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Forum Index > News & Politics | >> Should same sex marriage be legalized? | | |
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buffalobill90
Minister 10092 points


18/M/Whitehaven, United Kingdom Join Date: Jun 2007 | treebee said: I probably said this like pages back, but marriage is not entirely a religious thing.
In ancient times marriage could be an agreement between two families. It could be than a man won a woman or child or boy in a fight and that deemed them married. Or it could be an exchange of gifts between two families and that constituted a marriage.
So I appreciate that religion has now taken over marriage in the world we live in and deemed it thier own invention but taking history into account its a little wrong to deny people the right to marriage when it has been around longer than any religion running today.
Of course its a different story if you want to marry in a church with a religious ceremony and your partner happens to be the same sex. So far most churches havent moved with the times, although i strongly suspect in 100 years this will all be ridiculous anyways. There are some churches that will marry gay couples.
But every living un-married person has the basic human right to want a wedding ceremony of some kind even if religion wishes to turn thier backs on this kind of love right now.
Marriage, particularly in Christianity, has historically been the literal handing of ownership of one man's daughter to her groom. | | |
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buffalobill90
Minister 10092 points


18/M/Whitehaven, United Kingdom Join Date: Jun 2007 | jistolme said: My brother-in-law's 18 yr old daughter (not my sisters child), is a lesbien. Although I do not believe in it, I also do not condemn her for it either. I am not here to judge but be judged.
But you just said you judge her sexuality to be something you "do not believe in". Either that means you believe lesbians do not exist, or you believe that they should not. Which is it? | | |
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buffalobill90
Minister 10092 points


18/M/Whitehaven, United Kingdom Join Date: Jun 2007 | jistolme said: She is a lovely girl and has been in our family since she was 2 yrs old, so I have grown with this child. I wish she liked men but that just isn't her thing. That definitely doesn't make her a bad person. She gets mad when I tell her to behave with her girlfriend in front of my younger girl, but I also tell my 18 yr old daughter the same about her boyfriend.
If it doesn't make her a bad person, why do you object to it? What exactly is the basis for your 'disagreement' with homosexuality? | | |
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