The issue I have with the bible saying what is okay and not okay with gay marriage is that you have to realize that the bible is fully up to interpretation.
None of us were there when the bible was written, and no one single thing written in there seems to be practiced nowadays when it comes to what a person can and can't do. For some reason, gay marriage seems to the be the only issue that Christians are having trouble with, and meanwhile I'm certain they eat pork and wear mixed fabrics.
One religious book should not be allowed to infringe upon a lifestyle, and I'm sure you don't see victims marrying their rapists these days either.
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Mar 15, 2014, 08:29 AM
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In my opinion, nothing's wrong if you really really love each other. But the bottom line is, if you really love each other, how can a same-sex couple bear a child? I'm not saying I'm pro-gay marriage nor anti-gay marriage. As I've said above, it's just my opinion ♥
Mar 15, 2014, 11:07 AM
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Many same sex couples have children. Lesbian couples use a sperm donor and gay men use a surrogate. Others sometimes adopt unwanted children.
Many straight couples never have children. Many do not want children, some can't have them due to infertility problems so they use the same avenues that a gay couple can use to have a child.
I have the same problem as you guys. I am a Messianic Jew and I follow the law, which has to do with the pork eating and homosexuality. I don't eat pork nor believe in gay marriage, yet Christians eat pork and don't believe in gay marriage, which infuriates me.
To AzoRctMan: You are RIGHT. A lesbian or gay may be able to adopt a child but it is not their offspring. It is anothers offspring.
Lesbians can and do get pregnant. Being gay does not mean a person is infertile.
A lesbian chooses a sperm donor and is artificially inseminated which causes a pregnancy of her very own biological child. That would be her offspring.
A gay man chooses a surrogate mother and egg donor. His sperm is used to artificially inseminate the egg. This creates his offspring.
The other parent of the couple then legally adopts the baby.
This can be done twice. Once with each partner if they want to have two kids. Then they have their own offspring.
This is not something new. It has been done for many decades now.
Just saying that gays cannot have their own offspring in no way makes that statement true.
But it is not BOTH of the parents off spring, now is it?
It's not so much a question of reproduction, but how same-sex couples are just as good enough parents as straight couples.