Same sex marriage - Yes or No?

[Value Collector]

The commies like to control religion. After suppressing both religion and the freedom of moral conscience it usually doesn't stop there.
In a short while (once new laws come out) we'll no longer be free...

Legalising same sex marriage increases religious freedom, Because members of religions that condone same sex marriage would be free to have a same sex marriage, hence extending their existing rights.

Members of religions that don't condone same sex marriages are free to continue not getting married to the same sex, so its no skin off their nose.

 

[Value Collector]

7.2 million Yes
4.8 million No.
Hardly a minority vote.

Well the 4.8 Million are definitely not in the majority thats for sure, Yes voters out number no voters by 60%.


If the numbers were reverse, and 61.6% of the votes were for No and 38.4% for yes, would you have seen this as a significant victory for the No campaign? I think you would be quite chuffed at the No win with those numbers.

 

[tech/a]

It is what it is

Until it encroaches on me my family and friends.
If it never does then no issue with me.
If it does then Ill sort it when it happens--if it happens.

 

[Tisme]

No one is forcing anyone to be in business, if you don't want to serve the public you don't have to, you can form a special little private club if you want to exclude the public.

But you can't say you are open to the public if you are planning to discriminate.

Maybe call it, I dunno um..."Private Enterprise" or something along those lines.

 

[notting]

It feels better to be inclusive.

 

[Junior]

In my opinion it's a resounding Yes, considering the Yes vote is to CHANGE the legislation....typically No would be a default position i.e. retain the status quo.

As has been pointed out many times, SSM has been legal for several years throughout much of the Western world, and the sky has not fallen in. There are now many happily married same-sex couples, and for everyone else there is no change.

You don't have to attend a gay wedding, you don't have to enter a gay marriage, your rights have not been affected or diminished!!

 

[cynic]

In my opinion it's a resounding Yes, considering the Yes vote is to CHANGE the legislation....typically No would be a default position i.e. retain the status quo.

As has been pointed out many times, SSM has been legal for several years throughout much of the Western world, and the sky has not fallen in. There are now many happily married same-sex couples, and for everyone else there is no change.

You don't have to attend a gay wedding, you don't have to enter a gay marriage, your rights have not been affected or diminished!!

Yeah it's all peachy over there in Noddyland!

Nobody has an axe to grind or a chip on their shoulder! Everybody pays their taxes, tells the truth and never accuses their dog of ingesting the homework!

Noddyland is now a much better place because roughly one in a hundred people can actually now pretend to be heterosexual (counter to their homosexual inclination) and nobody need fear legal or political repercussions for abstention from participation in such fanciful notions.

 

[Wysiwyg]

As I posted before it will take a generation to become "normal". People will have to be born into the "new normal" and be taught homosexuality is "of natural occurrence".

 

[luutzu]

Maybe call it, I dunno um..."Private Enterprise" or something along those lines.

Or get a bigger sign that reads:

No shirt, No Service.
(Also: No Dog, No Colored, No Chinaman, No raghead AND no Queers allowed)

 

[Junior]

As I posted before it will take a generation to become "normal". People will have to be born into the "new normal" and be taught homosexuality is "of natural occurrence".

It is, in a small percentage of the population.

 

[notting]

It is, in a small percentage of the population.

But has never the less been around for as long as people have, so it is actually a natural fringe phenomena.

 

[Wysiwyg]

It is, in a small percentage of the population.

Like a God, only if you believe so.

 

[Value Collector]

Like a God, only if you believe so.

Except gays exist, gods don't.

 

[Wysiwyg]

Except gays exist, gods don't.

The belief that is a natural occurrence not the fact they exist. Please don't bomb me with stories of born that way. It is not provable. Feelings, emotion, love - all human.

 

[overhang]

The belief that is a natural occurrence not the fact they exist. Please don't bomb me with stories of born that way. It is not provable. Feelings, emotion, love - all human.

Where is your peer reviewed study as proof?

 

[Wysiwyg]

Where is your peer reviewed study as proof?

That god exists or poofters are born that way?

 

[notting]

Markets Live: 'Yes' to SSM, 'No' to ASX.
Gotta hand it to 'em that is a hilarious headline. (Hint - say asx as if it is a word)

 

[overhang]

That god exists or poofters are born that way?

Which ever you believe, both if that's the case. The fact you think people would choose to subject themselves to attitudes like yours says it all really.

 

[Wysiwyg]

Which ever you believe, both if that's the case. The fact you think people would choose to subject themselves to attitudes like yours says it all really.

I believe neither and it is not a fact I think people would choose to subject themselves to attitudes like mine. It would be great if people could make their own decisions but humans are inherently bias regardless of facts.

 

[overhang]

I believe neither and it is not a fact I think people would choose to subject themselves to attitudes like mine. It would be great if people could make their own decisions but humans are inherently bias regardless of facts.

Then you won't have trouble showing your peer reviewed proof, otherwise you're just peddling ****.