I saw a couple of Gay questions, I am confused, What rights don't Homosexuals have?

Please don't blow off marriage as a minor exception. It is a big deal -- legally. Morality and spirituality doesn't have crap to do with it. If that mattered, we would be persecuting all the heteros who live together. Gay "marriage" is all about rights of couples to share their lives to the extent that married heteros do -- insurance, medicare, automatic rights of possessions with death, etc.

It's not an "in your face" kind of thing at all. It's simply wanting to have the same legal rights as married heteros.

Homosexuals do not have any of the family rights that marriage ensures. Unless you live in a state that has full domestic partnership, and then you have to hire a lawyer to draft the agreement, and at close to 100 pages, it doesn't come cheap. And even then they don't get access to all of the family rights afforded to married couples and their children.

Most of the family rights that gays want are not the rights of the married couple, they are the family rights of the children of a gay couple, which are almost non-existant, since most states there can only be one legal mother or one legal father. What happens when the legal parent dies? Too often, the child is taken from the surviving parent and becomes a ward of the state.

Errrrrrrrrrrrrr...

FYI - "Gay" people do have the right to marry, just like everybody else. Any homosexual is free to marry any woman, and any lesbian is free to marry any man. What they're really on about is changing the entire concept and format of marriage - that of one man and one woman - to accommodate their own whims.

The whole "gay" marriage thing isn't about rights, it's about undeserved privilege. And it isn't about marriage, it's about a disgruntled and unsavoury minority launching an assault on long-standing customs and traditions and turning it in to a grotesque parody of the real del.

The "gay" card is the new race card - played far too often by those who seek an easy ride through life, often at the expense of everybody else.

Even if the idiots in power concede to the nagging of the "gay" community and any kind of "gay" marriage is sanctioned, the rank and file of society will refuse to recognise it's validity. And quite rightly too.

Thank gawd for the subtle truth in the notion that while we can take a horse to water we can't make it drink...

Marriage isn't a right, it's a religious, but often, secular ritual. However, the government got involved with it for the purposes of creating a 'tax bracket' (oh, and to make money by selling you a 'marriage license'). If it wasn't for that, anyone could marry anyone and it wouldn't really matter.

They have all the same constitutional rights as anyone else.

What rights do you or anyone else have to deny other people marriage, even if it is the same sex?

It's a matter of equality and equal rights.

In most of Europe there is no issues with this, and that's how it should be in America also.

How would you like it if you were denied marriage? In any case nobody would be forcing you to have a gay marriage. It dosen't affect your life. You should focus on your own life and not be meddling in other peoples personal business.

In my country (UK) nothing is wrong between consenting adults and that is how it should be.

When did this section become overrun by trolls? Everywhere I turn, every question I go to about the bible there are about 5-10 aethiests insulting christians and telling them to grow up or that there views are wrong, which they don't understand because they could care less about the bible and christian's beliefs. If you're an aetheist what the Hell business do you have in a section called religion and spirituality. This used to be a good site...

It's still legal to fire someone on the basis of being gay in some states, kick them out of the military, and deny them full rights within a marriage.

Let's not forget plain ignorance. Gay people are still harassed, beaten and disowned.

"I don't believe in Homosexual marriage by the way...I think that is a gateway/ slippery slope thing."

Well, it is good you admit your fail.

In some states, gay couples are not allowed to adopt.

In some states, sodomy (anal sex) is illegal.

In some states, it is illegal for two men or two women to publicly express their love (hugging, holding hands, kissing, etc.)

In some countries, homosexuals are executed.

I didn't mention the more than 1,000 rights that gay couples do not get through a civil union rather than marriage.

They don't have the right to force everybody else to agree that the way they live is just as good in every way as traditional couples. That's what the marriage thing is all about. They want affirmation.

Well in some states they can't adopt children, there is also the marriage thing, places like Texas and other states outlawed sodomy.