(July 18, 2013 at 6:46 am)TheStateIsALie Wrote: Why is gay marriage being legalized such a central issue for the LGBT community? They keep going on about how marriage is all about love... well then, get married! -No one can stop you. I really dont understand why they need the state to condone their love.
It's not just about love, it's also about benefits, inheritance taxes, insurance, being allowed to make medical decisions for each other, etc. There have been numerous cases of people having to pay inheritance taxes on their partner's estate, and recently there was a case where a gay man was not allowed to visit his partner in the hospital because the sick man's family would not allow him to visit. These issues could be resolved by legalizing gay marriage.
My personal question to anyone against gay marriage is, how exactly is gay marriage going to ruin my marriage? I mean, I hear from the anti-gay marriage crowd that gay marriage will destroy heterosexual marriage, but how, if two gay men somewhere else get married, will it affect my marriage? Is there only so much marriage to go around, so that if gay people want to get married I'll have to get a divorce? Is there a shortage of marriage licenses? How is it going to affect me?
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.
