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Same-Sex Marriage Wins by Losing By DAN SAVAGE
New York Times ^ | July 30, 2006 | DAN SAVAGE

Posted on 07/30/2006 2:48:29 PM PDT by Checkers

THERE were community meetings in Seattle on Wednesday. Some of the couples who had sued to overturn Washington’s ban on same-sex marriage, a case they lost before the state’s Supreme Court earlier that day, were going to appear. Gay and straight elected officials who support “marriage equality” were going to make speeches. I probably should have been there too.

But I had a previous engagement.

The Seattle Mariners were playing the Toronto Blue Jays at Safeco Field. My 8-year-old son — adopted at birth by my boyfriend and me — loves the M’s almost as much as he hates the way a breaking news story can keep me late at work. He would never have forgiven me for skipping the game.

I didn’t feel too bad about missing the meetings. Washington’s high court rejected same-sex marriage for much the same reason the New York Court of Appeals did earlier this month. The speeches in Seattle would no doubt be similar to those made in New York, and I didn’t need to hear them again.

Basically, both courts found that marriage is like a box of Trix: It’s for kids.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: anal; dementedfreaks; filmactorsguild; gay; gayrecruiting; homosexualagenda; keepqueersaway; kids; moleting; nambla; puke; samesexmarriage; sicksick; sicksicksick
Dan Savage can be reached at: dan@thestranger.com
1 posted on 07/30/2006 2:48:30 PM PDT by Checkers
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To: Checkers

Dan Savage can be reached at: dan@thestranger.com


2 posted on 07/30/2006 2:48:55 PM PDT by Checkers (Mort Kondracke: "Kennedy has been character assassinating Judicial nominees since...Haynesworth.")
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To: Checkers
what kind of girls name is Dan ?

oh wait...never-mind
3 posted on 07/30/2006 2:50:54 PM PDT by stylin19a
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To: stylin19a

"what kind of girls name is Dan ?"

The kind that's FAB-BUL-OUS!!!


4 posted on 07/30/2006 2:52:18 PM PDT by Checkers (Mort Kondracke: "Kennedy has been character assassinating Judicial nominees since...Haynesworth.")
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To: Checkers
"Same-Sex Marriage Wins by Losing "

The Slimes = The Ministry of Truth in Orwell's "1984"
5 posted on 07/30/2006 2:55:11 PM PDT by Jameison
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To: Checkers

Too precious.


6 posted on 07/30/2006 2:57:20 PM PDT by SmithL (The fact that they can't find Hoffa is proof that he never existed.)
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To: Checkers

Even for the NYT this is a new standard of sleaziness allowing this aids-infested hatemonger to have this say in their pages. If anybody didn't believe that the NYT is at war with America and American culture, this ought to be proof positive (that, and the constant acts of treason).


7 posted on 07/30/2006 2:57:56 PM PDT by bpjam (Remember our fallen Marines from Beirut. Hezbollah deserves no peace.)
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To: Checkers

It was so nice to sit in Church today and have one of the Prayers be THANKING the Majority on the WA Supreme Court for their actions maintaining marriage as between a MAN and a WOMAN.....


8 posted on 07/30/2006 2:58:46 PM PDT by goodnesswins ( The Dems are so far to the left they have left America.)
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To: Checkers
puke
9 posted on 07/30/2006 2:59:51 PM PDT by darkangel82 (Higher visibility leads to greater zottability.)
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To: scripter; DBeers; DirtyHarryY2K

ping to the list


10 posted on 07/30/2006 3:00:28 PM PDT by darkangel82 (Higher visibility leads to greater zottability.)
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To: Checkers

He has a point. Even if homosexual marriage loses in 50 referendums, they'll just keep trying it until they wear the voters down. It happens.


11 posted on 07/30/2006 3:03:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Checkers

Uh huh, I went to Vegas and kept losing but it felt like I was winning ...


12 posted on 07/30/2006 3:07:41 PM PDT by John Lenin (Don't crush that dwarf, hand me the pliers)
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To: Checkers
btw, I love that the queer lobby is deciding to start attacking 'breeders' and 'unfit parents' as their strategy to get gay marriage accepted. There are so, so, so, so few gays who want to adopt aside from the miniscule percentage of people who are actually 'gay' (as opposed to people who just have sex with anything and don't care about having a 'lifestyle' centered around anal sex).

This strategy really helps expose that these queer groups actually look DOWN on heterosexuals like some kind of farm animals who crank out babies and do little else of value. It reminds me of the vampire movies where the vampires refer to humans as cattle or food. The queer lobby not only has a death wise for American, society and the human race as a whole, they also are deeply unhappy people who hate the majority of the population for not being like them and making them seem 'normal.'

I don't believe that most people who are gay do not subscribe to the queer lobby agenda but they have absolutely no voice in the media or the culture since they are mostly trying to live under the radar.

13 posted on 07/30/2006 3:08:34 PM PDT by bpjam (Remember our fallen Marines from Beirut. Hezbollah deserves no peace.)
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To: Checkers
It is just as impossible for a human to marry someone of the same sex as it is for a human to marry an animal or a tree stump.

Of course someone who accepts the corrupted meaning of gay might also accept the corrupted meaning of marry or marriage.
14 posted on 07/30/2006 3:08:41 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: Checkers

15 posted on 07/30/2006 3:15:16 PM PDT by Checkers (Mort Kondracke: "Kennedy has been character assassinating Judicial nominees since...Haynesworth.")
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To: Checkers
Basically, both courts found that marriage is like a box of Trix: It’s for kids.

No, Dan. Marriage is a union between a man and a woman. You and your boyfriend are missing one ingredient. Hopefully your son will grow up to understand his "mother and father" pretended to be a natural family based on an unnatural relationship. But after years of indoctrination he probably won't. One thing's for sure...it won't be a surprise to him to find out he was adopted.

But, perhaps the courts were right. Marriage is for kids. You and Brucie--or whatever your boyfriend's name is--were not created without heterosexuality nor were you two able to produce children without the help of heterosexuality yet you and your ilk continue to reject the notion that your behavior is unnatural. Well, it is and pretending to be like the rest of us won't change that. Saavy, freak?!

16 posted on 07/30/2006 3:22:22 PM PDT by blake6900 (YOUR AD HERE)
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To: DBeers

And here's the same thing in reverse (I think). If they win by losing, and win by winning, something's a little wrong with their reasoning.


17 posted on 07/30/2006 3:39:49 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: Checkers

I hope everyone here knoww who Dan Savage is. He is a militant homosexual and a sex columnist, whose "advice" column is basically a weekly advertisement for perversity and sexual deviance. His column runs in many independent weeklies in the big cities, including the Village Voice and the Washington City Paper. I cannot believe the New York Times would run anything this purveyor of filth wouold write -- oh no, wait a minute, yes I can.


18 posted on 07/30/2006 5:06:57 PM PDT by Dems_R_Losers (Meet the new dictators of America.....Bill Keller, James Risen, Eric Lichtblau, and Dana Priest)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

Dan Savage is the self-described "faggot" (his word, not mine) who, when infected with influenza, joined the 2000 Bauer campaign with the intention of infecting the candidate.

I guess those are bona fides of respectable opinion at the NYT.


19 posted on 07/30/2006 5:23:13 PM PDT by RBroadfoot
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To: Checkers

Icch...


20 posted on 07/30/2006 5:24:42 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Going partly violently to the thing 24-7!)
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To: blake6900

AMEN!


21 posted on 07/30/2006 5:25:31 PM PDT by srmorton (Choose Life!)
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To: nickcarraway

SH__ Happens too -fortunately they have little pills one can take to cure the symptoms of the trots-- with apathy
I guess one has to lose enough it begins to hurt before one
gets tired of the crap.


22 posted on 07/30/2006 5:47:40 PM PDT by StonyBurk
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To: Checkers
Dan Savage can be reached at: dan@thestranger.com

I doubt it.

Most of them can't be reached anymore.

23 posted on 07/30/2006 7:46:46 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle (God has blessed Republicans with willfully ignorant enemies.)
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To: Checkers
Same-Sex Marriage Wins by Losing

I hope they have many more of these "victories".

24 posted on 07/30/2006 10:56:43 PM PDT by music is math
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To: Dems_R_Losers
And I had the misfortune of reading some of his advice...

He's presenting himself as a stable parent to the blue chip media. A real soccer dad. And yet, in a column where a reader wrote in asking about a gay relative, he admits that male adherents of his lifestyle (or whatever you want to call it) are not monogamous.

Which begs the question. How does hyper-sexuality with multiple partners contribute to a stable family?
25 posted on 07/31/2006 12:46:18 PM PDT by Alyosha3 (alyosha3)
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How does hyper-sexuality with multiple partners contribute to a stable family?

When one lives in a world of his own, makes his own rules and defines his own logic, anything it possible. I take comfort knowing this assho!e is on the other side and we have nothing in common...nor will we...ever...

26 posted on 07/31/2006 12:57:44 PM PDT by blake6900 (YOUR AD HERE)
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To: Checkers
What a sickola this guy is. I wonder what he tells his "son" when the lad asks him where his mother is? He probably just throws a hissy fit and refuses to talk about it.

Purposely denying a child a mother AND father is child abuse.
27 posted on 07/31/2006 1:00:27 PM PDT by Antoninus (Public schools are the madrassas of the American Left. --Ann Coulter, Godless)
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To: goodnesswins

"It was so nice to sit in Church today and have one of the Prayers be THANKING the Majority on the WA Supreme Court..."

Your church prays to the WA Supreme Court?


28 posted on 07/31/2006 6:03:45 PM PDT by Kahonek
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To: Kahonek

LOL....I did make it SOUND that way, didn't I.....the answer is, of course not....


29 posted on 07/31/2006 8:54:36 PM PDT by goodnesswins ( The Dems are so far to the left they have left America.)
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To: Checkers

Man, if the US is so bad, why don't he and his 'partner' just move on over to Canada, where they will feel welcomed?


30 posted on 07/31/2006 9:11:45 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Antoninus
What a sickola this guy is. I wonder what he tells his "son" when the lad asks him where his mother is? He probably just throws a hissy fit and refuses to talk about it.

Purposely denying a child a mother AND father is child abuse.

Dan and his partner rescued the kid from a drug-addled, irresponsible mother. She has limited visitation rights. At least she didn't abort.

I don't agree with some of what Dan does, but I know him, and he's a decent guy.

31 posted on 07/31/2006 9:24:08 PM PDT by paulat
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To: paulat

What about the Gary Bauer incident?


32 posted on 08/01/2006 4:26:06 AM PDT by Checkers (Mort Kondracke: "Kennedy has been character assassinating Judicial nominees since...Haynesworth.")
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To: paulat
I don't agree with some of what Dan does, but I know him, and he's a decent guy.

A pair of homosexuals should not be raising someone else's child. It's like flipping the kid out of the frying pan into the fire.
33 posted on 08/01/2006 7:20:38 AM PDT by Antoninus (Public schools are the madrassas of the American Left. --Ann Coulter, Godless)
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To: Checkers

bump


34 posted on 08/04/2006 5:23:11 AM PDT by Checkers (Mort Kondracke: "Kennedy has been character assassinating Judicial nominees since...Haynesworth.")
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