If the government doesn't have the right to "redefine" marriage, what about interracial marriage?
Interracial marriage redefined marriage from two people of the same race only to open to all races. Also, before then everybody had the "same right" to marry somebody of the same race. And still it was legalized. Every racist hater thought of interracial relationships as unnatural sexual perversions. They used bible quotes to fight against interracial marriage. They thought it would teach the kids of America that being in interracial relationships was alright when they did not see it as alright at all. Does this sound a bit familiar? Why do people oppose gay marriage when every crappy excuse was ignored and interracial marriage was legalized? The same excuses crappy excuses were and are used in both anti-equality arguments. Now, interracial marriage is normal, nobody thinks twice about interracial couples, and anybody who is against it is a bigot. If gay marriage is legalized, this same thing will happen. We'll have more tolerance, more equality, a better country.
The question is, why do people oppose gay marriage when the excuses against it are the same as interracial marriage?
2009-04-08T19:32:32Z
Actually, if I asked this in LGBT, most people would agree with me. I want to know what religious anti-gay people think of this.
2009-04-08T19:35:46Z
Derik R-I have been listening. But I still encounter a lot of anti-gay stuff everywhere. I don't think it will be that soon. There are very homophobic states in this country.
Maid Mesmera2009-04-08T19:35:14Z
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There's a difference between sex and race. Interracial and uniracial marriage are equal because people of different races are inherently the same. Men and women are meant to be together and that's why their sex organs were created the way they were. Homosexual marriage is NOT equal to heterosexual marriage because men and women are inherently different. Therefore, because of the inherent differences between the sexes, men and women form a different union when they come together than men and men or women and women do. People of different races are interchangeable, but people of different sexes are NOT interchangeable. Furthermore, interracial couples can produce children and gay couples can't. Unlike the gay marriage issue, the illegalization of interracial marriage was NOT about protecting the sanctity of marriage. It was about protecting the "sanctity" of the white race.
It's probably because in the bible book of fairy tales man laying with man is called an abomination. I don't know what it says about woman with woman.
Christians seem to think that the bible is some great authority on lifestyle and living, but it's really just the narrow views of a handful of men who were around thousands of years ago and convinced everyone that their views were the views of god, in fact they claimed that god spoke to them directly and told them these things!
Thank goodness these days it's the voice of the people that gets heard and as people become less judgemental and more accepting the laws will change because we live in a democracy and we all have a right to be heard.
There were no such rights when the bible was written and a handful of narrow-minded bigots decided and determined the lives of millions of people without the people having any say. This is still how religions work today. Amazing that people just accept all the rubbish that religious leaders spout.
Marriage has been redefined many times. Each time Europeans colonized a new area, the indigenous people had to redefine marriage. That's why same-sex marriage died out in North America. Prior to the arrival of Europeans, it was accepted here.
Even the US has redefined marriage more than once. When we started out as a nation, marriages were often arranged. And a father could stop his daughter from marrying if he didn't approve. Even when that stopped, a wife was barely more than property. Prior to the abolition of slavery, marriages of slaves, and even of freed blacks, had no legal recognition. So when blacks gained citizenship, marriage had to be redefined to include their marriages. But interracial marriage remained illegal much longer. Even after Loving v. Virginia, when such laws were found unconstitutional, a number of states kept the laws on the books, perhaps hoping that some day they could enforce them again. The last state to remove the law against interracial marriage was Alabama... and it was less than ten years ago!
Anyone who claims that marriage has always been one man and one woman is either lying, or completely ignorant of history.
First of all, I am not anti-gay. I love and respect gays.
But let me ask you something, and I want you to think critically about it, and be honest:
have you ever loved or supported someone, but you didn't always agree with everything that he or she believed?
I know that God loves gay people, and he wants us Christians to love them. Gay people deserve to be protected from violence, abuse, and cruelty.
But I don't just love gay people only because I know God wishes it- I believe that you all deserve love because you are human beings. You have dignity. I frown upon people who make fun of gays.
I am sorry that I disagree with you about gay marriage. I don't believe it was what God intended.
And I do realize your point about interracial marriage- it was a good argument, actually. And the way that trends are going in our society, gay marriage might become a reality, as interracial marriage did.
True Christians will walk in love, and you can know them by their works.
It's not about law, it's about biology. Marriage is between a man and a woman. That's the thread that your example tries to break, but cannot. Even in those so-called interracial marriages, it was between a man and a woman.
Take the civil unions. Stop trying to pretend you are in a male/female relationship, because you aren't (although it is interesting to notice how even in your relationships, nature attempts to shoehorn you into the natural order of things, i.e. one playing the role of female and the other male). Getting the laws to say that you are doing exactly what I am doing is a biological lie. You are not and you never will be.
Before you cry "bigot," you admit to yourself that you are as bigoted against my position as I am yours.