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To deny gay Americans the right to life ,liberty and pursuit of happiness is paramount to murder.
Hey religious America, when is the last time you wanted to have sex with a member of you sex?
The God that made you also made them. They also live in his image and likeness. He made them different. Get a grip.
2. The strongest argument in support of the marriage decision is the very one the court emphasized. In 1948 the California Supreme Court became the first in the country to invalidate laws prohibiting inter-racial marriage, when the state's population overwhelmingly supported such laws and nineteen years before the US Supreme Court issued the same ruling. Today nobody seriously claims those cases were wrongly decided. I am 60 years old, and the state has no business telling me what race or sex my partner for the rest of my life must be.
3. When does life begin? At the same time cancer begins; with one cell,that,if left unattended, would have a predictable outcome. Abortion is the affirmative acknowledgment that we are certain of when human life begins not because we are uncertain. It is because we are certain that a fertilized ovum is a human life, albeit not fully mature biologically, that we abort.
4. When does life begin? At the same time cancer begins, with one cell that, if left unattended, would have a predictable outcome. We abort fertilized ova because we know it is the beginning of human life. The act of abortion is an affirmative acknowledgment that we know human life begins at conception. We have created a legal fiction that allows us to step in and stop the process.
5. Excellent synopsis. I have to believe that the evolving social acceptance of gay marriages will win out in time, but for the time being there is much resistance and self-righteousness remaining to make a real difference in political wars. Thank you for your thoughtful article.
6. A gay friend of mine once told me that he felt a certain disparity and shame when he realized "the straight parents that created me (A GAY MAN) could marry yet legally I could not" Now my friend and millions of other gay and lesbian people will not have to feel these feelings anymore.
7. When people think of marriage, they think of how sex will be performed, not love. The people who are against gay marriage are against the legalization of sex between two people who are not a male and a female. Thus the bearing of children is always in the arguments. However, producing children is less and less the base of a marriage, and people have been opened up for experimenting sex with the same sex. When people in general start to be less conservative about sex and more relationship, loyalty, and affection oriented, the gay marrige will stop being so unthinkable.
8. In spite of time-honored politics of fear and bigotry, the issue of gay marriage will go by the way of such things as the Civil Rights Bill and the right for women to vote (19th Amendment). Historically, bigots (typically religious conservatives) tend to lose-out in the long-run.
9. There is no religious book on the planet, ever written, that accepts or approves of gay marriage..... BUT..... we have a moral obligation to give equal rights to everyone regardless of sex, age or race..... It is a civil rights argument and if men want to marry men and women want to marry women......let em' just becuase a person does not understand it or agree with it.....doesnt mean they should appose it....
10. It appears to me the trend has been to have ever increasing alienation between both the different segments of the population, government, and combinations of the two. This will certainly alienate many more. Divide and counqer? http://www.garlicandgrass.org/issue8/intro.cfm
Submitted by: Chuck
2. The strongest argument in support of the marriage decision is the very one the court emphasized. In 1948 the California Supreme Court became the first in the country to invalidate laws prohibiting inter-racial marriage, when the state's population overwhelmingly supported such laws and nineteen years before the US Supreme Court issued the same ruling. Today nobody seriously claims those cases were wrongly decided. I am 60 years old, and the state has no business telling me what race or sex my partner for the rest of my life must be.
Submitted by: Dave Hunsberger
3. When does life begin? At the same time cancer begins; with one cell,that,if left unattended, would have a predictable outcome. Abortion is the affirmative acknowledgment that we are certain of when human life begins not because we are uncertain. It is because we are certain that a fertilized ovum is a human life, albeit not fully mature biologically, that we abort.
Submitted by: JE Gaudio
4. When does life begin? At the same time cancer begins, with one cell that, if left unattended, would have a predictable outcome. We abort fertilized ova because we know it is the beginning of human life. The act of abortion is an affirmative acknowledgment that we know human life begins at conception. We have created a legal fiction that allows us to step in and stop the process.
Submitted by: JE Gaudio
5. Excellent synopsis. I have to believe that the evolving social acceptance of gay marriages will win out in time, but for the time being there is much resistance and self-righteousness remaining to make a real difference in political wars. Thank you for your thoughtful article.
Submitted by: Diana blase
6. A gay friend of mine once told me that he felt a certain disparity and shame when he realized "the straight parents that created me (A GAY MAN) could marry yet legally I could not" Now my friend and millions of other gay and lesbian people will not have to feel these feelings anymore.
Submitted by: carlos a
7. When people think of marriage, they think of how sex will be performed, not love. The people who are against gay marriage are against the legalization of sex between two people who are not a male and a female. Thus the bearing of children is always in the arguments. However, producing children is less and less the base of a marriage, and people have been opened up for experimenting sex with the same sex. When people in general start to be less conservative about sex and more relationship, loyalty, and affection oriented, the gay marrige will stop being so unthinkable.
Submitted by: wen chang
8. In spite of time-honored politics of fear and bigotry, the issue of gay marriage will go by the way of such things as the Civil Rights Bill and the right for women to vote (19th Amendment). Historically, bigots (typically religious conservatives) tend to lose-out in the long-run.
Submitted by: Jim Talbot
9. There is no religious book on the planet, ever written, that accepts or approves of gay marriage..... BUT..... we have a moral obligation to give equal rights to everyone regardless of sex, age or race..... It is a civil rights argument and if men want to marry men and women want to marry women......let em' just becuase a person does not understand it or agree with it.....doesnt mean they should appose it....
Submitted by: Oregon4Obama
10. It appears to me the trend has been to have ever increasing alienation between both the different segments of the population, government, and combinations of the two. This will certainly alienate many more. Divide and counqer? http://www.garlicandgrass.org/issue8/intro.cfm
Submitted by: John Ridgley
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