Why would anyone matter who another man/woman married? Unless the institution is governed by religious motivations- The LGBT community should be allowed secular rights to marry and receive secular benefits as married couples. Are we free or fascist?

Marriage is between two people, regardless of gender. This country was founded on freedom (not, by the way, on Christianity -- see the Treaty of Tripoli for this point), and to deny freedom to a group of people based on their preferences goes against eve

Marriage is not simply manifstation of intense emotion..that's trying to phillosophise a 'b!#%#^$t' using so called intelligent reasons. If so, on this basis alone a son can marry with his mother or a daughter can marry with her father, rite! .

just because you think it's "icky" doesn't give you or anyone else the right to deny someone their freedoms. the same was thought not that long ago that people of different races shouldn't marry and, in fact, there were some states that banned interracial

My loving someone of the same sex does no harm to others, aside from getting nosey people's panties in a twist because of things they believe are going on in the bedroom. If I want to officially show my love for someone, I should be allowed to.

People have free will and should be allowed to live how they should. No everyone believes in the Bible, using that as a point of reference becomes annoying to people who think the Bible is a waste of paper. So stop using it as a crutch, idiot.

Your only legitimate option in life, if you're anti-gay, is to continue not being gay. It neither breaks your leg nor picks your pocket for gays to be married, so all the moral soap-boxing is exactly that; soap-boxing, and not a thing more.

What is this supposed to mean?

uh.. that the rest of us are married and miserable, why should homosexuals be exempt. .

who gives a flying f&#k what the bible says? not everyone in this country is Christian. it is ignorant to even bring the bible into this argument. .

Why would you take the Bible literally regarding gay marriage? Do you also think it's all right to sell your daughters into slavery? The Bible says so.

there is supposed to be a seperation between church and state....at least in the united states...

The U.S. was founded on secularism, but everyone has this Christian morality where they say "marriage is between man and woman, sacred to god" but they fail to see not everyone believes in their religion. Therefore we spit in the faces of many.

the united was found "under god." the united states was NOT founded on secularism!

listen to you. you can barely type. God is dead. f##k off redneck.

Homosexuals should be aloud the same benefits for marriage as heterosexuals because it is SEXIST to deny them otherwise. . If homosexuality is a biological development, it is wrong to deny marriage. And in our modern society, you almost have to be married to afford a home, insurance, and other societal needs.

Stopping gay marriages will not stop gay people from homosexual activities. .

There is no rational, or logical, argument against homosexuality, or homosexual marriage. However, an argument can be made from any moral standpoint in support of gay marriage. Thus, gay marriage should be allowed and it is immoral to refuse it.

http://www.ValueALLfamilies.com

Please go to this website. It shows how James Dobson of (Focus on the Family) uses gays for political advantage. Karl Rove had Dobson on his speed dial. Just another way for Republicans to divide and conquer. The marriage amendment will not only make “marriage” illegal for gay Americans but also ANY kind of legal civil unions. What everyone seems to be leaving out is the second sentence of the marriage amendment. It states “all legal rights associated with marriage can not be given to gays.”

In Michigan this month, 375 gay Americans in committed domestic partnerships just lost their health insurance because of the 2004 Michigan “marriage amendment.” This is not what America stands for. It is simply prejudice against gay people. We need to grow up and vote for things that matter. Bashing gay people should not be top of the list. The “caveman” thinking of the Republican party has got to go.

Yabba “W” Doooooooo

Extinguish the CAVEMAN in 2008. Vote Democratic!!!! We the people means ALL the people.

http://www.valueALLfamilies.com

Google: Michigan gays lose health insurance

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&fkt=1344&q=michigan+gays+lose+health+insurance&btnG=Google+Search

Maybe if gays were accepted in society our gay republican congressmen would be able to be themselves and live happy lives with their partner without having to seek out gay sex through the anonymity of a bathroom stall.

Or have illicit conversations with their pageboys via the internet. (snickering).

Celebrity marriage and high divorce rates are how you quote end quote "Christians" handle something SACRED like marriage. Why should legislature take time to create laws to limit a love between two people? We have bigger problems. Global Warming?!. People can actually register on line for a license to join two people in marriage. The points that have been made on the other side of this page are hardly good arguments. . Homosexuals should be allowed to marry because of love. I'm gay, and if I can't get married in the church so be it. But you can get married by a Justice of the Peace. When two people love each other they should be allowed to marry. Oh, and since when has marriage just been about pro-creating. Last time I checked, it IS possible to get pregnant without marriage. Marriage isn't sacred anymore. It's a way of showing a union with state & government.

All men are born equal, and deserve the same rights. Furthermore, a person has the right to do as he pleases as long as he doesn't hurt anyone. .

Freedom of religion means that no matter what your religion says, no one is obligated to follow it against his will. If according having sex with fat people is immoral, I can't illegalize fat sex.

Though people may not agree with the way some people practice their religion, we do not stop them from practicing it. Why should we stop people from exercising their sexuality? If they can find a church to marry them, then who are we to stop them?

I agree that this world is about balance, but to say that it revolves around gender just seems much too short-sighted. Anyone (who is consenting) should be have the choice to get married.

Marriage is nothing more than a legal institution, a contract, in the eyes of the government. Homosexuals can sign other contracts, why not let them marry?. Marriage is not the sacred union many make it out to be. With a divorce rate of over 50% in this country marriage is almost a joke. Rarely does anyone say "until death" and mean it.

If two homosexuals want to pledge their life to each other, and actually mean it, more power to them.

Gays do not have the same rights as heterosexuals. In america, LGBT people can still be fired from their job and gay can be written on the pink slip. That is one of the few ways that homosexuals do not yet have the same rights as heterosexuals.

I'm not much of a religious person, but didn't God say we weren't to judge people...that it was HIS job? No one has the right to deny two people who love each other the rights that marriage provides.

making a statement about a person's religious convictions is not a judgement. the bible says that we can know them by their fruits.

government's should not be allowed to stop any citizen from freely bonding themselves to another citizen. morality is the province of religions - not governments.

i believe that priests/parsons should not be allowed to "marry" people (legally speaking). i'll say it again...legal unions are gov't things...a marriage is a religious/moral oath - not a gov't thing.