Blazers & Timbers endorse same sex marriage

Wow, most of the comments are just vile and crude. What a bunch of homophobic losers.

 

Wow, so you equate same sex marriage with abortion and incest. Now that is a perversion of language.

 

Incest is cool in the bible, I don't know why anyone would have a problem with it.

 

That is true. But at the same time, in the case where the health of the baby or the mother is in jeopardy, I think it's a choice she has to be the one who makes, not you or me.


AND since I don't agree with abortion as a form of birth control (I personally don't know what the #'s bore out to be with that though), I agree with what you're getting at.

Very true. However, it's charged no matter what side you are on. I would rather give up a child for adoption (if the health of the child or the mother wasn't in jeopardy, and for some reason she/we decided not to keep the child as our own..but that goes against my personal belief that if I'm mature enough to do the act, I'm mature enough to be a parent).

Not sure it's really anyones "naturual right" to get married then.

Because, for starters, we're talking consenting adults, who are not wanting to have a sexual relationship with someone who they are related to. Being gay is not the same as being sexually attracted to your own family members. That IS an illness/perversion.

I'm not sure if I'd consider it a dangerous direction. Maybe one you're uncomfortable with, sure. I get that, and respect it. But it's a direction where people are afforded legal, and financial equality. Should a couple, who have been living together for say...50 years, not be given the same rights as two other people who have been living together for the same period of time, but were straight?

It really boils down to this. Marriage comes with rights. If my dad dies before my mom dies (they own their own house), she gets it. She gets his assets, his retirement/401K, a portion of his social security (I don't remember how much, but it's more than what she's making with her SS). She has the right to make decisions on his behalf if he's lying in hospital bed, dying.

But if it was my dad and my other dad, he wouldn't get it IF one of my siblings (or I) decided to contend that they aren't married to each other, so we should get his assets. He wouldn't be able to make decisions on my fathers behalf, or get his retirement/social security, etc.

Are there ways around it? Sure. You can place items in the name of someone else, but why shouldn't they just have the same legal equality as straight people/couples do?

Don't like gay people? So what. Two women getting married, or two men getting married, doesn't have any impact on the validity of your marriage, or what it means to get married.


I appreciate that you had a really well thought out and productive response shooter. After the flustercuck we had a few weeks ago, I forgot what it's like. repped

 

Current American culture.

 

I can't. But there are a lot of things that in the history of mankind that are changing.

It's a changing world.

 

No, I understood it.

 

There are also lots of people all over the world think marriage between people of different religions, or cultures, or races, is wrong.

Does that mean we shouldn't allow it?

 

well, I would suspect that the #'s of people who are sexually attracted to their siblings is very small, but I think it's different then when two, non related, adults (of the same sex) are attracted to each other.

I can't explain it, because A: I'm not attracted to my siblings and B: I'm not attracted to my own sex.

I'll let someone else who is far more articulate than I, explain it better.