Interracial marriage/dating

I always thougth that the interracial issue had become obsolete, until I started dating a guy who told me not to worry because he had never slept with a black woman before. I was shocked that the stigmas still aplied to races outside of extreme racist societies. I was always raised to think nothing of bi-racial interactions, I never thougt it was a big deal. Apparently to some it is, which is truely unfortunate.

i have noting against interracial couples. i think if the couples do not have problems regarding their difference in race than it is cool. but sometimes that is not enough, what about the families, if they are against the relationship then living under the same roof might be hard. and the community too. few still haven't changed their view on racial difference and still oppose to interracial marriage.
*my family does*

If some family opposes the interracial or gay or interreligious or whatever marriage of the couple, then that is a problem with the family, not of the couple: The liberty of the couple should not be constrained simply because the family is too closed-minded to get over their religious/whatever indoctrinations to support their children.

whoecer said its worse than gay marriage, i'll have to dosagree there.
more thoughts?

LOVE HAS NO COLOR!!!
GAY MARRIAGE MAY BE DISPARAGED AGAINST BY THE BIBLE BUT WE SEPERATED CHURCH AND GOVERNMENT A LONG, LONG TIME AGO *im sure gay marriage is in another topic but some ppl were commenting on it so i just thought what the heck lol*

And @ my school, a lot of ppl go out w. other ppl from different races so i think for the most part, @ my school, we're cool a/b it.

ya, i was spinning off on the gay marriage. haha

but im actually the offspring of a interracial marriage. my dad's white (italian and stuff) and my mom's about 3/4 mexican. so i dig it =]]]
its weird sometimes tho because there are few other 'brown kids' that go 2 my school, or that im friends with.

( someone asked me 'what kind of brown are you?' lmao, it was funnyit :P )

haha...If you don't have already started a GSA (gay straight alliance) you should really start one...my school has one and it's the coolest...the title I have is actually the motto we use at my school..

I think BOTH interracial and gay marriage is really cool, just as long as they're happy, right?

Love will always be love...:D

my friends are every race you can think of mixed together...and if one thinks about it, the generations have been going for millions of years...so, we might as well admit that we're all the races and ethinicities that can be out there or more!! so why hate, when you love all the brothers and sisters that we have out there in the world! :p

and about ay marriage, I think it's really adorable...a handful of the people i know are either lesbian, gay, fruity, or bisexual and I will always support them...sure, they date others in the same sex, so what? they're still people who have feelings and emotions...and I'll love my friends til death! even if you're straight, it doesn't hurt you to befriend and love those who aren't straight!!!

People who oppose interracial or gay marriage really annoy me, because the same arguments typically come up for both and they are all usually so contradictory that they self-destruct at even cursory examination. (Yes, this is a challenge to people who oppose gay marriage to defend their viewpoints)

I was watching CSpan earlier today, since the House was considering a bill that would extend workplace anti-discrimination legislation to include gays...The arguments that the Republicans would bring up are just so incredibly awful. I hate the whole "FAMILY VALUES LOL" tangent, because that is immediately contradictory on it's face: How can you possibly be for family values when you are opposing the creation of families?

Living in Utah, I hear a lot about Mitt Romney and other Republicans who oppose gay marriage. They like to pretend to claim "Well, marriage is about raising children"...Why then are straight marriages not held to this standard? Why is it not the case that children (present or planned) are held as a requirement to get a marriage license? Why aren't childless or infertile marriages dissolved? If marriage is about raising children, then allowing childless marriages helps to destroy the institution, doesn't it?

The same old "HEY GAYS CAUSE THE COLLAPSE OF SOCIETIES" argument was trodded out. Not that any of the Republicans could actually defend the statement (by, say, providing a historical analysis of a society that collapsed because of the gays). Of course, we can just look at the world and find that the societies that have a high tolerance for gay rights are also the most prosperous and advanced societies in history, which tends to destroy their argument.

"We can't promote homosexuality or else all our children will turn out gay!" fails no matter if you consider sexuality a choice or not (and it isn't): If it isn't a choice, then people will act on their latent sexual urges. If it is a choice, the rational person chooses bisexuality (to maximise sexual pleasure) or heterosexuality (to maximise social integration). Even if people "chose" to be gay, there are enough who want children that nothing will happen.

The whole "slippery slope" argument, that somehow gay marriage will lead to marriages between people and toasters, is particularly offensive: If that is the case, then we ought to ban straight marriage, since that will lead to gay marriage, right? Of course, tihs argument is negated by the fact that we get to choose where to draw the line, and so "slippery slope" arguments just dont' work.

Another favourite argument of the Republicans seems to be "lol it isn't natural", which is such an awful argument that I don't even know where to begin: Humans are by definition natural and so their inventions are "natural", and whether it is natural or not isn't relevant (medicine isn't natural, certain poisons are, etc).

"Marriage has always been between a man and a woman!", while being false, is also irrelevant: Marriage has also "always" been about a woman being entirely subservient to a man, but we've done away with this. In fact, we've done away with a lot of "traditions" that are bad.

I could go on and on about the arguments they give (I have a little report I typed up that responds to 40 or so of them somewhere), but I'll stop now, since that isn't even what this thread is about.

well sorry to piss tou off zasch, haha.
but i m not down for gay marriage. like Bebe said, they are people with feelings and emotions. i know some pretty cool gay guys. i dont dislike them, i just dislike the fact that they are gay.
"disapprove of the action, not of the one committing it."

at least we know what you could write your next paper on.
(haha, a lil comic relief never hurt anyone)

I don't see any problem with interracial marriages. My mom opposes it, but it doesn't matter to me. But since it's already a decided debate, I'm not going to bother much.

As for the gay thing, well, it'd be really hard to have a GSA in my school. It's borderline suburb and rural and they totally oppose of it. (I live in a state in the Bible Belt, to be exact, Georgia)I find it pretty funny because I've met more gay people living here for two years than I did in Atlanta all my life. Heh. I'm more a neutral on this. If they want to be together, fine. It's their life, they can live it as they want. As long as it isn't some sort of secret cult that's out to destroy the world, I'm fine.

I just feel sorry for them when they get picked on. I hang around them too much. (I'm straight though.) If the gay person in question's my friend, I will go to their defense because they're my friend. The details doesn't matter to me, if it's my friends being picked on, the bully is as good as dead. ^^ So although I'm neutral on this, I can't help but sympathize for them.