Comments on: This is a love story. This is a tragedy.

By: Dorothy

Dorothy — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 04:45:23 +0000

What a sweet engagement story. Made tears in my eyes. You guys are so great toheegtr and I am so happy for you. God surely did a wonderful job in putting you two toheegtr. Many years of love and happiness I wish for you.

By: Kat

Kat — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 01:51:02 +0000

Yeah to me he’s missing the point entirely. It’s MARRIAGE. Not heterosexual marriage and homosexual marriage. Also not sure why he would need to make it known that it was a woman he was married to? I can’t imagine someone saying “Are you married?” And then “To a man or a woman?” I also can’t imagine that being on forms to fill in. In fact I don’t ask people I meet if they are married or not and people I know I have met their partners at some point or their partners have been talked about. I usually can pick up the gender by their referral to their partner as ‘he’ or ‘she’.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 28 May 2012 09:37:19 +0000

By “commit to each other” I meant marry. Obviously they can commit to each other already.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 28 May 2012 09:34:12 +0000

Sorry if I offended you, but I feel incredibly sad for the couple in this video, too, and I’m not a bigot.

My point was that christians have no place in opposing gay marriage; maybe they can’t consider it by definition valid, that’s no reason to get up in arms about it as some do. Live and let live.

My point other point was that I’m sick of people using the bible to hide behind as an outlet for their homophobia. If you’ve lost jobs or friends because of your sexual orientation then that’s exactly what I’m talking about. Sorry to hear it.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Mon, 28 May 2012 09:19:16 +0000

It doesn’t. But since most christians believe that adam & eve were the first humans, and they were the first to be married according to the bible, it kind of goes by extension that christians are going to think that marriage was instituted by god.

Depends on whether or not you believe that as to whether you think marriage is a christian thing. So for christians it is, and for non-christians (or ones who don’t take the bible literally) it isn’t.

By: Clifton: The answer is logic, reason and love

Clifton: The answer is logic, reason and love — Sat, 26 May 2012 13:50:03 +0000

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By: Teknix

Teknix — Fri, 25 May 2012 06:06:29 +0000

I think it’s fair to say that there’s plenty of “Romeo & Juliet” relationships out there where each family strongly objects to the relationship of the two young lovers. That being said though, All this could have had a completely different outcome if these two young men had made a will and had arranged an Enduring Power of Attorney for each other, especially so since they were in business together and shared a mortgage also. Making same sex marriage legal won’t change some family’s opinions any time soon, so take all the steps you can yourself and own the responsibility.

By: Clare

Clare — Mon, 21 May 2012 15:24:09 +0000

You’re story broke my heart. The sooner things change on this front the absolute better.
Once again a bigoted, outdated, redundant religious belief system forces itself into places it should not be.
If, as an individual, you want to believe in a religion please be my guest and as part of that belief system, please respect the rights of others who choose not to and think it’s complete horse crap.
One can’t just pick the bits which suit and ignore everything else.

By: Stacey

Stacey — Mon, 21 May 2012 05:10:21 +0000

Im just wondering where in the bible it states that Christianity owns the word “marriage”

By: sandandsurf

sandandsurf — Mon, 21 May 2012 01:53:35 +0000

Susan, you had something to say to me?