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Constitutional Amendment To Ban Same Sex Marriages?
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Do we need one? I think not. Why should anyone care if a same sex couple wants to make the same committment to each other that a heterosexual couple does? Beware of the religious right. ![[Linked Image]](http://www.thegodfathertrilogy.net/emoticons/scared.gif)
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Re: Constitutional Amendment To Ban Same Sex Marriages?
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Originally posted by Capo de La Cosa Nostra: For...America to be the place of freedom and whatnot, why do this?
Very well put, Mick.
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Re: Constitutional Amendment To Ban Same Sex Marriages?
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Some people say that gay marriage "disrespects the sanctity of marriage".
What about divorce? That doesn't? To me, divorce disrespects the sanctity of marriage more than two people of the same sex committing their love to each other and spending their lives in a monogamous relationship.
Hypocrites.
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Re: Constitutional Amendment To Ban Same Sex Marriages?
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02/27/04 05:45 PM
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Originally posted by Capo de La Cosa Nostra: For ... America to be the place of freedom and whatnot, why do this? I think this is overlooked by others not from the US. Sure we have freedom and "whatnot," but we still have laws & rules that govern us, so we are not TOTALLY free. We still can and cannot do somethings, but I guess we're more "free" than other countries, such as Iraq. As for what the Don said, I totally agree with him. I am TOTALLY against divorce & it disgusts me. I hope to be married one day & I think the problem that some, not all, do is that they decide to get married, knowing that they can always get divored. Personally I don't feel there is enough religion in the world. I am very religious & I'm not saying everyone should be Catholic like me, but I am against divorce & gay marriages. That's just my own personal opinion, and I'm not saying anybody elses is wrong!
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Re: Constitutional Amendment To Ban Same Sex Marriages?
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02/27/04 05:55 PM
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Originally posted by Irishman12: Originally posted by Capo de La Cosa Nostra: [b]For ... America to be the place of freedom and whatnot, why do this? I think this is overlooked by others not from the US. Sure we have freedom and "whatnot," but we still have laws & rules that govern us, so we are not TOTALLY free. We still can and cannot do somethings, but I guess we're more "free" than other countries, such as Iraq.
As for what the Don said, I totally agree with him. I am TOTALLY against divorce & it disgusts me. I hope to be married one day & I think the problem that some, not all, do is that they decide to get married, knowing that they can always get divored. Personally I don't feel there is enough religion in the world. I am very religious & I'm not saying everyone should be Catholic like me, but I am against divorce & gay marriages. That's just my own personal opinion, and I'm not saying anybody elses is wrong! [/b]I completely agree with this.
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Re: Constitutional Amendment To Ban Same Sex Marriages?
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02/27/04 06:08 PM
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Originally posted by Irishman12: As for what the Don said, I totally agree with him. I am TOTALLY against divorce & it disgusts me. ... I am against divorce & gay marriages. I don't think we "totally" agree. I am not "TOTALLY" against divorce, and, I am not at all against gay marriage. I never said I was against divorce, although I think it happens WAY too much. Sometimes it's necessary, and that's fine. After a while people may not get along. Life is too short to live through a bad relationship for the rest of your life, so do what you have to do. (I won't go further into it here; that's a different topic really) I just find it funny (and hypocritical) that divorce doesn't bother these closed-minded people at all, but gay marriage does. That makes no sense to me.
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey!  lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: Constitutional Amendment To Ban Same Sex Marriages?
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02/27/04 07:16 PM
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Originally posted by plawrence: Do we need one?
I think not. I echo what you have said... Why cant people in love stay together in matrimony jsut cause their gay?
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Re: Constitutional Amendment To Ban Same Sex Marriages?
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The way I understand it (I may be wrong), but it's not technically legal, but some local jurisdictions and states claimed it treated gays as second-class citizens so are marrying couples anyway. Some people (including the president) are against this, and want to add an amendment to our Constitution (the document that "secures the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity") banning it altogether. As for who marries them, I don't think there have been religous church weddings (I may be wrong), but surely anyone can be married in a chapel or elsewhere by a minister (anyone can be a "minister"  ) or a justice of the peace, etc.
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey!  lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: Constitutional Amendment To Ban Same Sex Marriages?
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02/27/04 07:36 PM
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I'm not "in favor" of same sex marriage. I'm simply not against it.
I don't care what other people do, as long as it doesn't infringe on my rights. And I will never understand why anyone else wouldn't feel the same way.
Anyone who wants to be against same sex marriage is fine with me, even though I can't understand their reasons.
But I didn't intend this thread to be a debate about whether or not we should allow it. My question is
"Do we need a constitutional amendment to prevent it?"
Shouldn't this be something that the individual states decide for themselves?
Isn't Bush trying to make a political issue out of something that in the grand scheme of things is relatively unimportant?
Isn't he pandering to the extreme conservatives and the religious right?
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Re: Constitutional Amendment To Ban Same Sex Marriages?
