U.S. Supreme Court Considers Gay Marriage

It's completely unconstitutional to outlaw it. I'm appalled that it's still an issue; it's so simple.

No doubt!  Love is love, Not Fade Away!

They should allow gay marriage in all States except Alaska so anyone who felt it was wrong would have somewhere to go where they wouldn't have to feel offended

Forgive my naivete, but how does your response fit into the poll answers? 

The name of this thread is a bit misleading: for a few seconds, I thought that it meant that some members of the U.S. Supreme Court consider marrying each other.
My bad.

Anyway, in France, we're waiting the decision of our National Assembly on this subject.
I can't wait for gay marriage to be voted, so there won't be any more manifestation on the Sundays, just when I want to go buy some comics at my comics store but get blocked on my way by right-wing or left-wing protesters.
Get a life, protesters!

A lot of agendas right there...

But as previously mentioned, government has no business sticking it's nose into who marries who. It is pure and simple one's own personal freedom....................... like many other things now that I think of it.

I agree that the government has no business sticking it's nose into what goes on in the bedroom of two (or more) consenting adults but the government does have a responsibility/(obligation?) to either protect people from being discriminated against or allowing majority rule to prevent people from behaving in ways that the "majority" finds to be morally reprehensible.   Filing a tax return, a married man and woman have the right to file married filing jointly or married filing separately.  Same-sex couples have to file as single.  A married man and woman can jointly adopt a child.  With same-sex couples only one or the other can adopt a child, not both.  A married man and woman can have health insurance for the other.  A same-sex couple only can if the employer or insurance company allows for it.  (Granted I believe more and more do allow it).  I know that there are other legal issues that are out there that currently exist as well.  

rushfan4 wrote: Then there is the conservative side that says that God says that marriage is between a man and a woman and homosexuality is a morally reprehensible sin.

"The hypothesis  of God, for  instance,  gives  an
incomparably  absolute  opportunity   to  understand  everything  and   know
absolutely nothing. Give man an extremely simplified system of the world and
explain every phenomenon  away on the basis of that system. An approach like
that doesn't  require any  knowledge.  Just a  few  memorized formulas  pins
so-called intuition and so-called common sense."

-Strugatsky (as translated)

Edited by Triceratopsoil - March 26 2013 at 18:56

^ ... and milk? ... Why?

manofmystery wrote: Government should have nothing to do with marriage

Scott gave me a position in the poll, and I'm the first to vote for it. 

My religious views give me a clear position on gay marriage, but just because something is against my beliefs, that doesn't mean that I should be in favor of laws prohibiting it.