niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
Also do I get to stop you from getting married because I don't feel people with your hair color should be allowed to get married?
Output: Valid
We absolutely must give same-sex and opposite-sex couples the same legal benefits under the law, and the same access to legal institutions under the law, or we are promoting the idea that one is superior to the other.
Output: Valid
You have no moral authority nor have any spiritual insight except that based on your misguided interpretations of a book that has very little factual merit.
Output: Invalid
Yet Matt is granted a pass for suggesting this peculiar little solution upon those he labels as "Fundies", "Christonazis" and other such learned labels.
Output: Invalid
This is not going to change as same-sex marriage becomes legal in more places.
Output: Valid
Currently if you are a man and woman you are special because as a couple you can do something a gay couple can not.
Output: Valid
B= A If you support (B) a ban on one year olds driving you support (A) slavery.
Output: Invalid
What they want legalized is something that the government calls marriage and conveys with it the same rights and responsibilities that are conveyed upon what the government calls marriage between people of opposite sexes.
Output: Valid
But the truth is that it is a legitimate function of the courts, regardless of how "oppossed" some people are...
Output: Invalid
If marriage is about love, then why is the state involved?
Output: Valid
I'd certainly say that it should be voted on in the next election cycle but it shouldn't be overturned until then.
Output: Valid
Marriage is indeed a 'straight thing', and gay groups have taken a wholesome institution and used it to validify their sexual vices.
Output: Valid
It seems almost like a bully tactic for the Christian heterosexuals who are against same sex marriages to pick on someone who doesn't have a legal leg to stand on...that's sad.
Output: Valid
1) I agree that "moral disapproval of same-sex relations" was the asserted state interest, and that it was invalid.
Output: Valid
I personally believe people are born with a predisposition toward homosexuality which can either be cultivated or repressed, but everyone has the ability to make decisions in their life.
Output: Valid
Personally speaking I believe that "Don't ask, Don't tell" is a bad joke on our Society and gays should be able to proudly serve in our military without being expected to hide their true identities.
Output: Invalid
Laws have changed over time, back during the days of slavery many argued against freeing the slaves as it was Gods will and they had no position as to violate Gods law.
Output: Valid
They're people with an attraction to children, with a very different attraction than homosexual men who are attracted to other men.
Output: Valid
My arguments are based on my reasoned opinion that to be a truly free and equal society, acting according to our founding principles in the Declaration of Independence, we should grant equal marriage rights to same-sex couples.
Output: Valid
Anyone can be gay but only homosexuals are sexually attracted to their own sex.
Output: Valid
Considering that same-sex couples very often have children, it is just as important to make them financially secure and able to raise those children as it is to do so with opposite-sex couples.
Output: Valid
The equal rights you dipict regarding gay marriage are just as superficial as the equal rights you condemn regarding interracial marriage.
Output: Valid
It is still plainly obvious that the marriage rights movement is composed of straights as well as gays.
Output: Valid
That's the 900 lb elephant here--the debate is really about MARRIAGE, not just gay marriage.
Output: Valid
And while same sex marriages may not be legally binding (except in Massachusetts), they are not illegal.
Output: Valid
I am a conservative, and I don't understand how people who consider themselves to be conservative can also be against gay marriage.
Output: Valid
Why, then, is it wrong to once again evolve our definition of marriage to include two consenting adults, regardless of race and sexual orientation?
Output: Valid
Any higher costs for employers would be passed on to consumers as higher prices for products and services.
Output: Invalid
If you would like us to have the rights then marriage is the only way to give us the same rights.
Output: Valid
That would save same-sex marriage, but it would guarantee that the issue would take on the same bitter recriminations that the abortion issue has for the last 33 years.
Output: Valid
Geographical analysis doesn't prove anything: both creation and long term evolution can be proven by it.
Output: Invalid
We have golf courses that don't allow women or blacks (except Tiger Woods), churches that won't allow democrats, the NAACP, fraternities, sorieties, marriage, everybody is fighting hard to remain exclusive.
Output: Valid
If a State seeks to define marriage as a union between a Man and a Woman, then so be it, provided there be an avenue for civil union.
Output: Valid
Would somebody please come up with a valid reason for not letting me have the same rights and privilages as other folks.
Output: Valid
which would be the same thing as someone who carries their bible in their hands, and says praise Jesus to everyone, and condems everyone for their sins, and exactly.
Output: Invalid
High-risk behaviors include intravenous (IV) drug use, anal or homosexual sex, sex with a prostitute, sex with a partner who has high-risk behaviors, or exchange of sex for money or drugs.
Output: Invalid
God also gave us the right to sin... But should we do it, absolutely not, because it will send us straight to hell.
Output: Invalid
Responsible homosexuals would join Paul in condemning anyone who uses children for sex, just as we would join anyone else in condemning the threatened gang rape in Sodom or the behavior of the sex-crazed priests and priestesses in Rome.
