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11-13-2008, 03:18 PM
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Location: Brooklyn
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No Marriage for everyone!
I'm engaged right now to my Girl Friend. We are in a hetero sexual relationship (between a man and a woman)
We are getting a civil union because until all people can legally be married in America, no one should get married.
Hetero sexual Civil Unions in solidarity with Homosexual rights to marriage!
Last edited by Bowie; 12-02-2008 at 04:53 PM..
Reason: Moved from General US.
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11-13-2008, 03:20 PM
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City Boy in The 'Burbs
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"Unexpected Day off From Work!"
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Reston, VA : We're too "progressive" for sidewalks or streetlights.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Bama!
I'm engaged right now to my Girl Friend. We are in a hetero sexual relationship (between a man and a woman)
We are getting a civil union because until all people can legally be married in America, no one should get married.
Hetero sexual Civil Unions in solidarity with Homosexual rights to marriage!
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Wow! If you weren't straight I'd hug you right now!  Thank you so very much! How refreshingly thoughtful! I thought this would be another "ain't no dem der gays gettin' hitched under my watch" types of threads.  |
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11-13-2008, 03:21 PM
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ichigo ichie 1 time 1 meeting unprecedented
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Location: southern california
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nothing wrong with civil unions. see a lawyer b4 however, i think the same laws apply in a divorce.
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11-13-2008, 04:11 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Brooklyn
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Huckleberry3911948
nothing wrong with civil unions. see a lawyer b4 however, i think the same laws apply in a divorce.
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Thats not really the point. We as American citizens have a reponsibility to ensure equal rights for everyone. |
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11-13-2008, 04:20 PM
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Stamforder
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Join Date: May 2007
Location: Stamford, CT
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Bama!
Thats not really the point. We as American citizens have a reponsibility to ensure equal rights for everyone.
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It's a nice breath of fresh air to read an opinion such as yours!
I agree completely that civil unions would be better-served in America, rather than "marriage." European nations have embraced this term for quite some time. The US would do well to follow suit. |
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11-13-2008, 10:40 PM
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Not a member
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Ten Sleep
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um, all people CAN get married. gays can get married if they want, just not to other men.
besides, being gay is a choice. and a disgusting one at that.
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11-13-2008, 11:33 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Phoenix metro (Scottsdale), AZ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Bama!
I'm engaged right now to my Girl Friend. We are in a hetero sexual relationship (between a man and a woman)
We are getting a civil union because until all people can legally be married in America, no one should get married.
Hetero sexual Civil Unions in solidarity with Homosexual rights to marriage!
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Joe Bama!, you are from Brooklyn, not the upper west side of Manhatten. Try to act like it.
More to the point though; How are your feelings about polygamy? How about incest? How do you feel about the values of the North American Man-Love Boy Association? In fact, what are your feelings on what constitutes rape in relation to any age? What about human-animal "relations." You can't sit there and reasonably argue that you won't get married because "gays" "can't", without also substantiating the claims for what most people would consider "far out" liberal messages as these as well. |
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11-13-2008, 11:57 PM
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I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm getting married. If homosexuals want "marriage" instead of "civil unions", whatever. Seriously, what difference does it make? Does the name make that much of a difference?
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11-14-2008, 12:02 AM
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personally i hate the concept of marriage and am completely against the legal combination of one or more individuals in any way. if you love someone then live together and be happy. call each other husband and wife if you want. have a ceremony or do whatever you want. but a person is a person and everyone should be completely independent legally. so I'll change your topic title to "no marriage for anyone!" but people are emotional and like their traditions, and for some reason think that marriage has some something to do with love or sex and not a contract to combine two people's finances and identity....
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11-14-2008, 12:25 AM
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Senior Member
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"Free Spirit"
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Portlandia "burbs"
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I lived with my guy for 13 years before we decided to get married. It was time to give him the security of insurance in my health plan at work, and it's a lot easier for beneficiary reasons.
I do not believe that unmarried partners should be entitled to each other's insurance of any kind, because there's no proof. Anybody could claim to be someone's partner in a scam.
Any which way you do it, Joe, congratulations.
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