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<p>The fact that we see the same dubious arguments about alleged harm to children, the unnaturalness of the unions, the importance of tradition, and the need to avoid social strife all points to the similarities between the arguments used to prevent miscegnation and those to stave off and homosexual relations.</p>
<h2>^How does gay marriage lead to moral decay? ~ Vince</h2>
<p>I, along many Americans believe that homosexuality is immoral, thus rewarding a perversion with the institution of marriage lowers our standards of what is accepted in society.</p>
<p>The day I support gay marriage will be the day I die.</p>
<p>“how does gay marriage lead to moral decay”</p>
<p>how about ruining the sanctity of marriage? Oh wait that was the conservative christians did that, not the homosexuals:[U.S</a>. divorce rates: for various faith groups, age groups and geographical areas](<a href=“http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_dira.htm]U.S”>http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_dira.htm)</p>
<p>“Divorce rates among conservative Christians were significantly higher than for other faith groups, and much higher than Atheists and Agnostics experience.”</p>
<p>^What makes it immoral?</p>
<p>I assume that everyone who supports gay marriage also support polygamy?</p>
<p>Yep. I generally support less benefits for married couples anyway (aside from sensible ones like hospital visitation rights). If the people involved all love each other, why not let them?</p>
<p>any marriage between consenting adults, however many, why not?</p>
<p>Cornetking: why? I’m not trying to argue with you, I would just like to see why you hold such a strong stance.</p>
<p>BIGeastBeast: how does supporting gay marriage correlate to supporting polygamy? That’s completely unfounded</p>
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<p>they’ve been brainwashed every sunday since birth, duh.</p>
<p>Okay… I just came back and read over all the posts made after mine, and since I’m not going to answer each and every one, here is my answer for those who responded in general:</p>
<p>First of all, please do not take too much offense, as this is simply my opinion.
Second, if I put the time into posting my opinion, please also refrain from responding unless you have a well thought-out response rather than a generalized statement. From this post on, I will ignore posts aimed solely at insulting me rather than providing a worthy argument.</p>
<p>Now, proving my hypocrisy, but really just not wasting time responding to each post, I believe, as others believe, that homosexual is simply unnatural. As others have also pointed out, nature has intended for a male and female to link rather than a male with a male or a female with a female. There can be no argument against this. It is an indsiputable fact that the male sex organs are only suited for female sex organs.</p>
<p>Practicality aside, there is also the moral aspect. Someone, I don’t remember exactly who, called me something along the lines of ‘monstrous’. First of all, please do not make such harsh judgements based on my view on a single subject. Second, in the body of my response, how then do you justify homosexual marriage? Some of you say that if they want to get married, let them. Yet this is obviously inconsiderate. Take the example of a heavy drinker. Some would simply say that if that person wants to drink, let them, since they’ve reached the age requirement. And yet, what happens when said alcoholic gets into a car right after drinking? He/she is likely to cause and accident, if not kill some pedestrian. This case can be applied to the topic at hand, the alcoholic and alcohol being respective homosexual parents, the car the child, and society the victim. Note that when I use the word victim, I do not actually mean to insult any homosexual couples by making them seem like monsters. I am simply directly translating the context, to avoid any misunderstanding. What do you say about this collateral damage? To those of you who emphasize the lack of openmindedness in anti-gay marriage advocates, what are laws for? Shouldn’t we just be allowed to do whatever we want in life, without worrying about the consequences for others? I doubt you would agree to this, so I don’t see why you would agree to the former. </p>
<p>This all being said, please let me know if I missed addressing anyone in my post.</p>
<p>“I, along many Americans believe that homosexuality is immoral, thus rewarding a perversion with the institution of marriage lowers our standards of what is accepted in society.”</p>
<p>And decades ago, many Americans thought that sex/marriage between people of different races was immoral or against their religion. Some people still think that. Fortunately, the courts believe that people of different races should be allowed to marry in this country.</p>
<p>Just because many people think homosexuality is immoral doesn’t mean that gays shouldn’t be allowed to marry. If people think homosexuality is wrong, those people don’t need to practice homosexuality.</p>
<p>“To compare miscegnation to homosexuality is patently absurd, and you know that. For one, miscegnation can produce offspring naturally. Secondly, it still involves heterosexual relations. That statement is so insipidly asinine that I cannot believe anyone bothers to bring it up at all anymore.”</p>
<p>Marriage in modern society isn’t to produce offspring, but is more to guarantee legal rights such as inheritance, insurance, hospital visitation, etc. If the legal basis of marriage were procreation, people who were sterile wouldn’t be allowed to marry.</p>
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Not at all. Gay Marriage and polygamy are two diverse topics. Gay marriage is the bond between two human beings that love either other-- like any other marriage. Polygamy is the act of “obtaining” multiple wives. They have no love toward each other.</p>
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I did not call you anything. you made the generalization that all children raised by homosexual parents are unbeneficial members of society. I said that that was a monstrous claim, which it was.</p>
<p>Not at all. Gay Marriage and polygamy are two diverse topics. Gay marriage is the bond between two human beings that love either other-- like any other marriage. Polygamy is the act of “obtaining” multiple wives. They have no love toward each other ~ Rokangel</p>
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<p>Well, what if 4 people are all in love with each other?</p>
<p>So you’re saying marriage can only be between 2 people? Seems pretty narrow minded. I mean, what if 2 women and 1 man all love each other?</p>
<p>Sounds like you just want to discriminate against people who have unorthodox relationships, just like people discriminate against interracial relationships, right?</p>
<p>I mean, if they are all adults, and they aren’t harming anyone - they should get to do what they want, right?</p>
<p>hey, if he wants to call everyone with faith “brainwashed”, I can have my comments too.</p>
<p>^^^I agree that those in favor of gay marriage should support polygamy. </p>
<p>I also think that liberals have a much better chance of pushing through a pro-gay marriage agenda than a pro-polygamy agenda, so they avoid the issue that it’s essentially the same basic privileges.</p>
<p>@bigeast: the point is, religion should not influence the laws by which we are governed; I emphasize religion here because this seems to be the basis of every anti-gay marriage proponent. </p>
<p>@justtotalk: I think that polygamy would be harder to push through because it would be complicated. What happens if one person involved wants a divorce, but only wants a divorce from one of the members involved?</p>
<p>Gay marriage…either way, I don’t give a about such an insignificant issue.</p>