Posted on 03/26/2013 2:41:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
They can start with the tax forms. No more Married Filing Jointly/Separately categories.
-PJ
You think rights only exist at the federal level? Can a state ban firearms? Not practice equality under the law? Do an unreasonable search and seizure?
Hell, when did it become socially required to accept homosexuality as normal?
They don’t want to be merely accepted, they demand to be embraced and promoted. They want our children to be punished if they look at this lifestyle with the critical eye of skepticism.
I'll take 3 Scalia's, 3 Alito's, and 3 Clarance Thomas'... gotta have some "diversity" on the court, after all.
>> (and one token liberal for comic relief.) He/she (maybe both, we could have a "transgendered" person) can serve as court stenographer.
He hasn't been "our" Ted Olson for a while, especially since he married "Lady Booth", he's gone to the dark side. Olson should just change his party affiliation to RAT and make it official.
He’s a lawyer. Gay marriage means big $$$ for lawyers.
Olson’s response was idiotic.
No Religion will be able to refuse the infusion of LGBT into the Church of any religion
I can see Islam would disagree, and probably refuse
in a way that can’t be dismissed.
The only reason they are pushing this is cause Christianity
will not fight back. Wait til they try it with Mohammed.
If that's the reason, we wouldn't have any legal team on our side arguing forcefully for traditional marriage.
Not all lawyers are blinded by money, but the majority are.
Guess its back to one of those glass being half full or half empty conundrums. Regardless of how Cal voters swing in 2014, I say its a win for the Constitution for SCOTUS to say “its up to the voters”.
Don’t see how your clearly false claim is germane to this discussion.
How can he be on the right side if he cannot recognize that the Constitution had a moral foundation that reflected basic Christian morality, which even Unitarians overall seems to have professed (then), and thus homosexual marriage as well as marriage btwn man and animals or trees is not recognized as marriage.
RIP BKO.
I’ve been reading this argument all day, that gays can marry anyone they want of the opposite sex. That argument is being used as a threat by some in the gay community: If we don’t get same sex marriage, we will marry your daughters.
It would be used as a way to hurt the young daughters, their traditional families, and society. It’s the same sort of evil of some AIDS patients purposely having sex with partners for the sole purpose of spreading the disease and hurting more people.
They do not draw up contracts in any form.
Most animals will also mate again if possible despite the former’s death. Plus, mostly it’s birds who do this, not mammals like us. Men tend to want to spread their genes, not stick to 1. Marriage was created in the advanced human civilized wisdom that it’s better for the children involved that the men stick around.
But at one time they understood God did: General Laws:
CRIMES, PUNISHMENTS AND PROCEEDINGS IN CRIMINAL CASES
TITLE I.
CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
CHAPTER 272.
CRIMES AGAINST CHASTITY, MORALITY, DECENCY AND GOOD ORDER
Section 36: Blasphemy
Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing or contumeliously [without respect; in a disdainful manner] reproaching God, His creation, government or final judging of the world, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching or exposing to contempt and ridicule, the holy word of God contained in the holy scriptures shall be punished by imprisonment in jail for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars, and may also be bound to good behavior.
Section 38: Disturbance of assembly for worship
Whoever wilfully interrupts or disturbs an assembly of people met for worship of God shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than one year or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars.
Section 14: Adultery
A married person who has sexual intercourse with a person not his spouse or an unmarried person who has sexual intercourse with a married person shall be guilty of adultery and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than three years or in jail for not more than two years or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars.
Section 15: Polygamy
Whoever, having a former husband or wife living, marries another person or continues to cohabit with a second husband or wife in the commonwealth shall be guilty of polygamy, and be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years or in jail for not more than two and one half years or by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars; but this section shall not apply to a person whose husband or wife has continually remained beyond sea, or has voluntarily withdrawn from the other and remained absent, for seven consecutive years, the party marrying again not knowing the other to be living within that time, nor to a person who has been legally divorced from the bonds of matrimony.
PART IV.
Section 17: Incestuous marriage or sexual activities
Persons within degrees of consanguinity [related by blood] within which marriages are prohibited or declared by law to be incestuous and void, who intermarry or have sexual intercourse with each other, or who engage in sexual activities with each other, including but not limited to, oral or anal intercourse, fellatio, cunnilingus, or other penetration of a part of a person's body, or insertion of an object into the genital or anal opening of another person's body, or the manual manipulation of the genitalia of another person's body, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than 20 years or in the house of correction for not more than 21/2 years.
Section 18: Fornication
Section 18. Whoever commits fornication shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than three months or by a fine of not more than thirty dollars.
Section 34: Crime against nature
Whoever commits the abominable and detestable crime against nature, either with mankind or with a beast, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than twenty years.
Section 35: Unnatural and lascivious acts
Whoever commits any unnatural and lascivious act with another person shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than five years or in jail or the house of correction for not more than two and one half years.
Section 16: Open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior A man or woman, married or unmarried, who is guilty of open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than three years or in jail for not more than two years or by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars.
Just allowing people to marry "anyone they want of the opposite sex" has led to a great deal of unhappiness and chaos. There must be a better system and it's about time we began looking for one. Too many times I've heard older folks correctly predict that certain marriages would lead to nothing but trouble and misery for everyone involved.
People who decide upon marriage should be required to get the approval of interested older people before taking an important leap like marriage.
Unfortunately. sometimes when younger people “fall in love” the only thing that will get them to fall out of ‘love’ is marriage. I tend to think of it as being in heat but they think it’s love and no force on earth is strong enough to separate them, except a marriage license.
Of course, you're right. There should probably be no sex for at least a year after marriage to make sure that the parties really know what they're getting into. That might also prevent a lot of single, divorced parents. After a year of abstinence, they'll be less likely to get divorced shortly after having children.
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