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an elderly woman marrying her daugther ? i mean are you watching LIFETIME ? where do you come up with this ?
oh and by the way, i LOVE my dogs but i'm not interested in marrying them. i'm sure you are headed down that path next. other people's relationship status shouldn't impact you in any possible way. if it does, you need to pick up a new hobby or maybe a 2nd or 3rd job to stay busy. you know, get a life.
i am BEGGING someone -
PLEASE - make your case AGAINST marriage equality WITHOUT using the words god, religion, bible, scripture, adam & eve, adam & steve, , dogs, animals and government.
what is your argument now??
all of your "religious" people - i 100% respect your beliefs and your passion for your god and your religion - i respect you.
HOWEVER, come up with a better answer than "are we going to let people marry dogs now?" or "the bible......"
things are changing in this country and it's for the BETTER. if you can tell me HOW on earth MY MARRIAGE to MY partner of 13 years will impact YOU or YOUR family - please let me know. we have children together, and i come from a very large family with a TON of neices & nephews. ALL of our family support us and love us very much. some are religious, some are not. stop telling people how kids will be negatively impacted. i invite you to my house or the park - - come see my kids play with other kids and see how much they are attached to me & my partner......
sorry but our lives are probably just as normal (or should i say miserable? haha) as yours. get over yourselves and keep in mind that your friend, family member, collegue, or next door neighbor may be gay.
this may be one of the first times i feel proud to be living back in this state !
you really should stop worrying about marriage equality and gay people taking over the world and all your other BS. worry about your own relationships and your own problems. i guarantee you that when marriage equality happens in this country - and it WILL happen SOON, you will not be impacted. actually, it is my hope you will actually see that yOUR life will not change in any way and maybe you'll realize there are people who are different than you and everyone doesn't think like you. (that's a good thing by the way)
Something Cynthia Nixon recently said...
Gay people who want to marry have no desire to redefine marriage in any way. When women got the right to vote, they did not redefine voting. When african americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter, alongside white people, they did not redefine eating out at restaurants. They were simply invited to the table.
The fact that you cannot sell your daugther for 3 cows and a goat means we have already redefined marriage.
It's funny how gay people want to impose our views on the rest of society. As a teacher in the public school system, I was completely open about my partner, children, and life. I taught 100s if not 1000s of kids and met lots of amazing parents and teachers along the way. Not once was I told that I was imposing my views on others. I wonder how many people I turned gay. WOW now i'm curious , who turned ME gay ?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?
I'm not interested about what the rest of the country thinks about "homosexuals". I don't make decisions or decide to go eat at a restaurant or go see a movie or live in a house or live in a particular city based on what the majority of people think i should do. When talking about a minority group, you do not allow the majority to make decisions for that group.
Try writing a post on here without bringing up the word bible or god or christian. good luck with that one.
the bible is the bible. it's not in the government's handbook. this may come as a SHOCK to you, but people believe in different things, have different religions, have no religion, and it's really not up to you to tell the world what the bible says and act like it's the LAW. it's not the law. it's YOUR belief, but not everyones.
by the way, people who want to say, "i don't care what people do in the privacy of their own home or in their bedroom...." is also annoying. this isn't about the bedroom. it's not about what i do behind closed doors with my partner. i have a family - kids, dogs, a house, a partner......we want the same rights as others have PERIOD. people need to stop thinking about gay peoples' bedroom life because i can guarantee WE DO NOT THINK ABOUT YOURS ! ! ! it's not about that.
can you come up with another argument aside from what the bible says? give me a break.
i was raised catholic, come from a VERY big family, and my entire family accepts my partner, our children, and have been amazing for SEVERAL years. take a lesson from them, you never know - i may be your next door neighbor....
You'll have to share the names of the magazines where you read articles stating that civil unions are the same thing as being married. Seriously, you should let us know the names of the magazines because it's just not true. I live in Indiana. As far as the states that allow civil unions, I am going to let you look that one up on your own, but Vermont was the first state allowing them in 2000 and others have followed since, including Colorado most recently and Illinois in 2011 along with others. Yes that is correct, I will not be satisfied until my partner, children, & I share the same rights as you and your husband shared for 52 years. The reason you cannot count over 1100 benefits you recieve from being married is probably because you take so many of them for granted. That is the only reason I can think of - because you have more than 1100 benefits that my partner & I do not get, and I can guarantee you we are in a healthy, committed, amazing relationship.
For exmple, using your situation as an example, when your husband passed away, you may have had a right to social security payments based on the earnings of you 2 as a couple, rather than only YOUR earnings. Same-sex couples are not eligible for such benefits. So it doesn't really matter if my partner's SS is more than mine - I currently would not have access to hers if she passed away.
Since you are interested in knowing why I am in a civil union if there are no benefits, I will tell you this: There ARE benefits on a STATE level. For example, when we lived in a state that allowed civil unions, we could file state taxes together, but not federal taxes. Other benefits of a civil union on a state level include emergency medical decision-making power, access to domestic relations laws/procedure, and state spousal benefits including workers' compensation. These are only state benefits, so they do not apply across the board like marriage benefits would.
It is interesting that you are so concerned with "homosexuals not being satisfied until marriage is re-defined...." <--- those are your words. It's interesting that you say that because I cannot understand HOW my marriage to my partner would have ANY impact on you. My parents were also married for over 50 years before my father passed away. Both of my parents have been VERY supportive of marriage equality throughout the years and they would be the first to tell you that my happieness and being treated just as equal to them & my brothers and sisters would make them happy. As far as my relationship with my partner bothering you, I'd love to hear how you would be negatively impacted. If my partner & I were able to get legally married, in what way would it bother you? Because with all due respect, your marriage to your husband in NO way impacted me.
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