What are the reasons why people oppose gay marriage...?

I've never heard a good argument against gay marriage that didn't involve religion.

God’s original intention for marriage is His final decision (Gen.1:27, 2:18-25). When God created a partner for Adam He created Eve - not another Adam. This means that perfect partnership requires some level of difference as well as a level of similarity so great that Adam could cry out loudly, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh". Sexual intimacy between a man and a woman is the normal method of male/female bonding (emotionally and physically) because it corresponds to the design of our bodies and because it is the normal means by which offspring are created.

If God had intended the human race to be fulfilled through both heterosexual and homosexual marriage, He would have designed our bodies to allow reproduction through both means and made both means of sexual intercourse healthy and natural.

When Jesus was asked questions about marriage he went straight back to the defining passages in Genesis that say that marriage is between male and female and is meant to be life long. He saw the creation accounts in Genesis as authoritative in His day. And what is authoritative for Jesus is authoritative for Christians also. While Jesus did not specifically teach on homosexuality, His establishment of the Genesis passages as the fundamental passages on marriage (even more fundamental than the Law) leaves no doubt as to the outcome.

Romans 1:26-27 , 1 Corinthians 6:9-10, and 1 Timothy 1:9-10 are references indicate that homosexual passions and acts are unnatural, shameful, contrary to sound doctrine and deny entrance to the Kingdom of God. This being so they cannot be the basis of a Christian marriage sanctioned by God's Church. No marriage can be sanctioned by the Church if the very basis of the marriage involves acts that put the couple outside of eternal salvation.

Elder Greg

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I'm opposed to gay marriage, and I know what you're thinking, but it's not because I'm a Christian, ok? I'm pro-choice, which a lot of Christians don't agree with!

The reason I oppose gay marriage is this ... I feel that traditionally (not religiously or biblically, ok?) just traditionally - marriage is between a man and a woman. I have some awesome gay friends and I don't have any less respect for them. It's just my personal feeling on the topic.

The reason people answer with religion is because that's where it started. I'm one of Jehovah's witnesses and it is Jehovah who does not approve of Gay marriage. When he made the first perfect pair Adam And Eve he made them male and female. Also at 1st Corinthians6:9 and 10 is states that men that are kept for unnatural purposes and men who lie with men will not inherit god's Kingdom

Because they fear it threatens their sexuality.

It would seem to me the only people that are opposed to it, are the ones who like to peek in windows at night. I mean, if you're not planning on peeking in windows... what harm could 2 same sex people, doing whatever they do in their own bedroom, bring to anyone else?

It hs to have a religious rason because God created marriage. He's the One who made man and woman for each other. It's a serious perversion in the Bible. In Romans 1:21-27, it says, "For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and sered created things rather than the Creator-who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."

I - as a Christian - don't oppose a 'happy' marriage..........they are absolutely terrific --- the way marriage should be..............

If you are talking about homosexual marriage --- that's a completely different subject, my friend............God made a man and a woman to be companions in the 'holy estate of matrimony'.............not a couple of 'hairy' men.............or a couple of smooth skinned women.............. He calls that 'kind' of relationship an abomination.................I look at it as a sin..............but, in my opinion, the whole 'idea' to me is GROSS and 'disgusting'........................

God Bless....................

Fear. That's all it comes down to, in the end: plain, simple fear of anyone different from themselves.

There are no reasons. Only unfounded fears.