TOPIC: Opinion on Gay marriage?

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  • sleepytexan
    sleepytexan Posts: 3,138 Member
    are you surprised that people are against the idea of interracial relationshiops, or are you surprised that people actually SAID they were against the idea? Will you be surprised if people say they are against gay marriage?

    You seem like you might be surprised by a lot of things in life. You must be very young.

    I'm just surprised by the fact that they were against it. Not that they actually stated their opinion. It's 2012. I thought that discrimination against interracial couples was a thing of the past.

    And you're right, human ignorance and stupidity always surprises me

    You are fortunate to live in the United States. Always remember that. If you are passionate about equal rights for all do not just post polls on MFP, get involved with human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, or the myriad of other good organizations out there. Help change the world, there are horrors going on every day in most of it. Right now, in 2012.

    blessings.

    Well I live in Australia. But thats hardly the point.
    What makes you think all I do is post polls on MFP?
    I do have a life off the internet. A life which you know nothing about.

    OK, you are obviously taking this the wrong way. You said you were surprised. I'm pointing out that in most of the world, yes, MOST of the world, people, and especially women, are likely to be abused or even killed for expressing such opinions. We on this board enjoy freedoms that many could never imagine. I hope that is not a surprise to you. sometimes we forget there are battles that seem long over at home, still raging across the world.

    We are blessed, and you are blessed. I am simply pointing that out. No offense intended. If you choose to be pissed about my suggestion that you might direct your passion toward the world outside our borders where there are no choices, no rights, no ability to love who you love without fear for one's life, so be it. Perhaps others will hear the call and help.
  • Nefetete
    Nefetete Posts: 343 Member
    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 It's an outdated and archaic not to mention unnecessary social oddity.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.

    ^^^ this. Why ppl still insist on signing a pice of paper is beyond me especially after being together for years.
  • DocCollins_SFA
    DocCollins_SFA Posts: 113
    You willingly opened this 'junk' and read it in the "chit-chat, fun, and games" section... :sad: :noway: :grumble:
    Am I still on myfitnesspal??

    My thoughts exactly, I hear some other free calorie counting web sites don't have all this junk going on, like Sparkpeople.com and Loseit.com among others.. I'm going to check it out.
  • Reesecup312
    Reesecup312 Posts: 236 Member
    I don't really care which two people are bound by a legal civil union to protect their rights and freedoms and to declare their relationship publicly to friends and family... just please don't insist that a church or other religious institution that doesn't support same-sex relationships conduct the ceremony.


    This ^^^^^^
  • nikilovesaxl
    nikilovesaxl Posts: 148
    100% for it.

    Love is love :smile: .

    I'm also so glad to see so many supporters. You guys are wonderful :drinker: .
  • WickedBean
    WickedBean Posts: 244 Member
    Am I still on myfitnesspal??

    My thoughts exactly, I hear some other free calorie counting web sites don't have all this junk going on, like Sparkpeople.com and Loseit.com among others.. I'm going to check it out.

    This is the chit-chat fun and games forum... meaning its talking about ANYTHING but calorie counting if you don't like it stay out of the chit chat forum... weight loss doesn't have to suck. I dislike people like you.
  • Qarol
    Qarol Posts: 6,171 Member
    I don't care what anyone else thinks...

    when someone loves someone else and that someone loves the other back? I think that's a beautiful thing. *le happy sigh*
  • saragato
    saragato Posts: 1,154
    Hey if celebrities can get married for 24hrs then null it just because they were drunk/wanted attention why shouldn't two men or two women get the same right if they actually can stand being around the person they're with?

    I mean geeze people act like just because someone's a homosexual they live in a glass house and air their dirty laundry everywhere. No one bothers with a heterosexual's sex life or gags at the thought that they might actually, y'know, HAVE sex, why should the gender thing change all that?

    Live and let live.
  • john44111
    john44111 Posts: 11 Member
    Dont care (meaning Im not interested in stopping them) Dont care about gays (they dont bother me one bit)

    You could actually call me PRO-Gay Marriage.

