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View Poll Results: Do you agree with extending the Family and Medical Leave Act to same-sex couples?
Yes 76 72.38%
No 24 22.86%
Not sure 5 4.76%
Voters: 105. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 06-22-2010, 12:02 PM
 
Location: Earth
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They were rolling their eyes at the idea of 2 guys or 2 women marrying each other 100 years ago as well. Hopefully I won't be around to see the first man dog marriage.
Oh, how droll.
I guess you don't understand anything about consenting adults.
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Old 06-22-2010, 12:03 PM
 
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No, I don't. It is yet another step forward towards putting same-sex relationships on an equal footing with heterosexual relationships. However, I would not be opposed to hospital visitation rights.

I agree with you!!
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Old 06-22-2010, 12:03 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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To the OP, I'll support it when we non married straights who co-habitate, are afforded the same rights, because now I'M being discriminated again, would you not agree?
No you're not being discriminated against and no, it is not the same because YOU are allowed to marry the person you love and have those rights whereas gay people are denied marriage so don't even start.
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Old 06-22-2010, 12:05 PM
 
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Oh, how droll.
I guess you don't understand anything about consenting adults.
I understand plenty. What is your point? I am a consenting adult myself.So I assume you think it would be ok for a person to marry an animal? You didn't deny it.
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Old 06-22-2010, 12:05 PM
 
Location: Long Beach
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Conservatives are so stupid. By waging war against gays, they are elimating moderate gays who would support them on issues like immigation reform and the size of govt.
Repugs are only interested in supporting white male Christians over the age of 50 who are also corporations.

This list of people they hate grows and grows each passing day.
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Old 06-22-2010, 12:07 PM
 
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I have four friends (two couples) that are gay and they love each other. If one of them were sick the other should be given the same opportunity to take off work to care for them under FMLA as a heterosexual couple.

FMLA covers married couples!! I can't take off of work for my boy friend and have it covered by FMLA, why should they. If we are talking equality!
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Old 06-22-2010, 12:08 PM
 
Location: Austin
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FMLA covers married couples!! I can't take off of work for my boy friend and have it covered by FMLA, why should they. If we are talking equality!
So without this latest FMLA development, how would gay couples, ever, if they were so inclined, enter a situation where they would be able to visit their partners in the hospital or take off work to care for them? Remember, in most of the country, gays cannot legally marry. Without this FMLA provision, there would be no way at all for them to do something that straight couples with a piece of paper and 10 minutes before a Justice of the Peace can do.

How is that equal?
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Old 06-22-2010, 12:10 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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I understand plenty. What is your point? I am a consenting adult myself.So I assume you think it would be ok for a person to marry an animal? You didn't deny it.
This "logic" is the worst argument I ever hear against homosexuality, and the fact that people try to use the whole animal argument REPEATEDLY as a valid way of debating is laughable and shows the ineptness of some people's thinking. You fail miserably.
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Old 06-22-2010, 12:10 PM
 
Location: Long Beach
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Because 1 abnormality leads to more. You are going against what nature intended homosexuality as I said in another thread is a mental disorder not something you are born with, personally I can not see how being with another person of the same sex is even desirable it's disgusting and revolting.
Kindly explain how homosexuality is an abnormality. It is well documented in most animals in the animal kingdom, and humans have practiced it for millenia.

It wasn't until some older white guys backm in the desert wrote a single sentence about it in the Bible.

I think ignorance is an abnomality. Why? because you are willfully underutilizing your brains natural ability.
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Old 06-22-2010, 12:11 PM
 
Location: Dallas
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FMLA covers married couples!! I can't take off of work for my boy friend and have it covered by FMLA, why should they. If we are talking equality!
Cause you can marry your boyfriend if you so choose. That's why. Next.
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