Originally posted by Big RICHARD
Why? Gay people don't choose to be gay. Why should they give up some or ANY of their rights. If they have a partner, why shouldn't they be allowed to show their partner their entire commitment to them by marrying them?
Can I get married? I am straight...... But I am not at all religious, so, to the Christian lot: you can stick it up yer bum!
Since I'm not a psychologist nor am I a psychiatrist, so I don't know if gay people actually choose to be gay or not... With regards to marriages, you don't have to get married in a church, there're lots of people simply walk into a town hall with witnesses and get it over an done with (that's what the Ruler_of_spike and I are going to do somewhere along the line). A church service may be a contract in the eyes of the Christian god, but it's not a legal contract - that's why you still need to sign papers after the service.
Again, let me stress my rather old fashion view of marriage. The following is the definition according to the Concise Oxford Dictionary:
marriage n. 1 the legal union of a man and a woman in order to live together and often to have children. 2 an act or ceremony establishing this union. 3 one particular union of this kind (by a previous marriage). etc...