This past week, Q-line asked: What are your thoughts on gay marriage? Should it be legal? Here are your responses: “THIS CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT decision is an abomination. These perverts can do whatever they want privately. But to force this filth on the population is an affront to all decent people. And one wonders how long God will be mocked before he says ‘too much already’ and that will be the end of us all.”
“A PARTIAL DEFINITION OF MARRIAGE is any intimate union. Any couple wishing to say I do at the altar is OK with me. Still, marriage is a contract. When two individuals fall in love and decide to spend their lives together, prudence dictates they have a contractual agreement with one another just in case they fall out of love. Divorce courts are full of couples who were once in love and now cannot stand each other. Now a prenuptial contract offers a soft landing.”
“I ABSOLUTELY DO THINK GAYS AND lesbians should have the right to get married. To not let them get married is a sin.”
“THEY SHOULD LIMIT REAL MARRIAGES to one man and one woman. Once you let deviants like homosexuals to marry, everybody else is going to want to do it too. … You have to draw the line somewhere and keep marriage between one man and one woman.”
“YES I BELIEVE GAYS AND LESBIANS should have the same rights as heterosexual couples and have the same legal safeguards, financially and health-wise, that married couples enjoy. I think in this country everyone should have the same rights, privileges and responsibilities. Whether you are a man or a woman, black or white, whatever gender, race or sexual-orientation you are you should have the same rights. These are the same tired arguments that they used about interracial marriages that they’re now dragging out about gay marriages. It’s time this country got over its bigotry and realized we’re the United States of America where everyone counts.”
“THIS DOES NOT FIT THE HISTORICAL and traditional definition of marriage. How far is this going to go? I just don’t think gay marriage is necessary. What do they want to legalize it for?”
“YES I DO THINK GAYS AND LESBIANS should be allowed to marry because a marriage license is just a piece of paper. It doesn’t mean anything besides that you were born gay. You don’t discriminate against people for the color that they were born so why discriminate against them if they were born gay?”
“I THINK GAYS AND LESBIANS SHOULD have the right to get married. I do not think that marriages should be limited to a man and a woman. I think all of our own white men should mind their own business and not worry about abortions and gay and lesbian marriages.”
“THIS THING WITH HOMOSEXUALS is nothing new. The Greeks did it and God destroyed the whole place and it went down in history. They already had homosexuals but they never went as low as to be so arrogant to say they wanted to be married like a man and a woman. That’s the only way a marriage is. What more do they want from the world? … I am sick of hearing about same-sex marriages. There is no such thing. It is going to be more chaos. Stop shoving what you are doing in your bedroom or, better yet, go back in your closet. …”
“OF COURSE I THINK THAT GAYS AND lesbians should have the right to get married. Of course it’s a civil right like any other civil right for any other Christian and it never should have been outlawed like it wasn’t in the constitution for women to vote or interracial marriages weren’t allowed. It has been a long time coming.”
“I HAVE HAD EXPERIENCES FROM A very young age — I am a happily married woman now — but when I was a child my mother had friends who were gay and I also baby-sat children from a very prominent family and I wasn’t at all surprised to find out they were gay. So yes, I do think one should allow it because we’re supposed to be just and accept people of all races and genders. …”
“THIS ISSUE IS ALL ABOUT MONEY. Social Security benefits, Medicare, Medical, tax deductions. If the government legislates it, then private industry will be forced to support health insurance, maternity leave and housing. This minority group’s greed corrodes the foundation of society, of any society. You must have a moral strength to combat the evils in this life. The corrosive effect of politicians supporting radical gay theology will only continue to weaken an already uninvolved American populous. Let gays support their own lifestyle like all Americans should support their own.”
“MARRIAGE SHOULD BE A PRIVATE matter. It’s nobody’s business if you want to marry an inflatable doll or a Martian with eight sex organs. However, once we give gays legal marriage status, then they will have the right to spousal insurance at work and marriage tax breaks. This will cost a bundle and we will all have higher insurance and tax rates.”
“YES I DO THINK GAYS SHOULD BE able to legally do and have the rights that anyone else in the United States can do, including whatever color, race, religion or sexual orientation ….”
“I HAVE LIVED AND WORKED AMONG many gay people and they have still seemed odd to me, but so what? I’ll get used to it. Knowing the benefits that marriage brings, it is not up to me to decide who marries whom.”
“I THINK GAY PEOPLE AND LESBIANS should totally have the right to get married. To people who think that marriage should be between a man and a woman, they are limited in their compassion and are just plain idiots. People should have the right to enjoy their lives if it doesn’t harm other people. I think it’s overdue.”
“OF COURSE I THINK GAYS AND lesbians should be allowed to be married. Why not? That’s my opinion.”
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 7, 2008. Read the original PDF.