Gay community angry after two heterosexual men marry in New Zealand

So, gays don’t like their "marriages" mocked? How about that!

Hey, what goes around, comes around.

LMAO!

 

The tax breaks prolly help too.

 

I can't see a problem with this. they're not breaking any laws and they're doing exactly what people have being telling gays to do for decades: marry someone of a completely inappropriate gender.

Equality at work.

 

This is what Marriage turns into once you tear down it's intended meanings and purposes. Now it's a "buddy contract". Nothing but a mockery now, as predicted. Congrats.

 

wasn't this the slippery slope pro-gay groups claimed wouldn't happen....

 

heterosexual couples marry all the time for reasons other than love, this is nothing new

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happens with opposite gender marriage, why would you expect it not to happen with same gender marriage?

 

so when Brittany married for the heck of it, that was ok, cause it was a opposite gender marriage

 

I don't see the problem here. If Britney Spears can have a drunken wedding in Vegas and get divorced a few days later, then I see no problem here. At least they did it for a reason.

 

"but but but.... someone else who was straight did it too, therefore, my mockery must be allowed"



deflections aside.... no, it wasn't ok when Brittany did it.

 

People have gotten married for all kinds of reason over centuries, not just for love, Rich. This is nothing new.

Seriously, what about the Bachelor and shows like that? Those happened before we could get married. Don't blame us.

 

yet, when it happens for gay marraige, the gays get upset. Are you heterophobic?

 

Said who?


Oh thats right....noone, just a strawman.

 

As far as I'm aware, most people advocating for SSM have said that platonic friends would not be excluded from the marriage contract (though some have argued that failing to consummate would make the contract void) if they chose to enter it, in response to the "what about platonic friends?" canard.

Can't see why that's any different from the hundreds of gay men that married lesbians as mutual "beards" in the past.

I'm curious to know though how you can blame "pro-gay groups" for the actions of two straight men looking for sports tickets.

How would you approach it if a radio station had offered free sports tickets to any lesbian willing to marry a gay man? Wouldn't that comport to the oft quoted meme that a gay person is free to marry anybody they like as long as they're of the opposite sex?

How many gazillion times have I seen that one offered up?

Equality at work!

 

yet, when rubber meets road, gays complain, as evidenced in this linked story. I guess it's an easy claim to make when you don't think it will ever happen.... but when it does, the true beliefs become exposed.

 

Sorry, but the blame belongs where it belongs....the crowd who pushed to change what Marriage was defined as. That was the Gay Segment. Until you guys and your activists started pushing, Marriage was clearly , and rightfully defined (DOMA).


Accept your part in making Marriage what it is now becoming...a joke without any real meaning. Nothing but a buddy contract now.

 

defelection techniques are obvious.....

 

This is good news for Barry and Reggie. Just think, they'd be Mr & Mr Obama-Love. ♥♥

 

Good lord, Rich- are you seriously going to deny the roots of marriage, which was not for love in the first place? In the past it was for property, inheritance and business arrangements. People get married for all kinds of reasons. They always have and always will. That's been going on long before we could get married.

You can't deny that.

 

With increasing frequency straight males (and females) marry one another but claim they are gay. By doing so they acquire protected minority status which affords them special privileges that all other minorities enjoy -- they cannot be discrimminated against. Hiring preference; can't be fired; Section 8 housing; health and life insurance benefits; tax breaks; and numerous other benefits which couples have.

Luckily, the government cannot make one physically demonstrate or prove that one is gay, i.e., "If you're gay, let's see you and him go at it."

 

that is what equal rights means, if one side can do it, all sides can do it... all or none

when you make laws preventing heterosexuals from doing it, then you would have a point....

no one said it was right be it hetero or homo... just that it's been happening for hundreds of years, nothing new

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While there have been many definitions through different cultures and ages, the one we have had here has been a Man and a Woman coming together to create the family unit. This is a Marriage, and was defined in Law for us when people started seeing how quickly this could be made a mockery.

Congrats, it now is becoming exactly that. No more family units, just a sea of whatever decides they want to get a tax break.

 

Rich! WTF do you not get? People have been getting married FOREVER for all kinds of different reasons. That was true centuries ago and ever since this country has been around. Nothing has changed except now we can do it too. That's it. Nothing more.

BTW, we create families too. Deal with it, move on with your life and let other people live theirs as they see fit.

 

If you read the story it actually says that some gays complained but one of the station employees who was gay himself thought it was fine and all a good laugh. I personally can't see how this is any different than "Who wants to marry a millionaire". They're both mockeries of marriage but that doesn't suggest to me that all straight marriages are mockeries or that all gay marriages are mockeries. In most cases they're serious commitments entered into regardless of whether the participants are straight or gay. A couple of bad apples doesn't sully the whole bunch.

I don't think anybody ever said it would never happen. Straight (and gay) people have been opting into platonic opposite-sex marriages for ages for a variety of reasons, company, tax issues, social-security. It's just they're usually more discreet about it and the prizes are usually a bit more significant than tickets to a football match.

 

Two straight guys mock marriage and somehow gays are blamed.... the world is nuts.

I'm sure these guys will be consummating their marriage soon.