should people of the same sex be allowed to get married?
Should they be allowed to adopt children?
What are your views in general about same sex partnership?
Do you think it is ok? Why or why not.
April Higgens Eng 101-9am
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Yes I believe people of the same sex should be allowed to marry and have the same rights as straight couples i.e. insurance and medical benefits. By all means same sex couples should be allowed to adopt as well. There are enough children is this world w/out parents. If gay people weren't allowed to adopt children does that mean we should take kids away from biological parents if they're gay? What are my views, what does it matter? Gay people aren't any different than "straight" people so why not talk about all manor of families functional or disfunctional?
Renee Hart
I think that who you marry is your choice. Race, gender, and sexuality should not matter. You cannot help who you love. They should also be allowed to adopt children. Just because they are of the same sex does not mean that there are not going to be as good or better parents even than people who are heterosexual. Same sex partnership is just a certain way of life for people. I think as long as you love the person it should not matter if they are the same sex as you or not.
Frankie Gaskill (9:00)
Yes I believe people of the same sex should be allowed to get married. I feel that they should also have the same rights as straight couples. Which includes adopting childern. There are tons of childern in the country that need homes and if these individuals can provide that for them, then great. It doesnt matter if your gay or straight if you can provide a safe loving home for a child that is the most important thing.
Kristin Knowles 9:00
well, i believe that if you love somebody you should have every right to marry them. I know that I don't really feel comfortable when I see two men or two women kissing, but it's none of my business how other people live their lives. If two homosexuals want to get married and aren't embarressed about it, i think they have every right to marry eachother. I also think they should be allowed to adopt children. I really think that people that say that homosexuals shouldnt get marriend and shouldnt have kids are just being selfish because they dont want to see the couple together. Honestly though, it really is no one's business who marries who in this world. I think that people these days are too concerned with others, and it needs to stop. basically my overall opinion of this matter is that if you love someone, no matter what the gender, you should be able to show people you love them.
Morgan MacFarlane (9:00)
There's a difference between thoughts and actions. Personally, i believe gay/lesbian is extremely wrong and should not be acted upon. Marriage was meant for a man and woman -- period.
My youth pastor has a friend who is technically gay, but not really. It's a weird situation. He is attracted to men, but is trying as hard as he can to not act upon those thoughts/feelings. He doesn't want to be gay. Being tempted to think those things is not bad, but allowing them to fill your mind and then acting upon them is bad.
My boyfriend broke up with me, but i still have some feelings towards him. I can't help it. I don't want to have those feelings anymore, but I have them anyway. I just don't act upon them.
Same basic idea goes for being gay/lesbian.
No, I don't believe they should be allowed to get married and no, I don't think they should be allowed to adopt. You'd have to think of the child in this case. Do you honest think that a child would want to live with two fathers? Or two mothers? I'm sorry, but I would soo much rather stay in the orphanage than get adopted by two men or two women. That kid is going to be whacked out by time he's in junior high.
Megan Mercier (9:00)
I generally try to steer clear of questions like this. Too many people have their own opinions. I honestly don't think that anybody chooses to be gay, why would they want that social stigma, so in that sense, i think they can choose how they want to choose. Sorry my response isn't longer, just don't want to discuss anymore about such a controversial topic.
Dustin Piercy (9:00)
I think people should be allowed to love who ever they chose. They may be the same sex, but as long as they share something special and are in love I don't think it matters. Same sex partnerships are considered morally wrong to many people, but they should just let everyone live their own lives and let them love who they want too. It's better to be a relationship with somone you truly love rather than hide it just because you think people will look down upon you. I do think same sex partners should be able to adopt. They will love the child as much as anyone else, and I don't think they should be restricted of their right to adopt just because they are in a same sex partnership. Chelse Lindenbaum (9:oo)
Who you love and spend your time with is nobody's business. All that it says about our country is that we are so obsessed with a visual norm. Nobody is normal, and even if they are whose to say what normal is? People are gay and people are straight, straight people are not told they can't be straight and if they were they would just spit right in the person's face. Why are gay people disscriminated against just for being with what they love? You couldn't take a straight person a make them be gay and i don't think you could take a gay person and force them to be straight. Just let it be. And as for gay people adopting, of course they should be allowed to. It's not as if they are second class citizens, they are exactly like straight people except they like people of the same sex. I like sex! Everyone likes sex, let people be with the person they feel most comfortable with and stay out of their lifes is all I have to say
Christopher L. Cole
Where is the love people? I would have been thrilled to have anyone (gay or straight) as a parent as long as they loved me and took care of me. I grew up with a parent that tormented me, and have no love for her. I would like to believe that any child would take a loving gay parent over the cold walls of an orphanage.
