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Zerohour3k · #1 08-06-2010, 08:59 AM

I'd personally be 100% ok with denying gays the rights to marry, based on the "successful offspring" argument, if we also stripped sterile heterosexual couples of their rights to marry. Hey, they can't make children either, so they shouldn't be allowed to wed!

Or, we could just do like the rest of the civilized world is doing (Several European countries, a few Latin ones, and yesterday, the capitol city of Mexico) and let two human beings who love each other be granted the same rights as everyone else.

Religion and morality is something to define one's self, not meant to dictate to others how to lead their lives. The religious argument against gay marriage is somewhat moot because of this, otherwise we could also rationalize Muslim (and a few other) religion's views towards women's rights, setting the whole country back about 50 years.

Childbirth is also a moot argument against marriage equality, since we currently do not strip infertile heterosexual couples of their rights to marry, either.

Several states already have gay marriage in place, and guess what? They haven't imploded into a cesspool of destruction and mayhem. Children are still being born, straight parents are still being married (and divorced), and people are still free to practice their own religions, complete with scorn for gays. As far as I know, churches are not being forced to marry homosexual couples if they do not wish, as churches are a separate entity than the state. This sort of thing has been going on WAY before it was a hot topic in the USA. Really makes me wonder what arguments the opposition has against it, aside from "I don't like it" and "It's always been done this way!".

Not going to get more long winded than I already have, so I leave you with an interesting video to watch, for anybody who still tries to use the same tired excuses against the idea of marriage equality. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSfFa44p96o