Same-sex marriage to get ‘historic’ hearing at Minnesota Capitol

Gay marriage is wrong. It should be banned and I believe voters would ban it if they had a chance.

People named Steve shouldn’t be allowed to marry. Steves should be banned and I believe voters would ban it if they had a chance.

oh PQ! I’d like to marry YOU.

Get a life Steve. Why are you so bigoted?

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Steve..if you think gay marriage is wrong don’t marry Adam. In other words mind your own business, unless you’d like your rights put up for a vote someday.

Sounds like all show and no substance.

Why is it that conservatives who oppose “gay marriage” like that the government interferes when it’s about this but with other issues (taxes, health care, etc…) they scream about government intrusion into their lives?? Hypocrisy. Steves should not be allowed to marry…I couldn’t even do that. People should be allowed to marry any person they want. Love is love no matter if it’s a man and a women or 2 men or 2 women. A prejudice is just that and should be called out as such.

I guess I don’t understand why some people have an issue with civil marriage being available to all people gay or straight. Some people use the bible (Steve) to support their prejudice against same sex couples in a committed relationship. I find it hard to believe that people opposed to marriage equality don’t realize how bias and layered with prejudice they sound. I hope that the gays and lesbians wouldn’t put my civil rights up for a vote.

Please, don’t ban Steves from marrying! I married my husband in Canada in 2003, and his name is Steve….

Paul said “I married my husband in Canada in 2003, and his name is Steve…”

Even in writing that looks silly.

Steve wrote: “Gay marriage is wrong.”

What many opponents of gay marriage almost always fail to understand is that many people don’t find homosexual sexual conduct or marriage the least bit “wrong” or “immoral.” This stance isn’t some postmodern corruption of an alleged true morality good for all time, a sign of a decadent culture, or, in an abuse of a phrase only 1% of its users have any understanding of at all, an example of “moral relativism.”

In fact, the moral scales, according to people who tend to share my view of the matter anyway, find your position to be the one lacking in ethical understanding. I don’t know you personally, but probably every staunch opponent of gay marriage I’ve met appears to base their opposition to homosexuality on nothing more than what you might characterize as religiously engendered brute prejudice and stereotyping.

“Gay marriage is wrong” you write. To my ears this is nothing less than a moral myth, a pernicious bit of anti-morality–a way to oppress and denigrate people you don’t know or understand, and likely fear. And you probably haven’t done the inner work necessary to get beyond your cultural programming, to see through your bigotry to the real lives and real people behind the labels of gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual.

Just so we all know, I wasn’t seriously advocating that people named Steve shouldn’t be allowed to marry.

I was merely using satire to point out the absurdity of disallowing same-sex couples from marrying.

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GadZooks, “Even in writing that looks silly.”

Right, and 60 years ago, a black man writing about his white wife would have looked silly, too. What’s your point?

Just because same-sex marriage is outside the norm doesn’t mean it’s silly.

Measures 1 and 3 are good use of time, but civil unions are a waste of time. Let’s skip that step and have marriage equality. Would the MN supreme court rule favorably like IA did?

All I keep thinking of and cracking up is Mancia’s line about gays, “If you can take a d**** you can take a joke.” hahahahahhahaha

Minnesota is a great state and I know that we will be able to lead again in terms of liberty and justice. We know that religious freedom requires us to honor when two people are led by their faith to marry. We know that principles of privacy would prohibit the government from performing ‘sex’ checks at the altar. We know that the Constitution protects individuals from tyranny–of despots or the masses. I am moved by my faith in God and my love of our nation’s best values to support equality for all, and I know that the House will make the just and righteous decision.

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