12 Reasons Why Gay Marriage Should Be Illegal

[nocturnal]

1. Homosexuality is not natural, much like eyeglasses, polyester, and birth control.
   
2. Heterosexual marriages are valid because they produce children. Infertile couples and old people can’t legally get married because the world needs more children.
   
3. Obviously, gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
   
4. Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage is allowed, since Britney Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage was meaningful.
   
5. Heterosexual marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all; women are property, blacks can’t marry whites, and divorce is illegal.
   
6. Gay marriage should be decided by people, not the courts, because the majority-elected legislatures, not courts, have historically protected the rights of the minorities.
   
7. Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in America.
   
8. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
   
9. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
   
10. Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why single parents are forbidden to raise children.
    
11. Gay marriage will change the foundation of society. Heterosexual marriage has been around for a long time, and we could never adapt to new social norms because we haven’t adapted to things like cars or longer life-spans.
    
12. Civil unions, providing most of the same benefits as marriage with a different name are better, because a “separate but equal” institution is always constitutional. Separate schools for African-Americans worked just as well as separate marriages for gays and lesbians will.
    

(source: http://www.blameiton...-should-be.html)

 

[Raven]

10 reasons why gay marriage SHOULD be legal.





1. Human Rights:

The inability to get married because of a sexual orientation trumps on individual Universal human rights. For example, in the United States the laws which prevent same sex marriages deny equal protection under the law.

2. Societal Change:

Our post-modern society has moved from having different genders playing different and distinct roles in marriage towards having marriage being viewed as an institution with no required gender roles.

3. Minority Discrimination:

Many view the ban on same sex marriage a minority discrimination. Many compare this to Jim Crow Laws and segregation laws which are now looked down upon.

4. Homosexuals desire stability:

Despite contrary arguments, many gay couples do desire stability and long term relationships. Gay couples do form families and relationships that are common law, wherever laws don’t allow them to marry. By allowing them to live common law, laws (or lack thereof) are creating more instability.

5. No harm to heterosexuals:

Homosexuality does not affect heterosexuality. Despite religious institutions’ attempt to perform exorcism, you cannot change someone’s sexuality. Sexuality is rigid.

6. Tax-Payer Money:

Is it really worth tax payers’ money to prolong this debate? Many argue that we have no say on same sex couples’ families and their stability/instability. In 2005, there were 3.6 divorces per 1000 people in the U.S.

7. Politics and Religion are separate:

Many religions view homosexuality a sin. As a marriage by the state is a secular activity; the government has no right to make laws because they are pressured to do so by religious lobbyists. The gay community is also a lobbyist.

8. Affects benefits:

Marriage affects people ability to receive benefits. More so, it prevents couples from allowing their spouses to be sponsored into the country. The spouses will thus have to go through illegal means of entering the country to get their green card.

9. Love:

Marriage is about love. Many argue that there are no facts claiming that same sex couples love each other any less than heterosexual couples.

10. Not our business:

Like the popular saying says, what happens behind closed doors stays behind closed doors. Unless someone is performing criminal activities, pro same sex marriage activists argue that it is not our business what they do and how they live.

 

[Fatal Dawn]

Not to take away any of your points S.A.Y.D.L, but I think nocturnal was making a satire of the criminalization of gay marriage.

 

[nocturnal]

Not to take away any of your points S.A.Y.D.L, but I think nocturnal was making a satire of the criminalization of gay marriage.

This guy got it.

I figured this post would scream of satire, but I guess it wasn't that obvious.

 

[Evil Eye]

Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in America

Gotta love satire.



Now, since this is in general discussion and not the laugh lounge...

Marriage should not be controlled by the state. It should be a personal contract between two or more people for their benefit. A state does not need to know who're you're sleeping with or living with.

 

[Raven]

Ohh right sorry about that then, Kinda ruined the thread