There seem to be enough of us screwing around and making babies (I’m doing my part!). I don’t think giving homosexuals the same tax, inheritence, and all the other 1,000 benifits will end the world, or make us extinct. It would just piss of the close minded people of the world.
It’s hard enough to find someone you want to live you life with. Why can’t all of us have the same legal benifits if we are lucky enough to find someone?
I didn’t mean to imply otherwise. I was just correcting an error.
I should be able to “marry” myself as well then. Why should married couples get all the benefits?
Hey if you want to leave your house and retirement to yourself when you die then go for it! (^-^)
I was thinking tax credits.
What I asked was how does the government interfere with the ability of gays to “marry”?
What do you think?
It is not the same thing. You will be fined and locked up for running an unlicensed business. You will not be fined or get locked up for being in an unlicensed marriage.
There are plenty of people around the world in informal marriages, or who are only married in church but are not married in civil law. The state does not come in and break up those marriages like it breaks up unlicensed businesses.
Well which one is it? What would be the purpose of having state sanctioned gay marriage? Inheritance and insurance technicalities, or pissing off close minded people?
We all know what is really at the heart of this issue. Talking about inheritance, tax issues or other such triffles is a cop out.
States have passed laws and amendments against it.
I think you should answer the question.
Then why do homosexuals have children? Oh, I guess instinct goes beyond sexual desires. Please join us in the 21st century and leave the dark ages behind.
That’s the beauty of it. It easily accomplishes both! You know, 2 birds, 1 stone?
What exactly is the heart of the issue then? Allowing all couples to have the same legal benefits? Getting the government out the marriage business and let everyone live how they want with less intrusion? Not allowing gays the same legal benefits because some people don’t like them?
Inter racial marrriage was illegal until the federal government stepped in said it was a discriminatory law. Before that they could live together and call themselves married but had none of the beneifts. Now they do, and it hasn’t been all that bad really.
Here is a few of the ‘trifling’ things ‘married’ people get from the government that gay couples do not. http://www.gao.gov/archive/1997/og97016.pdf
It is about the principle. Do you understand what principles are?
It certainly hasn’t and in the end all social conservative trash will be erased.
It’s pretty funny how you misuse materialism/naturalism to try to prove…what ? That the god of evolution will exterminate gays because of their biological sins ?
Actually, the human race re-engineering itself using ‘technology’ is just a natural phenomenon and part of ‘evolution’, whatever ‘evolution’ means. (I seem to recall you believed something along those lines ?)
Are you admitting there was a time when they couldn’t? Because that is all that is needed.
No, I am suggesting that only people in the dark ages would have such ideas.
Do you not realise that there was a time when such proposals ( that you are making) were simply impossible? As just saying “today they can” doesn’t change the fact that there was a time when it was impossible. And doesn’t remove the very obvious link between the fun of sex and reproduction. Even currently, most children aren’t planned, Now go back before they knew how children were created, make them homosexuals, and you’ll find humans quickly disappear.
Any basic biology course could point this relationship out. Perhaps they have use textbooks from the Dark Ages.
when in history could homosexual men not impregnate women? or lesbian women not conceive from men?
what do you make of stuff like this…
Male giraffes have been observed to engage in remarkably high frequencies of homosexual behavior. After aggressive “necking”, it is common for two males giraffes to caress and court each other, leading up to mounting and climax. Such interactions between males have been found to be more frequent than heterosexual coupling.[55] In one study, up to 94% of observed mounting incidents took place between two males. The proportion of same sex activities varied between 30 and 75%, and at any given time one in twenty males were engaged in non-combative necking behavior with another male. Only 1% of same-sex mounting incidents occurred between females.[56]
I never said they couldn’t, they just wouldn’t. As there isn’t any pleasure in it.
As long as the males still find sex with females enjoyable, there isn’t a problem. If you can show me how many homosexual, same-sex-only, giraffes impregnate females, then you’ve proved me wrong.