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Originally Posted by NCB
I'll take this one.
Once gay marriage is legitimized through the public arena (ie, the govt), everything associated with it will be shoved down our throats. It'll start in the public school system with sex ed. They'll be teaching about gay sex to our kids.
Next, will be the churches. You think it's gonna sit well with the gay intifada that some churches will not permit them to marry in their particular church? And with the legitimization from the govt, the churched won't have too much to stand on.
Then of course will come the change in Title VII, which will now include sexual orientation and thus, even more lawsuits.
I could go on and on, but you catch my drift. Look, I'm not opposed to having safeguards in place for life partners when it comes to hospital visits, estate issues, ect.. Most people aren't. The fact that this would change thousands of years of Western culture bothers me. Most people really do not think through this issue and thus dismiss prematuraly; saying why do people oppose something that won't affect their own lives.
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I'll take this one.
Isn't gay society already out there? Just because legislation would allow homosexual unions does not mean that people have not been gay for thousands of years. Hvae you ever watched the Bravo channel? A great deal of the programming on the channel is intended for homosexual men. Is Queer Eye for the Straight Guy shoving anything down
your throat? Somehow I doubt it.
I think it would be responsible to teach gay kids about sexual education, just as it is responsible to reach straight kids about it. If responsible people can expose the kids to a safe way to have sex before they hear it from a less responsible cource, it could slow AIDs. I'm sure you dislike AIDs as much as the rest of us. Kids are going to be straight or gay no matter what congress says, this simply allows them equal rights to other sexual prefrence groups. Would it bother you if two gay guys you've never met were able to have community property rights? Somehow I doubt it.
Churches have the right to refuse to marry anyone they please. That isn't an issue. It is still legal for a church to refuse to marry people because they are black or disabled. Whether it's right or not, they are allowed to make that decision on their own.
This will effect your life if you are friends with some gay guys and they invite you to their wedding. I really don't see how this will negatively effect your life.