Output: Valid
After all the sex that has happened out there, gay sex or straight anal sex (which actually has more participants than gay anal sex), if somebody could "get sick" from it, they would have by now.
Output: Valid
Do you realize that from the time the 14th amendment was signed, which CLEARLY eliminates racial discrimination in marriage (miscegenation laws) was signed, it took about 100 YEARS before miscegenation laws were struck down?
Output: Invalid
when we say should gays be allowed to get "married" we mean, "should they have the right to be allowed official union"
Output: Valid
It is not only their right, but their responsibility to vote their conscience, not yours, so for you punks to then think you are standing up and fighting for your rights just exemplifies how twisted your moral compass is.
Output: Invalid
b.) Even comparing or using in the same sentence Nazis, slavery, etc. with gay people and what they deal with is terribly, terribly disingenuous and offensive IMO.
Output: Valid
Women are more at risk in this world. . .and the fact there there are places in the world where the hate is against ones gender. . .that a woman can never be free, or even viewed as human.
Output: Invalid
First you state you don't want "influencing", then in the next breath criticize me for believing I am the "ONLY" one who should influence government.
Output: Invalid
It's merely sophistry: placating the masses of undereducated people who really don't have the expertise needed to run government policy through clever political rhetoric and oration.
Output: Invalid
While the presence of gay marriage being legal may "influence" children in some menial way, it does NOT "damage the right of people to believe what they wish".
Output: Valid
If two men or two women are happy together, love each other, and want to be with each other forever why shouldn't they be allowed to get married??
Output: Valid
I also think that most Americans are truly uninformed when it comes to the issue of same sex marriage.
Output: Valid
So your saying that if gay people are allowed to marry...then marriage becomes pointless and heterosexual couples will stop having sex and our species will parish?
Output: Valid
If same-sex marriage is implemented, everyone has the opportunity to pay for his own marriage.
Output: Valid
My argument spawns from two different viewpoints: marriage should be about uniting two people who are in love and secondly, the government should be more focused on other problems.
Output: Valid
As well, homosexuals do not show the faithfulness that is axiomatic to the institution of marriage.
Output: Valid
Here in the Midwest, large numbers of diehard black Democrats voted for Kerry and against gay marriage.
Output: Valid
Supporters of gay and lesbian equal rights want to make sure everyone has equal, fundamental rights.
Output: Valid
Murder is a moral issue... yet condemned murderers may marry the consenting adult partner of their choice.
Output: Valid
That's why men and women showering together is a "big deal" but straight and gay men isn't.
Output: Invalid
If the "wasting of semen" (I find it hilarious you actually think that's an intelligent complaint) is condemnable for gay sex, then it is JUST AS CONDEMNABLE for oral sex, condoms, and masturbation.
Output: Valid
Marriage is the cultural way to formalize the heterosexual bond which, itself, facilitates reproduction.
Output: Valid
If letting judges carry out constitutional interpretation was really what they were looking for, they would not complain when that interpretation doesn't go their way.
Output: Invalid
Let them marry and have the same government benefits, but let the church decide who its priests are.
Output: Valid
They preside over cases concerning every aspect of society, from traffic offenses, to disputes over the management of professional sports, to issues concerning the rights of huge corporations, to questions over disconnecting life-support equipment connected to terminally ill persons.
Output: Invalid
Gay applicants may say and believe they will raise their child objectively to sexual preference, but this may not be the case a Childs mind is very simple.
Output: Valid
Why not change the name, if it is the name you have a problem with?
Output: Invalid
I am arguing that homosexual behavior is eccentric behavior, and eccentric behavior should be tolerated and accepted, but not enshrined as gay marriage would do.
Output: Valid
If your partner works for the city, state, county government, you may have a problem being covered on their insurance, and you may have trouble collecting death benefits.
Output: Valid
In his statement on gay marriage and mass murder, Peters notes that Christianity and Judaism teach "that we are to love our neighbors as ourselves and to forgive others."
Output: Valid
We are counting on Governor Schwarzenegger to lift the burden of discrimination from hundreds of thousands of California families by becoming the first governor in the nation to sign legislation ending discrimination against same-sex couples obtaining a civil marriage license.
Output: Valid
The distinction means very clearly that once the bar for marriage is lowered for same gender, then it will allow any conceivable combination of genders.
Output: Valid
Then, why is it sad that "people do not like accepting that people are very different".
Output: Invalid
Yes but what you to relize is that there are a lot of people who are not oppossed to gay marriage who are very oppossed to judicial activism or the appearance of it.
Output: Valid
In as much as "marriage" is a right (I don't see it as an absolute right) all men and all women have an equal right to marry.
Output: Valid
Especially since gays are equal in that they have the same rights to marry as straight people do.
Output: Valid
If gay marriage is or is not legalized, it has no affect on laws against polygamy.
