"WASHINGTON — In a pair of major victories for the gay rights movement, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that married same-sex couples were entitled to federal benefits and, by declining to decide a case from California, effectively allowed same-sex marriages there."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/us/politics/supreme-court-gay-marriage.html
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Each to their own I say, I am for gay and lesbian rights I don't really have a problem with it…I just believe that no matter what personal beliefs you have, everyone should be allowed to do what they want if it makes them happy and makes other people happy while it doesn't mess with anyone's life. You don't have to support the sexual orientation, but you should let them live their life & let an individual decide on the human person they love without punishing or denying equality for not loving exactly the same way you do.
I don't mind about gay marriage as long as said people both had feelings toward each other... it is rights after all... now imagine if there are a universe filled with genderless people? Wouldn’t that be discriminating if people can't marry just because they all are genderless….
Yet I understand, though do not fully support the reasoning behind the people who are opposed to gay marriage. Some genuinely believe gay actions and behaviours are harmful for those engaged in them and have a derogatory effect on society.
A lot of hate towards homosexuals stems from the inability to relate with a different mind-set, and a fear that making gay marriage legal will somehow change the way things are for straight men and women, as if what gay people do applies to them on a personal level. The arguments against homosexuality are largely lacking in empathy. So while the arguments can be dressed up in things like "Marriage is a tradition between one man and one woman", marriage is also a legal contract ultimately under the control of the government, whose job is to equally confer legal rights and protection to its citizens..
While many people consider marriage a religious tenet, marriage is not a strictly religious concept, and never really has been. The church doesn't own the word, and its meaning is certainly not defined in a religious manner today. A marriage license is given out by the state, not a church. It is a government license and you can have marriages performed outside of a church and without a minister, instead substituting a civil servant.
Some people will cite their religious beliefs, but the government and the church are ideally separated, because there are more than just Christians in the world. And not all people entrenched in religion believe that gays should have lesser rights. It just makes sense for the church to embrace loving everyone, regardless of their gender, race, social standing, or sexual orientation; otherwise the number of non-religious people will only continue to grow.
Society has cast this into such a black and white mould that you either have to approve of homosexuality, or have to fight against it, while at the same time you have to profess a middle ground. What is interesting is that whenever someone actually does support a middle ground, they can be made into a villain. If you neither support homosexuality nor want to impede it, then you must hate homosexuals and hate traditional marriage. In the very least, each side expects you to compromise your views. The "right" wants you to compromise your wish not to impede homosexuals in order to support your view on marriage, and the "left" wants you to compromise your personal views on marriage in order to support their cause. What no one realizes is that each side of this fight is discriminatory and bigoted. A bigot is someone who doesn't tolerate the views of others, and the right doesn't tolerate the left and the left doesn't tolerate the right.