Why do republicans care so much about banning gay marriage?

My theory is that if they're worried that much about it, they must have some gay issues themselves that they haven't dealt with.





I was going to vote for McCain until I heard about Palin's ridiculous federal marriage amendment.





Now I'm voting for Obama because of this nonsense, our government was not based on Christianity.Why do republicans care so much about banning gay marriage?
B/c the right wing are a bunch of fanatical hate filled closeminded a**holes. They are NOT christians Jesus would have nothing to do with them. And thank god their riegn is coming to an end





The founding fathers were NOT Christians they were diests. get your facts straightWhy do republicans care so much about banning gay marriage?
';Now I'm voting for Obama because of this nonsense, our government was not based on Christianity.';





It wasn't? Our bills don't say ';In God We Trust';? Our National Anthem (The long version) doesn't say ';In God We Trust';? The Pledge of Allegiance doesn't say ';One nation, Under God';?





You changed your vote because of a minor issue? You sound a bit confused and too much like you're on the ';Let's ignore the crises and focus on the minor social issues'; band wagon.





Good luck to digging your head from the sand, my friend.











EDIT: ';Christ. Drives me crazy; I wouldn't be fighting you in the first place if your people hadn't come in and attacked us for loving whom we wish to love.';





This is why this is such a big issue. Gays are not a ';people'; they are a sub-culture, if you're going to label them. You make the gay population sound like another race. You want to be treated equal but you seperate yourself from the ';greater whole'; by saying ';your people'; and ';us';? You just made yourself seem inferior and that is why you are driven crazy! To see yourself as inferior is to make backward progress.





Also, you say things against the bible, yet open that statement which I quoted with ';Christ';. Contradiction, much?





I am not against gay marriage or love or any of the likes. I just call them how I see them.
(Fancy meeting you here...)





I almost forgot: they care about it because Bible tells them so, despite the fact that it's a book, written by men and not by God.





10 minutes late: your name speaks for the rate at which you update. Can you say, ';Lesser of two evils?'; McCain would probably have us all placed in gay correction camps, which is precisely what Obama wouldn't be doing.





And for everyone else here: Get your noses out of my personal life, and out of stuff that doesn't affect you. Stop trying to compare same-sex marriage with beastiality. Stop trying to protect the ';religious'; institution from us, because we're not the threat (divorce is, if anything else) and because you let atheists marry anyway. Stop being bigots, stop pretending that you are above me and my people instead of being equal to us, stop the ridiculous ';hate the sin'; crap (how different is that from ';separate but equal';?).





Christ. Drives me crazy; I wouldn't be fighting you in the first place if your people hadn't come in and attacked us for loving whom we wish to love.





And finally: what the hell is the 1st Amendment for, then, if the country and its Constitution were based on religion? Black and white thinking, indeed...
Well, for your information, this government WAS formed on Christian principles that were derived from the bible! Read your history!





Secondly, gay marriage is the dessicration and degrading of the REAL institution and sanctity of marriage, which is between one man and one woman, as God has ordained! Read the bible! The federal marraige amendment is NOT ridiculous because McCain wants to protect what a real marriage is, which is as I said, between one man and one woman! I'm all for it! I guess you have no sense of morals, eh? I'm not surprised, considering how much our society has gone so far away from the foundations of the bible and thus, going in the same direction that Sodom and Gomorrah did: no morals!





Edit: To High-Strung Guitarist: For your information, the bible was written by holy men of God: the scribes, the prophets and the apostles! They were given direction and guidance by the indwelling of God's Holy Spirit to write the bible, so the bible WAS written by God through those men!!
Marriage is a term from religion. (remember separation of church and state?) The states hijacked the term. Since the term has meaning in churches, many republicans and many democrats would rather keep that definition and select a new term for the state to use (I.E. Civil Union).





And yes Ob is against gay marriage as well. I heard him say it. Some of you ob supporters are so blinded by your messiah worship. You don't know what you are talking about. In his own words...see the link.








HE IS AGAINST GAY MARRIAGE BUT FOR CIVIL UNIONS LIKE MANY DEMS AND REPS!!! GO VOTE AND DON';T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT. SHEEP!!!





By the way...Bush didn't give the right to states...The Constitution did
if you are voting for Obama because you think he will allow gay marriage, you are wrong. Palin's views will not have an effect on policy. Each state has the option to allow gay marriage, not the government. President bush gave the powers to each individual state.It is not the governments place to decide which is best for each state.
They don't. An internal poll by the RNC showed that only %30 of republicans even give a crap about gay marriage. But the media loves to focus on the fringe religious part of the republican party in order to make it look bad.





And, you're going to vote for someone based on this? why? you do know that no president has the power to even present an amendment, let alone get it passed, right? so who cares what they think about it if they cant' make it happen? Don't jump into the fire just because you're cold.
Our government was based on Christianity, sorry to inform you of that. Our government was based on Christianity by a bunch of men drinking ale.





Congress and the Supreme court are the only ones that can make that amendment, the president can veto if he'd like...yet it can always keep coming back through congress.





Palin could say whatever she likes, along with McCain, Obama, and Biden, yet it all points to congress.
Actaually a lot of the consitution was based on christianity. Think about the pledge of alligance and what our money says ';In God we trust';. The end is near and at that time things will become clear to those who are blind to the TRUTH. Those against gay marriage care because God created marriage to be between a man and a woman and they want to do their part to preserve that union. I do not hate gay people, I just have to do my part to protect what is right. It's about morals.





The greatest gift that God gave us was to make our own decisions. We are responsible for making the right decisions as we will answer to God one day.
';My theory is that if they're worried that much about it, they must have some gay issues themselves that they haven't dealt with.';





Lol I was gonna say that before I even eventered the thread... its to shift the focus of their homosexuality...or fear of it possibly.





Like I've always said...I fear lesbians because they're hot, and are better at picking up chicks than I am... :(
Newsflash... Obama is against gay marriage as well.





Seriously, no matter what Palin says, the Republican party will not outright BAN gay marriage. McCain is too left to do that.





Your lifestyle choice is very safe with the current republican candidate. I'd focus more on which is better for our nation as a whole, and that's still McCain. Good luck to you.
Whoa!!! you changed your vote because of a gay issue?





Don't you know there are more pressing issues like taxes, socialism, and the fact that Biden just invited a national crisis to occur within 6 months of an Obama administration?





The gay thing? who cares?






ho come on you were always voting for Obama We don't care what you do in your own home We don't care that you love gladiator movies I equate it to eating liver I hated it can't stand the smell it makes me sick But eat all you want but don't do it in front of me
i think it has to do with marriage between a man and a woman.


If 2 men can marry, why not a pet and human, or brother and sister, or 4 people.....where does it end????
Republicans sure are all about removing rights from people which have no effect on their own lives what so ever. Such a shame.
I don't they're happy unless they are stepping on someone's rights.
ObAmA Is NOT aGaInEst GaY MArrIaGe!!! He FoR It. ObaMa 2008

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