I don’t take it personally. Gay people don’t choose to be gay any more than you chose to be straight.[/quote]
It doesn’t matter when you choose or don’t choose to be gay. Minors can’t get married, who are we to say that they can’t make that decision?
yes they can.
The only reason people can be married by the state, is because of the roots of marriage in the church, and that’s why the state calls it marriage. This happened before you were born, and before Pittspeed was on teh interweb.
wrong. from wikipedia: Marriage was strictly a civil institution until about the mid 5th century CE. Around that time Augustine and others theosophised about marriage and the Christian Church started taking an interest in co-opting it. Christians began to have their marriages conducted by ministers in Christian gatherings. Having always regarded it in practical terms as a relationship between a man and a woman, it was in the 12th century that the Church (the Catholic Church ), as well as other orthodoxies, formally defined marriage as a sacrament. (In Catholicism the Sacrament of Matrimony is between three people: God, the man and the woman). The Protestant Reformation reformulated marriage as a life-long covenant; Protestant leaders like Martin Luther and Calvin denied that marriage was a sacrament.
Why did homos need to take the name “gay” and bastardize it? What’s wrong with homosexual?
homosexuals didn’t take the name gay and bastardize it.
How did homos live before now if we’re so freaking oppressive? If it was just about equal rights, homos would be ok with civil unions, but they’re not happy with civil unions, they have to change something that’s been around for hundreds of years, and mock both the church, and those that believe in it.
Ahh, now we see why YOU are taking this so personally. It’s “mocking” your church.
Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed by fire and brimstone from the sky because of homosexual behavior. This account in the bible, the book which also gave us marriage as a sacrament, should be enough to discourage homos from wanting to associate themselves with marriage at all, given it’s biblical roots. It would only make sense that they would want a different union, not called marriage. Funny, either they’re stupid, or they know something that you dumbasses who defend them don’t know. Get a clue, they have an agenda, and it is to distort and change what has been established before them.
So, was that BEFORE the guy built a giant boat and loaded 2 of every animal on the face of the planet onto it, or after? before the guy with the staff parted the Red Sea, or after? and @ religion. This is another wonderful example as to how religion breeds contempt and intolerance.
and @ every one of your points being proved wrong.