In Belgium (and I think many European countries), you have an official wedding (conducted in the presence of the mayor or his deputee) and a ceremonial wedding (in a church or whatever your religion's customs are).

Only the official marriage certificate has legal implications. Homosexual couples can sign such a legal wedding contract and that's how it should be.

So homosexual people have the same rights as heterosexual people. "Marriage" is not copyrighted by religions. If most religions chose to be narrow minded and impose retarded restrictions, that's their right but luckily we are living in a nation that separates state and religion so homosexual couples aren't denied of their fundamental right to make their relationship official if they want to.

one of the reasons this is such a hot topic is that most people who are highly opinionated on the matter believe that the other people are wrong and therefore "retarded". sigh.

In addition, marriage is not a christian invention. To make it even worse, marriage can occur between adults. For the christian church you become a full member after confirmation/communion. So you can marry (from the church's posision) at the age of 14 (usually). Federal law does not allow this in most countries, in some however, it is done. These are under surveillance of human rights guards...

Come again, marriage makes it legal and thus homosexuals are illegal?

Congrats on 100 skrum!

/thread

"Again, prove to me that homosexuality is born, and not learned, and I'll allow the comparison to racism. "

Already did - you ignored it.

"one of the reasons this is such a hot topic is that most people who are highly opinionated on the matter believe that the other people are wrong and therefore "retarded". sigh."

Have you read Skrum's posts in this thread?

At least you didn't use me for your example of retarded. : )

I don't think you're retarded!

Just sometimes you argue retarded things for the sake of arguing ;-)

true...gets it to 100 faster

I don't believe most of the things I posted, and I don't believe homosexuals should be stopped from getting married, but I do think they'll isolate the "cause" of homosexuality one day and the option will be there to eliminate that urge. It is unnatural if for no other reason than the need for a species to procreate. Most people are scared of things that are A) new, and B) unusual. That's why all change is difficult. But you already know that.

be thankful jp and Thax created a 100 thread for you, bc it was dead after you wrote this drivel


skrumgaer wrote
at 12:40 PM, Thursday May 10, 2012 CDT
das:

You have said that singles can adopt. So why take the extra step of marriage? Two singles can adopt. Three singles, etc. The greater ratio of adults to children the more economically secure the household is. So where does the marriage come in?