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by A chillin buttercup on December 14th, 2008
Prop 8 in California has been declared unconstitutional. Prop 8 is about preventing same-sex marriage! Great, right?
by RosieGHM Jetpacker on February 7th, 2012
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Do you have any arguments against gay marriage?
by futureMarine on April 25th, 2012
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Do you think gay marriage should be legal everywhere in the world?
by DaveyRay on April 16th, 2012
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Seriously, why can't gay people get married? why can my loving friends,who have loved, argued piss and crazied for 30 years get married?
by 34th st. on February 17th, 2012
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The gay agenda persistently parallel's, their struggle of equal rights with that of the blacks trying to establish, a right to read...
by PrimeFactor on January 23rd, 2012
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Comments
Sure. We could have a SEPARATE word BUT with EQUAL rights. But that didn't go over very well in the 1950's with the "colored" people.
What would work is if ALL couples had a civil union and we could leave it to the Church to exclude anyone they wanted to from the term "marriage". It's not fair, since marriage has always been a civil institution, though the church did coopt it in the 7th century.
by branciforte3241 on December 14th, 2008
Yeh, that sounds like a good idea, i'd rather have a civil union anyway ;0)
by A chillin buttercup on December 14th, 2008
Branciforte is correct. That would just be separate but not equal. I want equal rights...I want to get married and have the same rights as other married couples...and I want to call it marriage. Anything else is NOT equal.
by redcatt63 is around here somewhere...... on December 14th, 2008
I don't think having the label of "marriage" makes it equal, i think it may be to antagonise the gay-opposed religious institutions, it is legal now for straight people to have a civil union and i think that is what we should aim for, leave the marriage label for religion (of which i am not a part and i don't know why gay people would want to if the churches see it as a sin?), i just see this as a more realistic way forward, and i really do beleive in equal rights, i just don't like religion and politics getting to intertwined. maybe the religious could call it holy matrimony and others marriage? Its just a name, the rights are what is important ;0)
by A chillin buttercup on December 14th, 2008
So I'm straight, but I'm no longer allowed to call myself married because that's only for religious folk? How did that happen, and how do I unsubscribe from that? Is my wife now... my partner? My significant other? How many syllables should everyone have to use so that religious zealots can feel happy that they own the word 'marriage'?
by HasntBeen on September 22nd, 2009
If a rose was called another name would it not smell so sweet? Really I don't care what people do or call themselves as long as they are happy, I guess you can't please all the people all the time so lets hope human rights will come before any talk of sexual preference, and love will conquer hate.
by A chillin buttercup on November 1st, 2009
The rose would not smell as sweet, due to the fact that many federal laws specify the word "marriage" and would not apply to "civil unions". Straight couples with civil unions do not have nearly as many rights as married couples.
This is not really about the word "marriage". The homophobes are trying to make it about the word because they know that is just as effective, since federal laws (especially DOMA) only applies to "marriage". That way they can appear like they are only complaining about the usage of a particular word. If you were to change federal law to cover civil unions, the bigots would be forced to go back to acting like bigots in public.
by branciforte3241 on November 1st, 2009
To add to that -- it would be incredibly expensive to actually reprint all of the legal documentation, forms, books, etc. to use the newspeak. It is much cheaper, by an order of magnitude, just to make clear that the word 'marriage' means "two adults of either gender who have met the legal requirements of ceremony, no conflicting marriage, etc"
by HasntBeen on November 1st, 2009
Sorry, I haven't been a CL for a couple of years now, I think. You can post something like that to the blog with a reasonable chance of getting action.
by HasntBeen on November 1st, 2009
Good points. Marriage for all.
by A chillin buttercup on November 2nd, 2009