ABSOLUTELY YES!! Two people who love each other should have the joy and privilege and legal right to marry. Just 60 years ago in some US states, and now in parts of the world, laws did not or do not all marriage between racists. The Catholic church and other churches had "laws and rules" against marrying someone who did not believe the same way. Christians everywhere do not believe a Christian and a non-Christian should marry. Nations, religions, groups of people, and others, still do not think that 2 people who have various differences should marry. When love exists as it does between millions of same-gender persons, and if that love leads to personal, heartfelt commitment with each other, then the laws and religions should say YES to them marrying. All things against them marrying are based on prejudice, discrimination and hate. Love is so much greater...we need more loving couples throughout the world. Who knows, if we did, maybe we would find that world peace is possible.

 I don't see what business it is of anyone but the parties who want to marry. I don't understand why so many are determined to deprive those who are different of any happiness they may try to find in life. Just because something isn't conventional doesn't make it wrong, and it doesn't give others the right to pass judgment on it.

 Who are others to tell you how to love?? But if this happens to much.....something i realized(my view not necessarily to be critical about cuz i don't know,just throwing stuff out there) how will there be more people?population variable in there.

 I'm Gay. Period. I think that men and Women Should be able to marry the same sex. I don't see how the govt can get in they way of it. Marriage is just a legal bond between two people who love each other and want to combine their incomes. Love is love, just because it's between two guys doesn't mean it's wrong.

 Here in the US, we have marriage as a basic human right, as is the right to love freely and consensually as an adult. Just as your neighbor has no right to walk into your home and begin correcting your way of life, what right does the neighbors of a gay couple have to deny them life choices, the liberty to choose, and to pursue personal happiness and fulfillment?

I do not intend to offend anyone, but the Bible has absolutely no standing in American law, as was made clear by the intent of the First Amendment:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."

What say does any have in the face of personal decisions made by two consenting adults?

Some claim the harm done to children, the possibility of conversion to being gay. It has been found in court that Children parented by lesbians or gays have been found to be no different from those raised in an opposite-sex household "...on measures of popularity, social adjustment, gender role behavior, gender identity, intelligence, self-concept, emotional problems, interest in marriage and parenting, locus of control, moral development, independence, ego functions, object relations, or self esteem." Also, no significant differences have been observed in regard to "teachers' and parents' evaluations of emotional and social behavior, fears, sleep disturbances, hyperactivity, and conduct differences.

Some note they cannot have children and that marriage is intended for the support of families. It is estimated by census that over 6 million children live in households headed by gay parents. Do they not deserve the financial and medical security of marriage between their parents? Are they simply floating out there, unimportant? Yes, a lesbian or a male gay couple cannot procreate. But then, neither can a man and woman where one is infertile, either for a medical reason or because of age. Some opposite-gender couples marry and decide to never have a child between them. Many infertile couples, both same-sex and opposite-sex can become pregnant if they attend a fertility clinic.

Some say society has a right to say what is right and wrong for it's members. Society must decide in the face of gradual or imminent creation of victims and harm. Pedophilia, fraud, and prostitution are all institutions that have been found to create harm for communities and societies as a whole. Society must factually designate who will be harmed by gay marriage.

Some say it will lead to immoral acts, such as marrying your dog, and that God disapproves.
When dogs have legal standing and can sign marriage licenses, we’ll worry about that. Secondly, which God? Many religions of many different systems of marriage and belief manage to recognize one another, though many claim the other does not follow the ‘correct God’. Does a Protestant insist a Hindu couple is not married? A Mormon of a Catholic couple? The goal of the groups promoting same-sex marriage is very specific and limited. They assert that a man should have the same right to marry a man that a woman already has. Likewise, a woman should have an equal right to marry a woman. This does not have to imply that any other right not expressly granted is up for grabs

If the government had recommended separate form of marriage for interracial couples, would that be fair? The Racial Integrity Act of 1924 made it a felony to marry outside of color or race, with the judge on the case Virginia vs. Loving stating that “Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And, but for the interference with his arrangement, there would be no cause for such marriage. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.”

The North Carolina Supreme Court declared that the relationship brought before them “…is essentially different from that of man and wife joined in lawful wedlock.” They were speaking about a slave couple. Society is not always correct by 'tradition'. Time to take a leap forward rather than struggling to step back.

 Most be that are don't like it are gay themselves

 I say yes because if your in love with that person it doesn't matter what sex they are! Also if they desire to get married there should be nothing stopping two people who love each from getting married! They are just like anyone else two people who decided to spend their life with each other whats the harm in that?!

 It think you only live once and you should do what floats your boat.Don't live you life by what other people may think and whether they agree or disagree,i have no issue with it and most people that have issues with it have problems of there own

 Yes!!if that's what they want/i do not see the problem on this

 Any committed relationship should have the same rights re: Wills, medical care, etc.!!!!!

 When it comes down to it, doesn't gay mean happy? Who doesn't want to be happy? What does it matter who you are happy with?

 It is illegal in Gods eyes but you cant help how you feel and who you love they should be allowed to declare there commitment to each other just like the rest of us

 I have seen so many homosexual couples that get along much better than the heterosexual ones!!
So thumps UP!! For those who have the respect and commitment to be together and maybe raise a beautiful family!

 I don't really see the problem with same sex marriages. I maybe because my high school is known as the "coming out" school so i talk to a lot of gay people but they're exactly the same as everyone else. You can't help who you love, people need to start realizing that and that gay people are people too and not a freak show attraction.

 Though it may be against some people's morals, it is not their right to take away others' right to marriage, whether it be same sex or opposite sex.

Especially since they don't choose to be who they are. You are who you are, and you can't really change it.

Besides, it shouldn't be such concern with everything else that is happening in the world. I say to let couples marry whether they are same sex or not.

 It's the way they feel and no one can judge them for it!

 I'm all for it, why should they be denied the rights that we have cause they are different

 I understand peoples aversion to the idea and how it flies in the face of religious dogma. However, I do not think the homosexual society is really worried necessarily about calling each other husband and wife. (which are much more definitive words then marriage) They are more interested in the legal recognition of their union. They want the right to give their spouse inheritance monies, property, mortgage rights, insurance rights, etc. It is not about the holy christian union of husband to wife that they desire. They just want what was promised as a citizen a right to pursue happiness as they see fit.