Glad we are so “woke” too bad I can’t go have a scotch and a cigar at a bar, that’s a risk but three people married guess that’s a step forward.

https://www.bostonherald.com/2...omestic-partnership/

More breakdown of society and nothing is immoral or wrong.

Watch, same start as civil unions.

Which state will be the first to marry a human and an animal, California or Massachusetts?

Honestly, who gives a shit anymore? Oh noes, the homoqueers can marry, and now maybe they can marry again without getting divorced! And save the slippery slope to pederasty and bestiality for someone else.

Time for a real hobby.

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Originally posted by airsoft guy:
Honestly...

If I see a thread I can tell I am not going to like, I don't click on it. If I accidentally click on one I don't care for, I get out. I don't waste my time trying to tell other adults what to think. I don't possess that level of arrogance.

You might try it. It can only make you less angry.



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Originally posted by airsoft guy:
Honestly, who gives a shit anymore?

(Raises hand)

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Originally posted by TigerDore:
Which state will be the first to marry a human and an animal, California or Massachusetts?

California heads, Massachusetts tails. Call it in the air?

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Originally posted by TigerDore:

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Originally posted by airsoft guy:
Honestly...

If I see a thread I can tell I am not going to like, I don't click on it. If I accidentally click on one I don't care for, I get out. I don't waste my time trying to tell other adults what to think. I don't possess that level of arrogance.

You might try it. It can only make you less angry.



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Sorry I interrupted the Echo Chamber with opinions you don't care for, your lordship.

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Originally posted by Beancooker:

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Originally posted by TigerDore:
Which state will be the first to marry a human and an animal, California or Massachusetts?

California heads, Massachusetts tails. Call it in the air?

It was tails.



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Who would want to marry more than one person?

Bigamy is having one wife too many.
Monogamy is the same.

Someone could reside with and have “intimate” relations with as many people of the same and opposite sex as they wanted everywhere in the country that I’m familiar with and no one would bat an eye at it, even if some of those relationships resulted in offspring. And yet calling more than one of those relationships a “marriage” is somehow cause for alarm and governmental regulation—?

I thought that Conservatives were generally in favor of actual marriages as compared with convenient living arrangements or simply sperm donor/recipient transactions because they were usually considered more stable and beneficial for all concerned, and as contrasted with what is the rule rather than the exception in our massive welfare havens.

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Originally posted by sigfreund:
Someone could reside with and have “intimate” relations with as many people of the same and opposite sex as they wanted everywhere in the country that I’m familiar with and no one would bat an eye at it, even if some of those relationships resulted in offspring. And yet calling more than one of those relationships a “marriage” is somehow cause for alarm and governmental regulation—?

I thought that Conservatives were generally in favor of actual marriages as compared with convenient living arrangements or simply sperm donor/recipient transactions because they were usually considered more stable and beneficial for all concerned, and as contrasted with what is the rule rather than the exception in our massive welfare havens.

Aye. The only reason this is really an issue, is because government made it their business a long time ago.

Are we for smaller government, or not? Because this sounds like a fantastic opportunity to divorce government from marriage altogether.

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Originally posted by airsoft guy:

Aye. The only reason this is really an issue, is because government made it their business a long time ago.

Are we for smaller government, or not? Because this sounds like a fantastic opportunity to divorce government from marriage altogether.

I agree completely.



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So now when you get divorced do they each get half your shit?

This stuff is more important than opening business and getting things running, can't have more than 20 people at a party but we'll take time to legislate this crap.

Allow me to marshal an argument that I can't articulate and I'm not even sure is correct.

My understanding was what the law sees as marriage has been reserved to a man and woman based on the "holy union" as well as raising children. There are benefits to this Legal union that are only for them, historically.

The problem with the gay marriage deal was, now those benefits apply to only gay men or women, that are outside of the norm and then why not civil unions? Me and my non gay friend could theoretically apply for the same status even though we aren't "married." And I can't explain the depth of what the benefits might be. Taxes, medical, etc.

So it then seems like, I could be legally "married" to one person, and then enter into other various "marriages" or if they let civil unions in then that too. And where does the line get drawn.

A man who had way more material than me explained this to me back when gay marriage was a big deal and I saw what the argument against it was in the micro, non hatey Christian kinda way. And it made sense to me at the time. Being a jackass who can't even remember what I had for lunch yesterday, I'm lost to try and replicate that argument here.

Hoping somebody drops in here to verify or nullify that.

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My understanding was what the law sees as marriage has been reserved to a man and woman based on the "holy union" as well as raising children. There are benefits to this Legal union that are only for them, historically.

Such it has been for millennia. Such it will be again.
Marriage is not a government construct.

I’ll be honest. I was talking to an Iraqi interpreter during my last deployment. Told me he had 3 wives.

The reason he took a job interpreting for the US Army 150 miles from home? He had 3 wives....

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Originally posted by airsoft guy:
... And save the slippery slope to pederasty and bestiality for someone else.

Time for a real hobby.

Was any one else struck by the juxtaposition of these two sentences?