ban gay marriage
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- Brian220
That's a great essay. If you didn't read it all give it a shot.
- Brian220
I suppose marriage doesn't need religion. Unfortunately for a great many Americans it does. The culture this debate is happening within is the point.
- ********0
Yeah, thats a good essay. Sounds like the lecture on marriage my old professor gave when i was in uni. It's just i think the church is the only instituion left to defend an institution that has been undermined for centuries. And don't think i'm some homophobe - but i do think gay marriage is the final nail in the coffin of this anachronistic institution. For me it's not a quesiton of giving equal rights to same sex couples - but a process of redifining what we undetstand by the words family and "committed partnerships" (whatever the fuck they are). There's an empty space being created and i fear it will be the consumeris capitalist culture that will fill it and begin to redefine the "sanctitiy" of a new marriage lifestyle and a new idea of what family is.
- Brian220
No one should define what other peoples relationships should be. The people in those relationships should have the legal right to do so for themselves.
At the core of our laws is the principle of preventing harm. Laws shouldn't be enacted to prevent a society from changing. From redefining itself.
- ********0
WAY 2 MUCH ignorance on this website!!!! Way 2 much,.....
- sauerbraten0
"everybody should be free to do what their heart desires"
IS THAT NOT THE TRUTH?!
;)
- GreedoLives0
The last legal challenge against gay marriage in massachusetts was struck down today. Several town halls will open on midnight sunday to take in early birds, and plan to stay open 24 hours. Apparently, it's gotten pretty hard to get a blood test in Massachusetts due to the high demand. Our mormon governor Romney wanted the city clerks to make couples take an oath that they were residents of Massachusetts (which is not required of straight couples), and most town clerks have openly refused to do so.
The actual marriages won't take place until Wednesday due to a three-day waiting period. The Episcopal church of Massachusetts declared today it wouldn't do gay marriages even though some of their bishops are in favor of the practice. Some are expected to perform them anyways in defiance of church doctrine.I'm totally stoked...a new civil rights movement for our generation.
- winter0
who cares...
- ********0
wow - your sucha lot of drama queens // oh behave // YOU GUYS!!mwah/x
- ********0
I don't see why the law should spare the gay people from marriage. Hey if they want to be miserable too, so let me be
- winter0
ahah!
BsuperJ!
give them those wicked taxes too :D
- exador10
saw somthing the other day with chris rock....
he was going on about how people want to protect the sanctity of marriage...gotta protect it...its sacred...
yeah?
so sacred they let michael jackson get married?....
anyhow..i thought that was kinda funny...
- ********0
No one should define what other peoples relationships should be. The people in those relationships should have the right to do so for themselves.
At the core of our laws is the principle of preventing harm. Laws shouldn't be enacted to prevent a society from changing. From redefining itself.
Brian22
(may 13 04, 16:29)
----------------------------Yes Brian, sounds like the perfect steps towards Anrachism. But anarchy doesn't work because Power fears and despsises a vacuum. Peaople are drawn to structures of power like moths to a flame.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obi…
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- ********0
Cant believe the sheer arrogance and ignorance on this thread!!!!
People...when will u learn!