Quote (Santara @ Dec 20 2009 08:11pm)

Because it HAS been about procreation, not love. Since the dawn of civilization, man has felt a need to ensure that his progeny are indeed his, so he's entered into a contract with the family of the bride for "exclusive rights." As for the elderly, etc., you're simply building another straw man.

Quote (Santara @ Dec 19 2009 09:32pm)

No. Government shouldn't be sanctioning any marriage. The extent of government involvement should be to protect people's rights in relation to each other, and should extend to straight or gay unions. If you want to get married, do it in a church.

Quote (lithfkn @ Dec 20 2009 07:13pm)

You didn't need to be married for procreation though :/

Quote (Sioux @ Dec 20 2009 07:13pm)

False. Male procreation strategy is to fuck as many chicks as possible.

Take a biology class. Woman are the monogamous wanting half of our species.

Quote (e6600 @ Dec 20 2009 07:16pm)

dumbass

Quote (infinitesimal @ Dec 20 2009 06:56pm)

stop trying to push your equal rights nonsense on me, sioux

Quote (Santara @ Dec 20 2009 08:17pm)

YOUR strategy might look something like that, but no need to project yourself onto others.

Biology has nothing to do with "wanting to be monogamous," but go ahead and keep telling yourself that. Women aren't prone to cheating? Lol.

Quote (Santara @ Dec 20 2009 11:29pm)

No one has a right to marriage, and I challenge you to prove that one does. Your statement is logically no different than "straights can have children so denying gays is an affront to civil liberties." Like I said before, if you want to get married, do it in a church. There are probably churches that would do it now anyways.



Straw man argument. It isn't comparable to the concept of separate but equal, because the only difference is the title. If all rights are protected for all parties involved in all cases, which is the idea of the government ONLY recognizing civil unions, then no one is being treated unfairly. Changing the meaning of the word marriage to suit your purpose doesn't mean that it's separate but equal, because marriage has ALWAYS been about procreation, which is, of course, impossible for non-heterosexual unions.

Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ Dec 20 2009 09:32pm)

The acceptance of gay marriage as anything close to equal to the traditional male/female union is destructive to society and one more indicator of the moral decline in America .

Quote (WidowMaKer_MK @ Dec 21 2009 02:32am)

The acceptance of gay marriage as anything close to equal to the traditional male/female union is destructive to society and one more indicator of the moral decline in America .