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Should homosexuals receive all the rights and benefits of marriage?

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Yes
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Okay, Here are my thoughts on gay marriage. I'm not homosexual, not that it matters, my points are still going to be valid whether I am or not.

Okay I believe that homosexuals have every right to get married. If a man and a woman that hate each other can get married, then two people that love each other should also be able to get married. If people get married just to get a green card so that they can legally come into the United States, then people who have been in this country since birth should be able to get married. We have people who get married after a crazy night in Vegas, very irresponsibly, and we have the nerve to preach the sanctity of marriage. We have Drive-Thru marriages in Vegas, how sacred is that? "Welcome to Chapel Hut can I interest you in our two for one special?"

Give me a break... what's the worst that could happen if we let homosexuals get married? They already have rights and can vote, what else could go wrong if we let them get married? Afraid all the guys and girls on the downlow are going to leave their boyfriends and girlfriends and get married to the same sex? That's kind of like how people think legalizing drugs will make people more likely to try them. Trust me, I've never tried heroin or had sex with a man... if you legalize gay marriage or heroin I'm not going to try them that's the bottom line. I'm not comparing gays to drugs or trying to subliminally say that gay marriage is equal to doing heroin either, just to clear that up for anyone who might get misconstrued there.

In my class I had a debate with a woman about gay marriage. She said that the gay's should just be able to live together and that should be good enough for them. I said wait... so it's good enough for gay's to remain stagnant but not for a woman and a man? How many men have been pressured by their women to get married and the guy is like "What's the rush to getting married, we're already live together, nothing's going to change". So it's acceptable for gay's not to have one of the most special moments in a person's life recognized? As much freedom as we allow in this country? We're starting to become the same stuck up nation that our "founding fathers" left their native country for. We're all about eliminating persecution and religious freedom and everything, but we're quick to cite the Bible when it comes to issues we don't want to deal with. The Bible has quite a bit of information. It says that money is the root of all evil, but we build banks and casinos


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