Why are those that do not support gay marriage ostracized?!?!

Penalty for homosexuality in nigeria

You just described every cause ever.

12 states in Nigeria have adopted Sharia Law and the penalty for homosexuality is death by stoning. Look up the penalty for homosexuality throughout the British Commonwealth.

The USA is roughly 75% christian and about 4% gay. The problem is that you have a small number of loudmouths and the liberals in the media have made them cause celebre.

For the same reason we ostracize people that don't support interracial marriage.

Coach D continues to show his age on LRC. You've outlived your relevance Coach D. We thank you for what you have done with your life, now please step aside so we can advance as a sport, a society, and as a country.

coach d wrote:

12 states in Nigeria have adopted Sharia Law and the penalty for homosexuality is death by stoning. Look up the penalty for homosexuality throughout the British Commonwealth.

The USA is roughly 75% christian and about 4% gay. The problem is that you have a small number of loudmouths and the liberals in the media have made them cause celebre.

Because you have no valid reason oppose it besides 'god said so'

I don't think anybody gives a fvck if you don't "support" gay marriage.

On the other hand, if you oppose allowing gays to marry then you do risk being ridiculed. You will get lumped in with all the wingnuts that believe that allowing gays to marry will somehow diminish their own hetero marriage. Or maybe gay marriage will lead to somebody marring their pet hamster or a favorite tree.

A position of "eh, let em do what they want, doesn't hurt me" if perfectly acceptable and probably would not be considered supporting gay marriage.

Why are those that do not support gay marriage ostracized?

Because we be hating on the bigots.

Sheesh. Now you're ostracizing the dickhole who started this thread. What's this site come to when a guy can't get a little love for his hate.

Now the CEO of Firefox is forced to resign because he donated $1000 in 2008.

Why don't the people upset about Firefox ostracize Obama instead. In 2008, this is what Obama told MTV:

"I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage."

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2008/11/obama-on-mtv-i/

Anti-gay is like racism

Beauregard he was saying it to appease people, he never tilt elieved that bs

Teenager wrote:

Because you have no valid reason oppose it besides 'god said so'

This. If you try to prevent other people from doing X even though X has no impact on anyone who isn't choosing to be involved, I am going to think that you are a douche bag. I don't care if we're talking about gay marriage or any other act/preference.

I like Darjeeling better than English Breakfast. Nothing wrong with that, right? But if I decide that no one should be allowed to drink English Breakfast because I prefer Darjeeling and I try to get English Breakfast banned, you'd probably consider me to be a complete dick, and for good reason. I'm trying to control an aspect of someone else's life that has nothing to do with me.

Same goes for gay marriage. You're trying to prevent consenting adults from entering into an agreement that has zero impact on your life. That makes you a douche.

none of your business wrote:

Teenager wrote:

Because you have no valid reason oppose it besides 'god said so'

This.

Wrong. Biology says so.

Whether gays have the right to do what they want with themselves is not the same thing as whether it's a "marriage." Marriage developed naturally as a reproductive arrangement. Like it or not, gays are not biologically equipped to reproduce with each other.

Gay-marriage activists have gotten as far as they have by beating up on the straw man of religion. The viciousness is intended to cast their issue as a rights-vs-religion thing when it is, in fact, a mad crusade against the facts of life. That political diversion can't last forever.

Go ahead with all the juvenile rhetoric, say "bigot," say "closet," lump me in with the religious Enemy, all the usual bullshit you've been trained to say. But in 20 or 30 years, the majority of people still won't consider gay relationships "marriages," even if the law does. At most there will be an Orwellian divide between what people say publicly and what they really think. Millennials will grow to regret this just as baby boomers grew to regret their drug use and free sex.

Biology says so? Really? That is why 150 species exhibit homosexual behaviors. You sound like a juvenile liar. No one will regret this just like no one regrets interracial marriages. The fact that you have to flat out lie to support your paranoid view just means your argument has major holes

Whether gays have the right to do what they want with themselves is not the same thing as whether it's a "marriage." Marriage developed naturally as a reproductive arrangement. Like it or not, gays are not biologically equipped to reproduce with each other.

Read more:

http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=5722554#ixzz2xs3Snsrr

. Also the they can't reproduce so they shouldn't marry argument is lame...should infertile people not marry?

Bad Wigins wrote:

none of your business wrote:

This.

Wrong. Biology says so.

Whether gays have the right to do what they want with themselves is not the same thing as whether it's a "marriage." Marriage developed naturally as a reproductive arrangement. Like it or not, gays are not biologically equipped to reproduce with each other.

So if I understand you correctly, marriage is still a reproductive arrangement? You sound smart enough to see where this is going...so I'll let you figure the rest out :).

Pope T-Bag II wrote:

So if I understand you correctly, marriage is still a reproductive arrangement? You sound smart enough to see where this is going...so I'll let you figure the rest out :).

You do an excellent job of pointing out the problem here but offer no solution of your own. Was marriage ever a reproductive arrangement? You imply it was. Does he sound smart enough? Can you actually hear him? And you are going to let a complete idiot figure out something for himself? When will you ever learn young man?

You have failed to address my point. Whether you think that homosexuality is natural or not, it is not your place to tell two adults what kind of relationship they are allowed to have and what they are allowed to call said relationship. It has nothing to do with you. It does not impact you. It is none of your business.