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nikkibabe1 year, 5 months ago
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I wonder what drives crazy people to oppose gay & lesbian marriages?
. it will not drive up cost of gas
. it will not increase monthly mortgage payments of anyone
. it will not affect anyone's jobs
. it will not affect food prices
. it will not affect anything
Strange people, strange country.
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DaneL1 year, 5 months ago
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hamy1 year, 5 months ago
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But poligamy is not a right. No one has the right to marry more than one person. That isn't what's at debate. The question is: How does this affect you in any way shape or form? How does someone else being able to get married affect your marriage?
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david_nwpa1 year, 5 months ago
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Except that religion is NOT a requirement of marriage. A heterosexual atheist couple can wed before a justice of the peace, and no one's religious rights are infringed. Gay couples could wed before a Justice of the Peace, a ship's captain or a religious person who does not object to such a wedding. Your religious rights should not trump those of other people! After all, in the eyes of the law, marriage is a civil institution.
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hamy1 year, 5 months ago
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No. That is the law. The law says that polygamy is not allowed in this country. Polygamists aren't born. They are not a protected class of citizen under the fair housing or equal treatment policies of this country.
This isn't about religion. It has nothing to do with religion. I could care less if I can't get married in a church. I just want the rights afforded every other tax paying citizen.
That or I pay lower taxes. You decide.
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Natureboy1 year, 5 months ago
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Polygamy and polyandry too - except that when you find polygamy, it is often coerced, and by dessicated old coots that likely cannot satisfy even one women, let alone several women a fraction of their age. This is the problem with what the Mormon nutboy cults are doing, it is coerced.
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RNR521 year, 5 months ago
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There is no logical reason to oppose marriage between two consenting adults of either gender. Polygamy or polyandry can get complicated with rights of spouses, support of children, finances, property rights, etc. The more parties involved the more legally complicated the arrangement becomes. Marriage is a contractual agreement and contracts are complicated enough with just two parties. Energies can be spent better elsewhere than opposing "gay marriage."
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bigurn1 year, 5 months ago
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I don't think labeling people as crazy helps. Some very thoughtful folks have sound intellectual arguments for their opposition to gay marriage.
That having been said, it's a state-level issue and should be resolved according to the voters in each state. I believe it will eventually become commonplace in the U.S.
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dandt16121 year, 5 months ago
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DropkickaLib1 year, 5 months ago
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Will13131 year, 5 months ago
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DropkickaLib1 year, 5 months ago
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Punk? You're Clint Eastwood now. Sure if you want. Which trailer court was it again? Yours was the one with the car up on blocks parked in front and the dead dog chained to the porch. Nevermind, I'll just follow the smell of smoke from the methlab in the kitchen.
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Will13131 year, 5 months ago
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come on by we'll discuss that and a lot of other things..
you must be one of those elitist snobs.. thinking people in trailer courts are somehow less worthy than yourself....
I'm quite sure you know what meth and crack smell like..
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DropkickaLib1 year, 5 months ago
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I'm not anti-gay, just in favor of honoring the results of the electoral process in each state. As for the thought of being fascinated by your package, it's fascinating in the same way as electronic circuitry or a Swiss watch. It's interesting that something so tiny can be assembled with such precision as to remain functional.
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hamy1 year, 5 months ago
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Again. Your vanity is astounding.
Granting rights never should nor has been left to the people as a vote. For some reason, no one understands that you can't use a vote to grant human rights.
That is what we discovered during the civil rights movement. Remember? Loving v Virginia? Look it up.
Same thing. Even she said so right before she died.
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DropkickaLib1 year, 5 months ago
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Again, the authoritarian arrogance of the Left astounds me. The government is a social compact and society has the right to approve the terms of that compact through the democratic process. No society should be forced to amend laws that reflect traditional shared social values without its consent.
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david_nwpa1 year, 5 months ago
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Right, see my argument regarding tradition. For the longest time tradition said women could not own property or vote, and blacks were worth 3/5 of a person for taxation and census purposes. Traditions can and ultimately must change to fit our sense of equality and fairness. Social values change with the times. Societies should be forced to amend their laws when they are inequitable and wholly unfair.
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DropkickaLib1 year, 5 months ago
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...and you are exactly the one to decide what is and is not fair. The Left sees the need to destroy all traditional morality, religion and traditions as the means to achieve open-mindedness. The result is a hollow, value-less society, out of touch with its roots.
