What Rights (If Any) Should Be Awarded To Homosexual Couples?

Your choices are:

Marriage
Civil Unions
Domestic Partnerships
No legal recognition

Enough to choose from, so lets see what you all really think.

 

Marriage should be an option for homosexual couples.

 

No legal recognition. If we start making up laws based upon various sexual addictions then we'll end up with chaos.

 

Please, show where "homosexuality", "heterosexuality" or anyone's sexual-orientation is actually classified as an addiction.

I see your opinion, but you need to know it's ridiculous.

 

Civil unions. But I think all marriages of two consenting adults under the law should be civil unions. If a Church wants to validate you as a "marriage", then it is up to them to recognize it as such, not the government.

 

So you have just stated that you don't believe homosexual couples should be treated like regular human beings. Nice.

 

Good post. I'd prefer marriage, but I can understand your argument, and see the logic in it.

 

If two consenting adults want to get married, then they should have every right to.

 

Of course they should, but just wait for the arguments of whether a man can marry his sister to pop up.

 

I do not know what the laws are where you live, but in the states straight folks can not marry their siblings.

I have heard the arguments you speak of many times, comparing gay marriage to incest and bestiality.They are not any more true now as opposed to any other time.

 

...and the claims about people being able to marry animals.

 

You can't marry a sibling here, either. That doesn't stop the Bible bashers from insisting that that will happen if we allow gay people the right to marry. Sadly, their arguments end up scaring the naive out there.

 

So let's refer to the Father of Modern Psychology for that one:

Moreover, it is a characteristic common to all the perversions that in them reproduction as an aim is put aside. This is actually the criterion by which we judge whether a sexual activity is perverse if it departs from reproduction in its aims and pursues the attainment of gratification independently. You will understand, therefore, that the gulf and turning-point in the development of the sexual life lies at the point of its subordination to the purposes of reproduction. Everything that occurs after this conversion takes place, and everything which refuses to conform to it and serves the pursuit of gratification alone, is called by the unhonored title of perversion and as such is despised.[3] - Sigmund Freud

 

1. There is more on mental health and human sexuality than Freud shared (it's OLD stuff).

2. YOU go ahead and stick by the teachings of Freud, while others go ahead with a much clearer reality.

BTW, heterosexual people do a LOT of things that don't make babies. And I've not heard one man say that he despises the pill, non-baby-making licking, probing and other forms of sexual-play. Some married heterosexuals screw their brains out, and they avoid having children (as a goal).

Take your logic and fix it.

 

Where did that come from? Are you from outer space? I said nothing remotely resembling that.

 

My logic? I quoted Sigmund Freud. I've established that prior to the militant gay movement it was understood that homosexuality is nothing more than the decadent pursuit of pleasure, in effect, a form of hedonism.

 

Wait, I see my error, I forgot to put quotes, I can fix that:

"Moreover, it is a characteristic common to all the perversions that in them reproduction as an aim is put aside. This is actually the criterion by which we judge whether a sexual activity is perverse if it departs from reproduction in its aims and pursues the attainment of gratification independently. You will understand, therefore, that the gulf and turning-point in the development of the sexual life lies at the point of its subordination to the purposes of reproduction. Everything that occurs after this conversion takes place, and everything which refuses to conform to it and serves the pursuit of gratification alone, is called by the unhonored title of perversion and as such is despised.[3]" - Sigmund Freud

 

You're losing. Even so, I'll hang around to see if you ever relate something more reasonable overall, than you have already.

 

You don't want gay people to be allowed to marry, or have civil unions? Therefore that is not treating gay people like regular human beings.

 

lol, so you're against ANY form of sex if it doesn't result in procreation? blow jobs? heterosexual anal sex? hand jobs?

what a boring life you must have.

 

Always the same top legal recognizition that the rest of couples.

 

Nobody mentioned "addictions".

What are you talking about, exactly?

 

Freud is abandoned. Freud is considered just a historic thing. But his psychology today is considered wrong and not valid. So yes. It is absurd considere him that was homophob and other things.

 

Incorrect.

Homosexuality is not the "pursuit" of anything: it's the sexual attraction to the same sex.

 

IMHO, all committed couples should have exactly the same rights and responsibilities.