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• Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh

  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:59pm

  More answers to stupid arguments:

  Opponents do not represent an overwhelming majority of the populace. Opposition to same sex marriage has steadily and rapidly dwindled over the last decade while support has increased. The conservative pundits who attempt to dismiss the accuracy of the polls that prove this used to point to polls from the very same sources as proof that they were in the majority back when they still were. It is no longer true that gay marriage opponents are always victorious when the public is allowed to vote on the issue. That was true until last year, when gay marriage supporters won the vote in three out of four states.

  Churches are not going to be forced to marry anybody against their beliefs any more than the Catholic Church has ever been forced to remarry people who obtain legal divorces. If legally divorced Catholics getting remarried at City Hall doesn’t destroy religious freedom, then neither does this.

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  • HarryPotter

    Posted on March 4, 2013 at 2:06am

    A preemptive strike with facts and logic! I love it!

    I’d also like to add that a popular vote does not make something right. It wouldn’t matter if every straight person in the country was against gay marriage, it would still be a violation of our civil rights. And by giving the matter to the states to decide, you would just be setting a double standard all over the country, and allowing states to legalize discrimination. Imagine what would have happened in the ’60s if civil rights had been voted on state by state…….

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• Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh

  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:57pm

  More answers to stupid arguments:

  The government shouldn’t just get out of the business marriage because it’s a purely religious institution. Religion does not own the concept of marriage or the word either. It’s not just about same sex couples. There are millions of straight couples in this country who were married by the government without having to seek the permission of any church, and their marriages are just as real as yours. It’s been like that for a hundred years before we were born and nobody ever objected until they started talking about giving same sex couples the same opportunity. It’s not just a religious institution, and it hasn’t been for a long time. And if the government did get out of it, there would be gay marriage in every state. There most be a hundred religious sects in this country. There are bound to be a few who would say yes.

  Gays do not already have equal rights because they could marry someone of the ooopposite sex. That’s stupid. The “right” to marry someone you can’t be attracted to and ruin both your lives is not equal to the right to marry someone you can love as they deserve. They are not asking for special rights. They are only asking for equal rights.

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• Xylliab_of_the_Znarghh

  Posted on March 1, 2013 at 11:56pm

  Holy smoke! A gay marriage story with no comments? I guess 7:20 is past most people’s bed times around here. I’ll just have to refute the stupid arguments against same sex marriage before the idiots make them. Good for me, because if I was here first you can’t go whining to the moderators about the fact that I called them stupid arguments made by idiots.

  Biological production of children is not the primary purpose of marriage. That’s stupid. Lots of straight couples can’t have biological children together. This doesn’t stop them from being parents and it doesn’t stop same sex couples either. Procreation isn’t the most important part of parenthood, it’s the least.

  And even if they aren’t going to raise a family, both church and state already formalize marriages of all straight couples willing to pledge their love and commitment whether they are ever going to have kids or not. Every day people who are obviously too old to have children get married. Thousands of straight couples who could have kids but don’t want to get married and nobody ever asks them if they intend to have kids before they can get married or tells them that they can’t call it a marriage if they don’t.

  It is not an infringement of your religious freedom that people who don’t believe in your religion don’t have to follow its rules. It would be an infringement of their religious freedom if they did.

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