Originally posted by Grand-Moff-Gav
You really have your head in the sand if you don't foresee such an eventuality. It will happen within our lifetime.(Remember when the legs of a piano had to be covered because it was indecent?)
We really should go back to that. Seeing piano legs offends my morals, like it should any decent person.
I have always been for gay marriage, I dont see why they shouldnt be allowed to do it.
But at this point the whole damn subject is becoming one of the most annoying in the US. If you love someone does it REALLY matter if you're "married"? The whining coming from the gays is quickly surpassing the crying from the religious. If you love your partner enough to marry them then just be happy living together with them or something and stop being so angry.
Originally posted by KidRock
I have always been for gay marriage, I dont see why they shouldnt be allowed to do it.But at this point the whole damn subject is becoming one of the most annoying in the US. If you love someone does it REALLY matter if you're "married"? The whining coming from the gays is quickly surpassing the crying from the religious. If you love your partner enough to marry them then just be happy living together with them or something and stop being so angry.
Yes it really matters.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
We really should go back to that. Seeing piano legs offends my morals, like it should any decent person.
If you love someone does it REALLY matter if you're "married"?
Originally posted by Red Nemesis
Yes, it REALLY matters. There are many important legal privileges available to married couples that are not granted with right of attorney or a living will etc. Not to mention that denying a minority rights simply because of a separation from society does not bode well in our pluralistic and multiethnic/religious society.
Like what?
Tax breaks? Health insurance family plans? You can put a non-family member in your will as well.
Originally posted by Red Nemesis
Yes, it REALLY matters. There are many important legal privileges available to married couples that are not granted with right of attorney or a living will etc. Not to mention that denying a minority rights simply because of a separation from society does not bode well in our pluralistic and multiethnic/religious society.
Well said.
Originally posted by Zeal Ex Nihilo
Ho-ho, your rapier wit has skewered me!
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Mr. Gloom, leave the stupid jokes to me, shall we?
Originally posted by KidRock
Like what?Tax breaks? Health insurance family plans? You can put a non-family member in your will as well.
Lets see- Tax free money transfer (as showcased in Boston Legal), Spousal Privilege, in which one can not be compelled to testify against one's significant other and [Wikipedia]Parenting responsibilities[/Wikipedia].
Married couples are given FAR more protection under the law than otherwise legally bonded couples (excluding the potential 'civil unions' that would serve as gay marriage.)
Originally posted by Red Nemesis
Lets see- Spousal Privilege, in which one can not be compelled to testify against one's significant other
actually that one's complicated...more so than it seems.
it covers conversations held in private between spouses but if that conversation is regarding the committing of a crime then the spouse not taking part in the crime then becomes either an accessory before or after the fact dependant on when they found out about the crime (before or after) if they helped to conceal it....which then makes them involved and so spousal testimonial privelege is null and void
it also doesn't apply to child custody or domestic abuse hearings either
but yeah...there is alot of legal protection for married couples which gay couples currently cant get...the biggest, of course, being that if 1 suddenly dies without a will then the other has no rights to the deceased's estate.
Originally posted by RobtardDon't you remember the simpsons?
[b]Uruguay holds Latin America's first gay weddingMONTEVIDEO (AFP) - Uruguay on Thursday became the first nation in Latin America to marry a gay couple, after a law allowing couples living together to formalize their union went into effect at the start of the year.
Story Here [/B]
KidRock, does the term "Anti-miscegenation law" mean anything to you? (Wikipedia might help.) At one point it was illegal for members of different races to marry. Today we recognize that as a violation of basic human rights. Someday anti-gay laws will be looked at with the same scorn that Jim-Crow laws are today.
I thought we were making progress until I saw this map of gay marriage legislation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File😖amesex_marriage_in_USA.svg
Gay marriage is legal in 2 states, Civil Unions are legal in 8 but 29 states have constitutional bans. This is really depressing.