Output: Valid
Placing children with gay couples is unnecessary and harmful - if group homes are the only alternative then it is argued such environments are more healthy and indeed normal than farming kids out to gays
Output: Valid
Gays and lesbians utilized this form of expression in the very same manor as do straight couples.
Output: Valid
People should not have to worry whether their marriage will be honored and their family protected depending on where they are parking that day.
Output: Valid
And no, private showers have no shieled be from reality as I don't know anyone that hasn't had to do a public shower...but thanks for postive feedback
Output: Invalid
Marriage is already a civil right everyone has--you have it too, because you can marry someone of opposite-gender right now.
Output: Valid
Im afraid being able to marry does have an influence on others moral code/ belief and does effect the way that that others see marriage and the legality of future types of marriages...as we have discussed
Output: Valid
When we look at the question with truly open eyes we realize it is not whether homosexual unions are right or wrong, but rather whether I am forced to support such a union against my will.
Output: Valid
The DOMAS Defense of Marriage Acts may be overturend under the equal protection phrase of the Constitution but each individual states constitutional amendments will stand...........
Output: Valid
While you sit there, and you know that gays have always been persecuted throughout history, and now they (in my opinion) are now finally getting their rightful place in society, YOU GO BAN SAME SEX MARRIAGE!!
Output: Valid
Neither gay nor straight parents have any right to be a parent to someone else's child.
Output: Valid
Stealing for example, is against the law because most people believe that there is a right and wrong and that stealing is wrong.
Output: Invalid
bigot:One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ.
Output: Invalid
Marrying someone of the same sex is forbidden whether you are gay and straight, and marriage of the opposite sex is legal whether you are gay and straight.
Output: Valid
Moreover, its odd that a christian (gay or not) would not be critical of mean-spirited people and situations where Christians are derided, generalized, their sacred Bible made fun of, etc.
Output: Invalid
As this gap broadens, people have a much larger range over which they might want to start a family - this results in people unwisely getting married too early in life, or putting off marriage for too long.
Output: Invalid
As I said, I've had plenty of Jerry Springer moments and I loved knowing that My rights are protected and the law is on my side when needed.
Output: Invalid
When two people, regardless of their gender, are STD free, they do not "create" any life threatening diseases just by having sex.
Output: Valid
As for your ridiculous claim that two people of the same sex cannot logically be married, you have no rational or logical support for such a claim therefore it is dismissed.
Output: Valid
Those extra votes had to come from somewhere, and it seems like many people other than the "religious right" feel the same way.
Output: Invalid
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Output: Invalid
If, on the other hand, you are arguing against her position because it "harms" other people, then you are not basing your argument on the First Amendment at all.
Output: Invalid
Roughly the same percentage of the population has been homosexual throughout history, yet somehow we've managed to balloon our numbers from near zip to SIX BILLION (projected TEN billion by 2050).
Output: Valid
Having both a societal and governmental institution by the same name (e.g.marriage) creates too many annoyances and should be rejected in terms of "civil unions" or whatever term is deemed appropriate.
Output: Valid
It is just that those on the Christian Reich want everyone to have their "traditional" values wheither they want to or not.
Output: Valid
And once they accomplish that special right, according to the American legal process, every other non traditional marriage interest will have a precedent setting case law in which to justify their own reason for having a non traditional marriage.
Output: Valid
If this were a case of the government raising money to change religion, or opposing religion under the system's rules, you might have a point.
Output: Invalid
Sadly that is not the agenda of the militant gay minority.....They want homosexuality accepted by everyone as a suitable alternate lifestyle......
Output: Valid
Homosexuality is nothing like pedophillia or cannibalism; it is the consensual relationship between two developed adults who happen to be of the same sex.
Output: Valid
This type of supremacist thinking you present flies in the face of our constitutional ideology, protecting EQUAL rights.
Output: Valid
But as I have repeatedly explained to you in the past, those limits on rights require LEGITIMATE STATE INTERESTS before they can be imposed.
Output: Valid
Weren't you just scolding people both for using false analogies and for citing emotionally laden imagery for political purposes?
Output: Invalid
Any single piece of legislation could be opposed by simply claiming "my religion involves belief that it shouldn't be that way" which is crazy.
Output: Valid
It's the same sort of thing that people use against gay people sometime by not only standing against gays, but even the ideology that gays are ok.
Output: Valid
Although many people tend to focus on whether or not homosexuality is genetic, that entire topic is completely irrelevant and pointless regarding whether or not homosexuals should be allowed to marry.
Output: Valid
Sorry if I was unclear--I simply mean this case underscores the value of having such legal security as power of attorney.
Output: Invalid
Nevertheless, I think that if people are using guns to kill people, the people using them are to blame, at least more so than anyone else.
Output: Invalid
Carrying out marriages properley you mean loving each other unconditionally until parted by death, Gay people are capable of this, so should be allowed to marry.
