Gay marriage

[rxjessica]

Okay, so the news had some fleeting story about Bush banning gay marriage.  So my question is: Why do gay people want to get married?

The way I see it, marriage is a religious institution traditionally meant for a man and a woman.  It's a tradition in all religions for marriage to be strictly heterosexual.

People who are gay are already going

Comments

[kitsune_teej]

Some rights and privliges are not bestowed upon couples who are homosexual. Some work places don't give the same benifits such as health and life insurance to them, since the arn't married. Why should a man and a woman be able to get shared benifits from one of the working and not a man and a man, or a woman and a woman. Aren't they just as deserving? Also there are tax benifits and such that would be applied once they get that title Its a strugle for equality in terms of benifits. Why should they be denied these things just because they aren't officialy 'married' with that title.

Do note that this is just one view of it. A lot of people feel strongly for this right on other reasons. This one just happens to be a view that I think a lot of people should be able to deal with.

[rxjessica]

I can totally see that...

But it could also be said that the companies and insurance providers are as much to blame for not providing coverage to those people... they could just as easily offer coverage to a lover, or even a best friend if the initial person insured wanted to extend that coverage over them.

And the tax benefits thing is a whole other story in it's own right... why should one person get benefits over another because they decided to get a marriage certificate.

I dunno, sometimes I think it would be a better idea to get rid of government recognized marriages all together...

[chorazin]

"So given their "against the flow" lifestyle to begin with"

Not all gays are wacky flamers out to shove their lifestyle in straight America's face.

[rxjessica]

Aye, true... the "against the flow" just meant that their choice of mate is not the traditional, so why go for the traditional institution of mariage.

Heck, my dad's had a long term, loving, live-in relationship with a woman that he's not married to.

I dunno, sometimes it seems that people just like to argue about things just to argue.

[davidwestbrook]

Best I can come up with since they can infact receive all teh same legal benefits a married couple can with a fairly simple legally binding contract is that they're looking for acceptence or validation of thier lifestyle by the rest of soceity

[rxjessica]

yep... like when I get old and am still single I can move in with my best friend and we can form a civil union to get tax cuts so we can feed all our cats. =D

[skilly]

I don't get it either.
We passed around a thingy to sign in Church on Sunday about keeping marriage between a man and a woman. Yeah.