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  • Last-12-Exit
    Last-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    It is so silly that in the year 2012 that we have to argue over what the fuck marriage is. Neither god or Jesus invented marriage. It's a man made institution. Why do u people care who marries who? It doesn't effect your lives at all! Your children will not grow up wanting to bang sheep by seeing a gay married couple.

    Side question: do u care if its legal but called a civil union? Personally, I think its ridiculous. It should simply be called married. Just wondering.....
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    Last-12-Exit wrote:
    It is so silly that in the year 2012 that we have to argue over what the fuck marriage is. Neither god or Jesus invented marriage. It's a man made institution. Why do u people care who marries who? It doesn't effect your lives at all! Your children will not grow up wanting to bang sheep by seeing a gay married couple.

    Side question: do u care if its legal but called a civil union? Personally, I think its ridiculous. It should simply be called married. Just wondering.....
    In a perfect world it would be and there would be justice for all
    every day of every week of every year.

    Not a perfect world though
    too many believe a marriage is defined as between a man and a woman.

    Now civil unions encompass gay marriage but do they entitle all to the same rights?
    not yet, this the biggest injustice of all, in my opinion,

    when civil rights are not equal for all.
  • MayDay10
    MayDay10 Posts: 11,895
    pandora wrote:
    Now another state, Washington, got a temporary ban with a petition and will
    vote again in November ...


    Opponents block Washington state gay marriage.
    Washington's gay marriage law was blocked from taking effect Wednesday as opponents filed more than 200,000 signatures seeking a public vote on the issue in November.

    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/l ... ethru.html

    those fucking assholes.

    before too long, these people will be relegated to backwoods meetings.

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... -1.1090834

    54% of people support gay marriage as opposed to 44% just 3 years ago.
  • pandora
    pandora Posts: 21,855
    MayDay10 wrote:
    pandora wrote:
    Now another state, Washington, got a temporary ban with a petition and will
    vote again in November ...


    Opponents block Washington state gay marriage.
    Washington's gay marriage law was blocked from taking effect Wednesday as opponents filed more than 200,000 signatures seeking a public vote on the issue in November.

    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/l ... ethru.html

    those fucking assholes.

    before too long, these people will be relegated to backwoods meetings.

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politic ... -1.1090834

    54% of people support gay marriage as opposed to 44% just 3 years ago.
    The article mentions there in the end about questioning the accuracy of polls
    and perhaps discounting people's core beliefs in private moments as in a voting booth.

    Those working in favor of equal civil unions,
    without the legal and historical term marriage used,
    might also throw a bit of a wrench in the works, when voters are given additional options.

    I think it comes down to apathy for those who don't care, it's not an issue for them.
    When asked they say sure but wouldn't turn out to fight for it.
    Where as those opposed turn out and sign petitions and vote as do the gays who want
    traditional marriage as comarped to equal civil union rights alone.
  • bgivens33
    bgivens33 Posts: 290
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    i can't believe people like this get elected :fp:

    James Lankford, GOP Rep, Opposes Laws Against Gay Employee Discrimination

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/1 ... 14559.html

    Freshman Rep. James Lankford (R-Okla.) told ThinkProgress in a recent interview that he was against laws designed to protect employees from workplace discrimination based on their sexual orientation, because of his belief that being gay is a "choice."

    "Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently -- skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff. You don’t walk up to someone on the street and look at them and say, 'Gay or straight?'" Lankford said. "I think it’s a choice issue. Are tendencies and such? Yes. But I think it’s a choice issue."

    President Barack Obama's recent endorsement of same-sex marriage rights spurred a legislative push on such safeguards last week. The Washington Post's Greg Sargent reported that a bipartisan group of senators renewed calls for hearings on the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, a piece of legislation that would expand employee anti-discrimination language to include sexual orientation and gender identity.

    Lankford isn't the only freshman Republican to express opposition to this type of bill. Last week, Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) said such protections were unnecessary because discrimination based on sexual orientation simply didn't happen.

    "That don’t happen out here in the United States of America," he told ThinkProgress.
    :o

    While I think this guy is an idiot and his reasoning is completely wrong... I can't support the government telling a private business who they can and can't hire. If a business refuses to hire a homosexual, the market will react accordingly.

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