Should we allow Gay marriage or Civil Unions in the US?

Yes. Civil unions for all consenting adults. Marriage should be stricken from the lawbooks, the government should not recognise it as anything to do with the physical realm they say they govern. It is a spiritual ritual, and as such is not their business. (Governments should remain entirely secular.) So now nobody is married by law, everyone has civil unions. Then Gays and Lesbians can find a priest willing to marry them, and he can do so. The law wont disagree. Similarly, Priests can turn these people away if they do not want to perform the ritual, the law wont disagree. If you dont recognise gay marriage as legitimate, then according to you they were never married anyway, but according to the other priest/faction/religion, they are, but why do you care what they believe?

It should be allowed. However religions have been trying to tell everyone what they can and cannot do, or what they can and can not believe in for centuries. I believe in god and I know he makes us all the way we are, gay or not. I believe marriage should not be limited to a man or a woman, nor should the government have any right to define it. It will take a very long time to get a compromise mainly because of the traditionalists and those who have very strong beliefs who are stubborn and refuse to budge. However, it will happen some day so yes I believe it should be attempted.

Certainly gays should be allowed to live together in peace. But marriage is religious concept and is intrinsically between a man and a woman. This is a good compromise all the best urban

Hi Rysonia, Yes, I think gay people should be allowed to get married. A civil union does not give them the same rights and benefits as a marriage does so that won't cut it. I think a good compromise would be to allow them to get married by a Justice of the Peace and allow the churches the option of allowing them or not allowing them. Some priests and bishops are gay and there are priests that don't have a problem with marrying them. It should be left up to the individual churches. A marriage by a JP is every bit as legal and binding as a church marriage in the eyes of the law and should be in the hearts of the couple.

In my country, Chile, the only valid marriage is secular. You can ALSO get married at the church you desire but it´s not legal as marriage goes. I would like to have legal gay marriages approved here but there´s a long way to go before that happens. Take care!

It should be allowed. The church or religions should have absolutely no say in whether or not a couple is allowed to get married. For one, it should be a separation of church and state. For another, it is not going to affect them. If someone is seriously bothered by it, it is their own problem and they are just wanting something to complain about. I find it sickening that people want to prevent a couple from being happy by allowing them to get married once, but they're okay with someone getting 3 or 4 divorces and marriages. "It's a sin" is not a valid argument because not everyone follows the same religion, has the same set of beliefs or morals, and according to those quoting the bible saying gays are sinners, the bible also says that women should not be allowed in their house when they're on their period. So if you want to quote one part, you might want to take a look at the rest and follow that as well if you're going to try to use it as justification.

Please don't stone me.... I believe marriage is between one man and one woman. I don't think there's a way to compromise because both sides want to define marriage a certain way. Gays and lesbians want to re-define it as something that two people (any two people) can do when they are in love and want to share their lives together. Religious groups want marriage to continue to be defined as between one man and one woman. Personally, I have nothing against gays and lesbians as human beings. They're going to do whatever they want regardless of what I think is right and wrong. My Bible says we're ALL sinners, who am I to judge? But if marriage is just what people who are "in love" do to get insurance benefits, what does that do to marriage? Where does the re-defining stop? Are people going to be marrying three cats, one dolphin, ten dogs, two men, and eight women all at once in the future? You might laugh, but three thousand years ago people would have laughed at the idea of two men marrying even the cultures that were accepting of homosexuality. After one re-definition, what's to stop a few hundred more?

My faith is in favor gay marriage. I don't think one person's faith should supersede another person's. Government allowing homosexual marriage allows for an individual faith to allow or not allow it. Government not allowing homosexual marriage steps all over the faiths that do allow it.

I am not in favor of this marriage. It is really wrong and very contradict to the Word of God. The Bible prohibited in doing this. God has made human in a right and perfect way. He made man and to have a partner that is woman. God will punish a nation that supporting this kind of marriage. The Lord sent fire and brimstone in Sodom and Gomorrah because of this.

It should be allowed, but not encouraged. Two males or two females live together will not trouble others, they have the right to choose that way.