Marriage is a social union or legal contract between a (man and woman) that creates kinship. It is an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged in a variety of ways, depending on the culture or subculture in which it is found.
What do you think?
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It is only between a man and a women because of religion, if the people who decide to get married are not of the religion that is stated, then they do not abide by it.
Ps. Marriage isn’t just a religious thing anymore, it has benefits and if someone can’t get married for the fact the one doesn’t have a penis and the other doesn’t either should not push them away from that chance. it is so stupid, against freedom of religion and wrong. So yes gay marriage should be 1% allowed.
Yes it is a social union and contract which is why gender of said parties is completely irrelevant.
Potstirrer. Head over to R&S, you’ll get much more of the reaction you’re hoping for.
You are right, Brandon. Marriage was meant for a man & woman to unite in holy matrimony, be fruitful and multiply. If anyone here has proof that they were able to multiply between 2 men or 2 women without going outside their relationship I would like to see that!!
Rubbish, that’s a very outdated idea of marrige, marrige is about love between two people, it doesnt matter about theyre gender or sexul orietation, thyre people that love too and should have every right to get married, i cant see any good reasons why not.
Marriage between two people of the same sex isn’t the same as what you describe??
(man and woman) *wrong* “two persons of legal age who are in mutual consent”
As much as cut-and-paste seems to offend a few here, I developed certain arguments in text for the simple reason that re-typing the same response over and over in answer to the numerous times a particular subject is queried is more work than I care to go to when I can simply do it once and reuse it. It is my belief that the validity of the content is not diminished by its repetition:
Marriage, as a civil ceremony and civilly recognized contractual partnership, is and should be subject to the laws that govern a people. In the United States of America, we have a document which governs over all the citizens of the United States of America, and it’s governing statements and statutes should be applied equally to all citizens over whom it governs.
Excerpted from the preamble to the United States Declaration of Independence:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal and that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
The preamble to the United States Constitution:
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The first amendment to the United States Constitution:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Excerpted (section one) from the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws”
Until such time as all of the laws of this country are equally applied and enforced, and the rights of citizens under our constitution are offered and applied equally amongst all of its citizens, this country stands in BREACH OF CONTRACT!
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i think that the government, as well as other random people, arent going to tell me whom i can and cannot marry. no one will stop me from marrying the person i love. if i want to marry a man i will and i dont see how in the world it effects complete strangers, i dont, then they have the audacity to say “i dont want my kids to see that” ok thats not my problem, that exactly why i dont have kids, if your so worried about what your kids are exposed to lock them in the basement and throw the key away because i gaurentee your kids will see things youd rather them not. my point is i dont interfere in your very personal life, why should you in mine? i could give a rats as.s what you do in your life, so why is it that you have the energy to care about mine?
Tripe.
It’s a contract between two people, their genders shouldn’t even be relevant.
Society should by now have evolved and progressed way beyond debating this issue.
Well, seeing as I am gay, I obviously support gay marriage. Marriage should know no gender, seeing as love knows no gender, and marriage is a result of love.
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Hogwash, it is a union between the two people and the state they were “married”.