Quote: (12-01-2011 02:49 PM)ManAbout Wrote:
Most on this board have rejected the monogamous lifestyle anyway. If two people are in love, of what ever gender, and they want to raise child, who are we to judge?
You can judge if it has social implications for wider society. We aren't islands unto ourselves.
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The majority of the anti gay marriage brigade are bible thumping, right wing religious conservatives who believe that marriage is sacred and should be between a man and woman. I don't believe in the sanctity of marriage and don't think there is any religious component to it at all. If two people want to be together, it's their business, and should have nothing to do with religion.
Of course two people can be together, whether the law is involved or not. But when they are in court, they are not simply asking to be together, nobody needs a judge to justify their love for each other. They are wanting society to elevate it to the norm by sanctioning it. That's where the controversy comes in. The second you say "men should ideally be with women" you are now basically no different than a racist, even though men evolved sperm and women eggs for an obvious reason. You had a school teacher in Massachusetts a few years ago reading gay fairy tales to her students and the court ruled that the parents had no right to stop it because gay marriage is now the law in MA thus it's discrimination to stop this teacher from reading homosexual stories to kids.