Output: Valid
Gay rights activists have continued to press for full marriage equality, saying civil unions do not satisfy a state Supreme Court ruling that entitles gay couples to the same benefits as married couples.
Output: Valid
Tie this in with cultural values that truly encourage familial and social ties and don't demand so many sacrifices in the name of $$$$ and you get more successful kids, and, to stay on topic, much, much lower incarceration rates.
Output: Invalid
Again, you being wrong does NOT automatically make me right.
Output: Invalid
The issue of same-sex marriage will determine whether marriage is about family or sexual preference, for we either give it to all families or all people of a specific sexual preference.
Output: Valid
I know I went into the benefits of allowing same-sex couples to adopt, but I also spoke on same-sex marriage promoting equality, freedom, and happiness.
Output: Valid
All they have to do is either write in that civil unions will give the same legal rights as marriage, or else list the same rights that marriage does.
Output: Valid
Legitimate state interests which do not match up with your generic claim of "general welfare" and are not applicable to gay marriage... emoticonXGood
Output: Valid
Research on gay fathers has similarly found no reason to believe them unfit as parents  (Barret & Robinson, 1990; Bigner and Bozett, 1990; Bozett, 1980, 1989).
Output: Valid
Quite frankly, talking about ONE churches activity is a bit like trying to pronounce a judgement of "cleanlineness" of a pig sty by using a microscope in one spot that is specifically selected...
Output: Invalid
Maybe, if the courts were to allow gay marriage, it would be alright since it is not a religious institution, it doesn't break the Separation between Church and State ruled by the Supreme Court.
Output: Valid
The Marriage issue should be out of politicians and lawmakers.
Output: Valid
But people make up the society, so you're really arguing that people should think same-sex marriage is wrong because people think same-sex marriage is wrong.
Output: Valid
When asked about benefits accompanying legally-sanctioned marriage, 81% of all respondents indicated they would want domestic partnership coverage, 77% are in favor of civil unions, and 67% want legal marriage as an option.
Output: Valid
Because when it comes down to it, people can do what they want to, and the moves have been made away from traditional values because people feel they are not valid anymore.
Output: Valid
If the state wants to offer legal protections and benefits to straight married couples, it cannot constitutionally refuse equal protections to gay ones.
Output: Valid
Hmm, it also sounds as though you believe Republicans are not controlled by the religious right today.
Output: Invalid
How we pay our taxes, how we will our estates, how we make our medical decisions and how these things differ from what straight couples get as benefits and protections in a marriage we are not allowed to have.
Output: Valid
There might be some unforseen harm in same-sex marriage, but if that harm cannot be listed or spoken of, then we have no right banning same-sex marriage.
Output: Valid
With gay marriage, the issue is changing marriage to be something it's not, to whatever.
Output: Valid
The only problem facing the bill right now is the governor who has said he believe a marriage is between a man and a woman, but who also has supported domestic same sex partners benefits.
Output: Valid
I fear, even, that you would not be willing to fight for civil unions, that you will simply continue to allow people to be hurt until they can convince everyone else themselves.
Output: Valid
The incidence of sickle cell anemia is highest among the black race, therefore, black people should not be allowed to have children.We know enough about sickel cell anemia's spread to guard against a widespread increase.
Output: Invalid
I think the lack of monogamy problem among gay men stems from the fact that homosexuality has always been hand-in-hand with promiscuity.
Output: Valid
You did suggest that unmarried heterosexual couples would still be discriminated against, even if we allowed same-sex couples to marry.
Output: Valid
However, I could counter this by pointing out that the law treats everyone the same in terms of gay/straight marriage, as well, because any man can get married to any woman at any time and obtain those exact same benefits.
Output: Valid
As we have seen the growth of egalitarian marriages and of women being able to earn higher incomes, we have also seen the coming out of gay couples and the increasing visibility of gay couples raising children.
Output: Valid
By reducing marriage to only a legal agreement, you've not only denigrated the marriages of many people, but many gay people as well who claim to have a marriage even though they don't have a license.
Output: Valid
This may sound like a results-based argument, but ultimately, the purpose of the law is in the results it brings, and the people affected by the law are the ones who matter.
Output: Invalid
But I can think of no reason for creating a separate category of civil unions for same-sex couples other than animus against gay people and a desire to treat gay people as less-than-equal citizens.
Output: Valid
Let me further expound on this, An important legal principle called the Conflict of Laws, allows states or nations that have a strong public policy exception to the laws of another state or nation, to enforce their own principles.
Output: Valid
It's moral for women to remain silent, not teach, and never have authority over men?
Output: Invalid
Since heterosexuals are provided the means to have a happy marriage and homosexuals are not, homosexuals are not equal to heterosexuals.
Output: Valid
I don't think we were supposed to be falling in love with the same sex and if we do feel that attraction it is easy to stop it.
Output: Valid
I mean, I can't think of any good analogy for denying same-sex marriage.
