I'm not saying that I only pay attention to the part about gays. I asked my religion teacher once what the catholic church teaches about gay people. She said it is okay to be gay as long as you don't act like one. I said before I do not believe this. And I know the bible says a lot of things you shouldn't do that sound rediculous :/ I didn't intend for it to seem I only pay attention to one part, it was an answer I got from my religion teachers when I asked the teachers (and our religion book).

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Ice Wolf, the mention of homosexuality in the bible comes from Leviticus. <br /> <br /> Hilariously, Leviticus also states that blended fabric (polyester), shrimp, shaving your beard, round haircuts, football, wearing gold, divorce and several other trivial things are sins worse than murder. :D But, yaknow, only listen to the part about gays because it's convenient.

Actually, it is completely natural. I'm used to that argument as well as the religious one.XD I have counter arguments for pretty much anything relating to gay rights. The religion argument doesn't work because of seperation of church and state, and it is completely natural. Something like 2500+ animal species have documented homosexual behaviors.

The one reason why I hear that gay people should not be considered equals (from the catholic church, mind you) is that it is unnatural and goes against god's plans. This is not my opinion, but my religion teachers keep telling me this.<br /> <br /> I do agree that gay people deserve this right, I know so many gay people I can't even count.

It's known that the term 'marriage' has been rooted before Christianity, but the term was pretty thoroughly adopted by religion where it can -seem- like it was born with religion.<br /> <br /> We can at least settle with that I would hope or we might be getting off on a different subject here soon. <br /> <br />

Bridgette&Josh, if you wanna get into the term itself, you're wrong again - the Bible was originally written in Koine Greek, Hebrew, Aramaic, and so forth, so the word "marriage" did not technically originate from the Bible. The concept of marriage has been around long before Christianity, and the word itself is merely the current English term for it. A term everyone should have the right to use. <br /> <br /> I understand what you're saying about the terms. But gays should have the right to use the term marriage. Even if we swap to civil unions and "leave marriage to the religious leaders", we're still basically telling homosexuals that "no, you're different and not allowed to use our word". It's still unfair and prejudiced.

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i will tell you Why government will not allow same sex marriage. they're homophobes. they don't want to accept they exist and have right to take part in governing our country. just like with women and different races. have you seen how other government people act once they learn one of their collegueges is gay??? actually i think everyone has a little gay in them. they are going against the constitution Completely and will be ALMOST overthrown for it. They people have spoken, but the government is scared wittless.

Bridgette and Josh::: Marriage has been along for much Much longer than Christianity. if you're thinking it derived from a Monotheistic religion such as Catholicism and Judiasm then Yes. as for thinking it's unfair for gays to want christian acceptance, the Bible tells us Over and Over and Over again to Love Everyone Equally and to encourage Everyone to take Some part in the religion so they're closer to our God. Marriage has Nothing to do with God, it's a promise between two people (supposedly before God). the fact is christians Are supposed to accept everyone. and to deny lovers to not make a promise to each other is childish. christians don't own the right for lovers to make promises to each other.

LoL westboro church is not the norms. They have very little support for their totally psychopathic utterly insane conquest. Ugh don't even get me started on them. I feel such hate for them it consumes me. We just had a big debate on westboro church on Aywas. OMG how I loath them.

I don't have time to respond to all of that as I need to get some sleep, but this stood out to me:<br /> <br /> "...who were just angry with the idea of it but not putting to much thought into it you are going to have christian crazies who feel utter hate for you and want revenge for you taking something that they believe is theirs..."<br /> <br /> Uh...we already have that? Do you not realize that?XD Yeah, people would be ticked off if we got marriage and would be protesting it, but that's nothing new. *coughWestboroBaptistChurchcough*