's issues" in
 the middle east (Pakistan).
 
   What does she care? Unless she lives there...    That's their *religion/culture*.  I personally don't agree with how they treat women..  **BUT**   WE have no right to impose out culture onto theirs!!  

  It's really no different than how the Judeo-Christians imposed their culture upon the Native Americans!!!

  It was wrong then, and it's wrong now!   It's WRONG to impose "feminism" upon Muslims, and it's WRONG for Gays to impose
their ways upon Christians!!


 

[Gandalf]

You should hear what Alfrid Adask has to say about marriage, it's funny. "It's not homosexuals that are the problem, it's the heterosexuals". He goes on to talk about how legal marriage is a sham and nobody should be dumb enough to get legally married. Then he goes on to talk about how the homosexuals are so stupid wanting legal marriage, or equal rights to enslave themselves to the contubernium given by our government.

[zeke105]

This post is going to get interesting. Marriage does belong with religon but I disagree with the separation of church and state and I also disagree with couples obtaining the civil benefits of marriage. If a couple of boy's want to be buddies, fine but they should not recieve the civil benifits of marriage.

It would come with all the penalties of marriage, which would discourage roommates from taking advantage of benefits. The disadvantages being property and money disputes when you dissolve the union. And it would be as complicated as getting a divorce as far as some states requiring separations and such and waiting periods.

[thought_criminal]

I did not even read all of your post, most of which I probably agree with But that comment about Catholic's, even when this is not a thread about us, YOU CAN PUT IT WHERE THE SUN DON'T SHINE PUNK.

  Read the news much?   I don't mean to offend Catholics...  but seriously...  how can you take guidance from an institution that protects and allows pedophiles from the highest levels down?   Doesn't that bother you!?  C'mon   surely you aren't defending what they've been doing for decades in that regard!   Are you!? 

 

[mtngirl1013]

  They want to split hairs and make it so that they can get married in *CHURCH*

  This is where I draw the line!!  

 

Maybe their church isn't as hateful as yours.

[thought_criminal]

  So then I suppose God is hatefull?    I'm not particularly religious, but the bible says what it says!

 What "Church" can allow Idolitry?
 What "Church" can condone [cold blooded, not that of soldiers] murder?

  When the government passes a law that say a religious institution are allowed to violate their own teachings,
and reading aloud certain versus are hate crimes, they are overstepping their bounds, and it puts the churches in a position of *getting sued* in civil court if they don't go against the bible!

[Kandyk438]

Maybe their church isn't as hateful as yours.

God is not tolerant of sin.  If your church is, then it is rebellious to the one true God and deserves to have gay marriages going on in it.