    I mean cmon, could you imagine Gay Divorce Court? That show would be awesome.
  • cardsfanlv
    cardsfanlv Posts: 110 Member
    Am I still on myfitnesspal??

    My thoughts exactly, I hear some other free calorie counting web sites don't have all this junk going on, like Sparkpeople.com and Loseit.com among others.. I'm going to check it out.

    Ok, then lets put this in terms we are all familiar with.

    Telling 2 people who love each other they cannot get married because its against their religion would be the same as me telling someone they can't have a donut because its against my diet.

    Donuts don't fit into my lifestyle these days. But I mean, if donuts fit into your lifestyle, who am I to say no?
  • saragato
    saragato Posts: 1,154
    I don't really care which two people are bound by a legal civil union to protect their rights and freedoms and to declare their relationship publicly to friends and family... just please don't insist that a church or other religious institution that doesn't support same-sex relationships conduct the ceremony.


    This ^^^^^^

    Yeah I'd have to agree with this too. I know so many people, because they follow a certain faith, want it in a church but really who cares who the legal marriage binder is or where it is. Get married and be happy that you did or could at all.
  • javagsd
    javagsd Posts: 82
    There was not a single dissenting vote on the platform plank supporting gay marriage at the convention last week in Charlotte. Yay!
  • LuneBleu85
    LuneBleu85 Posts: 217
    I wish people would spend more time trying to cure disease and solve poverty rather than debating this endlessly. Just my $0.02.
  • LuneBleu85
    LuneBleu85 Posts: 217
    And I support gay marriage - FYI.
  • Deedsie
    Deedsie Posts: 348 Member
    I feel that marriage is a legal institution between two consenting legal adults and therefore should be extended equally to all legal adults. Withholding the right to marry from homosexuals is in fact no better than withholding the right to marry between interracial couples, or to go back further between Catholics and Protestants. And denying others rights in no way makes your ability to exercise the freedom more precious. It in fact makes the very practice of your freedom in the face of their oppression insidious and disheartening. Perhaps marriage is failing as an institution because inside ourselves we know that we are bastardizing the whole institution with the oppression of our fellow citizens. Food for thought.
  • RoseSweet
    RoseSweet Posts: 30
    Am I still on myfitnesspal??

    My thoughts exactly, I hear some other free calorie counting web sites don't have all this junk going on, like Sparkpeople.com and Loseit.com among others.. I'm going to check it out.

    I'm sure your fingers were twisted to click on this post and reply to it :p

    I would like to have a supportive lose weight kind of climate instead of clicking on MFP and seeing off topic sickening, headlines jump in my face, this site has really changed, I'm embarrassed to recommend it to my friends anymore. : (

    "Off topic sickening headlines".... I'm not even going to touch that with a 10 foot pole.

    However,
    1. This is the "chit-chat, fun, and games' board. You can talk about pretty much whatever you want here. While I do appreciate your opinion, if it's this discussion is so upsetting to you, no one's forcing you to look and post in this topic.
    2. May I redirect you to the "Motivation and Support" board?

    Hahaha, so sorry, but anyone who wouldn't touch these off topic, sickening, headlines with a 10 foot pole is incompetent to redirect me anywhere.
  • jenilla1
    jenilla1 Posts: 11,118 Member
    Am I still on myfitnesspal??

    My thoughts exactly, I hear some other free calorie counting web sites don't have all this junk going on, like Sparkpeople.com and Loseit.com among others.. I'm going to check it out.

    See ya! Don't let the door hit your *kitten* on the way out...




    (Come on people! Don't click on topics you don't want to read!)
  • muddyventures
    muddyventures Posts: 360 Member
    I don't really care which two people are bound by a legal civil union to protect their rights and freedoms and to declare their relationship publicly to friends and family... just please don't insist that a church or other religious institution that doesn't support same-sex relationships conduct the ceremony.

