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Should Same Sex People be allowed to Marry

Should Same Sex People be allowed to Marry

  • yes,-- everybody should be treated equal

    Votes: 69 74.2%
  • No--some people should recieve preferential treatment

    Votes: 24 25.8%

  • Total voters
    93
They can. Except there are hundreds of other things that come automatically with marriage, including some that can't be replicated any other way. And replicating them could cost thousands of dollars in attorney's fees. Marriage is much cheaper and easier.

Right, so my choices are to either marry someone I don't want to marry, or to pay thousands of dollars in attorney's fees if I want to receive the same benefits that married folk get for free?

In the immortal words of Jubal Early, "Does that seem right to you?"
 
Right, so my choices are to either marry someone I don't want to marry, or to pay thousands of dollars in attorney's fees if I want to receive the same benefits that married folk get for free?

In the immortal words of Jubal Early, "Does that seem right to you?"

No.

But marriage isn't free. It's more like a prison! :mrgreen:
 
I vote no. It's against the sanctuary and tradition of marriage (a sacred bond between man and woman). On this matter I don't think I can get any more conservative.
 
I vote no. It's against the sanctuary and tradition of marriage (a sacred bond between man and woman).

Its against the sanctuary of marriage?:lol::lol::lol:
 
sanctuary of marriage in theory. don't include the 50% divorce rate :)
 
Okay, you just lost me...
I was having a debate with a Guy, and his stand was that "Only Gay Men should be allowed to Marry, as they were superior somehow" I countered with, any Male should then be allowed to marry also, so as to reap the benefits of marriage, just as he proposed that gay Men can do.
 
sanctuary of marriage in theory. don't include the 50% divorce rate :)

Lol. You are cracking me up Quasimodo. I am pretty sure you mean sanctity.
 
Sanctuary; Consecrated, Sacred.

Yeah, that's totally not what sanctuary means. Sanctuary is pretty much synonymous with asylum. Which makes sense I suppose, since marriage is like a prison for a couple of crazy people. :rofl
 
I vote no. It's against the sanctuary and tradition of marriage (a sacred bond between man and woman). On this matter I don't think I can get any more conservative.
Well, putting aside your hysterically funny malapropism, I think the sanctity argument is one of the most specious used by religious types to oppose SSM. If the principle of sanctity is so importnt to them, why aren't they campaigning against registry office weddings or barring anyone from marrying in a church who is not a regular attendee?
 
Well, putting aside your hysterically funny malapropism, I think the sanctity argument is one of the most specious used by religious types to oppose SSM. If the principle of sanctity is so importnt to them, why aren't they campaigning against registry office weddings or barring anyone from marrying in a church who is not a regular attendee?

Or trying to outlaw divorce?
 
Well, putting aside your hysterically funny malapropism

lol. You used the word malapropism. I wish I'd thought to use the word malapropism. You're my hero.
 
lol. You used the word malapropism. I wish I'd thought to use the word malapropism. You're my hero.
It was a commonly used word in my family when I was growing up, as grandma was the living incarnation of Mrs Malaprop. We also used to call her verbal slip-ups "grannyisms," but that wouldn't have made sense to anyone else here. :)
 
It was a commonly used word in my family when I was growing up, as grandma was the living incarnation of Mrs Malaprop. We also used to call her verbal slip-ups "grannyisms," but that wouldn't have made sense to anyone else here. :)

You speak too soon.
 
Indeed.


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Divorce is the most important part of Marriage, that needs to be reworked. And "Family courts", should be outlawed. ---they have their own Laws, that regular folks don't have to go by.
 
They can. Except there are hundreds of other things that come automatically with marriage, including some that can't be replicated any other way. And replicating them could cost thousands of dollars in attorney's fees. Marriage is much cheaper and easier.

Tell that to Tiger Woods.:roll:
 
So now two straight males could marry, and get all the tax benefits, right?
 
So now two straight males could marry, and get all the tax benefits, right?

A gay male and a lesbian female can do that now. Or two straights who aren't in love and never have sex (a "marriage of convenience"). Or two straights who won't, or can't, have children. Or...
 
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