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Feb 16, 2004 12:17

      Marriage is love.On the topic of gay marriage, I have always supported it. Some people think that if we make this leagal that your going to have a bunch of people getting married just for the tax benefits.... yeah.... I sincerely doubt that in our society any straight person is going to say "Oh yeah Im gay" just to get a tax benefit ( Read more... )

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shot97 February 24 2004, 23:24:40 UTC
I don’t base my religious beliefs off of Catholics. I am more aquatinted with the Christian Church then I am with the Catholic Church. I have plenty of choice words to say about them as well.

I was just giving an example of why I believe that if gays were given the right to marry they probably wouldn’t contribute to the staggering divorce rates we have now. They WANT it…They believe in marriage. Christians, Catholics, Atheists, you name em generally speaking I don’t believe hold the same regard for marriage. I think marriage needs someone to believe in it. A group of people that want to be with just ONE other person. Its about love. You have marriages now where the husband beats the wife, where both parties sleep around on each other… no love…. Could you have those situations with gays? Yeah, but they want this so badly that I believe that they will try not to fuck things up. And that I believe is good for marriage right now. ANYONE who believes in it is good for marriage. Anyone who loves someone and wants to share a life and get married weather your Jewish, Catholic, Christian, atheist, black, white, or gay is GOOD for marriage in my opinion.

I’m sorry if I worded my opinion in a way that sounded like I was basing all religions off of the Catholic Church. That was not my intention. I was just giving an example. It is sad to see how many people get divorced and those people are from all religions and people that don’t believe in God as well. I was just trying to say that “even worse…” is that the Catholic Church would annual a marriage that lasted SO long… A marriage that had no infidelity and no child abuse, no abuse of the wife or husband… nothing wrong… But it was annulled …it NEVER happened…. That marriage never existed now…

It wasn’t a stab at religion. It was a stab at PEOPLE. SHE asked for it. The woman went to them and asked for this, SHE was the one who gave them money. She wanted all those years of marriage erased. She had a child with that person…and that child is now considered a basterd.

The church was wrong for letting that happen… but the woman was the real one I was trying to slam. I was trying to say that marriage is suffering some hard times and we have straight people who supposedly hold such high regard for marriage… yet that woman got her marriage annulled…. Yet the divorce rates are so high…. There are most definitely reasons to get divorced. If my wife ever cheated on me I would probably end it right there… But its at 50%… I’m not sure even a majority of those divorces have a good reason to get divorced.

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shot97 February 24 2004, 23:25:02 UTC
Still I would let them. I wasn’t even trying to say divorce is wrong. If you don’t love the person get out… I think annulment is wrong, but I have no objections to divorce. All I’m trying to say is that I believe gays will invigorate marriage. That they will be in it for love and when hard times come around they wont be so quick to get a divorce.

I’m slamming the MAJORITY of people in this country. People don’t want gay Margate. The majority of people believe that it’s a religious institution. The MAJORITY believe this… I’m saying if you look around I don’t think that’s reality anymore. I don’t think the things people have done lately hold a case for marriage being a religious institution.

If I truly thought it was purely a religious institution, I would NEVER get married. I lean towards atheism and thus if I thought marriage was religious I wouldn’t do it. If I wanted to have the benefits of a marriage because I was with someone I loved then I would get a civil union or something. Because if I thought it was religious I wouldn’t want anything to do with it. I do not believe marriage is a religious institution, I believe it symbolizes something else. Love, togetherness, and lots of other wonderful things. I want to get married one day… I am straight. But I don’t believe marriage is a religious institution. If your going to ban them… why don’t you ban me as well? Because im straight? Why does that make a differences? I DON’T BELIEVE marriage is a religious institution… but I believe I have the RIGHT to get married. Not because ill get married to a woman, but because I am a person who loves another person, and we want to share our lives together forever. Gays, should have that right to I believe.

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shot97 February 24 2004, 23:37:59 UTC
But you are correct in that I should not base my opinions on all religions based on the Catholic Church. I agree with you, and that's why I don't. At least I hope I don't, didn't mean to come off that way. Truly sorry.

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