Michigan
Michigan Marriage Laws: What the State Constitution says…
Marriage is inherently a unique relationship between a man and a woman. As a matter of public policy, this state has a special interest in encouraging, supporting, and protecting that unique relationship in order to promote, among other goals, the stability and welfare of society and its children. A marriage contracted between individuals of the same sex is invalid in this state.
Michigan Statute 551.1
Source: Michigan State Constitution
Every thing that Janelle has just said is complete and udder bullsh!t… the right to marriage is not religious It is as simple as the right to be a citizen. if you are allowed, as a heterosexual, to care for a loved one while sick, or be lazy and stay at home with your spouse's Insurance, or have a say on your loved one's life or death operation, then, as a citizen, I too deserve that very same right. Not because I am vowing my life under god or Jesus or anything holy or otherwise, I am vowing to my country, and only my country, to share my life with the one I love. Nothing else. you are not special, not your religion, your race, and not your political stand on this topic
Same-sex couples cannot wed but yet straight people can marry and divorce and marry and divorce and marry and divorce, again and again. How would gay couples affect marriage? America has way bigger problems then that. It's just like the white v. black issue all over again.
I am currently disgusted with my state's inability to get its act together. Our budget runs deficits so large there is almost no hope of fixing it, but the lawmakers are preoccupied with gay rights and interracial issues.
Honestly they are making an issue out of nothing, gay marriage is a non-issue - that is to say, it is a marriage, why are you making a big deal out of all of it. It grants them the same rights as every other citizen who enters that union, so why should it be withheld them?
I am so happy that as a Michiganger we will not support gay marriages. Its already out of line to be in a relationship with the same sex, but marriage???? Marriage is a vow to God.Who are these same sex couples making vows to? God? Do you think God oks these vows? what? Or maybe they dont know the One and Only true God…Jesus!!! Sin is sin, and a fornicator, a liar, or a petty thief is no worse off as a homosexual, its all sin and Jesus still loves the person, but thats taking things to another level when you stand with your partner of same sex and offer vows unto God. God put Adam and Eve together so that Adam would have a helpmate and also to REPRODUCE, or be fruitful. Two men or two women cannot reproduce a child, its impossible. And a child needs both male and female when being raised to balance them out as they get grow up. i.e.- parents are mom and da, male and female. No family is perfect I see u mentioned abuse, but people do what you allow them to do, and dont act like same sex couples dont fight because I have seen it. Same sex couples cheat, fight, and go through even worse things then heterosexual couples. No comparison to women cant vote or blacks in the back of busses, thats ridiculous…I pray that God will open your and all others eyes before its too late!!!
Amen sister!
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so then i can marry my dog, because i love her so much?? doesnt say that the man and woman have to be straight, or attracted to each other.
MI is so backwards. They support the greatest discrimination -
People have a right to marry who they love – It does not matter what the gender is.
I have ssen some of the most loving and functional families of the same sex. Yest MI supports the Same sex marriage that beats and abuses each other because you have a man and a woman.
MI Government needs to step up to the plate like Vermont/New Hampsire/CT/NY/Iowa/Mass/Washingtone DC/ CA.
GEt over yur self MI- Everyone pays into this mandiated social security system and if you are a couple of the same sex you can not have the same benefits. MI….. it is right back to women can't vote and Blacks sit in the back of the bus !
LaDonna