Court weighs overturning gay marriage bans in three southern states

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Why?

Because some people aren't complete without a little discrimination in their lives.

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

Because some people aren't complete without a little discrimination in their lives.

Now now, it's not discrimination to be against same sex marriage. It would only be discrimination if you wanted STRAIGHT people to be able to have a same sex marriage and make gay people stay single. Everyone has the right to a nice, valid heterosexual marriage and everyone doesn't have the right to a horrible same sex marriage. Therefore everyone is equal.

It almost sounds like you're accusing this poster of homophobia! And we all know there's no such thing as a homophobe because no one is ever afraid of gay people.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Now now, it's not discrimination to be against same sex marriage. It would only be discrimination if you wanted STRAIGHT people to be able to have a same sex marriage and make gay people stay single. Everyone has the right to a nice, valid heterosexual marriage and everyone doesn't have the right to a horrible same sex marriage. Therefore everyone is equal.

It almost sounds like you're accusing this poster of homophobia! And we all know there's no such thing as a homophobe because no one is ever afraid of gay people.

Oh, I know. Back in the days, everyone had the right to marry someone of the opposite sex and same race. There was obviously no discrimination against interracial couples. That's why the interracial marriage bans stood the test of time. Right?

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

Oh, I know. Back in the days, everyone had the right to marry someone of the opposite sex and same race. There was obviously no discrimination against interracial couples. That's why the interracial marriage bans stood the test of time. Right?

Well OBVIOUSLY. And divorce is a myth! One man, one woman, until you die. Duh.

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

Get a room you two.

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

Get a room you two.

But only if it's in Texas! I'm married in most other states!

[We Keep Receipts 9,238]

But only if it's in Texas! I'm married in most other states!

Score!

[VOL 425]

Why?

It not right

Man and Woman can make child and continue the species

Being a Homosexual goes against nature and the natural procession of life.......

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

It not right

Man and Woman can make child and continue the species

Being a Homosexual goes against nature and the natural procession of life.......

Do you then believe that an infertile man and an infertile woman should not marry? Meaning a couple who cannot make a child?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

It not right

Man and Woman can make child and continue the species

Being a Homosexual goes against nature and the natural procession of life.......

Your clothes, house and most of the stuff in it isn't natural. So what?

The idea that human behaviour can be defined in such archaic and vague terms is utterly meaningless.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Do you then believe that an infertile man and an infertile woman should not marry? Meaning a couple who cannot make a child?

It would be grounds for annulment (marriage was invalid), if it was not disclosed prior to marriage in certain jurisdictions and within a certain time period. However, as to one issue regarding same sex marriage, that there is no adequate definition of consummation, that has been somewhat dispensed with in other jurisdictions:

In England and Wales, the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act of 2013 specifically excludes non-consummation as a ground for the annulment of a same-sex marriage.^[5] This is because there is no generally accepted legal definition of consummation for same-sex couples.

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

It would be grounds for annulment (marriage was invalid), if it was not disclosed prior to marriage in certain jurisdictions and within a certain time period. However, as to one issue regarding same sex marriage, that there is no adequate definition of consummation, that has been somewhat dispensed with in other jurisdictions:

Consummation is, honestly, a stupid and archaic thing to be using to determine whether or not annullment is applicable. The whole reasoning behind it is because women, once penetrated, are 'sullied' and not suitable for remarriage. Their value goes down.

Since most people in most areas in the western world, at this point, have had sex before they're married, so worrying about the 'maidenhead being damaged' is pointless and stupid.

[OriZ 3,157]

While I personally have no problem with gay marriage and am proud to live in the first state to introduce civil unions in July 2000, and the first state to introduce same-sex marriage by enacting a statute without being required to do so by a court decision(there were four others that did so sooner but as a result of court decisions, not legislation), I do think this is one of those things(just like pot, abortions and health care) that should be left up to each individual state. I don't think the Federal government or courts should have a hand in it or dictate to the states what they should do.

[Pooky 3,347]

I know how they are doing it : "Gay Bomb"

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2013/10/the-us-military-once-proposed-a-gay-bomb/

One doesnt commonly associate the slogan make love not war with the US military. Indeed, the United States military is feared and formidable precisely because it has proven so effective at conceptualising clever and innovative ways to search, find and destroy, often with the simple push of a button. However, in a departure from these hostile traditions, in 1994 the Wright Laboratory, part of the US Air Force, produced a three page proposal for a gay bomb.

Documentation obtained by the Sunshine Project, an anti-biological weapons non-governmental organisation, found that the Ohio-based Wright Lab requested a six-year, $US7.5 million grant to create a variety of non-lethal weapons. The bluntly titled project, called Harassing, Annoying and Bad Guy Identifying Chemicals reads like a bawdy proposal penned by a Bond Villian- Auric Goldfinger perhaps?

It proposed a bomb that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soldiers to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistibly attractive to one another. While the laboratory also came up with similarly questionable ideas, such as bad-breath bombs, flatulence bombs and bombs designed to attract swarms of stinging insects to enemy combatants, one has to admit that the gay bomb is certainly the most novel.

Please tell me they were working on a real-life fart gun.

[NikLR 13,220]

It not right

Man and Woman can make child and continue the species

Being a Homosexual goes against nature and the natural procession of life.......

So I shouldn't be married because I no longer can have children and my husband has never wanted them? People who dont want children can't be married? If the ability to procreate is the only basis maybe we should allow polygamy marriages, so one man can spread his sperm more or one woman can have multiple men to provide for her offspring. Rather like a herd of horses or pride of lions? Maybe more like wolves? Or perhaps more like elephants, or tigers or bears, where they live separately until procreation time happens? Oh but it is natural or else how do you explain all the mammals, birds, etc that ARE homosexual?

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Homosexual_behavior_in_animals&mobileaction=toggle_view_desktop

Edited January 11, 2015 by NLR