Output: Valid
Yet I would say that it is completely possible for someone to oppose being of the black race while still accepting black people.
Output: Invalid
Quite frankly, if somebody wants to announce in their own church, to people who choose to go to church, that homosexuality is "immoral", that's their perogative.
Output: Valid
No one is trying to connect pedophilia with gay people here--we are just trying to show that the American Psychiatric Association is . . . well . . . a questionable source at best.
Output: Valid
Man-woman marriage is legal and gets state goodies, but man-man and woman-woman marriages are illegal.
Output: Valid
It is about heterosexuality; you can only get marriage if you are a heterosexual.
Output: Valid
Yes, but gays would also want laws changed to accomodate THEIR form of marriage as well.
Output: Valid
Depression rates are occasionally higher in children of gay couples, but this is largely attributed to anti-gay sentiments (surprise, children get upset when people are constantly slamming their parents).
Output: Valid
Even though denying polygamous marriage is not actually a destruction of equality, one might still say, "Well, even though denying polygamous marriage isn't as bad as denying same-sex marriage, why do we deny it?
Output: Valid
Or those rabid anti-gay-agenda people who profess to not be "all so religious" but still think gays are "immoral."
Output: Valid
The average woman in an advanced industrial society must have 2.1 children in her lifetime in order for the country's population to remain stable.
Output: Invalid
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Output: Invalid
It's two sets of laws for two separate institutions, one is a union the other is a marriage.
Output: Valid
Accepting gay marriage/sex is accepting deviant sex/marriage...black people are not deviant...maybe you think so but I dont
Output: Valid
I mean that marriage should be relegated to the religious and cultural sector, and have government assign benefits via CUs for BOTH groups.
Output: Valid
I have read that straight men get get excited by watching two women having sex together.
Output: Invalid
As even Bill O'Reilly was forced to observe, the anti-gay gaggle of geese have yet to provide any argument against equal marriage rights for gays that isn't based on their religious nonsense.
Output: Valid
However, I think that this will not work, because homosexuality and higher divorce rates are not corrolated, as higher divorce rates exist in countries that don't even have legalized gay marriage.
Output: Valid
But, a liberal will say that the lowered value of a marriage is not real, it is only perceived due to the bigoted minds of the conservatives themselves.
Output: Valid
Are you admitting it is a special "gravy train" for opposite sex- couples ONLY?
Output: Valid
How is this not a claim that religious people have special rights that no one else does.
Output: Invalid
what may lead to incestuous marriage is if siblings or related people who love each other and want to live together under the legal union of marriage.
Output: Valid
They only time responses are against gay couples having the rights granted hetero couples is when they are lumped together and called gay marriage.
Output: Valid
Unlike many conservatives who, for example, are trying to pretend that judges don't have the right to rule on matters of law.
Output: Invalid
If you are running a heterosexual sex club, then certainly you are entitled to exclude homosexuals.
Output: Valid
One one hand you seem to think that gay people don't have the right to get married at all--they do because you can get married anytime you want.
Output: Valid
Mosy who do not want it to be allowed just dont like homosexuality all together, and therefore the opposing side tends to be prejudice.
Output: Valid
It is difficult to take gay rights groups seriously when they throw their enthusiastic support at only Democrat canididates who are practically no different than Republican ones on the issue.
Output: Valid
In colonial times the Speaker of the House, Sal DiMasi, ringleader of these legislative charlatans, would have been dragged down the steps of the State House, tarred and feathered, then banished to Canada.
Output: Invalid
QuoteI} thank the Red Cross for recognizing gay couples, but the Feds fo not.....another reason gay marriage isn't just a right but a necessity
Output: Valid
Homosexual marriage is something that religious people disagree with by drawing a false line between right and wrong.
Output: Valid
You say "context", but then give no real context which would have a God, who routinely gives orders to his people, giving them advice on HOW TO COMMIT SLAVERY, ignoring the fact that it is wrong.
Output: Invalid
The premise of same sex marriage being discriminatory only stands if homosexuality is genetic- because the individual cannot help his condition.
Output: Valid
This recent poll shows what the other polls in the U.S. and Canada show, that those 18-29 strongly support the right to legally marry for same-sex couples...
Output: Valid
Now if you do as I suggest and meet Him, you will then understand that of all the people you have ever met in your lifetime, I gave you the most precious gift of any person in your complete lifetime.
Output: Invalid
People want the government to say, "You are gay, so you don't deserve equal rights."
Output: Valid
The comparison between racial segregation and the refusal to change the definition of marriage is invalid.
Output: Valid
When anyone can marry anyone else then homosexuals should be allowed to marry.Until then gays should not be an elite sexual deviant lifestyle over other sexual deviant lifestyles.
Output: Valid
recognition and considered a "civil right" to have their marriages recognized has been made to stop marriage from being redefined for YOUR movement.
