What exactly is conservative about stopping gays from marrying?

Question

What exactly is conservative about stopping gays from marrying?

Answer 1

The hugggge myth is that ALL Christians HATE gays, and believe that gays should "rot in hell" or "gays are all sinners". Is this true?

No.

This is the truth, Christians believe that we are ALL sinners, no matter what. Yes we were all created equal, and we are to love everyone and treat them as our neighbor. When you take marriage, and change the definition of it, it will open a whole new window. Incest, bestiality, polygamy, and many more things. You may think, "what the heck? What kind of people do that stuff?" You'd be surprised, they would start wanting there rights. If we just change up that definition, then all the other definitions in the constitution should be changed. Tradition is what founded this country, and changing it would bring about a whole new problem. I believe that when you take God out of the equation of marriage, it is not right. "not right"??? Not right as in, it isn't the natural law of LIFE. Ever since the beginning of time it has been man and woman, and when you change this, history involving these things do not mean what they used to.

Another myth is Christians believe simply even BEING gay is wrong, and a sin.

No again.

Being gay is not a sin at all. ACTING on the gay urges is wrong. In fact acting on your urges when you're a STRAIGHT single or married person is equally as wrong. I'm totally against gay marriage, but i still love gays, actually my best friend is gay :) and i love him no matter what, even if i don't support some of his beliefs. And we should never let a disagreement affect a relationship between two people.

Like i stated, we are all sinners, even if you're atheist, humans all do bad things basically. And Christians, Jews, Mormons, Muslims, no matter what should love each other, by showing compassion and understanding No.Matter.What.

God bless :)

Answer 2

The only difference between a "conservative" and a "progressive" is the parts of the constitution that they want protected.



Americans have been taught outright lies about their history. Those who don't know their own (real) history are condemned to repeat it. If people knew American history and constitutional history, we would be living in a much better world today. We lost our constitutional government in a bloodless coup d'etat with two Supreme Court decisions: Marbury v. Madison and Mc Culloch v. Maryland.



The idea of Judicial Review, that the Supreme Court gave itself without congressional authority, marked the first time in western civilization that a court had the right to over-rule ANY government. Anti-Federalists, like Thomas Jefferson, called it "tyranny by oligarchy". These two unconstitutional decisions (because the constitution said that ONLY congress may establish laws) paved the ways for the Robber Barons to take over YOUR government. The decisions were allowed to stand because only the wealthy could vote or run for public office, and the wealthy - then as now - had much to gain by oppressing you in the name of profits.



If the constittuion were being honored - as intended by the ratifiers - there would be no economic crisis today, there would be no fights about immigration or abortion or equal rights or religious freedom or "name an issue that haunts the US".

Answer 3

You do know that there is a difference between human rights and civil rights? Human rights are given to us by God, while civil rights are given to us by the governments of man.



Marriage is an institute of the community which started off from religion. Latter on governments wanted to institutionalize marriage so it was made into a legal thing. Now the tradition of the institute of marriage had been defined by society as being between a man and a woman. Now what is happening is that marriage is being redefined by society as being not only between a man and a woman, but also between a man and a man, and a woman and a woman. Now this goes against the teaching of many different religions and as you may know marriage originated from religion. The threat is to the nuclear family (father, mother, and children) this is what we are as a society but the thing is now homosexual rights supporters want to change this. So while your preaching about homosexual civil rights your not considering the human rights which will be affected negatively from this. I would hate to have to explain to my sons that homosexual marriages are wrong because they go against the teachings of our faith.

Answer 4

Conserving traditional definitions of marriage. But if they really wanted to get traditional all marriages would still be arranged and a dowry would have to be paid to the brides family. There probably would have to be some healthy cattle involved in the transaction as well.

Answer 5

It is socially conservative.



It's still wrong whatever label you want to attach to it.



N.B. Being against gay marriage is wrong, not the marriages.



Helper: Actually it's an ownership ritual that was hijacked by religion, for the majority of human history it had nothing to do with anything more than securing rights to a woman's reproductive capabilities.



Muhammad: Adopting evolution as social policy is a ridiculous idea and you should be embarrassed that you used it to support your prejudice.



I guess Muhammad subscribes to the definition of 'mental disorder' of 'anything I think is weird'. Oh, and by the way, the only basis for my approval of gay marriage is a desire for equality, if you're calling that disorder then I pity you.



If you've got a better name for discriminating against a group of people, depriving them of a right to a ceremony that every other group can participate in, I'd like to hear it.

Answer 6

Its so insane how some people cannot recognize when a society starts allowing pornography, sexual immorality, and gay marriage to run rampant in a society that in turn it will deconstruct a society. So when you get married and your kid gets back from a public school and says they taught me it was ok to be gay, and since I watch porn all the time I decided to get a boyfriend, oh and by the way I need condoms the first time I had gay sex I never used a condom. I would just love to see the look on your face. For that matter all the lefts faces if it was "there child". Look beyond the issue to see if there is another motive behind legalizing gay marriage. Most gays don't love Jesus, so ok fine its their choice, but why does a non believing person want to engage in a convenant with God then.

I am waiting patiently for my Lord because they have eyes but they can't see, they have ears but they can't hear.

Answer 7

By being conservative, they mean the term "marriage" should be used in its "traditional" sense, meaning a union between a man and a woman.

Answer 8

True conservatives don't want government interfering in our lives. Immoral anti-gay activists, on the other hand, want to use Big Government to interfere in our lives, loves and families so they can impose their "religous beliefs" on the rest of us.

Answer 9

Everyone is equal and anyone can already marry the opposite sex. Evolution thinks that's a good idea as well.



I guess Top Contributors think mental disorders make better social policy. Comparing it to race discrimination is ridiculous. There is no genetic test for 'gay'.



Liberals continue to redefine fact as "prejudice" when it disagrees with their agenda. Abortion is another favorite where they think babies are not human.

Answer 10

It's thre exact opposite of the 'small government' theyr'e so keen on.

Answer 11

marriage is not a human right - it is a spiritual ritual.



i have no idea why they dont let gays get married man - they should be able to i guess, but marriage was not designed for homosexuals, it was designed to bind the man and the woman together.

Answer 12

equal all men marry women and all women marry men that is equal