A civil union, also referred to as a civil partnership, is a legally recognized form of partnership similar to marriage.
So why must gays insist that there union be called a marriage?
Why must the meaning of a word be changed? Marriage= A union between a man and woman.
Why can't gays accept that their union is different and should be kept that way?
If gays are proud of their union then why not be proud enough to want it to be identified as such?
Try to answer the questions, not just jump me for asking and trying to understand.
Homosexual behavior in animals refers to the documented evidence of homosexual and bisexual behavior in various (non-human) species. Such behaviors include sex, courtship, affection, pair bonding, and parenting among same sex animals. A 1999 review by researcher Bruce Bagemihl shows that homosexual behavior has been observed in close to 1,500 species, ranging from primates to gut worms, and is well documented for 500 of them. Animal sexual behavior takes many different forms, even within the same species. The motivations for and implications of these behaviors have yet to be fully understood, since most species have yet to be fully studied. According to Bagemihl, "the animal kingdom [does] it with much greater sexual diversity – including homosexual, bisexual and nonreproductive sex – than the scientific community and society at large have previously been willing to accept." Current research indicates that various forms of same-sex sexual behavior are found throughout the animal kingdom. A new review made in 2009 of existing research showed that same-sex behavior is a nearly universal phenomenon in the animal kingdom, common across species. Homosexual behavior is best known from social species.
Animals act on instink nothing moral about them.
Dogs fight over bones because they believe the bone to be only theirs. Do you want to keep acting like a dog fighting over a bone, yelling "Mine, mine, mine and you can't have it!"? My point was to show BM that his claim that it is unnatural is wrong, not to say I want to be an animal, oh close minded one.
Animals love and are willing to die to protect their young. Would you die to protect your young? Would you say you were acting like an animal if you did? By the way, man lives by instinct too. You should pay more attention to nature instead of ignoring it like you are so far more superior and can't be bothered with it. Even Jesus defended animals as living creatures that should not be abused. Why do you suppose he did that? Why would he defend something without Soul or without the ability to love? Jesus knew, he knew that animals have Soul and contain God's love. Again I ask, who do you really follow oh dark one? You truly have no compassion for anyone but yourself, do you?
LOVE IS MORAL! SOUL HAS NO GENDER. MORAL PEOPLE SEE BEYOND THE BODY AND LOVE SOUL. YOU CAN NOT GET ANY MORE MORAL THAN THAT!
You are not trying to learn. You are pushing your agenda. I've answered your question a dozen different way to help you to understand. Which one are you going to acknowledge and not brush off with some slippery slope or inane argument?
Randy, honey.. I dont meat to sound obtuse... but I really dont understand what it is you have a problem with...
It sounds as if you are in favor of gays having rights... you just want them to fight for them.
But you want to keep the name "marriage" between a man and woman...
So Can we call their union "purple" and give them them same rights? .... Military pention, health care, federal taxes, power of attirny... ect...
noun
the way in which a person or group lives.
Are you trying to change the meaning of another word?
Jenn, I think you got it honey, that is all I ask.
OK Colleen make up a better word, let us see if we can.......
I choose the word marriage. Let me repeat myself for the umpteenth time.......to call it anything else would be separate but equal which it never does become equal or recognized as equal. No other word but marriage with carry the correct weight and acknowledgment.
The word Marriage has already been chosen by MEN AND WOMEN, you can do better I'm sure, think....
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A common-law marriage.
Isn't a common-law marriage a name for people not legally married.
>>>>>So if you must use the word marriage put the word gay in front of it. Gay Marriage, maybe people could accept that.<<<<<<
So this argument is done. I've been calling it gay marriage right along. The states that allow gays to get married call it gay marriage. Where exactly is your argument now about gays using the word marriage as you've already stated "put the word gay in front of it. Gay Marriage, maybe people could accept"
Unless you are not one of those people?
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a. a luxurious semirural manner of living
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1. suggestive of a fashionable or desirable lifestyle a lifestyle café (
2. (Medicine / Pharmacology) (of a drug) designed to treat problems, such as impotence or excess weight, which affect a person's quality of life rather than their health.
>>>>> A way of life or style of living that reflects the attitudes and values of a person or group: "It was a millionaire's lifestyle on the pocketbook of a hairdresser" (People).
****** Usage Note: When lifestyle became popular a generation ago, a number of critics objected to it as voguish and superficial, perhaps because it appeared to elevate habits of consumption, dress, and recreation to categories in a system of social classification.
No Randy, I am not trying to change the meaning of the word. I used it correctly as to mean choice of a way of life.
