I posted a thing on Facebook about supporting gay marriage. the following are some of the responses i received:
James Perryman
James Perryman at 8:51pm May 26
Ok Mike how do I say this without sounding redneck or over religious.
Fact of the matter is no "NO" other species on the planet have male and male or female and female relationships. Oh I am forgetting those frogs in africa----- but they change sex naturaly to continue the species. My point is that marrage of a couple has always been reserved for ... Read Morea male and a female as a social accepted means of having sex to create life. If you have found a way to do this in a same sex relationship I am all for it.
Otherwise live together and have a lawyer draw up a binding agreement so the serviving "Mate" or "Companion" can make decisions for the other person in the event of illness or death.
Sorry for my bluntness but you don't seem to be very shy about blurting your sexual prefferance. You will have to accept my opinion as well.

Daryle Conners at 10:03pm May 26
Marriage is a civil union, as far as laws go. No one's religion has any place in the making of our laws. Separation of church and state protects both religious rights and civil rights.

Also, you are dead wrong about there not being homosexual relationships all throughout Nature, but that's really a distraction from the issue at hand.

Marriage of a couple may be reserved for procreation in your mind, but that doesn't mean that others have to share your view. YOU can marry whoever you want for whatever reasons you want. Everyone should have that same right. Do you think that people who adopt rather than having children of their own don't have valid marriages? Do you think that people who don't choose to have children shouldn't be allowed to marry? Or have sex, for that matter? It doesn't take much to see how weak and insubstantial that argument is....

Sorry James, there is no way to say what you're saying without sounding ignorant and intolerant.

Mindy Miller at 10:05pm May 26
How DO you say that without sounding like a red neck? You dont.

Gretchen Bell
Gretchen Bell at 10:28pm May 26
TIRED ARGUMENT. NO SHIT. We hetros expect the privacy and rights to marry who we choose AND we MUST respect everyone's choice and and to whom they choose to commit to and respect that choice. If you pay the same TAXES (property, personal) like Bill and Jane next door you are entitled to the same equality and bennefits as they do. If you contribute to society like Bill and Jane you deserve the SAME. You may not like it, but whats not to like? Equality protects you, it protects me it protects everyone in a perfect world. Not accepting gay equality is denying someone who is as upstanding as you the same rights. Its discrimination. Its WRONG. EVERYONE who contributes to this nation DESERVES THE SAME RIGHTS AS EVERYONE ELSE...

Brian Scott
Brian Scott at 1:44am May 27
Dear James Perryman,
WTFiJP? I actually could have cared less about insisting on gay marriage, however it had been made an issue by politicians who have always benefited by exploiting the most base qualities that a person has against themselves. It had been a ridiculous distraction, one that kept us from discussing the rights of all people to health care, it helped us to invade and and ruin Iraq, it helped us to not review our voting system and have intelligent debate on bringing our system up to democratic standards. It has helped us not concentrate on improving education for every one. It has been a very helpful distraction.
Now that it has become a reality, it is a question of purposely denying rights to a portion of our society. That is a clean cut case of discrimination. And no binding contract will give a surviving partner the same inheritance, visitation, custody, medicare or social security benefits that a surviving spouse would enjoy.

from Delba Jean
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