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No you wouldn't. I don't for one second believe you would give up 1500 State and Federal benefits.
Government benefits are rather contrary to everything I believe in, have little use in the wilderness I prefer to live in, and I don't care to have big brother in my bedroom.
More liberal tolerance from the LGBTQ crowd in Maine:
“'Free speech is just about dead in some parts of Portland,' said TFP Student Action Director John Ritchie. 'Every time our volunteers put up yard signs in favor of traditional marriage on Congress Street, pro-homosexual advocates damaged or destroyed them. In less than five minutes, the signs were all vandalized. When new ones went up, those were trashed too,' he said. 'We found zero tolerance. Zero fairness. Zero free speech.'”
Yet another exceptionally poor reflection on the part of the intolerant militant homosexual.
The anti-gay trolls here really need to come out of the closet. Pretty fed up with their stupidity and clear obsession with gays. It's definitely a mental disease to be that fixated and hateful towards gay people unless you're hiding something.
I think many (most?) of them feel threatened by the concept of gay marriage. They must worry their spouses will leave them and marry someone else of their own gender instead.
Because other than that, I cannot think of any real, actual reason they'd have any objection. No one will be forced to marry someone of their own gender if they don't want to.
Marriage is the foundation of family which is the basic building block of society. Allowing same sex marriage erodes the family which in turn harms society.
The Supreme Court never actually heard the case, they dismissed it outright. That was also over 40 years ago, and followed right behind Loving v. Virginia. You think in a time when the country was just coming to terms with having to accept interracial marriage, that gay marriage was going to be heard by the SCOTUS?
Since federal courts are declaring DOMA unconstitutional left and right, legal opinion has changed drastically since 1970.
The wierd thing about Portland, when I visted, is that it did NOT seem that gay at all. I went to a gay bar there, but that was probably the only gay bar in the entire city...and it was small, too. Portland seemed this wierd mix of I guess urban rednecks like we have here in Dayton (New England version), hipsters, crunchy granola types and yuppies. No gay vibe at all.
So a bit suprising to see this anti-anti-gay marriage sentiment there.
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