I also cannot veiw acts of homosexuality as abnormal-society lies the foundation of whether or not it is wrong. 1500 different animals have same-sex relations, notably bonobos and dolphins who also have sex for pleasure and are self-aware.
Several ancient cultures especially Greece and Rome believed in same-sex partners. Aristotle thought that it was the highest form of friendship. The Spartans even institutionalized it by having adolescent men pair up with an older "lover" that would help them succeed in life.
So, I also believe that gay couples, along with anyone else, should be able to marry.
Daniel Hooker (7:00)
I do not believe people of the same sex should be able to get married. The world was meant for men and women to get married, not man and man. I dont have anything against gay people and I am not going to treat them any different from straight people. I dont think same sex couples should be allowed to adopt. The child shouldnt have to grow up with two gay parents. I think the child would be raised with confused thoughts, like whether or not he should be interested in guys or girls. Same sex partnership, i think, is wrong. It makes me cringe thinking about two guys or two girls together but I believe what people do behind closed doors is their own business. As long as they dont show it publicly, i dont have a problem with it.
Kirby Reifsteck
Yes I do believe same sex partners should be allowed to get married. They are just the same as any other couple, they are in love and want to show their commitment to one another by getting married. They should also be allowed to adopt. My aunt is gay and her and her partner were together 7 years. They live in Oakland, California, and I could see how the controversy really upset them. They didn't understand why it was such a big deal for them to be married. They broke up last year and my aunt was devastated, like any person who has ever gone through a break up. She wants so badly to adopt a child or go through the process of In Vitro fertilization. She is such a wonderful person and why should it matter if she is gay or not?
No, I don't think that two people of the same sex should be allowed to marry. Marriage is intended for the uniting of a man and a woman and nothing else. The main reason we have marriage in the first place is to procreate, and how are two men or two women going to pull that off? I know that people who are attracted to the opposite sex say that they don't have a choice and that is who they are, but I don't feel that a marriage between the two is acceptable. The tradition of marriage has always been that of a man and a woman, and should remain that way.
Chris Bohnhoff (Noon)
I personally don't know if I believe gay marriage is right or not, but I am not against it. With the divorce rate as it is with straight marriages, why not let gays be allowed to do it. I have seen some gay couples with a much better relationship than straight couples. As for children, of course I believe gays should be allowed to adopt. There is no normal family these days, and this is a child getting a home and a family instead of being raised in an orphanage or by multiple foster families.
Bobbi (9:00)
I don't think marriage should be for the same sex because marriage should only be for two people of oppeosite sexes (male and female). Not for two dudes or two women, that's nasty and thats not the way God intended marriage to be like. I really don't care if two people of the same sexes want to get married. What they want to do is their business and not mine even though its not good and no, two couples of the same sex shouldn't be allowed to adopt children. The children will be confused as to who is the male and who is the female anyways.
Jaime Carpetner
Absolutely not. God intended marriage for one man and one woman (Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve). As much as I am against this I can't change what people decide to do or think. Being adopted by homosexuals might be uncomfortable for that child. Or they might be confused as to what gender they really are. Overall, I think it is all morally wrong. Yeah, they are real people just like the rest of us, but if we show the next generation that this is okay then what are they going to be teaching their next generation?
Elizabeth Kerns
I believe same sex partnership is wrong. God created marriage to unite a man and a woman, and of course, the world is twisting everything around today. I know that they are people too, but they are of the same gender! You can't share all of the things that you are supposed to be able to share in a marriage. Since two men can't have a baby together, and two women can't either, I don't think they should be able to adopt. The child would be living in an odd situation, but I guess it's becoming more accepting to the world today. It is totally different from a man and woman who are married adopting. A marriage is supposed to consist of a man and a woman completing eachother. The man has certain qualities that women in general don't have...and women the same. Same sex partnerships is only one thing that the world totally screws up. God intended us to live so much more fully and he created so many wonderful things to enjoy, but the world just goes its own way and decides for itself what is right or wrong.