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bigurn1 year, 5 months ago
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Dan,
I understand your predicament. There are basically two options in governance: 1) The government decides. I think this is a slippery slope for all other decisions. Once you allow the government to impose laws without the consent of the people, you are on a track which ultimately leads to totalitarianism (but may stop short). 2) The people decide. This carries with it the "tyranny of the majority", where a portion of the population could be discriminated against.
The Founders consistently chose #2. They installed elected representatives to bring legislation on behalf of the minority to determine if laws needed to be enacted so that the majority doesn't always win. I think this is the best system, but it does have its negatives.
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david_nwpa1 year, 5 months ago
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Agreed dandt1612, the people do not have the right to vote to determine who is allowed to wed. It should be and is rightly treated as a fundamental right under the laws of California. As California goes, so goes the nation. Some rights and civil institutions are not open for public debate. Nor should they be bastions for discrimination.
Children cannot wed because they cannot consent. Marrying blood relatives is a general health and safety concern. Polygamy is out because a marriage, by definition, is a solemn contract between two people. Hence, none of these red herring arguments against gay marriage make any sense.
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willottica1 year, 5 months ago
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Marriage is also, by current definitions, between a man and a woman. I don't think you can take polygamy out of it, but I do think that polygamy should require consent of ALL parties, i.e. not be separate marriage contracts all involving the same man, but any man (or woman) should have to agree to the new spouse being added to the marriage.
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david_nwpa1 year, 5 months ago
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However, you have too narrowly defined marriage. It is a civil arrangement between two people. Your argument does not address the why it is between two people, you merely state that that is the case. End of discussion.
To that end, I argue, not end of discussion. Marriage, as now accepted in two states is the union of two, non-blood relatives who have consented to enter into a communal living arrangement. Said arrangement is marriage. What do you have against two men or two women marrying?
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Mdiar1 year, 5 months ago
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I don't think he has something against same sex marriage. I do believe he is stating that the definition is bound to change as people begin to refuse the current mores of society, for example polygamy as wrong. I see nothing wrong with that belief or statement and see no reason a person cannot love multiple people and wish to enter into a voluntary civil contract similar to marriage with said multiple people. However, society by and large will disagree with me, I know. I believe the statements by will are trying to state that the mores of society are bound to change in this direction (not as a result of same sex marriage but as a natural evolution of society).
Go ahead Propeller, label me a left wing radical!
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willottica1 year, 5 months ago
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Nothing at all. No more than I have against polygamy by three (or more) willing individuals.
In fact, I'm singing during the signing of the register at my friends' (both male) wedding in a couple of weeks.
I wouldn't marry another man, nor would I add a third person to my marriage. Not because I myself am against it, but because my wife is uncomfortable with it. I could personally see myself quite enjoying a third (male or female) party in the marriage.
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hamy1 year, 5 months ago
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But why should a majority vote be used to grant rights? What if I proposed a bill that would imprison all men over 30 in Illinois and then put it up for a vote. Somehow I convinced the majority in the state to agree with me and that becomes law.
How is that good for the people being voted against?
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jordan111 year, 5 months ago
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t's a state-level issue and should be resolved according to the voters in each state. >>>>
Actually, it is not a state level issue. It's a Constitutional issue. Equal rights are a given by birth here. Civil rights are a given by birth here. There are specific Constitutional tenets which bind us as a nation, and without which, we aren't a nation at all. We are NOT a pure democracy, which allows the whim of any majority to deny the same rights they enjoy to a minority. And the ONLY thing protecting those rights, including YOURS, is the Constitution of the United States. So if you want your state to be ruled by the majority, then withddraw from the union. We can't have it both ways. And this is something people have GOT to get their head around on this issue. This isn't about marriage. It's about equal rights. We revere that or we don't. But if we don't, are you prepared to start over as a nation?
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david_nwpa1 year, 5 months ago
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From your posts it would seem you want to tell us how to live. How is that any different? Your claim that being gay is not normal and therefore not a normal functioning family unit is disputed by numerous medical, psychiatric, psychological and education agency and professional organizations. Gays and lesbians have perfectly acceptable family units and no one suggest devolving anything. It seems to me that hetero divorce is tending to that matter just fine without any help from gays and lesbians. How does a gay couple getting married devolve anything? You prattle on about that, but never clearly explain how it happens, because you can't. It simply does not happen!
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