"The word Marriage has already been chosen by MEN AND WOMEN"
I am a women. It belongs to me also just on the grounds that I am a living, breathing, red blooded human woman. I feel no need to pick another name.
I could accept a hyphenated word Gay-Marriage but thats just me good luck with it, it won't change the way you are treated by others.
Now take back all the names you called me...........lol
Apparently yes as the description alone speaks "choice or choosing".
I did not call you names. I described your actions and way of thinking. I will take back the descriptions when I am convinced you're more educated on the subject than you were yesterday.
As I said before.. If it walks like a duck, talks like and swims like a duck it is a duck... Calling it a horse would just be stupid.
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Its all just words. If two people of same sex want to live their lives together, let them. They have every right to be just as miserable as the rest of us. Partners with benefits. I was wondering , does anybody know of a same sex couple-people that have been together for over 50 years ? I have not ever heard of any.
12 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
I do. There have been and still are a great many. I can get you some facts as soon as I have time.
@ Randy If they want to commit to marrying each other, yes, they should have the same rights.
Stop talking about homosexuals already. You are so wrong every time you open your mouth about them. This is why you should have come out of the closet years and years ago. Pretending to be straight has never worked. You were born gay, embrace it or if you still can not do it, at least stop talking about gays and spreading miss information.
Meanwhile........Back at the ranch,The Lone Ranger, (Cunningly disguised as a door) got his knob shot off...
12 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
Call it:
Gay- Marriage= the union of two like sex couples with all legal rights as others.
Marriage= the union of a Man and Woman with all legal rights.
Would this be accepted by others, I've been educated by Colleen and have opened my mind.
12 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
My point it won't change the way people will treat gays.
Just because I don't agree with everyone..........
You are not God Randy. You are not one of God's angles who will herald his arrival even though you think you are and have taken to doing so. You are not a messenger nor a prophet. You may be a Harold Camping however and we all know he has been so many times. You are not God's chosen one who is privy to advanced warning that the time is near. No man shall know this and no man can guess. This includes you Randy. If you have people in your life who care about you, I hope they consider getting you some intervention because I believe you are going off the deep end. You need help. You have scared yourself to death and you now want to scare others and drag them down with you, I can only sit back and watch you sink because it is not for me to save you from yourself. This is why I've left you to your ravings in your other thread. You are showing everyone just how over the top you have gone. You are pushing people away from you rather than draw them in. You're making a farce out of your religion. I feel bad for the Christians asking you to stop because they know what you are doing to their religion and God. You are making a mockery of both and I'm going to let you continue because you are proving points for me that I've made all along about the kool aid.
But there young mines are being taught to go against their parents teachings.
As far as churches goes mine is setting attendance records over and over.
I understand the Catholics are in trouble but thats there fault.
I never claimed to be God or even a messenger nor a prophet, but I can see and hear and can read the signs.
I'm not afraid of anything as I am ready and have been on what could have been my death bed a few times, don't claim to have seen God or anything like that, but ask him to take me if my work here was done and he brought me back for some reason.
If anyone on the other link thinks I'm pushing they don't need to inter, Thats why I started the link so I can't be accused of coming on their link and pushing.
I only ask a yes and no question but you can see people are interested in end times even though they are "afraid" to admit it.
Thank you again for letting me hang myself if you think I am, I don't need your input on this subject as it will contain Bible verses.
The doctors saved you, not God. You are not a vessel God is using because you push people away rather than draw them in. You are trying to be an anointed one with the whole "I know how to read the warnings" when apparently you believe no one else can. Well you're correct sort of as the warnings are all in your mind and I do not believe anyone here can see into another mind. So yes, you see them and others do not because, well they exist only in your mind. I'm done. Go play jester in your question. I don't really think Jesus meant to make a fool out of yourself first so that you could suffer ridicule and feel like you are him but whatever you need to believe to make it through another day, I'll not take it from you. Again, it's not my place to save you from yourself.
The Bible is the only message I give, not a personal one, Christ message is there, not your warped version that has only your word.
Now end your preaching to me.....
Why must gays insist that there union be called a marriage?
Yes I posted a BIBLE VIRISE to show my believes but did not use that when agreed to the compromise, and I will refer to you gays because this is not just about you as you or me as you have made it.
You know nothing about light, ended now by me.
Some people are just too easy to please apparently.
NO...i do get what you`re saying...but I think it`s just a case of movin with the times..old man!!LOL!...
