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Originally posted by Memnoch
There are plenty of arguments to give against gay marriage...here's mine.
Using the idea of there being both feminine and masculine parts of one's psyche, or even better, soul, we have to examine part of what several mainstream religions look at as a holy union: marriage between a predominantly masculine psyche and a predominantly feminine psyche. Marriage, in my opinion, needs to be looked at as the culmination of love - the becoming of a single entity in all senses: financial, emotional, spiritual and physical. The problem I have with gay marriage is that two predominantly masculine or two predominantly feminine souls are incapable of having either a physical or spiritual union. This is my opinion on gay marriage.
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We're all entitled to our opinions, but let me point out to you that every healthy person contains a good balance of both masculine and feminine traits. In fact, there are many straight women who are more masculine than many straight men. There are also many very feminine men who would probably balance out perfectly with moderately masculine fellow. If marriage is, like you say, to be looked at as the becoming of a single balanced entity, than most marriages in america would be as imbalanced as you claim homosexual marriage would be. You can't treat masculine and feminine traits like ions because that's not how they're meant to work. Ideally you could add equal parts masculine and feminine and expect a balanced union, but feminine and masculine aren't quantifiable and don't exist in constant equal amounts in men and women.