I want to say a quick message first to the Gay community before I list my replies to the arguments against Love.
Hello all you lovely people =] I want to let you know something. First of all, I am a straight girl and I will work in peace for your rights til the day I die. After all, you are my fellow human beings. I love this wonderful World and all the amazing souls that make up it. I hope you know that not all straight people are against gay marriage. There are lots of us working towards love equality, believe me. I know it can seem like everyone is against you, and you can lose hope; but promise me you will stay strong, because together we will achieve peace and love for all. Yes We Can.
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#1. Gays can't reproduce:
Heterosexual couples need not swear an oath to reproduce in order to receive a marriage certificate. Heterosexual couples need not even be capable of reproducing to marry: no fertility tests are necessarily conducted for the granting of a marriage license. Elderly people who are incapable of bearing children get married all the time. Couples who simply don't want children can still marry. Marriages are not annulled by the state if a couple fails to produce children.
Furthermore, sexual reproduction is clearly possible without marriage (or do these people still believe that married couples sleep in separate twin beds and that a stork delivers them a baby?). Family units exist where nobody is married. Single moms and dads abound.
Clearly the primary purpose of marriage is not sexual reproduction.
#2. Homosexuality is unnatural:
Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
(sarcasm :P)
#3. You threaten the sanctity of marriage:
So..Elvis marrying people in drive-thru chapels in Las Vegas doesn't? Where were you when Britney Spears married Jason Alexander for a whole weekend?
"Marriage" as a concept clearly holds no sanctity unto itself, even for heterosexuals, who seem to do an excellent job of undermining it on their own. If the test for legitimacy of marriage is whether people of a particular sexual orientation would "undermine" its "sanctity" then heterosexuals should be forbidden from marrying as well.
Whatever "sanctity" a marriage holds exists in the bond between the married.
#4. Marriage is a covenant with God, and God says marriage is between a man and a woman.
(also refer to #8. )
In any case, a couple need not get married in a church at all, or be religious at all. A heterosexual atheist couple can make an appointment at any local courthouse.
#5. If two men can marry, then why not a man and a pig?
This isn't so much an argument about gay marriage as it is a scare tactic and a demeaning remark about gays. The idea is to suggest that somehow the love between two persons of the same sex could be no more than that between a person and an animal. It's really just an inflammatory remark that assumes that homosexuals are less human than heterosexuals, but let's consider it anyway.
The real question isn't "if two men can marry, then why not a man and a pig," but rather, "if a man and a woman can marry, then why not a man and a pig?" How about "if a man and a woman can get married, why not a man and his sister?" A man and his sister would, after all, be an opposite-sex couple. Rhetorically, these questions are identical. Better still, "if a man and a woman can marry, then why not a man and a man?"
These rhetorical questions aren't arguments; they're just inflammatory remarks which make the hidden assumption that heterosexual couples are worthy of marrying but homosexual couples are not. (It's almost circular reasoning in some respects; because homosexuals are unworthy of marriage, ask a rhetorical question that's supposed to relate that unworthiness.) This hidden assumption can be challenged and invalidated simply by asking the same question a different way, inverting or removing the assumption. If heterosexuals can get married, why not a man and his sister? If heterosexuals can get married, why not homosexuals? And if you don't like answering questions like that one, why are you asking them?
The actual answer to these questions, of course, is that it's a given society that determines what partners may enter into a marriage. In Biblical times, it was common for a man to have many wives. Even in the relatively-recent past, polygamy was practiced in the United States by certain religions and accepted by certain states. I don't know of any cases of people marrying animals.
Our society ostensibly supports freedom, liberty, and equality under the law for everybody, which our great Constitution eloquently outlines. It is this equality which same-sex couples seek to secure in their efforts to legalize same-sex marriages.
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Homosexuality is a crime (Leviticus 18:22) and all homosexuals should be put to death. Leviticus 20:13 If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
God requires death for homosexuality just as he requires death for murder. It's an abomination to him. (Lev18:22). Hebrews 13:8 God never changes
Homosexuals cannot inherit the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)
Stewarts16 2 years ago
dear one, i will ask you also to please watch the movie "For the Bible Tells Me So" it's here on YT parts 1-9, please before you return to my video, enlighten yourself and awake yourself to Love, understanding and empathy. "Treat thy neighbor as thyself." also
have you taken a look at Leviticus 19:19 19:26 19:27 19:28 etc. or did you just conveniently skip over them and cherry pick your Bible verses? Please, watch the movie and do yourself, your mind, and the world some good. God Bless you.
gotSelena 2 years ago
"I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to."- Michael Jackson
gotSelena 2 years ago
"Let anyone among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone." Jesus Christ
gotSelena 2 years ago