Queer Eye for the Straight Guy

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Originally Posted by Billy

Do you accept the homosexuality? Do you support the homosexual marriage in the USA? One China woman scholar wrote to the China government to publish law to protect the gay's right and permit the homosexual marriage, but the government rejected her.

From my point of view (and I am admittedly *very* liberal in this particular area), marriage of anyone to anyone else is an arrangement of mutual consent which is sanctioned by law. However, current laws are based on the Christian view of marriage, which excludes homosexual unions.

I feel that, if we are to have a legal set of standards applied to marriage as a contractual, consensual agreement, then religious standards should not apply. If you want to get married in the Christian church, do that, and have the government put their seal on it. If some fella wants to smear peanut butter all over himself and marry the guy in the next cubicle under the supervision of an Albanian goatherder while skydiving naked, trailing a string of photos of Bette Davis, then have the government put the stamp on it...what's the difference?

The salient point is the legal advantages of government sanctioned partnership, and gender doesn't enter into it. Depriving consensually united individuals of the rights granted to other consensually united individuals is discrimination, and discrimination based on religion at that.