For those who oppose gay marriage to "protect the sanctity of marriage"?

Well, son, I DO disagree with divorce, to the same extent that I disagree with gay marriage. So many people are jumping into marriages with the wrong person because they know how easy it will be to get out of it.

Personally I would think the lovely bible thumpers marriages would be perfect seeing as god is watching out for them... Awesome question btw...and notice you aren't getting any real answers..this is because of the wonderful bigotry that is Christianity. Marriage is no longer sacred. People can have 5 wives in the course of 2 years and cheat on every single one of them. Personally...if you aren't gay then it really shouldn't affect you. Don't marry someone of the same sex if you have a problem with it. DONE. But leave everyone else alone and live your pathetic lives reading a bible.

Neither the United States nor any State of the Union grants marriage licenses based on religion, and if religion was the basis of marriage, it would not be supported by the State because that would endorse a religious practice. Atheists are legally able to marry, and mariages performed by justices of the peace, sea captains and notaries are completely legally binding without ANY reference to matters of religous faith - and neither is there ANY reference to religious faith on any marriage license or certificate issued by any of the 50 states. If the couple desires to include religious themes and beliefs in their wedding CEREMONY they are welcome to do such a thing - but as far as the state is concerned, marriage is 100% a CIVIL matter to insure the protection of a declared union and to ensure any children that MIGHT be produced are LEGITIMATE. In the eyes of the law, marriage and religion are two totally different subjects. You do not have to be religious to get married, and a marriage celebrated with religious themes is as irrellivent to the State as the color of the shirt you wear for your driver's license photo.

However, outlawing divorce can only be justified on religious terms and therefore it would be just as illegal as denying marriage to homosexuals based on religious terms.

Rev. Jim Cunningham

King James Bible Ministries

I've been married for 32 years to the same women and I can only hope that gay marriage remains illegal in my state. I just know if they make it legal I'll divorce my wife and marry the first guy with cute buns I see.

edit: Insensitive?...lol It was meant to be satire. Just as your question shows the hypocrisy of Christians attempting to outlaw gay marraige while ignoring the biblical rules of divorce which require proof of adultery. Where is the Christian's attempt at divorce legislation that requires this proof? The fact is it does not exist because over 50% of them are divorced.

Not too bright - huh?

Take another look. It's not the Christian or Jewish Right that has sanctified divorce. Every Judeo-Christian denomination has already taken a stance against divorce because it is a SIN !

It is the unreligious, unchurched and the unfaithful that promote divorce as a human right!

Well if they don't like gay marriage...it should also become illegal for Britney Spears to marry haha. Wake up everyone, the sactity of marriage is GONE. My parents have been together for 30 years and never been married.

The sanctity of marriage was lost when you could go to a drive-thru to get married by Elvis.

Just sayin'.

I'm not opposed to gay marriage, I just wanted to say that you make some really good points.

Yes, divorce is a MORTAL sin. It's adultery.

Mark 10: "2 And the Pharisees coming to him asked him, tempting him: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? 3 But he answering, says to them: What did Moses command you? 4 Who said: Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce and to put her away. 5 To whom Jesus answering, said: Because of the hardness of your heart, he wrote you that precept. 6 But from the beginning of the creation, God made them male and female. 7 For this cause, a man shall leave his father and mother and shall cleave to his wife. 8 And they two shall be in one flesh. Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder. 10 And in the house again his disciples asked him concerning the same thing. 11 And he says to them: Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another commits adultery against her. 12 And if the wife shall put away her husband and be married to another, she commits adultery."

Matthew 19: "3 And there came to him the Pharisees tempting him, saying: Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause? 4 Who answering, said to them: Have you not read, that he who made man from the beginning, made them male and female? And he said: 5 For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh. 6 Therefore now they are not two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder. 7 They say to him: Why then did Moses command to give a bill of divorce, and to put away? 8 He says to them: Because Moses by reason of the hardness of your heart permitted you to put away your wives: but from the beginning it was not so. 9 And I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, except it be for fornication, and shall marry another, commits adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, commits adultery. 10 His disciples say unto him: If the case of a man with his wife be so, it is not expedient to marry. 11 Who said to them: All men take not this word, but they to whom it is given. 12 For there are eunuchs, who were born so from their mothers womb: and there are eunuchs, who were made so by men: and there are eunuchs, who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven. He that can take, let him take it."

Luke 16: "18 Every one that puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery: and he that marries her that is put away from her husband commits adultery."

I am outraged that there is so much divorce, but it is what it is. Also, some divorces are only divorce under the law, but in the Church there never truly was a marriage because of some horrible betrayal of some sort, such as abuse or adultery.

I'm outraged that people have made a joke of something that is a Sacrament in my Church, a vow before God to love one another forever, to be mutually exclusive to one another, and to accept children into the family. It's something that CANNOT be broken. There is only that the vow was never truthful to begin with, making the vow invalid.

Oh, and the thing about the children: one of the main reasons for marriage is to have children. That's why marriage MUST be between a male and a female. If God doesn't gift the couple with children, that's one thing. However, to go against creation and the laws of nature is wrong. And no, I don't believe in in-vitro fertilization, either. I also don't believe in hindering creation and not accepting the whole of one's spouse, so I don't believe contraception or abortion. I believe in staying chaste until marriage, and being faithful to one's spouse. I believe children are a gift, not a curse or something you can throw away. I'm Roman Catholic, which means I'm pro-life.

Actually, by allowing gay marriage, definition of marriage itself is diluted.

Let them have garriage instead of marriage. Do not dilute a term than is being used for thousand of years.