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Topic: Push Expands for Legalizing
Same-Sex Marriage |
Push Expands for Legalizing
Same-Sex Marriage
New York Times, by Erik Eckholm
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Posted By:jackson, 11/13/2012 8:54:09 AM
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| PORTLAND, Me. — Elated by their first ballot victories, in four states, advocates of same-sex marriage rights plan to push legislatures in half a dozen more states toward legalization as they also press their cause in federal courts. They are also preparing for what they hope will be another milestone: the electoral reversal of a constitutional amendment defining marriage as solely between a man and a woman, in Oregon in 2014. Nine states and Washington, D.C., have now legalized same-sex marriage. Though it remains unpopular in the South, rights campaigners see the potential for legislative
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Comments:
Some topics never lose their luster at the Times. After the inevitable, and the perverts get their way with "marriage". What next? I am serious... it will never end.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
civilservant, 11/13/2012 9:02:24 AM (No. 9010852)
"Marriage" is a Sacrement of the Church.
Government can:
Recognize it.
Tax it.
Bureaucratize it.
BUT IT CANNOT PERFORM IT.
I want gays to have the EXACT same rights as I do as a married man, I simply want the WORD to remain the province of the CHURCH.
FOREVER if you got married int the Mayor´s office, it was called a CIVIL CEREMONY.
If that was acceptable for straight people who wished to be a married couple, but not get MARRIED in a Church why is it not acceptable for gays?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
TheMotherCO, 11/13/2012 9:44:47 AM (No. 9010959)
Nauseating thought - a big slap at a true marriage between a man and a woman. Actually the same sex marriage participants are laughed at and why bother. No one cares what people do in the privacy of their home, but demanding that people consider it a marriage is beyond belief and I don´t care how many states it is legal in.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
RayLRiv, 11/13/2012 9:47:18 AM (No. 9010965)
They can PUSH all they want - my family and I will ALWAYS consider same-sex marriage an abomination, we will NEVER accept it and if our church ever decides to perform a same-sex ceremony and call it ´marriage´ we will leave that congregation and find a church that has no problem calling it what it is - an abomination against the word of God.
You cannot force me to accept a perversion...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
heneverlies, 11/13/2012 9:58:55 AM (No. 9010999)
I just want permission to marry...me! I love me...it´s always been about me, me and just me.
Me first...
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
craige, 11/13/2012 10:07:04 AM (No. 9011040)
This is what happens, when Government Authority is required to marry. This is why conservatives worship government as much as liberals. Both fight over who can marry.
Government has no place in marriage. It is religious, or contractual, or both.
People do not need government permission to get married.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
craige, 11/13/2012 10:10:44 AM (No. 9011057)
Arbitration or government courts Can be necessary for divorce.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Scottish girl, 11/13/2012 10:17:32 AM (No. 9011088)
I´m right there with you # 3. Though living in the Bay Area I´m surrounded by lefties who think they should be married.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
yuban, 11/13/2012 10:18:54 AM (No. 9011096)
I will abide by the Bible, not the government or some Republican Moderate.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
JonR, 11/13/2012 10:44:47 AM (No. 9011197)
The next "push" will be for marriage with chickens! The pedophiles after that! What a can of worms is opened when abominations are condoned and legalized! Welcome to the United States of Sodom and Gammorah! Enjoy!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly, 11/13/2012 10:45:39 AM (No. 9011204)
The genie is out of the bottle. I don´t really care one way or the other. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
We have other, more serious problems to worry about.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
RUReadyY3K, 11/13/2012 11:25:22 AM (No. 9011356)
I agree with #1 and the government should get out of the marriage business, leaving that to religion. The government doesn´t perform other religious rites like baptism or circumcision, for example. If someone doesn´t want to or can´t get married, then the civil authorities could recognize a civil union or partnership in order to confer rights and responsibilities.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mickturn, 11/13/2012 12:06:15 PM (No. 9011464)
Sure, you can marry any animal you wish. I suggest a very hungry Python, Tiger or Great White Shark!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
marthaville, 11/13/2012 12:24:13 PM (No. 9011511)
I say allow all gay marriages, multiple party marriages, marriage with animals. But no survivor benefits (Social Security, pensions of any type)to other than traditional marriages, and no assets transferred at death without being subject to estate tax.
That would put an end to this nonsense. This is not about love, it´s about money.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
radrelic, 11/13/2012 12:55:24 PM (No. 9011581)
Get off your high horses and start rating about civil unions or the gay Marriage issue is fated to become law in the US.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Heraclitus, 11/13/2012 1:01:53 PM (No. 9011592)
You can call a bull a lamb, but it´s still a bull and it leaves behind a pile of you-know-what.
Marriage has a specific definition, one of great universal, historical weight.
There will follow more demands, demands to eliminate "categories" such as mommy and daddy, husband and wife, son and daughter. This has happened in some Scandinavian country, if my recollection is correct.
As a matter of fact, they tried this in MA. It reveals the utter absurdity of it all.
Civil unions were supposedly all they wanted in order to give them legal cover. This first step was achieved in VT.
We were warned then that it was a slippery slope. But they laughed and scorned. Those who were familiar with the radical homosexual groups knew better, it was and is a slippery slope.
People who dared to contend were eviscerated by the radical homo lobby. There´s nothing very nice about these radicals.
A bull is a bull is a bull. Try to call it a lamb, it is still a bull.
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