(note: Throughout this post, "marriage" means "secular marriage"(aka the one that actually gives you a bunch of rights). Religious marriage can do whatever the **** it wants to, although it'd be
nice if more religions were accepting of gay marriage.)
I would very much like the right to marry like the other 90% of the population can, thankyouverymuch. There's no good reason to be against gay marriage("b-b-b-but TRADITION!", "but my religion says they shouldn't be able to!" and "but gay people are
icky" aren't good reasons).
I don't see how people can call homosexuality unnatural when it is as common in animals as it is in humans tbh.
Other people have commented on this already, but I have on thing to add:
When it comes to giving people rights, it shouldn't matter if homosexuality is natural. The whole "is being gay genetic/otherwise not a choice?" debate is just sidestepping the real issue. Religion is clearly a choice & definitely non-natural(when was the last time you saw random animals praying to Allah/Yahweh/whoever?), yet people receive certain legal protections based around their religion(ex. you can't be fired because of your religion). Whether or not being gay is a choice, gay people should still have the same rights as everyone else.
Well you have to think of the children, also think of many of the foster care systems or orphan homes that are religiously based. If there is an orphan home that was started by a church, then you can see the problems with them adopting out to gay couples. Also, the children.
Tough sh
it. If a church doesn't want to give orphans parents because they're
that prejudiced against gay people(or any other group, for that matter), then maybe they shouldn't be in charge of adopting out children in the first place.
You have to make sure first that they are ok with having two dads or two moms. You also have to think of how much they will be harassed because their parents are gay. Yes its wrong that it would happen, but i think youll agree kids can be mean like that, and if you think that it wouldnt happen then youre just naive.
Kids will harass other kids for:
-Being fat
-Being short
-Being a weakling
-Having glasses
-Having braces
-Being smart
-Being dumb
-Having a weird nose
-Wearing certain kinds of clothes
-Having a name that rhymes with "poop", "dumb", "butt", & a variety of other crass words.
-No discernable reason other than
they just plain don't like you.
If we're trying to stop kids from being harassed, the only possible way to prevent all of it is to keep them locked away from other children. Using it as an argument against gay couples being allowed to adopt is just plain misguided(especially when the harm of more kids being stuck in the foster system forever far outweighs the bullying they might get for a few years).
ASB said:
Marriage is defined as the union between a man and a woman.
So? If we allow gay marriage, then marriage will be redefined as "the union between two consenting adults (who presumably love each other & want to be together forever)". Try making an actual argument instead of going "WELL THE DICTIONARY SAYS THIS, THEREFORE GAY MARRIAGE ISN'T MARRIAGE".
Unless you want to go down the rabbit hole of traditional marriage, in which case I'll throw out the "it's historically been a loveless concept made primarily for economic benefit," "it hasn't always been religious(and certainly not always Christian)", "it generally involved the man basically owning the woman", and "black people and white people couldn't even get married in every US state until
44 years ago." tidbits now.