I don't care where people are born or raised or what religious substructure they've been indoctrinated into. Gay people should have the right to marriage, whether specifically called marriage or not. Any particular religion may scorn on homosexuality, and that's fine, but that doesn't stop a homosexual from being part of any religion or include them as someone who believes what they do either.
There are a lot of people, in particular, Christians, who believe that marriage is solely between a man and woman. The Bible depicts it this way, that much is true. But even The Bible doesn't have a great "reason" to be married in the first place.
If you're a Christian and outright fully believe that marriage is between a man and woman, then you MUST 100% believe the following as well (because this cites the original purpose of marriage).
Gen. 2:18, 21-24 wrote:The Lord God said, 'It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him'...and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, 'This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman,' for she was taken out of man.' For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
So The Bible's
REASON for marriage is to create a "helper" for a man. This person, woman, who comes from the rib of a man, is to be held as a submissive counterpart and be with the man because "it is not good for man to be alone".
So the REASON for marriage is for companionship, for a partner, to be loved as you love the Lord. But even The Bible recognizes that marriage may not be a good thing in the first place:
Corinthians 7:1-2 wrote:... It is good for a man not to marry. But since there is so much immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
So tell me then, if there is so much immorality in our world, as noticed and recognized by The Bible, and since The Bible's depiction and reasoning for marriage being an institution in the first place is all derivatively based on partnership and love, wouldn't it make sense to allow gay marriage? We're in the year 2011 now. We shouldn't close our ears and pretend that gay people aren't capable of loving the same sex as themselves just because "we", as straight people, don't "love" our same sex companions as they do. And I use those terms loosely, of course, since I know BKF likes boys anyways
-DarkPacMan77-