    This is my exact sentiment.
  • beekuzz
    beekuzz Posts: 428 Member
    It's time we move past the bigotry because we are not all cloned to think and act alike. I support anyone who wants to be happy and it's not for me to pass judgment in any way. I''m for being respectful of everyone's feelings.
  • andie2013
    andie2013 Posts: 101
    The issue is about being granted and recognized the title of "marriage" and the benefits it entails. Not just some civil/legal union or forcing any specific church to perform the ceremony.
  • imaginemerunning
    imaginemerunning Posts: 7 Member
    lol funny topic for my fitness app!! ah well get it off your chest! i want my weight of my body!!
  • Jonahyona
    Jonahyona Posts: 108 Member
    People should be allowed to marry whoever they want. No matter what.
  • MinMin97
    MinMin97 Posts: 2,674 Member
    I saw a topic about inter racial relationships and was surprised to see some people against the idea. So now I'm curious as to what people think about gay marriage :)
    You were "surprised?"
    Really?
    Why would that surprise you?
    And will it surprise you to find people are against gay marriage?
  • EnchantedEvening
    EnchantedEvening Posts: 671 Member
    I honestly don't care about who is sticking what in whom, as long as they're both consenting adults.

    I don't think churches should be forced to perform a gay marriage, as it is against their doctrine, but I do believe civil unions should be afforded the same rights as marriages so that a gay marriage is equal to a straight marriage. For what it's worth, though, some churches are accepting of gay marriages (the Episcopalians come to mind), so it's nice to know that gay Christians would at least have some options open to them if they wished to have a Christian wedding ceremony. I imagine there are some independent ministers out there who would be happy to perform a gay wedding as well.

    Bottom line: I'm all for it. I would be incredibly happy if people finally woke up one day and realized banning it is as stupid as banning inter-racial marriages.
  • jammet80
    jammet80 Posts: 96 Member
    Love is love. period.
  • Elzecat
    Elzecat Posts: 2,916 Member
    I hope that someday SOONER rather than LATER, my LGBT friends can be able to legally marry their partners. It's not "just" a piece of paper...it affects their civil rights, their health insurance, their tax benefits, their children...(and I'm neither gay nor married. I just believe that consenting adults should be able to love and marry other consenting adults and not be treated as less than equal).

    For all those who say "yawn, who cares"--what if there was a law that said blue eyed brunettes couldn't marry? what if there were still laws saying interracial marriage was wrong? what if only gay marriage was allowed, and hetero marriage was NOT?

    Still saying "yawn, who cares?" I bet not.

    And if you don't believe in marriage, fine, but that's not the issue being discussed.
  • imaginemerunning
    imaginemerunning Posts: 7 Member
    read it a bit more then ! :smile:
  • muddyventures
    muddyventures Posts: 360 Member
    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.

    Live and let live is a nice sentiment, but what if the new law created to make all couples have the same access to marriage infringes on the basic religious rights/freedoms...that is what bothers me about the issue. I have many friends who I care for deeply, some are gay but they aren't my friends because they are gay or straight, or what ever.. I like them for who they are, but it doesn't mean I agree 100 percent with their lives and this doesn't just apply to sexual orientation.
  • sleepytexan
    sleepytexan Posts: 3,138 Member
    I hope that someday SOONER rather than LATER, my LGBT friends can be able to legally marry their partners. It's not "just" a piece of paper...it affects their civil rights, their health insurance, their tax benefits, their children...(and I'm neither gay nor married. I just believe that consenting adults should be able to love and marry other consenting adults and not be treated as less than equal).

    For all those who say "yawn, who cares"--what if there was a law that said blue eyed brunettes couldn't marry? what if there were still laws saying interracial marriage was wrong? what if only gay marriage was allowed, and hetero marriage was NOT?

    Still saying "yawn, who cares?" I bet not.

    And if you don't believe in marriage, fine, but that's not the issue being discussed.

    HOLY CRAP DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT THERE ARE LAWS LIKE THAT IN MOST OF THE WORLD???????? Please look outside your own backyard.
  • internal_monsters
    internal_monsters Posts: 17 Member
    101% support it, all the way. what's wrong with it? they're happy. not like they're debating making murder legal or something, don't see why it's so controversial... like someone said, people used to shun interracial marriages the same way. i dont see why people argue over these things. goddamn it, if you're happy with someone with different parts or the same, nobody else should butt in. wish the united states would legalize gay marriages (well, just marriage for all) already lol. my point of view. ~
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