3 Inalienable traits that America thought we should have automatically: Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness. As long as nothing was violating someone's unalienable rights, it could be in the Constitution. So when they want to ban Gay Marriage, they ban our unalienable rights that thousands of men and women have given their lives for. We're not forcing anyone to come into the hotel in our honeymoon or anything , so why do people want to ban it? It should be allowed in the USA.

Haha. This post is fun to read, but it has just become a long babble of agreement. Well, the fact that nobody can validly, or even at all, argue against it, a point has been proven. Those who would get it and to whom the law applies, well, they all want gay marriage. This points to one solution to me, gay-marriage should be legal. People should juSt live by the code: IF YOU DON'T WANT A SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, THEN DON'T HAVE ONE!

I don't think that there should be gay marriage, but there should be same-sex unions in which the same legal benefits of marriage are granted. The pleasures of the honeyboon and the bitches of divorce, give it all to us, but let's keep religion out of the equation ... things appear to work better without religion.<br /><br />Post edited by: Soulfire, at: 2007/05/23 10:40

Perhaps, except for the fact that most of the rights and benefits of marriage are written, though improperly, just as that, for the benefit of married spouses. By officially calling the union anything other than marriage, equal rights can still not be reached because of the wording of this documentation. There is so much of this documentation, corporations, legislation, etc. simply will not take all the undue effort to meticulously change it. For this reason, religion is not the main part of the &quot;marriage&quot; argument. By allowing the use of the word &quot;marriage&quot; however, nothing has to be rewritten, and rights would, legally, be properly equal.

It would be easier just to call it all marriage, wouldn't it?

I saw John Edwards this morning (campaigning in my hometown), and he was all &quot;I DON'T believe in gay marraige&quot; and but was all, &quot;Civil unions with equal rights should be granted...&quot; His point was that the government shouldn't be able to force a religion to accept a marriage (like they would if the government just mandated that anyway). That makes sense in my head, but then again, it would be simpler and more equal to just call it all marriage. Two men or women can get legally married, together. End of story.

I would be fine with civil unions, but another thought: If gay civil unions are legalized everywhere in the US, will it ever be called marriage? If I ever get a &quot;civil union&quot;, I'm just going to say I'm married, not, well, we're legal partners....

I think that gay marrige should be allowed because it doesn't make a difference to Congress and it is possible that if America doesn't allow it, more people will move to Canada where gay marrige is allowed. Also if you're lucky enough to find someone you love who loves you back and wants to be with you forever, why should Congress have the power to stop you?

Sitting here reading all of these passionate rants about feeling oppressed by the iron fist of conservative America, I cannot help but feel compelled to act against this subjugating force.

It is good, right, and just to express oneself in words and on paper but what then is the outcome. Perhaps more tension. Perhaps nothing at all. Surely only action will change the status quo which we are so quick to complain about.

It is understandably difficult for a person to face their enemies. Fear and intimidation can sometimes me a formidable force to be reckoned with. However, just as it takes such outrageous and seemingly foreign bravery and charisma to face an anti-homosexual world, so too must we channel that bravery to fight for these rights that we not only deserve, but are owed- and have most unjustly never been afforded.

I ask for you all to keep expressing yourselves and to keep illustrating this incredible struggle that we fight everyday. However, I ask for you to act physically on your beliefs which you so firmly abide by and by which you have so eloquently spoken.

Let's have some tea sometime, and we can talk more.

Atheists can have non-religious marriages through the state, so the religion arguement can be thrown out. (At least the part about marriage being a religious institution..)



Had a lot of fun with my illegal wedding.. and if the government ever gets their heads out of their asses and lets us have the equal rights we should have always had.. I'll do it again!

ok, well i live in Australia. and no, its not legal for us gay men or gay females to marry each other. but we just in the past couple of months we've been able to be RECONISED by our own Government. but still long way yet. I myself believe in equal rights for gays, straights etc.... and marriage for gays? im either 50/50 for or 60/40 for... come on... if the straights can't keep their marriage together who says we can? i dont want to sound mean towards my own kind. but seriously out of every gay male in the world ask yourself this... (not including the gays under the age of 17) how many relationships have you been thru? lots? thought so, im not saying that EVERY gay man is like that... unfortunately i've seen more gay males go thru more relationships than straight females. the couples that have been together for over at least 2, 3 years or even 5 years deserve to get married, not the lustful sex crazied fags that have been sleeping with each other for 6mths. But that is my view. love it or hate it... but it is a forum, freedom of speech baby...

ok, well i live in Australia. and no, its not legal for us gay men or gay females to marry each other. but we just in the past couple of months we've been able to be RECONISED by our own Government. but still long way yet. I myself believe in equal rights for gays, straights etc.... and marriage for gays? im either 50/50 for or 60/40 for... come on... if the straights can't keep their marriage together who says we can? i dont want to sound mean towards my own kind. but seriously out of every gay male in the world ask yourself this... (not including the gays under the age of 17) how many relationships have you been thru? lots? thought so, im not saying that EVERY gay man is like that... unfortunately i've seen more gay males go thru more relationships than straight females. the couples that have been together for over at least 2, 3 years or even 5 years deserve to get married, not the lustful sex crazied fags that have been sleeping with each other for 6mths. But that is my view. love it or hate it... but it is a forum, freedom of speech baby...