Sore Losers
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BoneSoft wrote:
Proposition 8 has some truely sore losers.
I agree. I don't care much about the whole thing, but I do wish gay couples (especially those that have been in committed relationships for many years) would be allowed to form civil unions. Unfortunately only a handful of states have civil unions. Here's[^] more on that.
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I thought they already had civil unions in CA.
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein
Jason Henderson
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BoneSoft wrote:
What would be the problem with that?
As soon as you have two different classes of legal union, you create an opportunity for inequity in terms of equal protection under the law, and where the opportunity exists the reality will as well. The only excuse for having two different legal unions is to promote discrimination. It should be either just a church thing, or just a legal thing. I see nothing wrong with separating the concepts: no church can grant the legal state, no government the religious state.
We have the "married" and the "unmarried". I think those are already 2 different classes. What we have going on is a redefinition of a thousands of years old institution. Marriage is between a man and a woman and it always has been.
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Jason Henderson
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Rob Graham wrote:
I limit the concept to two people, because it becomes too complex to fairly administer dissolution if more than two are involved.
Betcha a dollar that the minute this was enacted we'd have a group of 3+ people screaming discrimination. Probably ex-communicated Mormons... :doh:
Or some farmer and his chicken.
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I thought they already had civil unions in CA.
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein
Jason Henderson
Jason Henderson wrote:
I thought they already had civil unions in CA.
It's not about "civil unions," and it's not even about marriage (except in as far as there are people wanting to destroy marriage), and it's certainly not about equal rights (which they've had forever, in any event). It's about special privileges. It's about using governmental compulsion to force everyone else to approve of them.
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I have no problem admitting that I am a little bitter over the election. Mostly because I feel like the country as a whole will suffer for his policies. I also recognize that this is all opinion on my part, and that time will tell if he was the better choice. But these people[^]... Proposition 8 has some truely sore losers.
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So they want their rights, but they want to take away the rights of others. Activism is a good thing until you take it too far and gays are pushing this thing way too far. Someone is going to get seriously hurt.
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein
Jason Henderson
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Or some farmer and his chicken.
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:laugh: Reading that, reminded me of the "Chicken Lover" episode of South Park.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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:laugh: Reading that, reminded me of the "Chicken Lover" episode of South Park.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
I don't remember seeing that one. But I laughed my ass off yesterday when I saw the one where Randy's on the Wheel of Fortune[^]. I'll have to go find Chicken Lover.
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I don't remember seeing that one. But I laughed my ass off yesterday when I saw the one where Randy's on the Wheel of Fortune[^]. I'll have to go find Chicken Lover.
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Here is the wiki for the episode[^]...
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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The state should provide only civil unions and leave marriage as something for churches to decide.
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Oakman wrote:
The state should provide only civil unions and leave marriage as something for churches to decide.
I agree and would even take it one step further. The government's only legitimate involvement in how human beings decide to associate with one another is when there is at least one individual in the relationship financially dependent upon the other(s).
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
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I have no problem admitting that I am a little bitter over the election. Mostly because I feel like the country as a whole will suffer for his policies. I also recognize that this is all opinion on my part, and that time will tell if he was the better choice. But these people[^]... Proposition 8 has some truely sore losers.
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BoneSoft wrote:
I have no problem admitting that I am a little bitter over the election.
When you lose fairly, than you should certainly have enough class to accept the results. However, when the results are largely the consequence of one side flagrantly and openly cheating with no attempt at all to even hide the fact that it is cheating, being a sore loser is perfectly legitimate, because frankly you didn't lose fairly.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
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BoneSoft wrote:
I have no problem admitting that I am a little bitter over the election.
When you lose fairly, than you should certainly have enough class to accept the results. However, when the results are largely the consequence of one side flagrantly and openly cheating with no attempt at all to even hide the fact that it is cheating, being a sore loser is perfectly legitimate, because frankly you didn't lose fairly.
Chaining ourselves to the moral high ground does not make us good guys. Aside from making us easy targets, it merely makes us idiotic prisoners of our own self loathing.
Exactly.
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We have the "married" and the "unmarried". I think those are already 2 different classes. What we have going on is a redefinition of a thousands of years old institution. Marriage is between a man and a woman and it always has been.
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein
Jason Henderson
Jason Henderson wrote:
Marriage is between a man and a woman and it always has been.
Actually, there have always been religions where that is not true. Polygamy and polyandry are both quite common. I think you prejudice is showing ;P
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Rob Graham wrote:
you create an opportunity for inequity in terms of equal protection under the law, and where the opportunity exists the reality will as well
I don't think it necessarily would, but I guess I see the possibility. I don't see anything wrong with seperating them either. Which would amount to changing the text on a marriage license to say "Civil Union".
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Precisely. Now if we could just convince the others, one more divisive issue would disappear with no puppies harmed.
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Jason Henderson wrote:
Marriage is between a man and a woman and it always has been.
Actually, there have always been religions where that is not true. Polygamy and polyandry are both quite common. I think you prejudice is showing ;P
I didn't say between 1 man and 1 woman. So there. ;P
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein
Jason Henderson
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We have the "married" and the "unmarried". I think those are already 2 different classes. What we have going on is a redefinition of a thousands of years old institution. Marriage is between a man and a woman and it always has been.
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein
Jason Henderson
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Tim Craig wrote:
then there are two classes of citizens
You mean two classes of legal unions for citizens. What would be the problem with that?
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I think the whole thing is a silly argument. Like Jon, I think we should drop "marriage" from the legal lexicon, and extend "civil union" with a detailed description of the obligations and privileges of that civil contractual agreement to any two people who wish to enter into it. I limit the concept to two people, because it becomes too complex to fairly administer dissolution if more than two are involved. I doubt if the emotionally invested on either side will ever agree though.
Rob Graham wrote:
I doubt if the emotionally invested on either side will ever agree though.
I suspect that if the governments really went through with it and dropped marriage completely in favor of civil unions, a lot more gays would accept it than the religious fundamentalists. I suspect with many of them, they're not as invested in the marriage part as opposed to the gay part.
Your silly assed, irrelevant opinion has been duly noted. Now take it elsewhere!
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Rob Graham wrote:
I doubt if the emotionally invested on either side will ever agree though.
I suspect that if the governments really went through with it and dropped marriage completely in favor of civil unions, a lot more gays would accept it than the religious fundamentalists. I suspect with many of them, they're not as invested in the marriage part as opposed to the gay part.
Your silly assed, irrelevant opinion has been duly noted. Now take it elsewhere!
Tim Craig wrote:
I suspect with many of them, they're not as invested in the marriage part as opposed to the gay part.
You're probably right. And the gay activists are probably more interested in agitating the religious than they are the marriage part. I don't think either side is really being honest about their argument with this issue.
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Precisely. Now if we could just convince the others, one more divisive issue would disappear with no puppies harmed.
Ah but where would the fun in that be? A lot of people are in this argument just to argue. But I guess that's true of most arguments.
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Jason Henderson wrote:
I thought they already had civil unions in CA.
It's not about "civil unions," and it's not even about marriage (except in as far as there are people wanting to destroy marriage), and it's certainly not about equal rights (which they've had forever, in any event). It's about special privileges. It's about using governmental compulsion to force everyone else to approve of them.