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| View Poll Results: Where do you stand on gay marriage and civil unions | |||
| I support gay marriage but not civil unions |
   
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10 | 31.25% |
| I support civil unions but not gay marriage |
  
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3 | 9.38% |
| Don't care about name so long as both have same rights |
  
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17 | 53.13% |
| I support neither gay marriage nor civil unions |
  
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0 | 0% |
| not sure/undecided/don't care |
  
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2 | 6.25% |
| Voters: 32. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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#1
09-30-2007, 02:32 PM
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Gay marriage vs. Civil unions
I've heard how many who are against gay marriage seem to be willing to "compromise" by allowing civil unions. I'd like to know: What's the difference? Why make the distinction? And what's the point? Also which do you support? Why do you support that one and not the other?
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#2
09-30-2007, 02:38 PM
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A lot of people I've asked consider marriage to be a religious thing, but civil unions to be more secular. I personally don't give a damn what they call them as long as the benefits are the same. I don't get why people would complain that civil unions have a different name.
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#3
09-30-2007, 02:49 PM
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What I don't get is that if they were given the same benefits and the same regard and what not why bother giving it a different name? If it's simply because marriage is seen as religious then should atheist couples be given the name of civil unions as well?
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#4
09-30-2007, 02:51 PM
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It's a legal thing to me. Whether between heterosexuals or homosexuals, they should be legal unions or civil unions or marriages or whatever, with all the same legal rights regardless of the sex of the couple. If someone wants to add a special religious name to their union through a ceremony, that's between them and their religious institution and should have no other legal effect.
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#5
09-30-2007, 03:35 PM
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My choice isn't on there. It should be civil unions, but for all. Do away with this word marriage no matter which way the couples swing.
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#6
09-30-2007, 04:47 PM
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The U.S. is a secular nation, get over it, there should only be 2 requirements for marriage that they be consenting adults unless otherwise granted approval by the parents (like in Mississippi the two only have to be the age of 16 with the approval of the parents), and then thats all really. I mean honestly straight marriages produce a ton of screwed up kids, don't last long, and many cases aren't even about love (remember Anna Nicole Smith the most famous gold digger of all? Also this works both ways, there are guys who marry women for money too.) so what makes straight marriages so much better? I say let everyone go through the agony of divorce and spread the pain.
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#7
09-30-2007, 05:28 PM
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I put the second option. Simply because I fail to understand how any self-respecting gay person can identify themselves in ANY way with a religion which condemns them in the words of its scriptures. I hope religions that have this stance continue to do so, and as the world evolves into a much more tolerant place, they will appear more and more irrelevant.
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#8
09-30-2007, 06:45 PM
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I voted it doesn't matter to me as long as both have the same rights. I'm married but it wouldn't bother me in the slightest if my "marriage" was changed to a "civil union". They're just words. It's the legal rights that matter to any two people committed to each other.
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#9
09-30-2007, 08:14 PM
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