2009-04-20, 10:15 PM
Devil Wrote:The real question is: Why should other people be allowed rule over how other people are allowed to live together in their OWN private life?
If the mayority of the population thinks that a marriage is between a WHITE man and woman, is it ok to forbid marriage between a BLACK man and woman?
I'm so incredible sick of how other people's beliefs get projected on society on how other people should behave in their frickin OWN private life! What gives ANYONE the right about HOW other people should or should not live in their frickin OWN house?
How can ANYONE claim, that two people, who love each other, who they don't even KNOW themselves, should not be allowed to marry? How sick are those people?
If those people are homosexual, so what? Does that annoy them so much that they feel the need to forbid them to get married, just for THEIR own beliefs, at the cost of hurting other people's feelings and lives? :S
And yes, I'm Dutch, I'm glad gay marriage is legal here in my country...
I think you're missing the point here. Forgive me if Im wrong, but what you're trying to say here is that she answered the way she did to "appease the most people". It just looks like you wanted to get a rant about your opinion on gay marriages across here or something.
It's not as if she just went out and went F*CK HOMOSEXUALS. THEY'RE WRONG AND SHOULD ALL BURN IN HELL or went "I hate homosexuals and find them disgusting so no, it should not be legalized". Really, there's NOTHING in "In my country, and in my family, I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman." that is remotely what you're ranting about. This isnt about whether or not homosexuality should be allowed or what the majority of society thinks about homosexuality, this is about her perspective on homosexuality. She voiced her honest opinion and according to her lost because of it.
Devil Wrote:What I meant was, would it still be a controversy that she didnt win, because of what she said, if she would have said "In my country, and in my family, I believe that a marriage should be between a WHITE man and a woman."
Like Ji, I have no idea what you're trying to say. The question had nothing to do with race; it was about gender/marriage. She answered on that. Talking about the color would be going off on an uneccessary tangent. If she said that, then it'd be as if she went the extra mile to be racist. However, that's not the case here. She got asked a question and answered it, simple as that.
Personally, I respsect her for the answer she gave. She could've hid her morals and just gone with the politically correct answer, she could've voiced her opinion in a discriminatory manner. Instead, she just answered it straight up in a manner that no one would get offended by (or hopefully anyways) and an answer she could live with herself for answering. I dont watch beauty pagents, I dont know how it works, but I would say that they should be graded or judged on how well they articulate their answer in accordance to the question, not on what she believes.
People are up in arms when people are against same sex marriages and whatnot talking about freedom of choice. Well, here is someone expressing their freedom of choice, they lost. If it was REALLY about freedom of choice and opinion, then just as it should be okay to be for same sex marriage, it should be okay to be against it. I dont see what the problem is here.