I'm having a hard time understanding the amount of nevative feeling over this, and I've yet to hear a coherent, logical argument against
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That's because there isn't a coherent, logical argument against it.
Marriage itself is nothing special to start with anyway. The only thing that matters is that two people want to make a commitment to eachother - that's what's important about it, not that it's done in a church or in the eyes of whatever god one believes in (arguably, it's more important that it's done in the eyes of the people witnessing the ceremony - ones peers are way more important than imaginary gods).
The people who are against gay marriage and abortion aren't really much better than the Taliban as far as I'm concerned - they twist religious scriptures to suit their backwards, barbaric ideals and try to force people to do things their way. They're savages as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah, that's what I just don't get. I mean, I know people, perfecly nice, reasonable people, who believe that this will somehow 'degrade' the concept of marriage. And have you seen the petitions for this, last time I checked (thurs or fri) there were something like 200,000 signed up against gay marriage, and 30,000 for! God! What have we been doing for the past 50-odd years? I thought we, as a society had got so much further than this.
It makes me so damn angry, that amongst people who would consider theselves good and non-predudiced that there's obviously this latent undercurrent of homophobia, that somehow gays don't deserve the same rights as everyone else.
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Marriage itself is nothing special to start with anyway. The only thing that matters is that two people want to make a commitment to eachother - that's what's important about it, not that it's done in a church or in the eyes of whatever god one believes in (arguably, it's more important that it's done in the eyes of the people witnessing the ceremony - ones peers are way more important than imaginary gods).
The people who are against gay marriage and abortion aren't really much better than the Taliban as far as I'm concerned - they twist religious scriptures to suit their backwards, barbaric ideals and try to force people to do things their way. They're savages as far as I'm concerned.
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It makes me so damn angry, that amongst people who would consider theselves good and non-predudiced that there's obviously this latent undercurrent of homophobia, that somehow gays don't deserve the same rights as everyone else.
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