What makes you for gay marriage being a straight person?

If you're straight and you're for gay marriage..please tell me why? What is your story?What makes you for gay marriage being a straight person?
I'm straight and a Christian. I am for gay marriage because I believe in equality. I don't believe that laws should be based on sin. We would never be able to live in that kind of world. We would all be in jail. Just because you don't support somebody's lifestyle doesn't mean that we should make a law to prohibit it. I don't support parents teaching their children to hate, but there is no law against it. Live and let live. Love one another. As Christians, we are supposed to help people find their way to God, not use Him to spread hate.What makes you for gay marriage being a straight person?
No special story, I just think that all people are equal and all people should have the same rights. In the case of marriage, all consenting adults should be able to marry whoever they love and should be able to take advantage of all the legal benefits that come with marriage. I'm against civil unions for homosexual couples (while keeping marriage for heterosexual couples) because we've already tried the whole separate but equal thing and it didn't work. Having marriages for straight people and civil unions for gays is just another example of an attempt at separate but equal, and it's not fair. Either allow everyone to marry or allow everyone to have civil unions. Note that I don't think churches should be forced to perform marriages for anyone if they don't want to, I'm only talking about things at the state level here.
I don't think it's morally correct for the state to give some people the benefits that marriage provides, while denying them to others. Additionally, the fact that the arguments people use against gay marriage are illogical bothers me. (If marriage is about children, why do we allow people who are sterile to get married? And so on.) I also don't think it's any of the government's business who I, or anyone else, wants to marry. That said, I think that plural marriage should also be allowed. Basically, as long as everyone involved is a consenting adult and no one's being physically harmed, it's my business and the government needs to butt out.
If you love someone enough to take them into your life, to the extent that you are living together, sharing everything, just like you'd see the typical man/woman scenario....why shouldn't they have the same rights as heterosexual couples? Why shouldn't they be able to marry, have families, share benefits (health insurance, next-of-kin decision-making rights, and everything that goes with being a legally committed couple), just like everyone else? Who has the right to judge who we should love, and want to have a loving, comitted, lifetime relationship with? We need to abolish the laws which restrict these archaic beliefs that it is wrong, or immoral to love someone, based on the fact that they are the same sex.


I have known many loving, committed gay couples. They are not sick, preverted, or deviant. They are just like anyone else. Remember...we used to ostrasize interacial couples, and deem their unions as invalid, and not ';normal';.


We need to allow ourselves to love who we love, not based on restrictions of concience, or society, but on our own judjment of who is worthy. Maybe, one day, we will stop even using words like, ';homosexual';, or ';lesbian';. We will just be people in love, and in a committed relationship, no matter what the sex of either person.


By the way...I am a happily married ';heterosexual'; female.
';Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof'; (U.S. Constitution).





Well, well, well. Looks like your argument that it goes against the bible just went down the crapper.





Anyhow, if you are straight, you'd be hard pressed to find a single valid reason that gays should not be able to have rights.





Seriously, it doesn't affect any straight person in the least.





Dos the government have to interfere wit peoples personal life?





Proposition 8, or measure 36 four years ago here in Oregon, whatever you want to call it, they're basically Jim Crow laws in disguise.





Look at it as civil rights. The same goes for Muslims, but I digress. Its the same as African American rights or Women's rights.





Proposition 8, measure 36, whatever you call it anywhere else, be afraid, very afraid, because you have a ton of lobbyists and petitions and stuff that is looking to push you out. And you deserve it.





I'm straight. Someone else is gay. So what?
I'm for gay marriage because homosexuals have every right to married like straight people. There's freedom for a reason.


The only arguments against gay marriage is that it's against the guidelines of the bible, but there's supposed to be a separation of church and state.
I think every one is entitled to equality. There was a time when any one who was not white and a not a man did not have equality. Now there are still problems and it is not perfect, but the most widely accepted discrimination today is now against gay people. I don't see what it hurts anyone else to allow gay people to be married, to have the same rights as straight people. We need more love and less hate in this world...life is hard enough. (Civil unions do not give the same rights to couples as marriages do....NOT the same thing!!!)
I dont really have a story why. It's more of a respect thing. I respect someones choices even if its not one that I would make for myself. It's their lives not mine to worry about. I think its wrong for society to put pressures on people that have this lifestyle. I don't believe that we have a right to tell people what is right or wrong to do with their lives. I think that if someone has feelings for someone of the same gender and intends to marry them, then they should. If they are happy with their choice then I will be too. Everyone should respect it because its their own choice and their own life. Even though its not a choice I will make, I absolutely respect it.
Im fine with gay marriage through the state or a church that would do the ceremony. I just don't think we should attack a church and try to make them conform just because they wish to follow their beliefs. I am pretty sure someone is still going to call me the now abused ';bigot'; label. That is away I think they should set things up.
I'm for it because why shouldn't they have the same rights as me. I can get married so why shouldn't they be allowed to too. It's kind of like why should people of different ethnics be treated the same... because their people too. The only reason I can see why people are against it is because they are homophobic or they believe because the bible says it's wrong... which is bullshit.
Why not? Whom does it hurt? Not allowing people who love each other and want to partner, hurts them: things like, access in case of an emergency, insurance coverage, etc; the same factors that apply to unmarried heterosexual couples. Allowing them to marry, hurts whom? People whom are offended by it? Other people are offended by their not being able to, that kind of balances out. What actual harm is done other than offense?
1'st- I could not marry the woman I loved. I could not imagine causing that pain to another person just because I want to be a prick.





2'nd- It is none of my business. Why should I infringe on other people's lives?





3'rd- Being gay is just part of human variation.





4'th- It does not harm ANYONE.
Because religion should stream away from government actions. We're supposed to be a country of total freedom. Then why can't people get married. It's a contradiction.





The way I look at it is this: Don't like gay marriage? Then don't get one and shut the **** up.
because what other poeple do with their lives has nothing to do with mine.





because denying same sex marriage is prejudice, no different than prejudice the blacks and women fight





because there is a separation between church and state/religion and politics
Alot of people just hate Christians and they see this as thier chance to get back at them/us. Gay marriage isnt even a controversal issue..30 states have democratically voted to ban gay marraige. A gay marrage ban has never failed. People just see this as their chance to bring us down but they will fail.
It doesn't effect me in the slightest, so I see no reason why I would need to object to it. Everyone deserves to have the same rights as others and to have equality. Homosexuals want to marry and be happy, let them.
I am straight and totally for gay marriage. I think gay couples should have to split their stuff when they divorce just like the rest of us!!!
Well my sister is a lesbian, but then ironically neither she nor her girlfriend give a **** about gay marraige.



I am not for gay ';marriage';, but I think they should be able to have a legal civil union.
I'm straight, but I support gay marriage. It's not going to effect negatively anyone if gay people get married.
There's no reason for me to object to it. It doesn't interfere with my life, or anyone else's.