Be careful what you ask for ... because you might get it.
Posted on 06/10/2008 5:02:59 AM PDT by Zakeet
Next week, same-sex couples across the country who want to marry will be welcomed in California. But what happens if they later want to divorce?
That is one of the many legal issues that could confront California newlyweds who return to home states where same-sex marriages are prohibited. Unlike a Massachusetts ruling a few years ago, a landmark court ruling last month allowing same-sex marriages in California will permit almost any out-of-state couples to wed there.
But that doesn't mean their lives after the wedding will be easy. Some gay and lesbian couples joined by marriage in Massachusetts or Canada, or under civil unions from, say, Vermont, contend with legal limbo in other states. Among the tricky issues, apart from divorce, that can make the honeymoon feel decidedly over are employee benefits, bankruptcy filings and inheritance rights.
John McCall Jr., a Dallas lawyer who represents gay and lesbian clients in property and custody disputes, says that thanks to the legal thicket same-sex couples can face, his clients "over and over again tell other couples considering marriage to run in the other direction."
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Be careful what you ask for ... because you might get it.
Since they want everything changed, there should be a law making it impossible for them to get divorced.
Why would they want to get divorced? Don’t they love each other?
Look in the picture. They think that they can legislate respect for their actions.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
YIKES.
GUILTY!!!
Their biggest hurdle is to repent before they end up burning for eternity.
That said the two gals look like Starbucks counter employees, the blond fellow looks like a Broadway wannabe and junior looks like a veterinarian assistant.
Exactly right! Remember how the gay NJ Gov. Jim McGreevy used to frequent men's rest rooms at truck stops looking for sex...
“They think that they can legislate respect for their actions.”
And that, of course, is the whole point of their movement!
It should simply be against the law to have an unfavorable opinion of homosexuality.
“It should simply be against the law to have an unfavorable opinion of homosexuality”
Be patient. That’s next on the agenda. It’s already happening in Europe and Canada.
Generally, they don’t want to “get married” for the same reasons that heteros get married.
They want to undefine marriage in order to destroy the special status that our society gives to marriage.
Notice, I said UNDEFINE, not REdefine. That is what they want.
And in Califoricatia, there is a movement underway to punish the use of terms that show any preference for traditional marriage - like “husband/wife, mother/father”, etc.
Just like most celebrities.
I haven’t heard of this movement but it would nor surprise me. Father, mother and such are SO patriarchal, don’tcha know? The lawmakers most pushing this are gay and include the former Zelda from the Dobie Gillis show, along with some other confreres. A lot of things get introduced and stuck in committees, only to be brought forth the next session, and the next session and the next session until it seems the lawmakers enact them just to be rid of the bother.
I think that’s a lesson for Conservatives. Instead of immolating ourselves for an important principle, we need to work incrementally and get whatever we can whenever we can to push the country to the right. This is how much of the left worked. It pushed candidates who supported its agenda, putting those who publicly campaigned in the center into power on the assurance the candidate would move to the left if at all possible. It is a difficult task but it worked for them. Look how far the left agenda is now part of our society and they didn’t do it by boycotting elections because this or that candidate said he or she supported the DOMA.
It would be nice to have a completely up-front campaign of right versus left but I don’t think it is possible these days. Too many people vote their entitlements and too many others are willing to sacrifice everything for just one plank of a platform. This is like Cleavon Little in “Blazing Saddles” threatening to shoot himself if his demands weren’t met. We have been complacent and society is coarsening. We now have to face the Long March back to sanity and each step counts.
Nations moving to ban heterosexual biased language:
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/nov/07111407.html
Does this mean I can look forward to a certain twelve-letter profanity being banned?
No, undeniable truth about liberalism #2 states that liberals do not support any individual freedoms except those that relate to sexual behavior choices.
This probably includes the words to describe such choices.
Well at least let me contemplate such gems as “Partner of All Bombs”, “Guardian Long Legs”, “Sugar Carer”, and “As American as Significant Other and Apple Pie”.
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