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Gay Marriage. For what reason should gay marriage not be allowed?

A majority, if not all, of the arguments for not allowing gay marriage that I have heard have had a religious basis or were simply illogical. I would like to hear a logical, secular reason for the US, as a whole, to not allow for gay marriages (Note: marriage in this context means married under state, not under god).

Thank you in advanced to those who contribute.

Update:

I would like to point out, for those that aren't aware, that "gay" is an adjective that can be used interchangeably with homosexual. I even checked with princeton.edu to verify this claim before editing my question. So yes, SmartAZ (which is a coincidentally accurate homophone), I do mean same-sex marriage. However I also mean gay marriage.

Also, the word secular (also according to princeton.edu) means "of or relating to the doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations." Therefore, if you post a religious reason or a reason with a religious basis, you will be reported for abuse under the terms of spamming and violation of the conditions of the question.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    There is no logical reason, there a plenty of twisted agendas, but they have underlying hatred in them somewhere.

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    It is not "gay marriage" it is same sex marriage. If you drop the legal distinctions then there are no legal distinctions.

    Presumption of paternity is a long standing legal principle: a husband is legally presumed to be the father of all his wife's babies. If two women marry, is one presumed to be the mother/father of all her partner's babies? What if two men marry and one or both make babies outside the marriage? Who has first claim to custody? Who is liable for support?

    What exactly defines marriage? Courts would probably decline to rule on which same-sex act would be considered consummation, so how is marriage defined? Cohabitation? Would college roommates be liable for each other's debts? Would they have to divorce at the end of each semester?

    Since marriage is no longer a rigidly defined status, business deals might be based on marriage instead of corporate mergers. Can corporations marry?

    It would take more space than is allowed here to list all the legal messes caused by same sex marriage. The confusion is because people have forgotten what marriage is: "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helpmeet." Marriage is a natural condition. A man cleaves unto his wife. Two people are married if they decide they are married. They are legally married if they publicly declare it. But then we have this confusion factor, a corporation between a man, a woman, and a state: a three headed monster. There is no reason why anybody should ask the state's permission to marry. The state does not have authority to refuse.

  • 9 years ago

    01) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.

    02) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

    03) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

    04) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.

    05) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

    06) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.

    07) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

    08) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.

    09) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

    10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.

    Source(s): sarcasm
  • 4 years ago

    tremendously good-looking Awkward's answer is a humorous tale one (of course) that i've got seen in the past yet nevertheless makes me smile. i can not think of of 10 reasons yet as a gay guy i'm able to assert this... a million. If my boyfriend and that i might like a marriage to proclaim our love, why ought to the state get interior the way? we like one yet another purely as a at contemporary couple does. 2. Marriage has somewhat some advantages that flatter it. (it is the impressive reason, definitely.) no remember if it is felt ideal that married human beings ought to have transferable pension rights, be immediately called next-of-kin for well being middle visits, freedom from dying taxes in appreciate of any property they go away to a minimum of one yet another etc etc etc then it is illogical to deny that to a gay couple who experience purely the comparable approximately one yet another. we've the comparable sensible "existence themes" as the different couple. i think of of the English actor Sir Nigel Hawthorne who grew to become into along with his companion Trevor for some years, yet while Nigel died, Trevor had a large subject with the homestead as there grew to become right into a large number of inheritance tax to pay on it. i do no longer understand what got here approximately interior the top yet i've got self belief he had to sell the homestead and circulate someplace smaller to pay the tax. in the event that they were of opposite sexes and been waiting to be married, there could have been no subject. 3. religious people who think of marriage is a non secular element "ordained by ability of god" are incorrect. dedication as a pair has been around long in the past faith. 4. It would not make any distinction to everyone else. we've had gay marriage right here interior the united kingdom for almost 4 years now (even though it is noted as civil partnership to maintain our sturdy state church satisfied - it is precisely the comparable as marriage although) and with the exception of the information memories while the 1st ones got here approximately, it is been a finished non-adventure for each person else. 5. it is purely complication-unfastened human rights for those human beings who take place to be gay. We did no longer % to be gay, we purely are. Why ought to I be denied the comparable rights as relatively everyone else purely because of the fact of my biology? 6. to keep away from gay marriage follows the comparable good judgment as being racist. It denies human beings the impressive to do the comparable issues because of the fact maximum folk purely because of the fact of an twist of way forward for delivery.

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  • 9 years ago

    technically, if two people love each other, then let them commit to each other.

    spiritually, the universe is created with opposites of everything, tall-short, hot-cold,wet-dry,boy-girl,man-woman, etc, to balance the universe. Man was created for woman and vice verse. But I try to comprehend the imperfections of humans and realize we have deficiencies which cause us to not follow the set courses of energies, as their is DNA abnormalities which cause people born blind, deformed or GAY, so...

  • 9 years ago

    There's no real reason, just a bunch of stupid homophobics who try to ruin gay marriage for the homosexuals.

    Source(s): Bisexual
  • 9 years ago

    Because homosexual partnerships are unnatural.

    What other reasons do you want?

  • Anonymous
    9 years ago

    gays should not get married because God created man and woman to get married to one another

    Source(s): my own thinking
  • 9 years ago

    marriage is meant to tie down one male and one female to one family to raise their offsprings

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