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Originally Posted by Russ D
I don't think gays should be able to get married. If they wish to live together or have relationships then that's up to them but marriage for gays is something I disagree with as I've always believed marriage should be about children.
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If marriage should be about children, does that mean you don`t believe that a couple should get married when one of them is sterile? Fertility treatments can do wonders these days but not for every couple. Would you expect them to divorce, or not have married in the first place? Would it perhaps be acceptable if they didn`t find out this fact until after they got married? At least then they would have entered it with the intention of having children. There are many couples who do not want to ever have children? Would you prevent these people marrying as well?
If you are going to base, at least to a rather large degree, the importance of marriage on a criteria as fundamental as having children then you are also ruling out a large number of heterosexual couples as well. I posed all those questions above, but I`m sure they can all be taken as rhetorical as I`m fairly certain you would not object to couples in the scenarios I've described getting married. Therefore, there must be something more specific about your objections.