Same sex marriage:Acceptable or Unacceptable?

I am not homosexual; however, as far as the legality goes, there is no legal argument that can be made to ban gay marriages. The government shouldn't be in the business of telling people with whom they are allowed to have sex when it comes to two consenting adults. If two men want to be married or if two women want to be married, it is THEIR business. It has nothing to do with me. As far as I am concerned, go for it.

Let's break this down like rational adults.

1. Gay marriage doesn't hurt anyone. If you don't like gay marriage, don't have one.

2. There are hundreds of documented cases of gay animals. Just because someone doesn't bother to study biology doesn't mean they can claim it doesn't exist.

3. Procreation - Yes, the world isn't overcrowded enough. By all means let children rot away in orphanages, because dammit, we need to kick out more babies! The Earth isn't overpopulated enough!

4. Procreation - only people who can have children together have the right to get married - so old people and the infertile don't have that right, either?

5. Raising children- Hundreds of psychological studies have conclusively found that the only difference between kids raised in gay homes and in straight ones is that the kids in gay homes tend to be nicer to people who aren't just like them. Less racism, sexism, religious intolerance, etc. How horrible!

6. Marriage is a legal document. Unless you chose to have a ceremony in a church, it has nothing to do with religion.

7. The Constitution clearly states that there cannot be one religion elevated over all others (that's why our forefathers came here, duh). Because many religions celebrate gay unions, OUR religious rights are being violated by banning them. Oh, right, we're inferior to Christians, huh?

8. Even if it were a choice (yeah, every single gay/bi person in the world is lying about that *eye roll*), so what? Religion is a choice. So we can forbid you to build churches, right? After all, you CHOSE to be Christian.

9. Adam and Eve both had brown eyes. So anyone with blue eyes is an abomination, right?

10. Since your god said that a man should be one when he takes a wife, that automatically means that it's forbidden.

11. Jesus made it clear that instead of doing unto others, we should force everyone to live by Christian laws even if they aren't Christian.

12. God said eating shellfish is an abomination too, but he didn't mean that one, really.

13. The Bible is obviously the best moral guide a person can have. After all, it tells you all the proper ways to have slaves, instructs you to set up a fair price when selling your daughter into slavery, and it's always very reasonable about the specific ways we should stone our disobedient children.

14. Gay marriage hurts all other marriages. You'll wake up in the middle of the night and say "Oh no! Two men just married each other in another time zone! Our marriage is less valuable now!"

15. Gays can't have love, only lust. All those 90 year olds who have been together 50+ years and look like they would snap like a twig if they had sex are obviously together only for lust.

16. It's just like any other sin. Should we allow murder or the rape of children? Cause that's what will happen when we allow gays to marry! It's the next logical step!

17. Other countries have permitted gay marriage and are doing just fine. But we're different. We'll collapse and be ruined.

18. People will marry dogs. Because a dog is recognized as a human being and can consent to marriage and sex. Dogs and gay people are about the same level.

19. The "I find it gross" argument is perfectly valid. I find dogs gross and disgusting. I think I'll ban dog ownership.

20. Churches will be forced to marry gays. Sure they have the right to turn anyone away for their religion, divorce, race, refusing counseling, having tattoos etc., but they'll be forced to marry gays.

21. Gays should have all the rights, but not the word marriage. The same way that black people should be able to ride the bus, but have to sit in the back. What does it matter? They still get where they're going!

Again IT DOESN'T HURT ANYONE!

Can anyone dispute these arguments? It's impossible.

I don't see how same sex marriage can be 'unacceptable'. I am not gay myself but I think its ridiculous that gay people are not allowed to. I don't understand how it could be against the law for gay people to get married. It's their life why can't they live it however they want to? The way I see it the government is being biased (most are Christians) and obviously Christianity is against same sex marriage. Sexual orientation is something that cannot be changed. Two people who love each other, regardless of their sex, should be able to get married.

EDIT: Religious beliefs are meant to be personal, it cannot and should not be applied to people who don't feel the same way. Religion is about GOD. It is NOT about any of this. This is all just personal. If God did indeed create everything, isn't it possible he also created all these feelings for people of the same sex? Honestly, all of this has nothing to do with religion.

EDIT: I agree 100% with ialsogotcha, if it's not hurting anyone then why not? If your allowed to have a gun in the United States, which probably some people use to hurt others, why shouldn't same sex marriage be OK?

Perfectly acceptable, provided both partners are single, competent adults. Same as I feel about opposite sex marriage.

Acceptable.

All couples deserve the same legal rights and protections under United States Law through which the separation of Church "morality" and State policy is maintained.

I'm neutral. But I do find religious persons attempting to dictate who can marry who unacceptable in a free country.

It's not a question of "acceptable or unacceptable."

It's a question of human rights.

And those so-called "Christians" who oppose gay marriage are judging others; which is specifically forbidden by the Christian faith.

But the "holier-than-thou" brigade likes to go around pointing fingers at others, as it's no fun to follow the basic principles of the Christian faith.

It gives them a smug, self-righteous feeling to condemn others.

They're not really Christian, anyway, they're pseudo-Christians.

I believe that same-sex couples should be afforded the same rights and responsibilities of marriage as straight couples.

It's not unacceptable in any way so it's acceptable

i find it unacceptable that ppl it's got nothing to do with have an opinion about it and talk pure doo-doo me i just get on with my life and stick to the things which concern me