Society is so into equality...and so is it so wrong calling civil partnership Marriage??...my marriage was so CRAP!!:-0...good luck IMHO to anyone of any sex who wants their partnership to labelled as marriage!!!.....TRUE MARRIAGE IS SACRED...Doesn`t EVERYONE DESERVE a chance of it??!
millie xx
12 years ago. Rating: 5 | |
What a lot of to and fro none of which stayed with the question, not even the questioners`.
If our countries can fight other countries wars in the guise of helping, if the countries can allow "boat people" in and feed clothe and educate house them I do not see what a hand full of other sexual persuasion people can do to upset the status quo by being married.
Doesn`t worry me if they are called married, same sex marriage, alternative live style marriage or any other name, what does annoy me is that this question evoked a tirade of abuse by insinuation against both hetero and non hetero people from both sides.
This has happened so many times I feel the Administrators, NOT, Moderators should take a stand and declare this type of "conversation" to be invalid and banned.
I DARE THE TWO RAGING PARTIES TO READ THIS "ARTICLE" AND CIRCLE THE ACTUAL "QUESTIONS"
WE ARE TOLD THIS IS A QUESTION AND ANSWER SITE WELL WHERE ARE THE ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND FOR THAT MATTER ANSWERS.
IT IS A PILE OF WHO IS THE MOST BADLY TREATED FROM INDIVIDUAL PERSPECTIVES
12 years ago. Rating: 4 | |
Just so you know, the admin love questions that draw a lot of traffic.
"Beating up gays in the name of Jesus" just happens to be one of those attention getter threads.
The quoted bit is part of a message sent to me by a Christian friend here on akaQA after they read this thread. That is what they got out of this thread.
I answered the question. Randy argued every answer I posted as to why homosexuals want marriage. So it went on. No one had to read it.
The members here do not want this to be only a Q&A site. I got beat up recently for even suggesting that they remember this is a Q&A site. They want the discussions, they want the debates and they want to forget about the questions they do not want to research to answer. So, here ya go. This is what they want. 795 views. Randy knows as well as anyone, gay questions sell. He also knows I will enter them. He knew exactly what he was doing. He knows I'm the only homosexual on this forum who can answer the question. A straight person couldn't speak for the gays. He just wanted an argument with me as he accepted none of my answers. So he got one. Any abuse you saw from either side should be reported to the admin.
Not my problem. My reasons make perfect sense to me and thousands of others, including many members here who were reading them. Since you can only understand your book and can not understand logic and reasoning, discussions are wasted on you. I am satisfied that you are not the one who will be making the final ruling on gay marriage when the US Supreme Court hears the case. I was simply catching Peoplelover up since I truly do not believe he read every word posted to see where each word came from before he posted this. Prop8 in California has been ruled unconstitutional and D.C. just joined other states in allowing Gay Marriage (no hyphen). We are moving forward even though you do not agree with it. This question was all about you Randy. Just you and whether you would accept the gays using the word marriage. You accepted gay-marriage. The states that allow it call it Gay marriage, no hyphen. Now knowing this, if it becomes an issue with you that there is no hyphen between the words, then you will have to deal with that issue alone as I have no more patience for shallow mindedness or what your book says or why the hyphen means so much to you. I really do not care. You asked a question, I answered. You never wanted an answer. You just wanted to argue and to push your agenda. Nothing in the world was solved by it and your agenda has made no difference. Gay marriage is out there with no hyphen.
Why homosexuality has to be such a big deal I do not understand you are what you are and so it is.
Raging against each other is a waste of time and by the attitude used will resolve SFA.( Australian parlance for "sweet f--k all"
Be they black, white,religious, communist or hetero or non hetero.
If non hetros on this site can push their desires of acceptance so can Mormons or any other secular group including Muslims.
Think on that one and do not pick out a group who have similar ideals as yourself as being the only ones worthy of space on here.
Other than that, I do not push my sexuality as one that all should partake of. I just push for my civil rights when others begin the agenda of keeping them from me. This is not preaching. It is debating. The two are not blended. They are like horse and cow. The same because they are animal but completely different of each other in actions in what they offer. Preaching will always be applied to only the religious questions. That is how it is. That is the decisions of the admin. You can argue with them about that.
hi headless man,,this subject is very well split,,1546 views and 44 answers,,so it is not a subject that will be solved here,,but democracy rules,,,maybe a world wide vote,,,that way the people get what they deserve,,be it right or wrong,,do it by the numbers,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,nice talking
10 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
http://www.beatricebiologist.com/2012/02/biology-doesnt-support-gay-marriage.html
Biology Doesn't Support Gay Marriage Bans
12 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
"Sex is not the binary system we think it is, and we can't go around making rules about what people can and can't do based on what anatomy happens to be between their legs. So on top of the fact that gay marriage bans are unconstitutional, unnecessary, and downright petty, they are also terribly unscientific."
