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Hypothetical Poll about Hetero/Homosexuals

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  • Heterosexuals (I have no problem with them)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Homosexuals (I have no problem with them)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Total voters
    14

McWilliamson

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In a Utopian island, far away from civilization as we know it, would you have a problem allowing these orientations to be "together"? Note that the question does not concern law of any kind. It only addresses their being a couple before their own eyes.



Also please answer these questions (if you would like to):

1. What did you vote?
2. Should they be able to live together?
3. Should they be able to marry?
4. Should they receive benefits based on their state of being a couple from work? (Married couples benefits) (In American society, not the utopia)
5. Should they be recognized on a state/federal level? (Same scenario as #4)



Here are my thoughts:

1. I have no problems/concerns with homosexuality or heterosexuality.
2. Sure, they should be able to live together.
3. Sure, let them marry. Marriage (at least to me) is an institution that recognizes people who love and support each other. So why not?
4. No. Couples' benefits are moot in our society. No one should get them. What's the point? Right, right, to support the other partner should the working partner be deceased. Today, though, both partners can work...so the benefits should be dismissed altogether for both orientations.
5. Yes. (Granted that federal/state governments should know)
 
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Also please answer these questions (if you would like to):

1. What did you vote? No problem with both.
2. Should they be able to live together? Yes
3. Should they be able to marry? Yes
4. Should they receive benefits based on their state of being a couple from work? (Married couples benefits) (In American society, not the utopia)
No one should.
5. Should they be recognized on a state/federal level?
(Same scenario as #4)

Yes
 
From what I can tell from these five votes, no one actually cares whether or not homosexuals do what they want to together in their own world of privacy. Which tells me that no one (at least so far) believes that there is something inherently wrong with homosexuality. Does anyone disagree?

Personally, I can see where it is obviously funny (because I don't want to use a word with an ounce of severity) that members of the same sex should be together. They cannot reproduce. However, I also see that these couples (in our world) could (in a somewhat brutally logical way of thinking) serve as adoptive parents, whom are necessary givers (not to say that they would adopt only because they felt obligated) that have the responsibility of raising children who otherwise would go through the foster care program (of which I know nothing about).

While it can be argued that there is an inherent wrong with homosexuality, I do see a practical need for parents who cannot reproduce.
 
1. What did you vote? No problem with either (actaully I have problems with both, but it has nothing to do with their sexuality :mrgreen:
2. Should they be able to live together? Yep
3. Should they be able to marry? Yep - I think you should make the term "marriage" a totally religious term - and have the rights of marriage something granted by the government. That way churches can discriminate if they want, and gay couples can have the rights due to them.

4. Should they receive benefits based on their state of being a couple from work? Gay rights should be mandated by federal law the same way they abolished slavery and ended women's sufferage. The rights couples need aren't always evident but they include visitation rights, estate rights, child rearing rights etc.

5. Should they be recognized on a state/federal level? Yep
 
1. What did you vote? Both (Have no problem with either)
2. Should they be able to live together? Of course!
3. Should they be able to marry? If they wish to do so, I see no problem with it at all
4. Should they receive benefits based on their state of being a couple from work? (Married couples benefits) (In American society, not the utopia) Yes, they should
5. Should they be recognized on a state/federal level? (Same scenario as #4) Again, yes

I'm heterosexual, and I don't have a problem with homosexuality....it's not for me to judge who someone else falls in love with or what they do together. Marriage is essentially a partnership, and I don't see why homosexual couples can't be afforded the same rights taken for granted by heterosexual couples.
 
1. What did you vote? No problem with either.
2. Should they be able to live together? Absolutely.
3. Should they be able to marry? Absolutely.
4. Should they receive benefits based on their state of being a couple from work? (Married couples benefits) (In American society, not the utopia) Absolutely.
5. Should they be recognized on a state/federal level? (Same scenario as #4) Absolutely.

I believe that as citizens of the United States, we should be entitled to the same benefits on a state and federal level. A church is free to say that they won't marry members of the same sex, but a state (nor the feds) cannot discriminate based upon someone's sexual preference.
 
McWilliamson said:
While it can be argued that there is an inherent wrong with homosexuality, I do see a practical need for parents who cannot reproduce.

Lesbians can reproduce. They'd just need to "borrow" sperm from someone.
 
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