In which I debated my cousins over gay marriage

[notbamf]

Read this or don't. A few days ago, I woke up to find my cousin must have launched into a tirade over gay marriage, so he, my other cousin, and I got into a kind of argument over the matter into two separate Facebook threads. Just posting this for my own future reference. I still don't understand the anti-gay marriage argument, but...meh.

Comments

[mercymydarling]

You know how I've never met your dad but still want to marry him and have tons of little awesome babies? Yeah, I've never met Paul or CJ, but I'd love to punch both of them right in their faces.

P.S. Marriage ISN'T a Catholic/Christian thing, either. Pretty much every major religion has marriage ceremonies of some kind or another.

Yet another reason I'm sad Heather married Jim: I would have totes gay married her just to piss people off. (Plus all the gay love we have, you know how it is.)

[parlet]

I'm not going to lie, I didn't read most of this, but I can probably write the script.

But I have a really funny video about this subject that you might appreciate...let me know if you'd like to see it and I can email you (and let me know where I can email it to!)

[luckyducky82]

You just gotta agree to disagree on certain matters. I can not even talk to my mother about this issue as she is a strict Catholic and goes to the One Man One Woman rallies.

I on the other hand don't really care either way on the issue at hand.

My friend who was the bully turned Christian told me how gays can "snap out of homosexuality". How there are support groups. I thought that was asinine! So being gay is like an alcoholic that go to meetings?!?! Huh? What? Thats those people who found out they were homosexuals, became ashamed and tried to hide it from the world got married to the opposite sex had kids only to end in divorce because they were fooling everyone and themselves.

ARGH

[sensorium]

khdfkhsdfdkfh okay, this made me rage so much.

Okay first of all, as an ex-Catholic I just have to say--CATHOLICS ARE CHRISTIANS. What the hell. I'm not sure why protestants feel like they have a monopoly on Christianity when Catholicism was the first Christian denomination.

Secondly, to my knowledge, Jesus never said ANYTHING about homosexuality, so I don't know where they get off on talking about that. This is a list of quotes about homosexuality in the Bible. I'm not sure what they're referring to in Thessalonians, but imagine it's horribly out of context.

Ugh, I also loved the whole "I can't be homophobic because I have gay friends!" bit.

Also, it seems like they don't really seem to understand the whole concept of separation of church and state.

And lol "all states have civil unions". Suuuuuure they do.

[musicpsych]

I had to laugh as I read that, just at how predictable some of their arguments were. And civil unions aren't available for gay couples in all 50 states. I think it's more like 12. I agree with what grleq said - government-sanctioned civil unions for everyone, keep marriage in churches. I don't think the government could force churches to perform gay marriages due to freedom of religion laws.

I think this is the best video I've recently seen on the subject: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFkeKKszXTw

Keep in mind that it's from a parody website, so if you're not familiar with it, don't take it at face value.