Output: Valid
Gay marriage is wrong the reason is because in every definition of marriage it includes man and woman not man and man or women and women it is women and man.
Output: Valid
I think you're getting off course here and playing semantic games--the point I was making was that people haven't said THEIR marriages will be affected by gay marriage, at least from what I've seen.
Output: Valid
If you're not willing to read someone's posts then you've really forfeited the right to pretend to have a meaningful opinion about them.
Output: Invalid
Homosexual sex is much riskier than heterosexual sex.The fact is that gays DON'T practice safe sex as a group and therefore, have a shortened lifespan as a group.
Output: Valid
After all, if few homosexual couples get married, there's little chance of a Trojan Horse scenario whereby gay married couples could somehow work to undermine heterosexual marriage from within.
Output: Valid
Typologies of offenders have often included a distinction between those with an enduring primary preference for children as sexual partners and those who have established age-appropriate relationships but who become sexually involved with children under unusual circumstances of extreme stress.
Output: Invalid
Gay rights advocates say that because the civil union designation is hard to understand and still treats committed gays differently from married couples, the courts should eliminate civil unions and recognize gay marriage.
Output: Valid
You do not have a civil right to be gay... it is not a fundamental liberty our US Constitution charges a value for.
Output: Valid
What liberals want is a sound argument that proves to them that straight people's rights are being infringed upon.
Output: Valid
Its first, totemic, phase already brings with it the prohibition against an incestuous choice of object, and this is perhaps the most drastic mutilation which man��_��__��_��__s erotic life has in all time experienced.
Output: Invalid
Civil Unions are the governments jb and due to the 14th amendment everyone is equal under due process of law.
Output: Valid
You cant seem to get it into your head that marriage is an institution that was created to be a union between a man and a woman that leads to the couple creating children within a stable nuclear family.
Output: Valid
And specifically regarding the debt, the vast majority of states are having deficits this year due to the ECONOMY.
Output: Invalid
It is when you rely on them to determine what is to be right and wrong in other people's lives.
Output: Invalid
The fact that certain 'less meaningful' marriages can't be stopped doesn't mean others should be expressly allowed.
Output: Valid
The people chose to give married couples tax breaks and benefits because they want to encourage marriage, not gay marriage.
Output: Valid
Gays don't call their unions marriage, we have commitment ceremonies not weddings.
Output: Valid
But that doesn't mean that it's RIGHT that someone with strong beliefs should have to sacrifice for them.
Output: Invalid
If any efforts exist, like prop 8, and fail the vote then, yes, the people of Mass. have accepted it.
Output: Valid
The government can not show a rational basis for denying gays the right to marry, and so under our constitutional traditions they shouldn't.
Output: Valid
(One has to wonder how we can take their insistence of gay marriage as being constitutional seriously when they are trying to completely ignore the 2nd Amendment!)
Output: Valid
Marriage outta government insures gays can't marry (unless the church break the Bible) because marriage is really a religious thing.
Output: Valid
Consistent with the above, I think a legislator could make a rational decision to continue to exclude same-sex couple from marriage (which would be the question before the legislature, i.e., "should we change the status quo?")
Output: Valid
The problem is that what is going on is a battle between those who disapprove of gay marriages on a RELIGIOUS footing battling against those who want completely equal protections and portability rights under the LAW.
Output: Valid
The Anti-Federalists believed good government has to be local, and they wanted the states to have a lot of power.
Output: Invalid
Stop doing what I am doing and live a lonely life of pain and self denial, hell on earth, only to go to heaven to find your hatefilled, intolerant, Self-righteous kind inhabiting the place sounds like hell to me.
Output: Invalid
However this is about if it's a civil right, I don't believe any marriage is a civil right, if you truly love someone you don't need a ring and a certificate to say so.
Output: Valid
When marriage laws were first written the idea of including gays probably never even occurred to anyone.
Output: Valid
When we redefine marriage, then all sorts of new relationships will also vie for social acceptance.
Output: Valid
So implying that there is commonality between states or between states and the federal gov't regarding hetro marriage is a mistake.
Output: Valid
Unless EZ believes that calling someone a Satanic, abomination of a sinner is likely to bring around repentance I think we can safely say that his claim to be trying to save anyone is a sham.
Output: Invalid
Also, the acceptance of gays would decrease the number of children born from gay parents in denial, thus also decreasing the population and therefore the amount of food consumed so that the children of heterosexual parents could be better fed.
Output: Valid
* Employment Rights: Being against sexual orientation employment protection means the person WANTS an employer to have the power to fire a homosexual JUST cause that homosexual is gay.
Output: Invalid
If you want your position to be taken seriously from any moral perspective, you cannot say "i don't care if it's rational, just that we get to make the decision."
Output: Invalid
It could be called gay marriage or civil unions as long as they have the same equal rights as a married heterosexual couple.
Output: Valid
So therefore gay couples who have children via adoption or a other methods should be deined such tax breaks?
