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I think that same-sex couples must have a right to declare their commitments and domestic partnerships to the society and must have given the same rights and benefits that opposite-sex couples have, because they give importance to their relationships as much as the heterosexual couples and deserve to be regarded as married by society. On the contrary, gay and lesbian couples are considered as having only unnatural sexual relationships and there is no sense to give them right to be married. They also can not be able to procreate and this lead to decreasing of procreation motivation of heterosexual couples. In my opinion there is no link between two. Opposite-sex couples have babies because they want to. The lifestyles of gay couples do not change thier opinions and approaches to being a family. Any kind of discrimination applying the same-sex couples can be seen as classifying people according to their way of life that can not damage lives and beliefs of others.
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johoca
// Oct 30, 2008 at 9:01 am
I think your comments are very balanced and logical. After all a requirement of marriage is not to have children, it is about wanting to as you rightly state.
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ecee
// Nov 1, 2008 at 6:35 am
I agree with you on that having children in a relationship is optional and can not be a requirement for marriage. Same sex marriages also shouldn’t be seen as a danger to marital breakdowns. All the couples are contestants of the matrimony and they all should be judged equally in terms of being responsible. Unfortunately these situations are always an issue in a society. We require couples to have kids in order to get married but we also judge them when they have kids before they get married.
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