Gay marriage in maine

[Mangofett]

Long gone are the times when marriage was a religious ceremony and now it is more or less a legal statement on a piece of paper; by this reasoning, I don't see any reason to not allow gay marriage. Perhaps the state should better define the term marriage as "legal marriage" rather than "Christian marriage."

 

[Brian117]

chrisman01, I cannot believe you were stupid enough to just create another thread when a Supervisor locked the other. That doesn't give you the right. I have reported your thread to get taken down because one is enough, and it seems this useless of a thread is getting no where.

People have many many opinions, of course the thread is going to be half for and half against. Just grow up and learn to deal with the fact that Gay people will never stop being Gay.

You're pissing me off royal with your bullshit of assumptions and stereotypes. Hope to see this thread get closed yet again.

 

[geminisama]

I'm all for gay marriage. Marriage has been around long before rehashed religion 5.0, aka. Christianity, so they have NO right to act like they decide what is, and is not worthy of marriage. There's also that pretty thing called seperation of church and state, saying the church shouldn't have ANY say in our laws and institutions.

I don't see why they want to get married so bad, but if they wanna deal with marriage drama, let them.

 

[Kaos]

I'm entirely in favour of gay marriage. If two people love each other and want to spend their lives together, then why should we prevent them from being married?

It's really just basic human rights: you aren't supposed to discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sexuality etc.

 

[B-Blue]

Let's be honest, if we spent as much time working in the labs as we did being racist and homophobic we'd have colonised the moon by now at least.

*Mortal Kombat announcer*

Urza Wins!

HOMOSEXUALITY!

 

[Clookster]

It was quite difficult for me to find some results, since there are about 3'000 news entries about that topic at Google, but as a European, I'm not always sure what sort of media is "trustable" and which is not (because I don't know these papers or magazines).

Anyway, no marriage for lesbian women and gay men in Maine for now.
http://www.protectmaineequality.org/ (Pro)
http://www.standformarriagemaine.com/ (Contra)

To all gay & lesbian hardcore Nintendo fans: Don't worry, come to Europe!

 

[BeatriceTheGolde]

To all gay & lesbian hardcore Nintendo fans: Don't worry, come to Europe!

...but everything costs twice as much over there.

 

[Maikel Steneker]

To all gay & lesbian hardcore Nintendo fans: Don't worry, come to Europe!

...but everything costs twice as much over there.

Well, Switzerland has traditionally been relatively cheap

My opinion on this: I don't understand gay marriage. At all. For me, marriage is acknowledging the love of a man and a woman. I don't see why marriage would be attractive to gay people, because they don't love someone from the opposite sex.

That said, I strongly believe that everyone should have the right to marry everyone they want. It's not up to me to judge them, so if they want to marry they should.

 

[BeatriceTheGolde]

My opinion on this: I don't understand gay marriage. At all. For me, marriage is acknowledging the love of a man and a woman. I don't see why marriage would be attractive to gay people, because they don't love someone from the opposite sex.

That said, I strongly believe that everyone should have the right to marry everyone they want. It's not up to me to judge them, so if they want to marry they should.

For them, it's acknowledging the love between two people.

 

[BlueStar]

Baffling it's even an issue in the 21st century. Of course they should be allowed to marry and they should also have the same adoption rights etc as anyone else.

 

[Clookster]

I don't see why marriage would be attractive to gay people.

As far as I understand it, it's not just about a "demonstration of love", but as a married couple you have rights that you don't have when you're not married.
For example: What happens if your partner gets ill and into a hospital? Or dies?
When you're not married (no matter if gay or not), you have no rights in cases like these. You're just a stranger by law just like any other stranger. That's the problem.

Edit: Yes, some stuff might be a bit more expensive than in the US. But you get much more $$$ for working as well, don't forget that. Héhé.

 

[chrisman01]

Well, GAME OVER:

http://www.bangordailynews.com/detail/128048.html

53% AGAINST gay marriage

47% FOR gay marriage

Talk about a close race. If they have this question again in a few years I can guarantee it'll be the opposite results.

chrisman01, I cannot believe you were stupid enough to just create another thread when a Supervisor locked the other. That doesn't give you the right. I have reported your thread to get taken down because one is enough, and it seems this useless of a thread is getting no where.

People have many many opinions, of course the thread is going to be half for and half against. Just grow up and learn to deal with the fact that Gay people will never stop being Gay.

You're pissing me off royal with your bullshit of assumptions and stereotypes. Hope to see this thread get closed yet again.

I started this thread to learn other peoples' opinions from out of state. Does anyone else here think that's bad?

 

[Blaze163]

What was that noise? Sounds like something disintegrating. Oh right, my faith in humanity.

 

[FAST6191]

@DarthTheufel look up power of attorney, advance directive/living wills, health care proxy, regular wills.......

My opinion: marriage confuses me at the best of time, I am not sure why such a situation exists but can see no reason two or more people of the same sex can not all join in.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

I never expected gay marriage to live in Maine. If it can't pass live in California, I doubt it can pass in Maine.

The main thing I'm bitching about is Corzine losing in New Jersey! As a New Jersian myself, I don't want Chris Christie at all. The last thing we want is Republicans walking around waving their cocks saying "Oh, this shows the president is bad!"

Also, who the fuck names a guy Chris Christie? That's like if my last name is Johnson and I name my kid John. It's stupid, name him Jack or Bob or something.

 

[omgpwn666]

I "Reject gay marriage" for my vote.

 

[Jaxtaylor]

Well, being gay and planning to marry in the near future, I suppose i'd have to say I'm for it.

 

[Toni Plutonij]

Well, being gay and planning to marry in the near future, I suppose i'd have to say I'm for it.

Congratulations

 

[Jaxtaylor]

Well, being gay and planning to marry in the near future, I suppose i'd have to say I'm for it.

Congratulations

Ta very much!

 

[Maikel Steneker]

I don't see why marriage would be attractive to gay people.

As far as I understand it, it's not just about a "demonstration of love", but as a married couple you have rights that you don't have when you're not married.
For example: What happens if your partner gets ill and into a hospital? Or dies?
When you're not married (no matter if gay or not), you have no rights in cases like these. You're just a stranger by law just like any other stranger. That's the problem.

Edit: Yes, some stuff might be a bit more expensive than in the US. But you get much more $$$ for working as well, don't forget that. Héhé.

If what you say is true (and it might very well be, I don't know a lot about marriage) you are completely right and marriage would become as attractive to gay people as it would to straight people.