Output: Valid
Homosexuality is NOT a crime because NO Victims are created by it.
Output: Valid
Either all people should be allowed to marry the person of their choice or no one should be allowed to marry.
Output: Valid
He said to His people Israel, "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination" (Leviticus 18:22).
Output: Valid
And since they claim HIV/AIDS is a consequence of being gay, do they want  to increase the risk of infection for straight women by insisting that such women be the only marriage partners gay men are allowed to have?
Output: Valid
No one agrues that if the majority says "wearing shoes is illegal" and then they wear shoes and won't let people under 4 feet tail wear shoes...then this is a majority acting over its rule.
Output: Invalid
As shown last year with Mark Foley, there are lots of gays who work for repuke congress people on capital hill.
Output: Invalid
It confuses children about gender roles and expectations of society, and only a man & woman can pro-create.
Output: Valid
Hundreds of thousands of Africans are dying from AIDS or starvation while genocide is happening right before our eyes in the Sudan.
Output: Invalid
Realize also that a great many people do not agree with your opinion, and their numbers are growing in state after state, country after country.
Output: Invalid
We are not fighting over a dictionary definition here, we are fighting over the legal right of individuals to enter into a legal institution which recieves benefits under the law.
Output: Valid
Well then I guess you're right... I guess it should be okay for gays to get married but I don't think they should have the same natural rights as a heterosexual couple.
Output: Valid
We are not longer primitive, so we should allow any couple to marry, as we already allow with straight couples who do not have children.
Output: Valid
The relevant post this morning was about what's happening in Cali with the ballot initiative being put back on this Novembers ballot for the people to vote on.
Output: Invalid
As for the life expectancy ones a lot of the behaviors are hardly limited to homosexuality and their inclusion makes me wonder about the validity of that survey too as well as the huge gap.
Output: Invalid
The direct debate over the right for gays to get married has been done many times, and it just isn't going to stop going back and forth between us.
Output: Valid
Unlike same sex couples, children do not have the ability to establish their rights any other way.
Output: Valid
9There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; 10but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
Output: Invalid
The usual adage is that gays are everywhere--guess what: when you're less than 5% of the population (which is what most estimates tend to hold to), that's not going to be "everywhere."
Output: Valid
As society finds gay people increasingly acceptable and deserving of equal consideration under the law, including marriage law, judicial opinions will eventually follow.
Output: Valid
As had been suggested before, I do not know of a single act of violence committed against someone because he opposed gay rights, yet I know of many opponents of gay rights who committed violence against gay people.
Output: Valid
As for civil unions, I think your time would be better spent trying to fill the gaps in it instead of trying to scrap the current definition of marriage.
Output: Valid
There are other reasons for doing this, first off the most important thing is not what you want to call it, names are simply labels, the fact is that homosexuals will get their equal rights.
Output: Valid
And the point is that while the government does not utilize legislation in this area in as many ways as it could, it COULD if it wanted to.
Output: Invalid
While I understand while some of the religionistas may want to keep marriage in the closet, it is an official civil ceremony and thus all citizens should have a right to it.
Output: Valid
Note Mathew's recent post, (gays, bigamists, incestors, etc should be allowed to marry)... Unless every conceivable union is recognized,... someone is always going to cry foul.
Output: Valid
Not wanting to have a child who would not be considered his, he engaged in an elementary (and quite unreliable) method of birth control: coitus interruptus.
Output: Invalid
If your moral code goes 1) Obey God (christian) 2) don't hurt others than (assuming not allowing gay marriage hurts gays) obeying God will override don't hurt others.
Output: Valid
Several people here have argued (some without disclosing their reasoning behind their argument) that same-sex marriage is not a right, that such a right has never existed, and and therefore is not being taken away or denied.
Output: Valid
Your argument that "no" same-sex couple can ever contribute to society by procreating ignores the fact that gay individuals can and do procreate, and same-sex couples do contribute to society by raising children together.
Output: Valid
I think the burden should be on a state that bans a form of marriage to show that that specific form of marriage does harm to people.
Output: Valid
Please give me one concrete example of how homosexual marriage destroys the integrity of marriage, as defined by the state, and as it is implemented/used by the state.
Output: Valid
If anything, as things stand now, it is the same sex couples paying more of their taxes to support the heterosexual couples; income taxes, social security taxes, inheirantence taxes, property taxes, as examples.
Output: Valid
The main point being made is thus: Altruistic behaviour by a unit of evolution that hunders itself towards units of evolution that also actually hinder their own reproductive potential would be extremely unlikely to saturate the gene pool.
Output: Invalid
Are there any official recognised (by their peers and the rest of the scientific community) organisations that do beleive that homosexuality is a disorder?
Output: Valid
But it does not matter whether there are fundamental differences; we should not give each religion a different set of rights under the law, and we should not give men and women a different set of rights under the law.
