Name: Email: chinesetakeaway@hotmail.com Response:
All that i have to say is that it is not the
government's right (nor is it anyone else's) to
say who can and cannot get married. If two
people are in love and want to get married, it
is THEIR choice and THEIR right alone.
Name: Ondrea Email: Response:
All of you people using the bible (that thing so mistranslated thru the centuries!!)
against homosexuality remind me exactly why I don't want to be a Christian ญญ that good ol' Christian intolerance and hatred.
Check the message you're sending to the world, Christians.
Name: B O P Email: supa_ronn@hotmail.com Response:
It is no ones damn business. Ignorance and religious intolerance will not stop two people from getting married -- even if it means creating their own church. I am APPALLED that so-called christians are so full of hate when it comes to discussions of homosexuality. "Christ" was all about love, peace and understanding and if he were around today, would surely be disappointed with many "christians." Where the hell are all of the haters when children are being molested by heterosexuals, when racists are triumphing in our country and when the poor are told to drop dead? Wake up America! While you try to deny people of their own happiness, we are ALL going to hell!!!
Name: KLeonard Email: k8wra@juno.com Response:
Same sex marriages---don't exist. There are only same sex relationships. I make no judgement about these arrangements. If it would left up to me they would just be laughed out of existence.
Name: Qwell Email: Response:
While we all are fighting/arguing of what is right or what should be right. We should all remember that if we believe God to be who He says that He is ("I AM"), then we must realize without confusion or biased opinion that He does not make mistakes. And for this society to claim responsibility of same sex relationships confirms that we do not believe that God is "Almighty, The Holy One". We cannot claim to love God and in the same breathe go against what He has made clear. He did not need our input when He created the Heavens and Earth and all that dwells, so I am sure that He doesn't need nor have any tolerance for your self-definition of His creation and commandments. Please ask yourself, "Do you love yourself or others more than you love God?" If not, you will accept what He has done to be what is RIGHT!
Name: jvancollins. Email: jv@acsu.buffalo.edu Response:
People go on and on about marriage being for procreation but they don't realize there are many people out there who do not even want to have children. Marriage in this era is about love and when you look close enough, economic benefits. You have tax breaks, joint accounts and hospital visitation rights when your loved ones are in the hospital. Without the benefit of marriage, persons in same sex unions cannot see the ones they love in the hospital. Let us move on to more important things like the levels of education our children are receiving in schools and leave people alone in their bedrooms.
Name: lorraine Email: wanda@dnrcrd3.dnr.state.ga.us Response:
Let us pray. God is a merciful God and with sincere prayer perhaps he will forgive us and give us strength to help resist the real eneemy, who, by the way
is not those good people who believe in their hearts
that they are in love with someone of the same sex. I say NO
to same sex marriages. Let us pray. Mark 10:6
Name: Terri Barnes Email: terrib.gwis2.circ.gwu.edu Response:
You know what, I'm sick and tired of ignorant people. Why can't we all just accept each other and be happy for one another. Falling in love with another person (regardless of their gender) is a beautiful, wonderful, and DIVINE feeling. When two people want to express this love for each other (whether it be marriage or what have you) then I believe it should not only be allowed but embraced. There is so much hate and ignorance in this world that I just don't have the time to worry about what my neighbor is doing in his bedroom. Live and let live. By the way, for that person who said that being black was a burden, well I personally don't see being black as my downfall but as my uprising. Thank you.
Name: RuPaul Email: Response:
God didn't create Adam and Eve. He created Adam and Yves. And don't forget that Jesus hung around with twelve men and no women.
Name: Email: ReedsCrib@aol.com Response:
I disagree with same sex marriages. I'm surprised
it is a topic today. I'm more convince how
morally corrupt this society has become to even
think about approving a Homosexual marriage.
I believe this topic is another sign that the
end is coming soon. However,one that does have
this relationship should not be ostracize,but
prayed for.
Name: Jesse Email: Jessee@surfnetinc.com Response:
I am against same sex marriages because I am
a firm believer that marriage was establish by God. He sanctioned male and female and instructed them to "be fruitful and multiply". This is impossible with same sex marriages. Anything else is against his word and I personally cannot except it.
Name: Frances Murphy Email: FrankieLou@aol.com Response:
People in same sex relationships seem to be on the fringe of society. Their relationship somehow doesn't seem to be quite right. Most cannot stand up to the insults, snickers and sneers people and the just plain "I don't like you" that society dishes out. To be Black and in a same sex marraige is just one more burden added to an already burdened-down person. Same sex marriages are just not accepted in the every day world. The sad thing is that any child added to this union will be scarred for life. But,people have a tendency to do as they please so if they want this extra burden, let 'em have it.. Just don't drag the children into it.
Name: Theodore Austin Email: fdvc76a@prodigy.com Response:
Marrage is one of the oldest instutions in human civilization. Its purpose has been to produce the next generation.of human beings.Any other arrangement is not marrage. If people want to enter into some other living arrangement based on their sexual behaviour thats fine . Lets call it something else and let the old institution remain what it was always ment to be, producing the best of the next generation.
Name: Juniee Email: juniee@mnsinc.com Response:
It would seem to me that the question of same sex
marriages, is basically a referendum on homsexuality.
Those who feel O.K. or not oppposed to it would favor
allowing marriage and those who think homosexuality
is wrong are opposed to it. Discrimination aganinst
homosexuals is just as bad as discrimination against
blacks or women.
