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Originally posted by TheRooster
it's a sexual preference. If that had passed, marrying farm animals would have been next.
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Rather than remove the post, why don't you try to get me to see your light? Free speech doesn't just protect the popular words, it protects them all.
Originally posted by TheRooster
If you prefer to have gay sex and believe you should be afforded special rights for so, then open the door baby, because it shouldn't stop with you! Equal rights for all... Yes even farmers
What's less clear is the impact on as many as 16,000 gay and lesbian couples who have wed since June.
The answer could come from the same court that overturned California's previous law defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman. Or it could come from a higher-ranking tribunal in Washington, D.C.
Originally posted by scientist
If you really think that the next natural step to gay marriage, is bestiality, then I'm afraid there's no way for you to see the "light," because you have your head in a place where the sun doesn't shine.
Originally posted by dbates
Originally posted by Kailassa
"Well son, your teacher and his partner must have loved each other very much, and decided to make a permanent commitment to each other, just like Mommy and I did."
I love my parents and brothers, but I don't need a contract with them to prove it. What exact purpose is the contract for? What good does it accomplish?
There are several legal benefits to marriage. There are both federal and state laws available only to married people. Other benefits include Social Security benefits, inheritance rights, property rights, the ability to sue third parties for the wrongful death of a spouse or loss of consortium, and the right to make medical decisions on a spouse's behalf.
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Getting married is one of the most important things people do. Hopefully, it reflects a deep emotional commitment because it also truly changes the participants' legal statuses. By understanding your rights and obligations as a married person you may more fully appreciate the step you are taking.
On the order of 1,400 legal rights are conferred upon married couples in the U.S. Typically these are composed of about 400 state benefits and over 1,000 federal benefits. Among them are the rights to:
- joint parenting; bullet joint adoption;
- joint foster care, custody, and visitation (including non-biological parents);
- status as next-of-kin for hospital visits and medical decisions where one partner is too ill to be competent;
- joint insurance policies for home, auto and health;
- dissolution and divorce protections such as community property and child support;
- immigration and residency for partners from other countries;
- inheritance automatically in the absence of a will;
- joint leases with automatic renewal rights in the event one partner dies or leaves the house or apartment;
- inheritance of jointly-owned real and personal property through the right of survivorship (which avoids the time and expense and taxes in probate);
- benefits such as annuities, pension plans, Social Security, and Medicare;
- spousal exemptions to property tax increases upon the death of one partner who is a co-owner of the home;
- veterans' discounts on medical care, education, and home loans; joint filing of tax returns;
- joint filing of customs claims when traveling;
- wrongful death benefits for a surviving partner and children;
- bereavement or sick leave to care for a partner or child;
- decision-making power with respect to whether a deceased partner will be cremated or not and where to bury him or her;
- crime victims' recovery benefits;
- loss of consortium tort benefits; bullet domestic violence protection orders;
- judicial protections and evidentiary immunity;
Originally posted by TheRooster
Only in the last what?? 25 to 50 years has homosexuality become somewhat acceptable and "mainstream
Originally posted by Lucid Lunacy
Your leap in logic isn't a leap in logic at all. It's a leap to bigoted ignorance.
Originally posted by Lucid Lunacy
reply to post by TheRooster
Sex with minors, sex with animals, sex with trees. Christ man, are you even aware of how absurd this logic is??...
Homosexual Marriage is consensual between two adults.
The Gay Community SUPPORTS that marriage should be consensual and between two adults.
Your leap in logic isn't a leap in logic at all. It's a leap to bigoted ignorance.
[edit on 5-11-2008 by Lucid Lunacy]
Originally posted by Lucid Lunacy
Sex with minors, sex with animals, sex with trees. Christ man, are you even aware of how absurd this logic is??...
Originally posted by scientist
The context in which you use "acceptable" is very loaded. For example.. it doesn't seem to be "acceptable" to you... which boggles my mind, as you are not gay - why do you care what gay people do together?
Originally posted by TheRooster
If 100 years ago society deemed homosexuality to be deviant sexual behavior, then who's to say humanity won't go all the way down the gutter in another 100 years?
Originally posted by TheRooster
When the founding fathers drafted the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, they did their best to set it up for hundreds of years, not 20, 30, or 40!
It's not ignorance at all, the question I am begging to be answered is WHERE DOES IT STOP? Will the homosexual community be satisfied with marriage?
Originally posted by tombangelta
Although the need for human progression and evolution is no more evident than in today's society , i have always seen Gay marriage as a perversion of our fastly dissolving traditions.
its just wrong to be blunt.
Anti-miscegenation laws, also known as miscegenation laws, were laws that banned interracial marriage and sometimes interracial sex between whites and members of other races. In the United States, interracial marriage, cohabitation and sex have since 1863 been termed "miscegenation." Contemporary usage of the term "miscegenation" is less frequent. In North America, laws against interracial marriage and interracial sex existed and were enforced in the Thirteen Colonies from the late seventeenth century onwards, and subsequently in several US states and US territories until 1967. Similar laws were also enforced in Nazi Germany, from 1935 until 1945, and in South Africa during the Apartheid era, from 1949 until 1985.