Gay Marriage

Gay marriage is now legal in Iowa (my own beloved state). How do we, as an atheist community, feel about that?

Personally I say, Go Iowa! You finally did something right.

Tags: Gay, Iowa, marriage

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Permalink Reply by Karl on April 30, 2009 at 1:00pm
Erm yeah I actualy bite the heads off squirels and dance around naked when the moon is full, does that count?l
Permalink Reply by Nathan Phelps on May 8, 2009 at 7:29pm
Yeah, it's that whole "the world is going to hell in a hand basket", slippery-slope drum that the myopic Christian Right likes to beat.
Permalink Reply by Dre Smith on April 30, 2009 at 2:54pm
Gays got a right to be miserable, unhappily married, and get divorced just like the rest of the population. Personally, I'd like to see bigamy made legal. Marriage aint nothing but a contract between conseting parties and thats all it ever should be. Love and family all of that you have without getting married.
Permalink Reply by Tedster on May 2, 2009 at 1:05am
You know, if prop 8 failed, I doubt that marriage would have been something that I would be involved in for reasons you said.
Permalink Reply by Lille Skvat on May 2, 2009 at 5:30am
Ban against gay marriage IS rooted in religious beliefs ;-)
Permalink Reply by thirteen31 on May 2, 2009 at 7:13am
I'm from Canada, it's legal here, too.
Permalink Reply by Tara Grant on May 5, 2009 at 7:11pm
Gay marriage is nothing but a frivolous politcal issue made to drive the theistic masses apart into seperate groups that fight eachother over these 'issues' that are based in christianity. We all know the sole purpose of religion is to control the masses, right? And for what reason? -- For someone to benefit from the power exerted over the people, right (power = money/comfort/procreation)? Well one way to dominate a large group of people is to turn them on eachother ...divide and conquer...

These 'pressing politcal issues', such as this BS over gay marriage, is a monotheistic way to divide the people against eachother. They want us to squabble over BS while they set us up to be over powered when our backs are turned.

Has no-one here watched Zeitgeist??

drop this CHRISTIAN issue from your repetoire or fade into the flock with the rest of the sheep!
Permalink Reply by Justin Pearson Smith on May 8, 2009 at 6:55pm
Gay rights are fine by me. I'm sure there are atheists out there somewhere who disapprove but I'm not one of them.
Permalink Reply by It's just Matt on May 8, 2009 at 7:05pm
Indeed saying one is atheist isn't saying anything at all really, and I am also unfortunately sure of atheists disapproval of gay marriage, but their lose.

Show me a gay who will steal my shoes because they look better than his.
Show me a gay who starts wars, for any reason.
And so on.

Although ones sexual preference and orientation doesn't make up a moral code, I think gays might be more tolerant than most people in society, just my crazy thinking.

No one is forcing me to like a particular sex, why should I care?

Its about civil rights, and finally some politicians are being civil about it. Most states will follow soon, or at least they should.
Permalink Reply by Brandon Benkosky on May 8, 2009 at 7:03pm
I Agree. I am in southern California and was very dissapointed in Prop 8. I am happy for Iowa.
Permalink Reply by Justin Pearson Smith on May 8, 2009 at 7:44pm
As someone who has been the object of obsession for a Gay man I can understand how homosexuality can make straight people feel uncomfortable without religious reasoning. Still the fact remains that gay men and women are people just like everyone else. They are as fallible as the rest of us, they deserve equal rights and equal opportunities. Even if you have a bad experience like I have, don't persecute others for the acts of one or a few.
Permalink Reply by Angela D on May 8, 2009 at 8:13pm
I live in Maine, and I went to the hearing for the legislators on the Gay Marriage bill that came up a few weeks ago, and supporters and opposers of the bill each had a chance to speak. I was there from 9am to 4:30pm and I really can't even count the number of times I heard, "I'm not here to share my opinion. I'm speaking for God." I'm not even kidding.

You had to register beforehand to speak, but I wanted so badly to walk up to the podium and be like, "That's so strange, because I live in a country where there's a separation of Church and State. I couldn't care less what your god has to say about other people getting married."

Anyway, the story ends with the Governor signing the bill after the legislators passed it. They're working on a people's veto, but it's a small victory for the cause, I s'pose.

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