Hannah Dodd (9:00)
I think that homosexuals have the right to get married and adopt kids. It's no ones business to say that they can't. We are trying to end discrimation in our world, so who are we to say that certain types of people aren't allowed to do something common, that everyone else can do. If they really love each other and are happy, I say go for it. It's not that big of a deal. I do think that it's kind of wierd when I see homosexuals kiss and show affection to each other, but I'm just glad that they've found someone that they're really happy with it. When it comes to their children growing up with 2 dads or 2 moms, I really don't see anything wrong with that. You can't automatically think that their childhood is going to be hell and that they are going to grow up as wierdos or even homosexuals themselves. One of my friends has 2 moms and she's as normal as they come. She's also straight as a board. People need to stop automatically thinking that they are going to turn out wierd, because they don't know at all.
Alyssa Surber(9:00)
I do not think that people of the same sex should be allowed to get married, it is not the way God intended, we were built with the sex organs that we have for a reason. After 3 years of being married my husband told me that he was gay and wanted to be a drag queen, we have two kids together, and it saddened me.I am not going to judge those who decide to be in a same sex relationship, I would not even look down on them because it is not my place to judge them and I don't judge anyone.
Kassi
No people of the same sex should not be allowed to get married. YOu know if they end up getting married and want to have a kid and adoption is the only way than yes they can, its their choice. I really do not agree with the same sex partnership. I have never agreed with it. I tend to judge people of the same sex that get married i know i shouldnt but i do. Well no it not ok. Why or why not is my opinion and i feel that it is going against some of my religious beliefs. So people of the same sex should not be getting married.
Shawn Harshbarger
Personally, I don't like the whole concept of same sex relationships. It kind of grosses me out. I think that it's wrong. I was taught that homosexuality is a sin, and I believe that. I don't think that they should be allowed to get married. Marriage is between a man and a woman. People shouldn't edit vows. And I think that the kid would totally be jacked up. It would be very confusing to have two dads. Plus, the kid would be persecuted by other children. That's not good for a kid.
Liz Doty
I'm so sick of all the actions of gay and lesbian relationships. They are committing a filthy sin before God and now ask that we all go along with it by agreeing for the same rights of straight couples. Straight couples in which God ordained himself. So, who dare go against God and is order for human kind and sexuality. Anything that go against God and his order is already disfunctional. Bottom Line! I will never agree to nothing that has to with gays and lesbians.
Theresa Newman(noon)
I think it is all wrong. You should never be able to marry the same sex because not only is it against God it is also so sick. If one of my family members were gay i would never talk to them again because i am against it. When i see or hear a gay guy it makes me want to throw-up. For them to adopt i also think that it is really wrong because they never had a choice about it. It would be really hard being a child with your parents being gay. So you can see im not pro-gay.
Justin Henrichs (9:00)
I do think that same sex couples should be allowed to get married and to adopt. Why not let them? There people too. I don't have a problem with same sex partnership. I think that it is their choice and decision, and that as long as a person isn't asking me to get involved with it I honestly don't care.
Dani
I believe that you should have the right to marry anyone, it shouldn't matter about religion, race or gender. I'm not saying I believe or even support it, but rather it is their life and I should have no say in it. Would you like it if someone told you that you couldn't marry your girlfriend. I would tell them to just mind their own business, I'll do what I want. I think that they should be forced to go through the same process as other people when it comes to adoption. They shouldn't be given an advantage or be discriminated against. I don't approve of it, but hey, it is not my life or my right to tell them what to do.
Ryan(7:00)
I don't feel that gay marriage is right. I don't really think that gay relationships are right (I was raised Catholic); however, I do NOT think that people that are gay are going to go to hell because of the way they feel! Who am I to judge something I don't truely understand? On the other hand, my sister is gay. My sister is my best friend and knows me almost better than anyone! I love her wholeheartly!!! And just because she's gay does NOT mean that I would hesitate for a second to stick up for her in any situation, even when someone is dissing her for her sexuality.
--Jill Reinhart (noon)
No i don't think that people of the same sex should be allowed to get married. However, i do feel that they should be able to adopt children. I am sure that they would make for excellent parents. The only thing is that their children might get made fun of by their peers, for having gay parents. In general i think that same sex partnerships should be allowed. It is an individuals decesion to decide who they want to be with. So let them be together, just don't let them marry.
Zach Burnett
Of course people of the same sex should be allowed to get married. Our country was founded on the principle that you can pursue happiness in any way you please as long as it does not infringe upon the rights of others. The fact that some people have a moral or religious dissagreement with a homosexual lifestyle does not take away that fact. The actual ceremony of marraige is not the real issue here. The isssue is the benefits that marraige bestows opon those that get married. Things like allocation of assets when a person dies, health care, and legal issues are just some of the benefits of marraige. Right now we are denying these rights to these people. Considering the overwhelming evidence that people are born homosexual, how would we take it if this stance was taken based on race or religion?
