Dogma. Its just what I believe in.

I guess mainly because I don't think homosexuality is natural. Mens and womens "reproductive organs" (aka dick and vagina) are designed (by God or evolution or whatever you believe in) to work with each other. If 2 men/women were supposed to be together wouldn't they be able to reproduce with each other?

Now I like hot lesbians as much as the next guy but other then for porn I don't like same sex...well, sex.

The question is should it be legal. Not do you like it.

Your reason for not letting someone else live a more rich life, is just because you don't like it?

If that's the rules, we should outlaw every show on The Disney Channel.

So if a man or woman are unable to have child are they unable to get married, by that defintion?

Actually you'd still have friends.  You just wouldn't be friends with assholes who have issues with your parents.

In every country that lets gays marry, nothing goes wrong.  In every country that lets gays adopt, nothing goes wrong.  It is far healthier to have 2 gay parents than to have 1 straight parent.  The number of parents is far more important than the sexuality.  (And no, your parents NEVER make you gay or make you straight.  Straight parents can't turn their gay kids straight, and gay parents can't turn their straight kids gay.  Ever.)

In some places they celebrate having 2 dads.  By singing on television.

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Bullying at school is kind of a non-argument. You could get bullied for being fat, wearing braces, wearing glasses, not being good at sports and a whole bunch of other things. Doesn't mean bullying is not an issue, but the idea is to make bullies stop, not to conform to what they demand/don't like. Either way in most school environments bullies will find something to dislike about someone, even objectively good things like studying and getting good grades.

Regarding what some said about gay couples having the right to suffer through marriage as much as straight couples... well, I kind of have to agree that marriage is going downhill as an institution. There are a lot of people who manage and are happy with some picture book traditional marriage, plenty of people who manage to split their family duties in accordance with their way of life that doesn't match older traditions; but divorce rate is up there and there is a lot of disbalance. E.g. often hearing that the most discriminated against group in the Western world is the white heterosexual married man (they get indeed pretty roughted up in divorces); or on the other hand having women working the usual 8hrs day and coming back home to do all the housework and mind the kids; kids being spoiled brats (by way of too much entertainment) or maybe not getting any attention from parents (maybe due to lack of time and being tired) etc etc.

Well, I've witnessed my parents' messed up marriage and my brother's one as well, and the word marriage does carry more negative connotations for me than positive ones. Legal/property rights and adoption would be enough for me, I don't want to call whatever I do "marriage" and equate it to what marriage has been for some thousands of years.

Okay I'm done with this thread after this post.

Just for the record I'm not homophobic, I have 1 or 2 friends who I think (they haven't admitted it) are homosexual and I don't have a problem with it because they're decent guys.

And when I say I don't think gays should be able to get married that's just my opinion on the subject, I'm not saying my opinion should be the law. Does that make sense to you guys?

The one thing I do believe (which may piss people off) is that I don't think a homosexual couple should be able to adopt children. If you are in a homosexual relationship you should be able to accept the fact that having children is not a physical possibility. Now if a man and a woman are married and one of them is impotent that's different because that's a genetic/physical problem stopping them from having kids, it wasn't their choice.

For a gay couple it wasn't their choice either

What you're saying is the equivalent of "I have black friends but I don't think they should have equal rights to white people."

Seriously, think about it. Are you trying to justify your homophobia to us or yourself?

I'm unsure on Marijuana legalisation, and school vouchers seem like a good idea, but I agree on everything else.

Civil sure.

Church no.