Gay Marriage Debate - Tempe, AZ

Marriage is between a man and a woman. Any other type of marriage is against God's law.

Your beliefs and your god have no business in my life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.

I agree that religion has no business in the rights of minorities.

I agree. Religion has no business in the rights of minorities.

It's just plain WRONG to DENY rights to GAYS!

I am gay.

I may be homosexual (strongly)

The reality is that gays in the past used to be in the closet and marry the opposite sex to hide their condition. So they continued to reproduce in larger numbers than nature would have allowed. Now gays use science intervention to reproduce. So, if we truly had let nature takes it's course, there would not be that many gays around and we would not be having this discussion. So, for the gay community, why don't they just come up with a new word to describe their commitment to each other, and stop trying to destroy the traditional meaning of the word "marriage", which is a symbolic and valuable word for the heterosexual community to describe their commitment to each other.

If you can't marry the person you love, then the whole marriage institution is flawed, fake and more than obsolete!

Sacgary wrote:

Your beliefs and your god have no business in my life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.

i think you might have accidentally voted in opposition to gay marriage!:( unless thats what you meant to do thennnnn uh

everyone should be happy regardless of sexual orientation.

No one is a second class citizen!

Everyone should have the right to marry who they love.

Love is love. Why shouldn't someone marry the person they're in love with? Who is it effecting in a bad way?

Because discriminatory beliefs have no place in law.

Who am I to tell someone they cannot love another? Everyone deserves their rights.

What is there not to support? Gay couples are just the same as straight couples, plain and simple.

My support for marriage equality may be somewhat biased due to my sexuality, but, at its core, this argument is Jim Crow era laws. "Separate, but equal." Calling unions between a man and a man or a woman and a woman "unions" as opposed to "marriages" is great, but, again it marks gay people as different in some way to our straight counterparts. It's just not right. If your opposition is due to certain religious tenets you subscribe to I'd like you to remember that according to the First Amendment prevents the government from passing legislation that gives preference to one religion (or religious ideal) over another. Leave religion at the door and look at it from a strictly human view-point. Your denying PEOPLE the right to be equal to every other PERSON. At the end of the day, we're all still human and none of us should have any less rights afforded to us than the next.

There is no logical reason to suppress the rights of others due to any one religious belief.

Love is love, no matter who experiences it