Here's a little hint to bigotted dumbasses.

[demiurgent]

When you make a statement like "if we allow homosexuals to marry -- what's to stop the broadening of marriage laws further? What's to prevent people from marrying their animals?" You're equating homosexuals to subhuman status.

You are saying that their happiness, their relationships and their lives are bestial.

You're not just being offensive when you do that. You're taking human beings and reducing them to chattel.

If there is a Heaven and there is a Hell? Doing that shit should be what sends you to Hell.

If you're right and you get to go to Heaven? I would rather go to Hell.

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Thank you for the comments and criticisms. I really do appreciate the support.

I first want to point that this isn't my personal point of view of this, I'm just telling you what I have heard others would argue against homosexuality. If it came off as my own opinion, I am sorry. I just wanted to attempt to explain how the other nutty side thinks.

I would say it wouldn't make any difference if he had a relationship with a woman or man. What really hurts is that it has gone on every since probably high school. It still is taboo here the rural areas of Missouri for a guy to admit he loves other guys. And that pains me that he hasn't figured this out. Honestly both Mom and I wish that he could have made a stand much earlier in his life, and then allow her to go back to Thailand, and me learning how to speak Thai. My mother is 63. This isn't something you discover 36 years into your marriage.

Eric, to your argument that marriage is a "million things" they would ask then what is the sole definition of marriage? This gets really into a tangent argument over whether there is such a thing as absolute truth or not, but that is not here or there.

Religious persons would mention the point I made by stating that the religious point of marriage is a sign of Christ and the Church, where Christ is a man and the Church is seen as the fair bride. But realistically, as I understand it (and I'm sure I have much of it wrong), it comes down to need to have children because the Bible's first original commandment for Adam and Eve is to be fruitful and multiply, in other words, have as many children as possible without any means to interfere with life, since that is what God does as the creator. It gets a little complicated with free will and all that, but I think that is essentially what I understand as the argument.

Elmo: Nice use of sarcasm. (I think.)
Archangelbeth: I'm not sure I'll be dancing when the divorce is completely final, but I know it's coming.
Harkuru: The first time I knew about the "gay lifestyle" was in college. My first year Freshman RA was a guy named Dean, and he was gay. I worked with his lover, who worked as a climatology section in the meteorology department. Great guys. I've met cross-dressers, transsexual people, lesbians, the whole nine yards. I never had a problem with any of them, and I don't have a problem with my father being gay. I just don't like how he went about dicking around for 36 years before he decided that he needed to do something.

I have no qualms or problems with gay or lesbian marriage. It's just that I live in an area of the country that does, and that is a problem that I don't think will be resolved soon.

And I do apologize again for offending you. It was not my sincere attempt to do so.

Blackbird: Because she needs someone to lean on someone, and I am the closest person she has at this point. I don't mind being the whipping boy, it comes with being the oldest in the family. She feels betrayed and whatever I can do from keeping her to do something completely irrational out of rage will be better for both her and my father.

Again, thank you for the comments, criticisms and support.