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"Love and Marriage"

What are your view's on marriage,are you for or against it, is it irrelevant to you,where do you stand on gay marriage, do you think it should be accepted or should gays be given another option with the same legal requirements, where do you stand on getting married in church,even if you are not religous?
your comments please

Flockhart wrote:
> What are your view's on marriage?

You're about to find out :P

>Are you for or against it?

Personally Im against the idea of me marrying. I dont think Im suited to a maried life, because I dont want to feel bound to someone for the rest of my life.

>Is it irrelevant to you?

Yeah, I guess so. I dont think marriage would have a positive effect on a relationship for me.

>Where do you stand on gay marriage?

I say let 'em marry if they want to. There's nothing wrong with gay/lesbian people wanting to commit to each other through marriage.

>Where do you stand on getting married in church?

I dont see gay/lesbian marriages ever being allowed in churches as standard, although I ould like to see it happen.

i don't know why but it means a lot to me, there was a time that i was also against it, but to say it means nothing to you, then why not just get married for the sake of it, why are you against it?
i don't know how old you lot are but i can't imagine that none of you will get hitched.
what about if your partner wants to get married and you don't,what would you do?

You know, I'm pretty sure that it is not just Christians that get married...

Marriage doesn't mean that you love someone. That's like saying that Christians love each other more than Hindus, for instance, or people with no religious inclinations.

I'm not fussed about marriage. Don't really see the point. You should just stay engaged forever just for the ring.
I'm all for gay marriages too.

"oh my god, I danced with a gay"

I'll be brief;

Marriage - yep it's relevent IF you find the right person. By that I mean a person you love and will love for who they are in the future. So many people seem to base relationships, and who they want them with, on who they want to have sex with and nothing else. I think there is a lot to be said for people who, through whatever belief/reason, don't have sex before marriage. If it's not someone you really love then it's like little more than some kind of basic urge.

Marriage in church - fine if that religion the church (or whereever) is something you believe in, but if getting married will be the first time you go into that church then it all seems a bit hollow. You no longer have to get married in a church anymore. But, as other have said, if the person I was marrying wanted a church wedding then it'd be a church wedding.

Gay Marriages - a difficult one. Probably yes but I don't think they should be allowed to adopt/have children because that's for heterosexual (or at least bi) couples.

who here actually cares about getting married?
as for the fuss and expense, it's not needed some people go for simple ceremony.
i seem to swing on the issue of getting married, i can see it's a lot of hassle and i'm not religious but for some reason i want to get married and i want to do it in a church.
i think part of it is sharing everything, even your name, and i suppose children come into it, any guy who says he doesnt want his children to share his surname is a bit odd, as for the church,maybe it's just something about geting married in a beautiful building,i love churches, they are shut off from the rest of the world,i sometimes go there just for the silence.

Do you think it's primarily a woman thing? If it was all up to blokes, people would get married in a little booth outside woolworths, where you put a £10 note in, and out pop a couple of cheapo rings, a certificate, and a beefeater voucher each.

Marriage is an easy way of showing that you love someone, which means it gets abused. I personally think it's worthless anyway, because I'm not Christian, and aside from that I don't see why I have to put a ring on someone's finger to show my love for them.

What difference does marriage make? Really? It doesn't have any bearing on what you do afterwards. You can commit adultery, you beat your wife/husband etc....it's just the same as a non-married couple. A marriage is a one day affair - if you took out that one day from a couple's lives, it would be no different to that of an unmarried couple.