TOPIC: Opinion on Gay marriage?

Why this is even a debate, I'll never understand. Let people live their lives however they wish and let's focus on society's real problems.

The fact that people go hungry in North America and may not have access to basics such as health care are way bigger issues and deserve more time and energy.

I have an issue with marriage, regardless of parties involved. It's an outdated and archaic not to mention unnecessary social oddity. Down with marriage, we should ban it all together.

I have been kind of leaning this way too. Why even use the word in the first place. I'm married to the same man for over 26 years now and we are more roommates than anything else..that piece of paper didn't really mean crap for us. Now we are staying together because neither of us want to spend the money on a divorce. Aren't we the poster people for the success of a straight marriage .. NOT

No reason to be against it. Equal rights for everyone right?

The only reason I ever see someone say they are against it is for religious reasons, which is stupid. If your religion says don't get a gay marriage, then don't get one. But the ones who try to stop others? It'd be like a Jewish person trying to ban others from eating pork, its ridiculous.

For it. Don't understand why people want to stop other people from loving, being happy, and being able to visit each other in the hospital and all of that. People take marriage for granted. It should be a choice people can make if they want to get married. There are a lot of truly horrible things in this world. Adults falling in love and getting married is not one of them. And it's already legal, here, in Canada.

People should be able to love whom they love and express that love in marriage regardless of race or gender.

I'm for it, and I consider myself a Christian.

People who say it ruins the constitution of marriage or whatever are stupid. A person can be married by an Elvis impersonator to someone they hardly know in Vegas but we won't let two people who are in a long term committed relationship marry just because of what is between their legs? Ridiculous.

In australia they can be judged as a couple under welfare and family assistance rights by the same government who denied them the privilege of having a lawful marriage.
They can have the same things in the eyes of the law EXCEPT a piece of paper that legally binds them. Hmmmm....

I support gay marriage. Actively.
I believe that legal marriage and the church/religion are different however support those who chose to include their religion in the act of marriage. In saying that, having a religious ceremony in your marriage does not make it any more or less legal (in my country anyway) but I support the churches and religious sects who chose not to marry a gay couple.

Also I lived in San Francisco, CA when gay marriage was briefly legal and the first gay couple to be married were Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon who had been together for 50 years. They had to wait till 2008 to be able to express that commitment through marriage and sadly Del Martin died two months later. How many couples even stay together for 50 years these days?

This couple obviously had boundless love for each other. In an age where heterosexual celebrities have 72 day marriages, why the hell was this couple denied that right for so long?

People can do what they want.. no judgement from me!

I think there's too much heat on this subject. If two people are happy and in love, who gives a crap if they're two men or two women. The people who get ticked off are probably just jealous because they'll never have what the two in love do.