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Please provide some support for this claim (that 'marriage' is a term derived from religion).SparklnQTPrncess said:
What marriage has traditionally been throughout cultures and time spreads across a wide spectrum. What you're against is same-sex marriages that are condoned by your specific belief system. But the problem is that not everyone goes by your system, so we shouldn't have to play by your belief system's rules, and neither you ours. If gays are allowed the right to marry, nothing at all happens to your version of what marriage is/should be.SparklnQTPrncess said:
It's interesting that you're pro-civil union.SparklnQTPrncess said:
That's nice. However, that's your religious opinion, and in a country NOT run by religion, it has no relevance to the question of legality whatsoever.Merlin said:
Mine was the generation that decided there was no need of marriage at all.Still,people got married.But with no spiritual authority guiding them,they were quickly divorced,usually with children.Now we have a real nightmare,with a 50% divorce rate.Men have children with two or three women,and no one cares for the children.The social upheaval,we caused by just saying that a couple ought to be able to do whatever they want,without considering God.Goes beyond anything anyone thought possible back then.No one knows now what will come out of gay marriage.However I feel this Godless act will be at least as bad.But that is just my opinion.IDontKnow10 said:
I have seen time and time again people who are against gay marriage, say that gays shouldn't be allowed to marry because they can't have children. But if a man who cannot have children marries a woman (or vice versa), that is okay. If the purpose of getting married is to have a family then why are men and women who cannot have children allowed to marry? Could someone please explain this to me?
IDontKnow10 said:
I have seen time and time again people who are against gay marriage, say that gays shouldn't be allowed to marry because they can't have children. But if a man who cannot have children marries a woman (or vice versa), that is okay. If the purpose of getting married is to have a family then why are men and women who cannot have children allowed to marry? Could someone please explain this to me?
Which doesnt explain why conservative Christians have the highest divorce rates and Atheists the lowest.Harlan Norris said:
Just being part of a congegation does not make one a believing Christian.The ability to say one thing and do another is the result of a failier of faith.Back when I was a kid,people did fear God.They stayed married come hell or high water.They raised up their kids from birth,all the way out the door.This looked pretty ugly to my generation.We said no way am I going through that.This outbreak of homosexuality is the direct result of what we did.Men used women like harlots then discarded them.Women in turn became feminists, saying "a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle".In time the sexes literally hated one another.No one could trust anyone.No relationship had any credibility.People still got together and had children.They were placed in day care and raised by television.They looked at our example and said, No way am I going through that.outlaw said:
If I understand this post, it indicates that while atheists say they are against God, they are actually more God-fearing than the bulk of the population.Harlan Norris said:
