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I personally think that the government should be taken out of marriage totally. gay and straight. I don't believe in the institution. I don't need the government license to tell me who I can or can't sleep with.
I don't care if you protest. I am saying that it's not going to happen here for something that happened in california. there isn't some massive gay population here like their is in some cities in california. I will just laugh if I see some people protesting. then if they get in my way, I will tase them.
Tase them for getting in your way? Are you a power hungry cop?
I personally think that the government should be taken out of marriage totally. gay and straight. I don't believe in the institution. I don't need the government license to tell me who I can or can't sleep with.
Well only Massachusetts and Connecticut allow gay marriage. California is the spark that made this nationwide. Deal with that.
if there was a protest in the streets, and I couldn't get through, I would ram them. has nothing to do with being a cop, and I am not a cop. I am also someone who doesn't like people harassing me for something I didn't do. protest in a freaking open field.
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Originally Posted by LogicIsYourFriend
Tase them for getting in your way? Are you a power hungry cop?
it wasn't a spark, and probably 2% of the nation really cares. I am sure that the protest of 15 people in the town I live in is going to make history. no one cares, deal with that. the election is over.
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Originally Posted by SurfOmaha
Well only Massachusetts and Connecticut allow gay marriage. California is the spark that made this nationwide. Deal with that.
it wasn't a spark, and probably 2% of the nation really cares. I am sure that the protest of 15 people in the town I live in is going to make history. no one cares, deal with that. the election is over.
But we are going to continue to fight for our rights. You just don't get it.
I personally think that the government should be taken out of marriage totally. gay and straight. I don't believe in the institution. I don't need the government license to tell me who I can or can't sleep with.
You've missed the point or are engaging in a straw-man argument. This has absolutely nothing to do with who you can sleep with. It is exactly about whether our society can continue in the millennia-old opinion that a man and a woman can form a special, protected relationship within the society that is different from other relationships. This special relationship, which forms the basis of society and creates its new members, is called "marriage." It isn't about sex per se, nor is it about love, though most people hope that is there.
Some people want to pretend that marriage is about who loves whom, or who is committed to whom, or something else. The fact is that marriages exist to define, stabilize, and protect male/female bonds that create other humans as part of the larger culture and society. Consenting adults can live together, have sex together, adopt a common name, and legally tie themselves to each other under a variety of contracts. But not all such relationships are "marriages."
It's as if short people (including me) declare that they want to be known as "tall" from this time forward in order to eliminate the discrimination, stigma, and unfairness of their shortness. So they pass a law saying that all adults must be given equal access to the label "tall" as a matter of human rights and dignity, and anyone who opposes there movement is a hater of short people.
Voters in Californian and elsewhere have said that the word "marriage" is going to mean what it has always meant, and that society is going to continue to recognize the reality that protecting and encouraging human reproduction and family organization is a reasonable, justifiable goal.
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