A Question Of Sorts.

I want to get married not civil unioned!

 

I can't vote, as I'm not sure, but I'd like to get married, and have equal rights as much as anyone else I guess. So maybe its a no? but I don't like definite answers.

 

I want to be able to get married. Just like my parents, brother, sister, friends and everyone else in society.

 

I hate the name marriage, as it is widely known that its a religious term (even tho it was around before religion).

I'd rather a whole new name be adopted for EVERYone. religious people can still get married, but if they want rights, they have to get (insert new name here)ed like every other person.

 

Or instead of going threw all that mess we could ALL get married:rolleyes:

 

Like i explained, marriage has too close a relation to religion. I hate anything and everything to do with religion

 

I don't care, as I'm not getting married. But if they had all the same rights as marriage then civil unions are fine for me.

 

I can't choose honestly. At this point I guess while gay marriage and gay rights and all that stuff is important to me, all I am really looking for is acceptance. Yes, I would like to be in a committed monogamous relationship with a woman from some point in adulthood to the rest of my life. To me, it's most important that I can be with the person I love without getting stared at or discriminated against. From where I am in my life I know I would really love to be able to call that thing marriage, but I guess it doesn't matter too much. Right now I am openly pro gay marriage (in an in the closet kind of way) because I believe others should have that choice and it is a step towards the acceptance I hope to one day find. I can't vote because as I talk about this now, I am writing about someone else. I will do everything I can for gay marriage because I believe in it and I want those couples to have what they deserve. I can't tell you if "civil union" will be enough for me when I am part of one of those couples because even though it seems almost derogatory, "til death do us part" is the only thing I care about right now. Does that mean I need marriage? I can't say.


...if that made any sense

 

To me, civil union is fine. I guess I can understand how straight people say "marriage is holy and supposed to be between a man and a woman". Honestly, just let them have that word so they can feel big and special. As long as two males or two females can be bound in some kind of matrimony, that's good enough for me. Though, it is a lot easier to say "we're married" then "we're civil union-ed". XD

Quinton has spoken.

 

I know civil union is the same thing without the ceremony and everything, but if I want to get married one day I want to have a ceremony. Not a Christian one, but I'd still want one you know?
So I said no. It's just stupid to deny people a right anyways, even if we didn't want to get married.

 

no.
having the same rights laws or whatever as married people but calling it something else shows that people are not treating us like equals.

 

Well marriage to me is a term that is any joining of two people weather it be in a church or in the woods and I'm pretty sure the state definition of marriage isn't a religious one. Also, I want the word marriage because we are no different than straight people who want to get married. We love each other too!

 

I don't particularly want to get married, so if they get the same rights, I'd be fine with it.

 

No way.

My sister is married, my brother is married. If i have a "civil union" that just makes it ok for my mother to treat me and my partner differently than my sister and brothers marriages.

The word has power, like it or not.

I can totally see why someone would not mind it being a civil union if it had all the same rights, cause thats what they are after, the rights. But for me its an issue of equality. I need to be treated the same by society. If my partner and me are not married, that wont happen

 

No. Marriage and civil union are two completely different things. I want to get married. Civil union is not the same as a marriage.

 

For me, personally, it doesn't really matter. My concern is with legal standing and benefits, not the ceremony and pageantry of it all. However, in the general sense of things, I'm not going to stop anyone from taking it one step further and pursuing the title of "married" if that's what they want.

 

Isnt that the same thing as christmas. It means one thing to others but it means presents to me . I get what you say but when we give religion power to have command over words we give them a false idea that they are entitled to certain things becuase they believe they have a knowledge we don't.

I want to get married not becuase it had a relgious backround to it but becuase that is the word I have known since I was little and I don't know any other word for it and having someone say that that civil unions or other names are better is like forcing a dog to play fetch with a new toy rather than its favorite. (it gets this look on its face--->:dry: and just sits and stares)

 

what ever happened to partners? lol