Read Keeper of The Umbrella’s post for a definition of what a marriage certificate is for and the rights it affords the straight couples who have them. I am an atheist male who is married to a woman and because of that fact we are given more rights than a same sex couple who love each other just as intensely as me and my wife do, that is the entire problem. My marriage was officiated by a gay man who was given the authority by the state we live in to conduct the ceremony legally and it had no religious context whatsoever. We want to spend the rest of our lives together and being married simply gives us and our children more rights and privileges. The man who married us and his partner should be able to enjoy the same rights as a couple we do as they desperately want to.

Second of all, it’s very clear that you don’t understand the difference between homosexuality and being transgendered – wanting to be a different gender and being attracted to the same gender are not the same. In fact, love, lust, and sexuality in general are too complex to be narrowed down to /don’t you know it should be a woman and a man./ And further, I want to know something very, very important from you, and I look forward to this answer: who is being hurt?

If a man and another man, or a woman and another woman, love each other enough to want to spend the rest of their lives together, who is that hurting? The family? When gay couples adopt, their children have consistently rated their happiness and productivity at school higher than the adopted children of straight couples. Marriage? Are you telling me that religious people won’t get married because gay people can be married to? Good luck to them, it’ll be lonely having no or pre-marital sex for the rest of their life. The government? I don’t see how the love lives of individuals affects the government in any way.

For the rest, that whole “Marriage is religious!” nonsense, well, atheists are married all over the world. You might not get married, but I fully intend to, and I’m an atheist. I can’t say anymore without stepping on Keeper of the Umbrella’s toes, so I won’t. Have a pleasant day.

So a civil marriage in the US will allow a committed same sex couple to protect assets, grant rights and privileges, and (most importantly in my opinion) give recognition that two people want to live their lives together and create a family. Maybe it’s not the same kind of family you’re used to, but it’s still a family.

Same sex marriage will do nothing to stop the nature of all living things which is male and female — except of course for gays and lesbians, who for them/us the natural order of things i male-male or female-female. Human beings are very complex animals. Not everyone is like you. But just because some of us are different, doesn’t mean we deserve to be ghettoized or disrespected by saying there is something else we should get instead of a civil marriage.

And just because you don’t want to get married, doesn’t mean you should deny someone else’s desire to get married. There is nothing religious about a state issue civil marriage certificate.

I personally believe I have the right to object to gay marriage without persecution. It is my contention that homosexual relations are purely forms of masturbation and have no purpose to the creation of life at all. I believe that “marriage” is between a man and a woman and is solely a religious ceremony. I feel outraged that my beliefs are being squashed by the politically correct world. If a same sex couple wish to be together that is not my problem? How would a marriage change their love?

Thanks for reading