In this, I agree with President Obama.
Obama told MTV he believes marriage is "between a man and a woman" and that he is "not in favor of gay marriage."
"I've stated my opposition to this. I think it's unnecessary," Obama told MTV. "I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage."
Are Same-Sex Marriage Opponents Bigots? Mark Ruffalo Thinks So
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The debate over same-sex marriage may still be raging, but Hollywood is not short on advocates for its legalization.
Among the most vocal supporters of same-sex marriage are the stars of "The Kids Are Alright," a movie released two weeks ago centering around a same-sex couple. Julianne Moore and Annette Bening play a married lesbian couple with two kids, while Mark Ruffalo plays the family's sperm donor.
Ruffalo, who will play The Incredible Hulk in the upcoming "Avengers" movie, has been outspoken about his position on the issue. He said in a recent interview, "There’s a debate going on about gay marriage and whether children can be raised in an ‘unconventional’ family and go on to be sexually healthy, viable, productive people – that’s all used as an argument against gay marriage. It’s so ridiculous to me."
"It’s the last dying, kicking, screaming, caged animal response to a world that is changing," he explained, "a world that’s leaving a lot of those old, bigoted, un-accepting views behind. It’s over.”
Judging by the results of California's Proposition 8 battle in 2008, it's not over yet. But with increased interest in movies and television programs like "The Kids Are Alright" and "Modern Family," which portray same-sex families as healthy and responsible, Ruffalo's argument might hold some weight.
Are Same-Sex Marriage Opponents Bigots?
Among the most vocal supporters of same-sex marriage are the stars of "The Kids Are Alright," a movie released two weeks ago centering around a same-sex couple. Julianne Moore and Annette Bening play a married lesbian couple with two kids, while Mark Ruffalo plays the family's sperm donor.
Ruffalo, who will play The Incredible Hulk in the upcoming "Avengers" movie, has been outspoken about his position on the issue. He said in a recent interview, "There’s a debate going on about gay marriage and whether children can be raised in an ‘unconventional’ family and go on to be sexually healthy, viable, productive people – that’s all used as an argument against gay marriage. It’s so ridiculous to me."
"It’s the last dying, kicking, screaming, caged animal response to a world that is changing," he explained, "a world that’s leaving a lot of those old, bigoted, un-accepting views behind. It’s over.”
Judging by the results of California's Proposition 8 battle in 2008, it's not over yet. But with increased interest in movies and television programs like "The Kids Are Alright" and "Modern Family," which portray same-sex families as healthy and responsible, Ruffalo's argument might hold some weight.
Are Same-Sex Marriage Opponents Bigots?
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No more 'Father Knows Best' or 'Leave it to Beaver' - it's Homer Simpson. The libtards have destroyed America- thanks Hollyweird.
"Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of Liberty abused to licentiousness." - George Washington
bigot (ˈbɪɡət) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
— n
a person who is intolerant of any ideas other than his or her own, esp on religion, politics, or race
So yes.
There is how a churches define marriage. That is their choice, and any church should be able to decide whether they are prepared to perform services for any couple. It wasn't so long ago that churches refused to marry interracial couples!
But the laws passed by US Governments that grant legal rights to couples in a committed relationship have nothing to do with the churches. They are based on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and currently, gay people are second class citizens.
Wake up, America. You are becoming a theocracy as surely as Iran. You are denying other people's rights based on your own religious belief, and cannot understand the separation between church and State.
Also other gays smear queers who raise kids by calling them slurs such as "breeders". Even they don't like it.
They probably take better care of them then straight families do.
I know quite a few kids who have been raised in gay families, and they are some of the sweetest most well behaved kids I know.
Legally, marriage is a contract between two people, presumably in love, to share their lives together. The law consigns special rights to two people bound in this manner regarding joint incomes, shared assets, taxation and myriad aspects of how two people become related "by marriage," thus being afforded the same rights as family in times of prosperity or ill health and death.
Marriage in religious terms is defined and colored by a person's choice of spiritual persuasion; something two people do before their god(s) to affirm an obligation to each other. (Strictly speaking, without a contractual agreement, religious vows have no legal binding, although that can be argued in “common-law” marriage. To the other extreme, depending upon particular sect definition, marriage is not a thing that can be sundered by man; adultery is punishable by stoning and the like.) Make what it of you will, the tradition of religious texts would have the term only defined as joining two persons of the opposite sex. But like so many other things in manuscripts written a couple of thousand years ago, it's open to personal interpretation.
So, are we arguing two people's lawful ability to enter into a contract to share their lives and enjoy legal rights, or the definition of “marriage” as a religious binding?
People can easily make binding legal agreements about joint incomes, shared assets, taxation, etc., but by sexual definition throughout history, such agreements do not constitute "marriage".
It's ending: and they know it. That's why they're so pessimistic and sodden all the damned time.