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02/27/04 08:21 PM
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"Do we need a constitutional amendment to prevent it?"
No.
Shouldn't this be something that the individual states decide for themselves?
It really shouldn't be anyone else's decision besides the two people wanting to be married. What the hell business is it of the president's -- or the governors' or mayors' -- that two people want to join in matrimony?
Isn't Bush trying to make a political issue out of something that in the grand scheme of things is relatively unimportant?
Yes.
Isn't he pandering to the extreme conservatives and the religious right?
Yes. And I really don't know how that is supposed to help him. He should be leaning a little to the left if he wants to be re-elected, I think.
I studied Italian for 2 semesters. Not once was a "C" pronounced as a "G", and never was a trailing "I" ignored! And I'm from Jersey!  lol Whaddaya want me to do? Whack a guy? Off a guy? Whack off a guy? --Peter Griffin My DVDs | Facebook | Godfather Filming Locations
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Re: Constitutional Amendment To Ban Same Sex Marriages?
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02/27/04 08:40 PM
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I´d not belive that a marriage between people of the same sex has something bad, if they not bother our private life, i don´t care what they do, is not the normal thing, i guess, but what is normal is these times, is relative, so i´d not have nothing against or something in favor,is not my business i guess.
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Re: Constitutional Amendment To Ban Same Sex Marriages?
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02/27/04 09:41 PM
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Originally posted by beatlewho01-02: If they get an amendement passed to ban gay marriage, then why stop there? Why not ban other religions, ban free speech, ban freedom of the press, bring back Prohibition, ban abortion and all that shit? I have a bad feeling about this. America is really pulling a Rome. Amen, but it wont go THAT far...
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Re: Constitutional Amendment To Ban Same Sex Marriages?
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Originally posted by Mike Sullivan: it wont go THAT far... See, that's one of the problems here. You may think it won't go that far, but you don't really know. It's a slippery slope once you start sliding down...
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Re: Constitutional Amendment To Ban Same Sex Marriages?
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I understand, of course, that the Bible does not condone same sex unions. I wouldn't expect otherwise.
But again, do we need a constitutional amendment to prohibit something that IMO should be a choice made by consenting individuals?
And perish the thought that we need a constitutional amendment to prohibit something just because the Bible says it's wrong. Separation of church and state and all that.
How about a constitutional amendment prohibiting adultery?
Remember, we're on a slippery slope here...
Let's ban same sex marriage Let's ban same sex relations Let's ban sexual relations between two consenting adults who aren't married Let's ban sexual relations between members of different races
I Believe that 65% of all Americans are against same sex marriages. Big deal. I bet deep down in their hearts, 65% of Americans (or close) would be against Whites marrying Blacks.
And I'll say it again: Is this such a big important issue that we need to amend the Constitution over it?
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Re: Constitutional Amendment To Ban Same Sex Marriages?
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I am not a fan of gays, but I see no reason that the government should ban their right to marry. It is very, very, Un-American!
America is the land of the free, where everyone has the right to practice anything within the scope of the law. Seeing that being gay is perfectly legal, and should always be, considering the government has no right to decide what is moral and what is not, they then have no right to make gay marriage illegal.
Add to that the fact that marriage licenses are a power that is not granted to the federal government by our Consitution, and I see no reason why this is even an issue. Granted, theya re attempting to bypass thislast issue by making it an amendment, but I do not see any reason to change our Consitution based on the idea that gay marriage is "unnatural".
First of all, as stated earlier, the government has no right to control our moral decisions. And if they tried to amend the constitution to change that, America would crumble. That would turn our lovely democratic republic into a totalitarian government, in which the could control everything we do. This amendment would lead us down a slippery slope to the destruction of everything that this great country stands for.
Remeber folks, this is all coming from a hateful bigot who has time and time again bashed gaywads unashamedly. This is not a moral issue, as Bush is trying to portray. It is a political and governmental issue that seeks to undermine the principles that our Founding Fathers established. If this freedom is taken away from the homos, what is to stop the government from taking away more freedoms from us. Hell, the Patriot Act already stripped us of many freedoms that we once took for granted. I'm telling you folks, this is a dangerous slippery slope!
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Re: Constitutional Amendment To Ban Same Sex Marriages?
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Originally posted by Hollywood Hagan: If this freedom is taken away from the homos, what is to stop the government from taking away more freedoms from us....I'm telling you folks, this is a dangerous slippery slope! I'm surprised and pleased with your response, HH. Especially the slippery slope part. You old gay basher, you. 
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Re: Constitutional Amendment To Ban Same Sex Marriages?
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Originally posted by plawrence: Originally posted by Mike Sullivan: [b] it wont go THAT far... See, that's one of the problems here.
You may think it won't go that far, but you don't really know.
It's a slippery slope once you start sliding down... [/b]We the people would rebel against our goverment should it go too far... But maybe we'd take it up the ass... Just like they want us too...
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