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Should Gay "Marriage" be renamed something else?

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Contributor: duff duff
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Originally posted by Autumnbinature
I like what you said...just remove the gay from the term. we dont usually say straight marriage or white, black, whatever marriage. its just some people who want to unite their lives <3
Dido
03/01/2012
Contributor: PirateofPenance PirateofPenance
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Originally posted by Lif3sambiguity
There has been much controversy with gay "marriage" and rights associated with it. Health care for partners, beneficiary rights for partners, ability to adopt children as a couple, etc..the list can go on and on. What are your opinions and ... more
"Separate but equal" rhetoric generally entails a lack of equality. Just saying.
03/01/2012
Contributor: jadenthenewkid jadenthenewkid
It's just marriage.
03/03/2012
Contributor: SalmiakkiVodka SalmiakkiVodka
It is still a marriage, and should have the right to be called one.
03/03/2012
Contributor: 425shark 425shark
It should just be marriage. Plain and simple, with the right benefits.
03/05/2012
Contributor: Harpina is gone Harpina is gone
Should stay "marriage". Nothing wrong with that.
03/10/2012
Contributor: Interesante Interesante
I think it should stay with the name it has, honestly. People who are against gay 'marriage' aren't against the name. They're against equality, period, so changing the name won't accomplish anything
03/10/2012
Contributor: plaidvulva plaidvulva
Marriage. Too call it anything else is trying to claim it as something else, and thus taking away what the title implies.
03/13/2012
Contributor: britanny0620 britanny0620
Marriage. It's marriage all the same.
06/01/2012
Contributor: BlooJay BlooJay
I think it should be called marriage.
06/01/2012
Contributor: SouthernBelle SouthernBelle
I think it should remain marriage. I want to be able to marry my girlfriend. I want her to be my wife. I don't want to have a civil union partnership with her. It's not the same thing.
06/01/2012
Contributor: Llahsram Llahsram
no reason it shouldn't be called a marriage.
06/01/2012
Contributor: LoneOokami LoneOokami
It should just be called marriage not gay or same sex marriage just plain marriage
05/03/2013
Contributor: hillys hillys
let it be whatever the people getting married want to call it
05/03/2013
Contributor: treehugger treehugger
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Originally posted by LoneOokami
It should just be called marriage not gay or same sex marriage just plain marriage
Agreed. The marriage itself doesn't depend on what parts the people have.
05/03/2013
Contributor: Beautiful-Disaster Beautiful-Disaster
I think it should stay "marriage".
05/03/2013
Contributor: sunflower sunflower
Here is my idea:
How bout we have some separation of church and state. Let's make straight and gay civil unions legal. Change the term for everyone. It should be a government concept that gives the legal rights of marriage. If you want holy matrimony, you are welcome to find a priest and have a religious ceremony with it.

I would say that's a win-win for everyone.
05/05/2013
Contributor: lovelyzombie lovelyzombie
it should stay the same
05/11/2013
Contributor: SecretKinksters SecretKinksters
No reason to change the name, it's still two people getting married.
05/11/2013
Contributor: xilliannax xilliannax
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Originally posted by Lif3sambiguity
There has been much controversy with gay "marriage" and rights associated with it. Health care for partners, beneficiary rights for partners, ability to adopt children as a couple, etc..the list can go on and on. What are your opinions and ... more
Changing the name would devalue what they have and its the same as any other coupling of people who are in love and want to share their lives together
05/11/2013
Contributor: FrustratedFemme FrustratedFemme
Marriage. I didn't ask her to "civil union" me.
06/26/2013
Contributor: Incendiaire Incendiaire
Most people prefer the phrase "equal marriage" because people want to marry regardless of gender and sexual preference. If marriage could just be a joining of two adult human beings then the issue would be much simpler.
06/28/2013
Contributor: RonLee RonLee
Those who disapprove really do need to be tweaked with the knowledge that the Due Process clause of the Fifth Amendment to our Constitution is upholding equality throughout the land.
06/30/2013
Contributor: mailroomorder mailroomorder
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Originally posted by Lif3sambiguity
There has been much controversy with gay "marriage" and rights associated with it. Health care for partners, beneficiary rights for partners, ability to adopt children as a couple, etc..the list can go on and on. What are your opinions and ... more
To be married IS to be united. So why call it something that it's not? Marriage isn't a religious thing. It is also a federal thing. Call it what it is: a marriage.
06/30/2013
Contributor: Shadowed Shadowed
I agree that gay marriage should be called something else. Marriage. Just marriage. No "gay" or "homosexual" attached to it.
06/30/2013
Contributor: jwell jwell
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Originally posted by Lif3sambiguity
There has been much controversy with gay "marriage" and rights associated with it. Health care for partners, beneficiary rights for partners, ability to adopt children as a couple, etc..the list can go on and on. What are your opinions and ... more
it should stay marriage
07/02/2013
Contributor: ViVix ViVix
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Originally posted by Lif3sambiguity
There has been much controversy with gay "marriage" and rights associated with it. Health care for partners, beneficiary rights for partners, ability to adopt children as a couple, etc..the list can go on and on. What are your opinions and ... more
Marriage is mostly a joke that was created to give rights to some and to keep them from others (my own personal opinion). It also stigmatized many vulnerable groups (single mothers for one). However, changing the term marriage into something else would just be another inequality.
07/02/2013
Contributor: TransMarc TransMarc
WEIRD ASS IDEA!
Anyway, in France we had PACs. It has a different name and is different already.
07/04/2013
Contributor: KitKat16 KitKat16
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Originally posted by LoneOokami
It should just be called marriage not gay or same sex marriage just plain marriage
Totally agree. Sometimes I get a bit tired of hearing 'gay marriage this' or 'gay marriage that'. It should just be called 'marriage', we don't need to put the word gay in front of it. It kinda makes a connotation that it is somehow different than regular marriage. when I get married, I would like it to be known that I've just gotten married...lol, not gay married.
07/06/2013