As for the adoption issue, I think that gays should be allowed to adopt. There are millions of orphaned children out there. If there are stable people that want to give these children a loving family than that is great. Some people argue that living in a gay household will make the child gay. They could tell that to my friend that is married with a child-- he was raised in a lesbian household his whole life. When this is all broken down this is an issue of ignorance, nothing more.
Scott Kimball (9:00)
I don’t have any problems with people of the same sex getting married. As long as you’re not hurting anybody, you should have the choice. Why shouldn’t same sex couples be able to adopt children? I don’t understand how people could think that children are better off confined in an orphanage with little food or human contact (besides maybe abuse) than they would be in a home with two people who cared about them. There are more orphaned children than there are straight couples who want to take care of them. Is it right to make those children suffer because some people think it’s wrong to be gay? What does loving someone of the same sex have to do with parenting skills? I know there are many straight couples who have kids and are horrible parents. People are less concerned about the welfare of the children because they are more concerned that gay parents might cause their kids to be gay. Being gay is not contagious, if that were the case where did all the straight parents who have gay children go wrong? There is too much hate in this world to be focusing on who loves who and why we think it’s wrong. We should be focusing on commending those who have another human beings best interest at heart. Who are we to point the finger and judge someone else as if we are perfect? I feel that anyone who chooses to spread love in this world as opposed to hate is entitled to do so.
Jennifer Wilson
I think that if people of the same sex want to get married then let them. Its there choice and lives we don't have the right to tell them they can't get married. Yes they should be allowed to adopt children. What makes them any different then anybody else, people think that just because its tow guys they can't raise a child together. There are plenty of regular couples who cant raise a child properly so we might as well give them the opportunity to make that choice. I really don't have problem with same sex partners. Its something i would never do, but if it makes other people happy we sholud not be able to tell them they can't.
demaris winston(7:00)
Without a doubt people of the same sex should have the EXACT same rights as any other couple. They are two people that are in love and love is special, no matter who it is with. Also, it is nobody else's business who gets married to who. It's not like it can really affect someone other than the two getting married. I definitely believe that they should be able to adopt children! I grew up in Skokie, IL, a VERY popular village. My fourth grade math teacher was a lesbian and is now married and has three little girls that are adopted. They are the best mothers and I support them 100%. We should NOT discriminate based on gender and who you are in love with.
Brittney (7:00)
It absolutely boggles my mind that same-sex marriage is even an issue. Of course two people should be able to get married. To me, the severity of this issue could be compared to women not being able to vote, or black people not being able to use the same restrooms as white people. It's fucking rediculous! How could people be so hateful as to keep two people who love each other from officially and legally devoting themselves to one another. If two gay people can't get married, then that's pretty much saying that it's illegal to be gay. One of my best friends has two wonderful moms, one is a teacher, the other a lawyer-two extremely contributive and valuble people of society, and they can't get married? Also, I hate when people try to say this issue is about the constitutional protection of marriage. I've heard people say things like, "Well if two gay people can get married, then shouldn't a brother and sister be able to get married, or how about a man and a horse?" I think statements like this are extremely offensive. As if two gay people getting married is the same thing as inbreeding or beastiality. No this issue is not about keeping marriage consistant, or whatever kind bullshit way people try to word it, it's about hatred.
Tristan Cogswell
i don't feel people of the same sex should be able to get married. They shouldn't be able to adopt, because kids should be brought up in a home with a mom and a dad.
Tiffany fields
I think that same sex partners should be allowed to get married. Getting married can help you with insurances and things like that so if everyone else has that right then why shouldn't they? I think its ok for same sex partners to adopt children as well. It is better than the child living in foster care and jumping from house to house their whole life. It should also be allowed because everyone else has that right and if they want to have a kid then they should be able to adopt one since they wouldnt be able to make one themselves.
Jimmy Gourdier (12:00 Class)
Personaly I am Bi-sexual. I have a lot of gay and lesbian friends. I don't think that there is any difference in them. They walk the same talk the same and eat just like everyone else. I have a girlfriend and all the people at school treat me as if i am a leaper or have the black plague. I don't see why they do that. Im not attracted to anyone at my school except for a few boys and I probably wont be able to adopt a child. Why do people treat me differently if I do nothing different than loving another woman. I really think that people should treat others the way they want to be treated. The bible says its a sin but dosent god forgive?
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