Could you be friends with someone who opposed gay marriage?

[DiamondSkin]

Would you be friends with someone who voted against gay marriage?

ALSO:

THE ORIGINAL QUESTION BY THE O.P.

Which apparently got lost in the thread...


Would you still be friends with someone who actively went out and voted against gay marriage?

Not just opposed but actually took the time to go to the voting booth and vote against it?

Two years ago, many people stills said yes. (Self-hating muthas...) )

I would hope, today, more people would say no....

 

[bankside]

It is your problem to show how they are different. Or at least you have to set out what would be a "legitimate" comparison. You can't just snipe from the peanut gallery.

 

[JoeyLj]

Yes. In fact I oppose gay marriage kind of.

 

[Críostóir]

Yes. In fact I oppose gay marriage kind of.

Could you unpack that a little? What does "kind of" mean in this case?

 

[JoeyLj]

Could you unpack that a little? What does "kind of" mean in this case?

Well it's kind of hard to explain. I think we should have something that gives us the exact same rights as marriage, and is for all intents and purposes is marriage. But not marriage. its hard to explain.

But I would vote for gay marriage just for the equality aspect.

 

[Chris421]

Well it's kind of hard to explain. I think we should have something that gives us the exact same rights as marriage, and is for all intents and purposes is marriage. But not marriage. its hard to explain.

But I would vote for gay marriage just for the equality aspect.

Why not marriage? What makes us so different that we do not have the right to be married? Why the need for a different word? Why can't we share?

 

[Críostóir]

Well it's kind of hard to explain. I think we should have something that gives us the exact same rights as marriage, and is for all intents and purposes is marriage. But not marriage. its hard to explain.

But I would vote for gay marriage just for the equality aspect.

New Jersey did a study of its Civil Union law, which supposedly grants all the rights of marriage. The study showed that nothing except marriage in fact and name both can really grant the same rights. This is because there are too many laws, policies, and regulations that say "married" and the like. Doesn't work to try to attach something by another name to them.

 

[JoeyLj]

Well I haven't really thank (thunk? what is the past tense of think??) it through. But I thought that marriage was from the bible or something and it was a man and a woman. Like that was the definition of marriage; a man and a woman. And anyway I don't believe in the bible and they don't agree with us so I don't think we should embrace marriage (In the strictest sense)

BUT I think most people who oppose it oppose it for the wrong reasons (i.e. they don't like gay people or whatever) So I am for it in the sense that it is equal oppurtunities. But I'd rather it was called something else. I don't know, ignore me I don't make sense half the time! But if anyone thinks they know what I'm trying to get at please help me explain.

 

[Chris421]

Well I haven't really thank (thunk? what is the past tense of think??) it through. But I thought that marriage was from the bible or something and it was a man and a woman. Like that was the definition of marriage; a man and a woman. And anyway I don't believe in the bible and they don't agree with us so I don't think we should embrace marriage (In the strictest sense)

BUT I think most people who oppose it oppose it for the wrong reasons (i.e. they don't like gay people or whatever) So I am for it in the sense that it is equal oppurtunities. But I'd rather it was called something else. I don't know, ignore me I don't make sense half the time! But if anyone thinks they know what I'm trying to get at please help me explain.

There are religious people who happen to be homosexual as well, so to them it could hold a lot more significance to them, then say you or I.

 

[Críostóir]

And "one man and one woman" is a very recent pattern. Before that it was "one man and as many women as he could acquire" for thousands of years.

 

[JoeyLj]

OK then I'm actually for it now.

 

[bankside]

That "marriage comes from the Bible" crap actually isn't true at all.

More to the point, it doesn't matter even if it were true. Marriages have been performed for centuries without religious supervision being required. The word marriage can't be copyrighted by a church anyway.