If someone wants to marry someone of the same sex, go ahead. But churches shouldn't be forced to marry homosexual couples

I’ve generally not cared what two adults want to do in their own home. From a Biblical standing its frowned upon, but I wouldn’t force that viewpoint on anyone. The better question, why is the government in the marriage business?

That doesn't sound very interesting tbf

This is one of the only areas I have yet to firmly define my views on. On one hand, I am firmly against gay marriage because it’s an abomination in the eyes of God. In the other, though, I feel like if the two people are happy, why should I take that from them? And this is why it’s a debate. Good job, Ronin. You’ve just dug yourself deeper.

I personally don’t care about the politics about it. If you want to marry a person of the same sex I couldn’t give less of a -blam!- politically. However... as a Christian I think it is morally wrong, I won’t try to use the point of a gun to stop it, but I will try to convince you not to.

If you want to get married, you should be allowed to do so. The reasoning behind the opposition is based on a belief system that needs to evolve with humanity. A failure to do so is absurd and arrogant.

It’s aight. No problem with it, I think. Sometimes it does kind of weird me out to see people making out that are the same sex, but that’s just the way I was raised. The world changes and moves on.

Marriage is dumb to begin with. But idc what they do

I have no opinion. Consenting adults should be free to marry whoever they want. The sexuality of those adults is irrelevant.

If two people find love in this crazy world, they should be allowed to marry, regardless of sexual preference. It always perplexes me how the same people who complain about government interference into people's private lives are the main ones who try to dictate how others should live.

It's simple... If the government didn't have their grubby hands in everyone's marriage it wouldnt even be an issue. Marriage should be between two people and their God. The gender of those two people shouldn't matter.

Depends. I personally think that not enough pressure is on either side for a debate to matter since neither side has any good arguments aside from “Its good” or “It’s bad”

A discussion would require this to be an open question. There’s no valid argument against gay marriage being legal. Anyone who says otherwise is either an idiot or an idiot trying to profit off of idiots.

What kellygreen and Zardoz said is pretty much where I stand

it protects the minority, (gay people,) and doesn’t effect the majority (straight people.) what’s the problem

Looking back at it, I think seeing the cruelty and hysteria of Social Conservatism as the gay marriage ""debate""" reached its fever pitch (and then also seeing the same movement try to bury its past post-Obergefell) was pretty important in shaping how I view politics and ideologies Anyway as you can tell from the above I am anti gay marriage, boo gay people booo

[u]Short answer:[/u] I think it's fine and am glad they have the choice (in some countries) [u]Long answer:[/u] I didn't used to know about people being anything other than heterosexual, I'd never met anyone I knew to be different or even heard about anything else. In junior school (when I was about 7) I went with the trend of using "gay" as an insult, not knowing what it meant. When I did learn what it meant (also junior school), I thought it was a strange idea (people used it as an insult and I had no knowledge of people being in a relationship different to a man and a woman). My head teacher at the time was actually lesbian and people used to make fun of it behind her back. When a teacher heard someone use the word they explained to us that it was normal and wasn't a bad thing, I then stopped using it as an insult but wasn't really convinced-throughout history all you hear about is heterosexual couples and how the Bible and other holy texts don't agree with being gay. But I kept these thoughts to myself in case I was wrong so as to not be rude or offensive. When I heard about transgender people (secondary school) I thought that must be people just being idiots or wanting attention or could be because some boys liked playing with "girls toys" so felt more like girls. One day I decided to Google if there was any science behind it and several sources show that there are links between sexual orientation (and gender) and D.N.A. so I believed this. Now I think it's fine and understand that it's natural, but honestly can't fully comprehend it because I'm not gay or bi or trans, etc. so I don't know how they truly feel, I admit I feel it's a bit confusing, but I accept it and am glad that people can be themselves nowadays.