How does legalizing Gay Marriage pose a threat to religious liberties? What are the principal concerns?

The ONLY thing that it changes is an entry in the dictionary.





Society will not collapse, the sky will not fall, %26amp; the universe will not implode.





poster below%26gt;%26gt; civil unions do not have the same benefits as marriage





Marriage wasn't even a ';Religious event'; until 1563.


http://marriage.about.com/cs/generalhist…How does legalizing Gay Marriage pose a threat to religious liberties? What are the principal concerns?
Gay marriage only poses a threat to health insurance companies and little kids. I'm a sound believer that being gay is not a choice but more an electrical short in the brain. Though I don't think it is their choice, gays and lesbians should'nt be running around adopting normal little kids pretending like everything is great. Want to get married, go for it. However human nature only allows male x female reproduction and until they can do that leave the kids out of the abnormal life.How does legalizing Gay Marriage pose a threat to religious liberties? What are the principal concerns?
Marriage by definition describes a man's and a woman's legal union whose main purpose is to make that man and that woman legally responsible for the issue of their union. For their children, that is.





Marriage is not by any stretch of the imagination a ';right'; but rather involves the assumption of responsibilities.





A relationship between two (apparently sexually deranged) men or women of the same sex cannot produce children and therefore simply does not fit the definition, ';marriage.';





Which surely makes moot the further question of whether or not any individual's ';religious liberty'; is affected?





Perhaps if the sexually-deranged ';community'; called its pairings up by any other name it might relieve its anxieties?
The only thing that legalized gay marriage threatens is the dogma of the religious groups who preach so rapidly against it .


When you think about it anti-gay marriage laws are a violation of the First Amendment in that they use the power of the State to enforce the dogma of the ';Church';


To the guy who said that watching two gay people kiss in public is disgusting ,well so is watching two super-morbidly obese heteros attempting to do the same thing.....and nobody has written a law preventing them from doing that
Religions love to tell you how to live your life, gay marriage will hurt religion badly because they keep saying gay people will go to hell, the situation is that more and more people are getting to meet someone who is gay, and they find they are not evil or bad, just different.





Religious liberty will not be harmed because everyone has the liberty to choose what religion to practice, it is religion that harms our pesonal liberties by trying to control our lifes for their profit.
No threat, just people trying dictate how each other should live. People are against change: (and I am not quoting Obama here)





Abolition of Slavery


Equal rights for blacks


Minimum age to work


Unionization


Minimum wage


Women suffrage


Interracial marriage


Gay marriage


Abortion





Asians couldn't marry whites until 1963. I have an Asian wife and the thought that some old politician could get in the way of my marriage due to his own personal bias would make me absolutely crazy!!!! So I can sympathize with the gay marriage and equal rights movement.





It happens that gays were a major factor in women and minorities getting equal rights. But when it comes time for Gays to get their rights everybody is too busy doing their own thing. I guess people only join together when they have a common problem.
If you love someone you tell them not to do something that harms them.


Religious fervor against the gay agenda is not about self protection.


The further we as a society stray from truth, the more obvious it will become.


The real question is ';If civil unions have the legal status of marriage, why does the gay agenda continue to need to usurp the title of marriage?';
It will pose a threat to the religious right - they will not be able to tell others how to live their own lives. That's something “the religious right ” will not tolerate.
It doesn't.





The problem is that we'd be saying ';making a lifestyle choice'; makes somebody better than normal people. That they somehow deserve special treatment and extra rights.





And that should be a concern for all Americans.
They are all afraid, they could also be gay ;-)
It's just disgusting to see homo's kissing at a ball game. Even LA Dodgers had those types kicked out. Kids shouldn't be confused like that!
If the government wasnt involved in the marriage business it wouldnt be an issue would it?
No, there is no threat. No religious figure will be forced to gay marry couples.
Because it threatens their ability to be small minded bigots
It isn't but it is a ridiculously stupid idea..
It doesn't.
Because I don't want my grandchildren to see you sucking face.
it is gross and makes us normal people sick.
Gay rights and other liberal groups want to criminalize Christianity. They want to punish those who do not support gay marriage. It's a known fact that liberals are anti-Christian (yet they have no problem supporting Muslim groups who KILL people for being gay!