Gay Rights??

I was raised by a baptist mother and a gay god-father...so im quite torn on the issue of gay rights. i believe they should be able to get married, but i don't think the name of marriage should be renamed to 'civil unions' what do you think about the subject?

I don't care what they call it... civil union or marriage.. as long as we're all getting the same benefits with whatever it is we are united by.
Right now civil unions do not come with the benefits that marriages come with. It's wrong.
I don't really see the point in referring to the union of two homosexuals as marriage. Ok, I see the point, of course it *sounds* unfair to call it anything but marriage. However, marriage is religious and being religious, it has a specific intention; a specific definition based on the religious beliefs it belongs to - the union of a man and a woman.
I'm very liberal, but I understand why religious folk are protective of the practices belonging to their religions.
I'm changing my mind just writing this though. Marriage fits all sorts of religions, and being homosexual in no way means one is not religious, even if it's against many religious codes.

Hell, I don't know. I'm too inconsistent to form solid opinions about anything. Erase everything I said from your memory :)

Bye.

When two atheists get married, they call it a marriage. It shouldnt be different when two gay people do it. There are a lot of gay people that still hold their faith as well, and forms of christianity that allow it, should they not be able to follow their faith and have a union through god?

No, I agree with you. I was thinking along the lines that even if two atheists get married, they are sticking to the definition of marriage (marriage which is a religious thing): man and woman.
Homosexuals obviously can't stick to the definition very easily.

Regardless, not being able to get married makes a lot of gays unhappy, and I don't like unhappiness. I don't care who gets married to be honest, as long as it's consensual. I'm all about equality, don't get it into your pretty head that I'm not.

Even if we leave aside the legislative and religious side of things...there should be an importance placed on words. They carry weight in history and culture, as well as law. To call marriage a civil union is to demean it. The meaning of marriage goes beyond the social institution; it forms a part of our everyday language. Now, we talk of the marriage between "honey and mustard", "melody and harmony" etc. It means to combine, to unite, to join, and match. This, to me, should mean Marriage and everyone should be entitled to the word (and, therefore, its sentiment) because they define it.

Marriage may very well be for procreation, however the true fact is that its was nothing more than chains to oppress women...

50% of marriages end in divorce, however in certain countries the women do not even have that right...

Let LGBT have the word marriage... It'll happily repair its disgusting past...

If they love eachother let it be, i support it, but should be called marriage.

Its not that gay dont deserve rights
they are only people who mange to switch sexuality
they deserve equality

If you love someone, you should be able to be with them. I don't think the government should have a say in who you can love & not.

The government doesn't have a say in who loves who. Love is an emotion. Might as well put a ban on unhappiness.

The government doesn't have a say in who loves who."

Actually it does being that today's laws pretty much sprang from judeo/christian ideology... That, plus the fact that certain types of love out there is pretty much wrong from a moral standpoint... Unhappiness is just another synonym for divorce.

When you sign a document giving you tax deductions because you are wed it does have a say, the whole point of getting married is the benefits that come with it from the government, otherwise people would just get a certificate from their church and be done with it.

Love is love. who cares what anatomy they have beneathe the pants? if they love each other and truly want to be together forever, why should we stop them? is it hurting us to let them marry? regardless of religious views, you can't deny that banning marriage is very wrong. and calling it something other the marriage is therefore NOT marriage. all should be created equal.

I didn't say we are all equal in that sense, i mean equal in the eyes of the law. and in the eyes of "god" if that is what you believe in.

There are also many instances of the law being harsher on non-white races. Is there really such a thing as equal rights?

If the white population is 73%, what would you expect? I was speaking more of police being unjust. You see more police treating non-whites unfairly than you do whites, or perhaps that's only because it makes for a better story.

73% of the whole U.S., not of your city in which you live. There are not a lot of blacks in the north, with the exception of major cities like Chicago and New York. At my old school in Indiana, there was a total of a whopping THREE black people. O_o