Sesame Street: Grover discusses What Is Marriage?

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Grover and Jesse discuss what marriage is.

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[John Ruml]

Oh look, a 5 year old understands marriage better than half of congress, how about that?

[lecoeurdevert]

Anti-marriage equality is enforcing your beliefs on other people because it's essentially saying "I don't like it so you can't do it". It doesn't hurt you; a gay couple's marriage on the other side of town has absolutely no affect on your own marriage. Allowing marriage equality in no way demands that you agree with it. You can continue to disagree with it all you like. The fact is that secular marriage and religious marriage are two different things, and they can co-exist.

[Frankie Vega]

Gays can't reproduce? That's debatable. Frogs of the same sex can reproduce. And your comment about how marriage is for procreation is debatable too. Two people can't marry for love? Is it a sin to marry out of pure love? It seems wrong to marry just for sex, because that's what procreating entails, sex. Marrying solely for sex and spitting kids out of a vagina sounds like a sham marriage to me. But what do I know? I'm marrying my fiancé out of love, not for populating an over-populated world.

[lecoeurdevert]

I would say that most actually don't care what the churches do. I'm sure there are some, but I've personally never heard anyone say anything of the sort. I don't think a church that doesn't ordain women is at any risk of performing same-sex marriage rites anytime soon. And they're certainly not going to be required to do so by law either. I think the social progressiveness of churches is a separate issue.

[blackandblue10]

Except a lot of pro gay people think christians are bigots just because they won't allow gay marriages in their churches.. do you realize how big of an outcry there was for Pope Francis to allow gay marriage in the Catholic Church?  yet you say we're the ones forcing down beliefs.. kettle meet pot.

[Trace Eggers]

I don't even know why I'm wasting my time with you. Honestly, you're going to believe the things that you want to believe. If you look at the CDC statistics it shows that heterosexual transmissions of HIV are far higher than anything homosexual. So by your own theory, we should eliminate heterosexuals. Buddy, you make no sense at all. Being gay is not something that you "teach" someone. Being gay is something you are. If you don't understand something so basic, there is no use to explain.

[jasmith4b]

The politically inconvenient fact is, more than half of all AIDS patients in America got it from male-to-male sexual contact. Even though AIDS is transferred by ANY kind of sex, and also ANY blood-to-blood contact, this has been true ever since the first cases of AIDS in America: Greenwich-Village gays in 1980. Proof: can't post links: from CDC dot gov, click Diseases and Conditions, then HIV/AIDS, then #2 in the top picture, then the picture itself. Unless you think the CDC is anti-gay...

[jasmith4b]

I'm not suggesting replacing either -- there's no fixed number of marriages in the universe. I support civil unions, because that enshrines monogamy, to which there's more than just slowing AIDS. But to me the difference is that married gays will adopt kids, who will imitate their parents, more than likely become gay, and therefore defeat the purpose of slowing AIDS. Gays adopting kids is recruiting, just as religious people having or adopting kids is recruiting them into their religion.

[biggsterboy]

No one is suggesting replacing heterosexual marriage with same sex marriage, so I doubt that people are going to stop reproducing. Secondly, if you are truly concerned about the spread of AIDS, then how does denying incentives for gays to enter a monogamous committed marriage help make that case?

[jasmith4b]

Society without children tends to die off. It's called old age. And who said childless marriage is illegal? What should be illegal is gays adopting kids: they imitate parents, so they more likely become gay, or certainly consider it normal, and as proven by CDC statistics, male-to-male contact is responsible for more than half of all IADS cases in America, even now. Can't post links, but from CDC dot gov, click Diseases and Conditions, HIV/AIDS, then picture #2.

[Trace Eggers]

Interesting... I know many, many, many gay parents. By and far their kids are perty awesome. My partner and I will in fact be adopting shortly. And yes, many children are born outside of wedlock. Marriage is not a prerequisite. Nor should it be a prerequisite.

[jasmith4b]

Umm, actually, gay marriage leads to adopting kids, who imitate parents, and therefore more likely become gay. FYI gays spreads AIDS more than anyone, so it's beyond a matter of personal choice -- it's the worst kind of public health hazard: a killer disease with no cure spreading around the world for 40 years. Even now more than half of ALL people with AIDS in America got it from male-to-male sexual contact. Proof: from CDC dot gov, Diseases and Contition, HIV/AIDS, picture #2.