Anti-Gay Marriage Constitutional Amendments?

Hey guys,
I just watched the presidential briefing of the press, on the Bush Administration's views on same sex marriages. He says his Cabinet will do everything in its power to "Protect" the sanctity of the definition of marriage in America. He wants Congress to pass amendments to the constitution, that state clearly the definition of a legal marriage in America. He says a few "activist" courts around America have broken several federal laws in the issuing of state licensed marriages to same sex couples.
This brings up many questions: What is the definition of a marriage between two people, be it homo or hetero-sexual? If there is a difference between the two, what is it? And finally; who are we to say that gay couples can't possibly be in love, or that heterosexual marriages are more deserving of the bonds of matrimony?
I think it all boils down to how conservative the average American is. Though, I think the only conservatives with a loud voice happen to be the ones with all the money.

Opinion: I am for gay marriages, though I am hetero, my sister is not, and she is engaged to her long time love (6 yrs) to be married in June of 2005. Who are we to say they can't get a tax break, or insurance for their children if they see fit. Personally, I want to first define a loving marriage for my self, before I do it for others.
YAY AMERICA!!!!
What do you think? Or do you even care?

There was an old topic on this somewhere. Anyway, gay marriage is very important to have. And Bush is a dumbass

Bush firmly belives that gays belong in prison.

This has already been discussed at quite some length earlier, but I'm too lazy to find the thread.

In a nutshell; blah blah, redefine a word, blah blah, what's to stop polygamy, blah blah, nothing to do with black civil rights, blah blah, gays can't have kids, etc.

Blah blah, if two people love each other, blah blah, tax breaks, blah blah, inheritance, blah blah, religion is evil, etc.

Look, if people want to get married and become part of the great American divorce statistic, fuck 'em. Marriage is a stupid idea; it's a false sense of security for insecure people who don't trust their partners, or it's done for the wrong reasons (i.e., I knocked my girl up - no offense), or it's a convenience thing. Some places still do arranged marriages, which seems dumb to us, but whatever. Marriage should be stricly about love, defined by what kind of unions we see as correct or incorrect. Heterosexual love between two consenting adults is correct, between an adult and a minor is incorrect, between a human and a bear is incorrect, between several adults is (we've decided) incorrect. Is homosexual love between two consenting adults correct or incorrect?

There shouldn't be tax breaks for marriage or children because both are choices that people make. We are rewarding people basically for forming a company (unless a prenuptial is established), and then making more humans. The fact that you're making another human should be enough - "Oh, I missed work, blah blah blah," - fuck you, you chose to have a kid.

Dammit. I didn't intend to get this worked up. Sorry.

I agree. I think this is a well orchestrated plan to take the countries eyes off Iraq.

PS I meant to say reasonably priced insurance for their children.

Mike: Hahaha. St00pid grey area of logic and society.

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Originally Posted by voltz

Bush firmly belives that gays belong in prison.

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I know you're just being funny, but anyone who believes that is crazy. Obviously, the rights of same-sex couples are not a priority of the Bush Administration, but who knows what he believes.

The man could be a closet liberal; we don't know.

Uhhhh... I dont think so Mike. So far he seems to be a tool of the old Bush administration. Your right though, we dont know for sure. He is either very smart, or very st00pid!

I honestly doubt and ammendment would be able to be ratified by 3/4 of the states.

We may see though.

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Originally Posted by Mike

The man could be a closet liberal; we don't know.

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And I could be the second coming of christ. :wtf:

Seriously man, I can see your arguement, but that point just killed it.

Recently I've been very torn up on this issue and I'm not quite sure what to think. I still disagree with homosexuality, Christian, Evolutionist, whatever, humans still wern't made/evolved to be like this (in my opinion). We'll see what happens.

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Originally Posted by bbobb

Seriously man, I can see your arguement, but that point just killed it.

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I was actually being silly, but I'll remember that. Thanks for the clue. :)