Maine voters repeal gay-marriage law

However, you seem to be down on those in this thread expressing their views, while you are perfectly at ease with expressing your own feelings towards traditional marriage. Rather a double standard, don't you think?

It's not a matter of accepting views. If you do not think homosexuality is acceptable, that is fine. You are not allowed, however, to oppress people who view differently through wholly unjust popular votes and deny rights to them. There is simply no logical, legal argument for denying lawful gay marriages. It all rests with religion, and that is why churches should not be required to marry homosexuals. The law does not operate under the guise of the Bible, though, and it should not be expected to, as that would be endorsing a particular religion (or several religions in this case, such as Islam, Christianity, etc.).

Hope the "Traditional marriage" folks are proud of breaking thousands of hearts overnight. I wonder how the same-sex partners with children will explain to them that they cannot get married because people don't want them to? How will they tell their kids that 53% of people voted to say that the love they share as a family is less and not as important as other families?
But, hey, your precious little angels who will probably be surrounded by drug use and having sex in a few years won't have to hear that somewhere, somehow, people do morally iffy things. It's not like children don't live in a bubble, anyway: I know my kids will not dare look at any news channel or watch TV or read any books! Just the Bible for them... after I rip out the pages and pages of sex, violence, incest, rape, genocide, warfare, slavery, and murder. I'm sick of sugar coating it.
The people who oppose gay marriage are usually not bad people, technically. I'd say about half of them are nice people. But I've met plenty of great people with terrible ideas, and opposition to gay marriage has become bigotry full-force. The rhetoric is evil and bright and sunny and "Wheee families! Let's deny others their civil rights by a slim majority!" it makes me feel ill. It's a bigoted and antiquated idea, and there should be no more popular approval at all. It doesn't involve anyone except for gay people period.

A majority should never ever ever be voting on the rights of a minority.
Funny how I remember being taught that back in 11th grade, in fact if I dug up an old notebook I could put the word-for-word quote from a 1980's textbook. I believe they referred to it as one of the basic prinicples of a constitutional democracy like the United States?

Good news, though, New Jersey will have a "repeal proof" marriage law before Corzine leaves in January- the majority Democratic legislature there is making sure of that as we speak.

"The Constitution was written for a moral God fearing people and no other. It is based on the assumption that libertry and order can only co exist when the people are inlcined towards self restraint. The less contro there is from within, the more is required from without"

John Adams

Sorry, but God warns us time and time again that it is HE who determines the times and boundries of ALL nations. When the likes of you spit in Gods face and dec;are that you and not God makes the Laws, the nation is finished.

This has nothing to do with hate, this is about defining marriage.

Am I full of hate if I vote that whiskey beats tequila or that a dog is under no circumstances a cat?

This nation was founded by Men of faith. They credit God with defeating the British under co9nditions they should have never won under. You take lust and call it love. This was done during the 60's where "Love" was an excuse for fornication. "We don;t have to wait for marriae to show our love" Was the excuse back then. Today, we are reaping the bitter harvest of sexual immorality. God defines marriage. Those who folow God canonly advise our government to keep marriage the way God intended it.
"This is what I am!" Is the excuse not ony of homosexuals but pedophiles and drug addicts as well. People are so enslaved to their sin they are now demanding to enslave others to it.

"Stay away from sexual immorality. Every other sin one commits is ouside the body. One who sins sexually sins against his own body"

I am for teaching that

They are God's scriptures, His Word. As a brother in Christ, of course you know this. It is written.