Obama: Court must end California gay marriage ban

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

If you don't care what other people do, then why are you totally against it?

Personally, i think its ok for gays to have civil unions. But formal marriage? I don't see how that is possible. Marriage in and of itself is a religious ceremony, ususally conducted by a member of a church of some kind. I think most (if not all) religions have a negative view of gay marriage. Legislating gay marrage in this capacity, is a asking people to change the views of their religion just to accommodate few select individuals, via legislation from the state, and to me that's the rub.

The religion argument is a red herring. No one is going to force churches to perform same-sex marriages. However, if a straight couple can go to the court house and have their union called marriage, then why can't a gay couple do the same thing? We tried the whole seperate but equal thing before, and it wasn't equal.