Output: Valid
It has nothing to do with emotion; I'd have the same position no matter WHAT group came along trying to redefine the standards of marriage.
Output: Valid
Our country was made on the basis of freedom to be who you want to be and worship what you want to worship.
Output: Valid
You read the article over 1000 rights under Federal status are for married people... And even WITH Gay marriage legal in some states under DOMA, the Federal Government does not recognize them as legitimate!
Output: Valid
Certainly the arguments of freedom and equality apply as equally to same-sex marriage as they do to incestuous marriage, but foundation of the debate is the harms incestuous marriage creates.
Output: Valid
Except blacks were barred from marriage to those that white people could marry, and white people were barred from marriage to those that black people could marry.
Output: Valid
If we regarded every decision we do not like as tyrannical simply because it's not what we would decide, then we are in trouble.
Output: Invalid
This is me pointing out that if full faith and credit is NOT recognized in marriage, that you have a situation of legalized polygamy, just by jumping state boundaries.
Output: Valid
I personally find the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment to be a more compelling basis for the guarantee of equality under the law than the hazy doctrine of substantive due process.
Output: Valid
These progressive people have no problem, whatsoever, in letting the gays take their rightful place in society with all due rights and privileges afforded to any other, tax paying, law abiding, adult citizen.
Output: Valid
Two people have the right to enter into wedlock with one another if they wish, regardless of gender.
Output: Valid
So for "some people" to insist on "conclusive scientific evidence" while THEY THEMSELVES make claims that they can't substantiate is an amazing demonstration of hypocrisy!
Output: Invalid
But opposition to allowing another person the same civil rights you enjoy is, as I agree with Jaxian, MORALLY WRONG.
Output: Valid
I can define evil acts by how they affect fellow living things, murdering another human being hinders society, therefore it is an evil act, and since your Bible condones the murder of innocent lives, I consider it an evil book.
Output: Invalid
As I have said many times before I would be alright with marriage being limited to breeding age heteros because it would then exclude heteros also.
Output: Valid
To be able to put into question the love of another human being is simply not only alarming in nature, but damning to the very definition of love, equality, and freedom in creation of man....
Output: Valid
The only way that we can fight homophobia is by showing people that homosexuals deserve the same rights as straight couples.
Output: Valid
Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Output: Invalid
- I am inclined to believe that many people miss the point on various discussions, and 'evidence' must be carefully wieghed for bias on both sides.
Output: Invalid
We have been considering whether same-sex marriage does harm to people, and it's quite clear that it does not.
Output: Valid
Several calls to Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center seeking comment for this article were not returned by press time.
Output: Invalid
It should also be noted that Vitter didn't stand up before his constituency and publicly deny the allegations only to later be proven to be a bold faced liar as Clinton was.
Output: Invalid
I would agree with most of what you are saying, the only place I seem to be unable to follow you is through the gay marriage to moral vacuum.
Output: Valid
I have been making these types of comments FOR YEARS to refute that pathetic attempts trying to give a constitutional justification for why the government should be able to discriminate against gay marriage.
Output: Valid
If same sex marriage bans discriminate exclusively against gays, then polygamy bans discriminate exclusively against polygamists.
Output: Valid
The lack of freedom is present in that people do not have the right to marry the person of their choosing.
Output: Valid
Do employers require proof of gay sex before they fire a person for BEING gay?
Output: Invalid
B= A If you support (B) a ban on same sex marriage you support (A) slavery.
Output: Valid
2) Your OWN STATS PROVE that you are blowing this out of proportion.
Output: Invalid
The Law of the Land, allows in many States for there to be Civil Unions between people and in some instances there is the premise that Law of the Land should accept Marriage.
Output: Valid
I suppose that you wouldn't agree with people who claim that western civilization and science as we know it were founded by the Judeo-Christian worldview.
Output: Invalid
No proof that gay conversion therapy works in a broad, unbiased, generalizable sample.
Output: Valid
I think few people would disagree that our society is already in just about as much of a conflict as it could be about this issue.
Output: Invalid
In the same fashion, if denying a few people privacy on this petition would legalize same-sex marriage, then I would support doing that, for legalizing same-sex marriage is far more beneficial to the people.
Output: Valid
The government should be a tool through which the will of some segment of the population is fulfilled.
Output: Invalid
The law does not challenge the church organization��_��__��_��__s beliefs about homosexuality ��_��__��_��__��_��__ it merely requires that a pavilion that had been open to all for years comply with laws protecting everyone from discrimination, including gays and lesbians.
Output: Valid
In fact, public poll after public poll shows a MAJORITY of Americans do not want the FEDERAL constitution to forbid gay marriage.
Output: Valid
Conversely, gay couples should be allowed the option to undergo civil marriages, this does not entail any religious ceremonies and ought to be acceptable to those who object to gay marriages on the grounds of their religious beliefs.
Output: Valid