Hey, Headless one....read the article. Educate yourself on some ideas that do not come from the bible.
12 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
Marriage (also called matrimony or wedlock) is a social union or legal contract between people that creates kinship. The definition of marriage varies according to different cultures, but is usually an institution in which interpersonal relationships, usually intimate and sexual, are acknowledged. Such a union is often formalized via a wedding ceremony. Many cultures limit marriage to two persons of the opposite sex, but some allow forms of polygamous marriage, and some recognize same-sex marriage. In some conservative cultures, marriage is recommended or compulsory before pursuing any sexual activity.
that's why! ;-)
12 years ago. Rating: 3 | |
ok. i reckon this has gone on long enough,,nobody is going to change their opinouns ,the gay mob are going to stick to what they think is right,,and christians must stick to what they believe the bible says to them,,to the gay community,i say i do not believe your way,my god says you are wrong,,but not to hate you because of it,,the rest i leave up to you and whatever god you believe in,,all the words in the world will not change this debate, for those of us that believe there is a judgement day of god,so be it,,for those that do not,i wish you all the best,,..................................
10 years ago. Rating: 2 | |
By the way, "the gay mob" is a bit insulting, don't you think? We are human beings just like you Terry. Even if you think you are better because you are a Christian, we are not a mob. I wish you the best on your judgement day when you find out how wrong you were to think of us the way you do. Just remember on that day, you can not blame it on words you read in a book because you had people throughout your life tell you God does not frown on love. Another thing, unlike you, he does not put his head in the bedrooms of others. Your issue is gay sex. That is not your business. Keep your head out of their bedrooms. Love is not a sin so you can not have an issue with people who love each other. If you do, well it's YOUR issue, stop trying to pass it off onto God.
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noun
1.
a disorderly or riotous crowd of people.
2.
a crowd bent on or engaged in lawless violence.
3.
any group or collection of persons or things.
4.
the common people; the masses; populace or multitude.
5.
a criminal gang, especially one involved in drug trafficking, extortion, etc.
Definitions 3 and 4 can become dangerous if a pack mentality sets in so even though 3 and 4 may seem innocent enough, a mob is still a mob which can be a dangerous thing.
Your own words (past and present) speak volumes as to what you think of homosexuals Terry. You can claim to have gay friends all you want but you do not respect them at an equal level to you because you see them as sinners destined for h3ll if they do not just make themselves straight and beg forgiveness from your god. CONTROL. You threw in the bible first btw.
I've been single for over 15 years now but I am still a lesbian. Does the fact that I do not have sex make a difference? No. You still see me as a sinner but hate what I do even though I'm not even doing it. Well Terry, I hate that you wrote, "my god says you are wrong,,but not to hate you because of it". So if your god did not tell you not to hate me, you would hate me, hate homosexuals just because of the sex we have? The same sex heteros partake in? Really? Hypocrisy and cherry picking, so typical of the ones who believe themselves better, believe themselves to be more "normal" than those they judge to be abnormal or sinners.
I've had a ton of Christians throw the same crap at me that you try. "I hate what you do but I love you". BS! If you truly love, you leave the ones you claim to love alone! You do not threaten them with the classic repent or go to h3ll! THAT is NOT love! That is control. "Be like me or burn in h3ll", right Terry? Your religion is an insult on me. You just do as you're told like a good Christian. Your religion is insulting to anyone it does not agree with. If you feel I insult you because I have a problem with your religion insulting me, then I do not know what to tell you. It's your religion. Take it up with them.
tax and other money benefits that everybody else gets.
The word marriage and the idea of marriage, gets more societal respect, not to mention the benefits, than say 'shacking up with my old lady or partner". I think that is the main reason. Also consider this: you can very rarely get anywhere in a debate when you're not debating from the same premise. It happens in my family. Some argue from the Bible point of view. some from the secular (every day) point of view. It's not happening. A Bible person can debate with another Bible person. But a secular arguing with a Bible . . . they're not speaking the same language. It's like a frog arguing with a snake. The snake will eat the frog up and that's it. The Bible person says you can't argue with God the almighty, and that's it. The conversation is o-v-e-r. Who wins? In most societies around the world religious and Bible people win because they say God told them to do it or say it and to make you do it and say it too, even if it kills you or they kill you.
10 years ago. Rating: 2 | |