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#629508 - 10/26/06 09:23 PM
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Oh yes I am. I feel it is fine as long as you atleast know the last name. J/K
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#629509 - 10/26/06 09:49 PM
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Is there a large [Email]g@y[/Email] population in NJ?
With the war on terror and all of the other crazy things like child molesters and illegal drugs around, why is this even on the forefront of judicial issues?
why should the judiciary be executing the war on terror?! and do you assume that this is the only case on their docket?
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#629511 - 10/26/06 09:42 PM
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Oh yes I am. I feel it is fine as long as you atleast know the last name. J/K
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#629512 - 10/26/06 10:04 PM
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I think that this world is going to just have to accept it because people can't change who they are just to make narrow minded people happy.
don't be so sure...
(before i edited, i had posted a link to the SNL sketch "heteroy" but i figured political speech, the free-est of the free, would be censored on this site)
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#629513 - 10/26/06 10:15 PM
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ROFL! I think that people get married because they want to show their committment to one another. Being married does help with all of the day to day red tape that we face as a couple though. I don't think that most people get married for the religious thumbs up...I think it's just about love. Maybe I am being too romantic...why did any of you get married?
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#629514 - 10/26/06 10:19 PM
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Comparing marriage between a man and a woman of different races with a (you pick the word) between two same sex people is definitely an apples and oranges comparison.
The first is still a biologically correct method of pairing off with the hope of continuing the species.
At the time that anti-miscenegenation were in effect mixed-race marriage was definitely *not* considered "a biologically correct method of pairing off with the hope of continuing the species".
The comparison to laws against gay marriage is an apples to apples comparison.
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#629517 - 10/26/06 10:25 PM
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a "union" that's not marriage is "less than" marriage [even if it has all of the same legal ramifications].
why is it about the semantics, rainier? i support it for common rights. it is a spiritual thing of which any definition can apply to the concept.
do i make idiots from the midwest call their "pop" soda?
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#629520 - 10/26/06 10:28 PM
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I don't even think marriage should be a legal construct. Marriage should be considered a rite of the church and defined by your own faith, as are things like baptism. Legal and financial entitlements such as survivorship, health insurance, etc. should be defined by parameters such as cohabitation and financial dependence, not by one's sexual arrangements. In fact, why shouldn't two people living together have those rights even in a totally non-sexual relationship, such as siblings or close friends who choose to live with each other?
that makes perfect sense, which is probably why the government has never thought of it.
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#629525 - 10/26/06 11:01 PM
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Actually, 70% of the "world" (in the US, that is) is made up of 'narrow minded people' who've voted to ban gay marrige in 19 states already.
Apparently the pro-gay union opinion voiced throughout this thread is, in reality, the minority opinion. Next Tuesday will tell for sure in a few more states.
If 70% of the population thought that democrats should not be allowed to vote, should we ban democrats from voting?
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#629531 - 10/27/06 12:46 AM
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No, there's definitely the 'if enough people don't like gays, we don't have to treat them like other citizens' vibe at work.
There was a great cartoon some time ago whose punchline was that gay people wouldn't be included in hate crime legislation because so many people hated them.
Ahhh, there it is. I knew it would surface sooner or later. "If you're not in favor of gay marriage, it must be because you hate gays." Sorry, I recognize that's true in some cases, but it's not true in most. You can care for, treat with dignity, and I daresay even love someone who is gay without being in favor of gay marriage. Believe it or not, there are gay people who are not in favor of changing the law. Do they hate gay people too?
This had been a rather civil discussion up to that post and the one before it.
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