Name: David Sheppard Email: dsheppard@tuna.net Response:
I feel that if all the (wasichus) were to
marriages each the world would
be a better place. But then this just my
humble opinion.
Name: Curtis Plair Sr. Email: Plair@MSN.Com Response:
"Same Sex" Marriages. This is not what God pre-supposed. This is counterclockwise thinking, which this is also neither normal nor natural. How can you possibly thrive and flourish, without the ability or inability there of, to reproduce? The thought is well beyond disgusting, and grosses me out!!
Name: james n. Email: jjn@wp-lag.mindspring.com Response:
Why Not!
Hell, if two men or two woman can be in love,
then what's the next level of love, hmmmm...,
a sheep and a man or even better a young child and a man
or a woman and her pet ( dog, that is ). Because we believe,
do, say, and love anything and everything. So it seems that love
has no boudaries or claims. So we deserve the fate that
we bring upon ourselves.
Power to the gay-gene and gullible people, because
propaganda and the devil are having a good time.....
IN THE NAME OF LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Name: JESSE Email: jessee@surfnetinc.com Response:
Same sex marriages are a joke. Marriage is sanctioned by God and his instructions are to be fruiful and multiply. This cannot be done with same sex marriages. They should not be allowed and I question any minister that performs the ceremony.
Name: James John Email: s9609050@studentwestgate.vut.edu.au Response:
Is Wrong and it will be always, people get a life
God created Man and Women not a Man and Man
Name: Annette Email: Response:
I say NO to same sex marriage! I think it's ok to love someone of the same gender, but marriage is taking it to another level. By saying that these marriages are acceptable is sending a message to younger generations (children) that this is what God intended and that is a lie! Children live by example and this would be a very bad example for them to live by.
Name: daze Email: Response:
No, same sex marriage should not be legalized.Man is to be fruitful and multiply and same sex can't accomplish this.And besides it ranks right up there with other abominations,and I wouldn't want my children expose to it.
Name: Richard Email: richard6394@aol.com Response:
If marriages must be sanctioned in the eyes of the Lord then atheists shouldn't be allowed to get married. This obviously is not the case. Religion has nothing to do with marriage (you can opt to be married by a civil servant), so this latest farce of outrage by the religious right is nothing more than a sham to cover-up of their own personal inadequacies. The only thing that screws up a marriage between two people is the relationship between those two people and not two other people (whatever their physiology) getting married. My advice to people who can't cope is to SNIFF UNDER YOUR OWN ARMPITS before you start accussing others of causing a stink.
Name: sah-lo Email: ccrws@sunset.backbone.olemiss.edu Response:
I say no. GOD made Adam and Eve. GOD did not
make Adam and Steve.
Name: fowens5 Email: Response:
no same sex marriages. this mean no children!
Name: Bendera Email: Bendera@aol.com Response:
yes ,Yes. In a society that was once based upon
the quality and apprecitaon of Marriage of two
people making a life together we must must
ok MARRIAGE.
The anamialist trend of todays heterosexual
population of sleeping around, shacking up so
vividly in the media must stop!!
Name: clay Email: keith@zeus.engr.siu.edu Response:
Whats next? I'm against the whole idea of same sex
marriages. It seems ethically, morally and religiously
wrong. This is just another addition to a corrupt
society. I dont want to raise my future children up
in a modern day sodom and Gamorrah. Now I know that
this may be the same feelings that
some of the white people felt when they opposed
civil rights laws for blacks but I am against it.
I thought the point of marriage was to purify a
relationship in the sight of God with his annoiting.
I dont think God is pleased with this so it seems
to defeat the purpose. I've heard the point that
marriage is for commitment but with the divorce
rate so high and the rate of adulterous marriages
so high, today marriage doesnt garuantee commitment.
Remember the right to do so doesnt mean its right
to do so.
Name: Jamie Heckman Email: jlheckman@ucdavis.edu Response:
I'm all for it. Why should heterosexuals be the only ones
who have the option to legally declare their lifelong love
for someone, and also receive the $$ benefits of a marriage (ie.
health insurance/medical benefits, tax benefits). Personally, I have
a very negative outlook on marriage, being that most of the
ones I know have ended up in divorce, but everyone should
have the OPTION of getting married, whether male or female, white
or black, straight or gay. Anyone who thinks otherwise should
mind their own business and not bud into other people's lives.
Name: Matt Evans Email: matt@afroam.org Response:
This question is about
people who decide that they love one another so
much that they are willing to commit to a
life-long partnership. "Til death do us part"
is a powerful phrase that represents an
incredible journey of both heart and spirit.
Anyone courageous enough to say these words and
mean them deserves to enjoy their union free of persecution.
Do we agree that many families and marriages
today suffer from serious problems? Why deny Gays and
Lesbians the right to declare their promises
of faith and love? Some say that Gay
people don't deserve to
enter into the same sacred bond that
Heterosexuals have been enjoying for centuries.
Does the current sky-rocketing rate of
failed marriages, divorce, marriage therapy,
and spouse abuse really demonstrate that this
sacred bond is being
cherished by everyone legally involved?
Let's not point fingers and say, "No, you can't do that!"
How can honest love be a sin or a crime?
Instead, let's recognize that the love that
leads two people to share their hopes, fears,
and dreams is something that is truly
beautiful... no matter what their genders may be.
