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Anonymous asked in Society & CultureCultures & GroupsOther - Cultures & Groups · 1 decade ago

Could those of you opposed to gay marriage answer the following question?

OK, if you're basing governmental law upon the Constitution (which you are, you righteous patriot) and there is nothing in the Constitution stating only a man and a woman can marry, how can you possibly, as an American, keep gay marriage illegal? Let me respond to the most common arguments so that I may receive fair, unbiased answers based in reality.

1. Polygamy cannot be a legally binding contract because such an institution constitutes civil inequality; the individual losing out to the corporation (hey, wait, that sounds familiah...)

2. If any one of you wants to marry his sister 'because' any two individual humans can be married, more power to ya. The government has no right to control who you marry beyond a certain age. (Yes, of course I believe there should be a fair age minimum on marriage licenses). I doubt there will be enough people marrying their fathers to alter the human genome in a way that could cause mass extinction.

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3. Since a marriage (civil union, what have you )is a legally binding contract between two individuals that can be annulled if it is made under duress or force and a sheep cannot speak for itself or sign a contract the "bestiality" argument is moot.

4. A marriage and a civil union are the same thing. Call it what you want - no one really knows where the ritual of marriage originated and therefore no religion can 'own' the right to it.

5. If the church, mosque, etc. isn't in favor of homosexual marriage then they have the right to stay out of it. Since there is a supposed separation between church and state no religious ceremony can legally define an institution. It's like naming a godfather or godmother at a baptism - a sweet little idea but not one, again, that is legally binding..

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Update 2:

Again how can you argue the Constitutional and legal rights of gay marriage if you are an American governed by the Constitution?

Yes, I asked this question twice because there were two categories (3 actually) it which it snugly fit. And I changed it slightly to avoid being reported for asking it twice. Doing it thricely would probably be a violation so I avoided that as well.

Update 3:

Thank you, moo. Let me rephrase that. Since the state constitution must be based on some form of common law and the supreme common law of this nation is the federal Constitution, how can you, as an American, keep gay marriage illegal?

Update 4:

Aw, Icy, "work, work... with just a little bit 'a soul now- WORK!"

*Does the mashed potato with you*

Update 5:

*Marries Tigger* I hope you don't mind a polygamous relationship with Zero Cool, Red Queen, Lizard of Ahaz, and Sips With A Fist!

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  • polybisep
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago
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    I support gay marriages, but in response to a couple of the other comments here:

    States do dictate marriage, but every state has agrrements to recognize marriages performed in other states. This is why a marriage between a man and a woman performed in any state in the US is recognized in all of the other 49 states as well.

    As far as just having sex and not getting married, there are many heterosexual couples who do that all the time. The reason many gay couples want to get married is because there are many *legal* benifites that married couples have that are denied to two people just living together. One example is property inheritance. If you own a house, get married, and then die, your legaly married spouse inherits the house and can continue to live there. If you own a house and you and your partner do not get married, when you die they become homeless. Likewise there are many area of tax law that benifite married couple, as well as trying to adopt and raise children together, getting insurance together, etc. One group found something like 9,000 examples of laws that specify rights for a legaly married spouse that would be denied to a non married partner regardless of how long the couple had lived together.

    The US constitution does specify a seperation of church and state. So people in this country have to decide if marriage is a religious recognition or a legal status. If it is religious then there should be no laws that give preference to or exclude anyone because of their marital status. If it is a legal status then everyone should have the same right to enter into it and no church or religious organization should have any say in who anyone chooses as a spouse.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I personally don't care about gay marriage. I think they should be able to marry too. But to your question about the constitution of course it's not in there. STATES hold the power to dictate marriage. States have their own personal constitutions. That's why in some states you can have gay marriage and others you can't. Some states approve while others do not.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I think I am like many others and I am too confused to answer this sensibly because my brain hurts... so I agree with gay mariage entirely. Really I must ask you though... can't I just have sex and forget about all these crazy mixed up bigoted rules for a while?

    *Do you love me? Do you wanna dance? Shake me now.. twist twist and it goes like this...*

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I see you are not getting any responses from the opposers, Thrice. I wonder why? I know they aren't reading their Bibles.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    marry me, Thrice

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    i'm not against it...i just wanted to see what answers you got.

    ((thrice))

  • Special Edition
    1 decade ago

    I can't say I'm against it legally. Good luck and god bless

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I don't think anyone on yahoo really has problems with gay people and them marrying.

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