The next step after gay marriage

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Look on the bright side: Gay divorce is now legal in all 50 states. 😛

I should’ve gone to law school… 😉
 
on_the_hill said:
Look on the bright side: Gay divorce is now legal in all 50 states. 😛

I should’ve gone to law school… 😉
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A Pennsylvania newspaper has notified the world that it will no longer print anti-gay marriage op-eds or letters to the editor. Should the opinion pages be declared public accommodations?
 
unstoppable_II said:
A Pennsylvania newspaper has notified the world that it will no longer print anti-gay marriage op-eds or letters to the editor. Should the opinion pages be declared public accommodations?
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How long do you think it’ll be till writing such a letter or speaking such sentiments will be considered hate speech and made illegal? It’s already happened in Canada.
 
Actually in Massachusetts I am pretty sure rates have stayed pretty much the same. In the last few years marriage rates in general have gone down so I think there is a lower divorce rate because marriages have gone down (the way rates are calculated are dividing the number of marriages in the year between the divorces in the year). I think the uproar of gays getting married was in the befining but pretty Much after a few years not too many were getting married.
 
ProdglArchitect said:
How long do you think it’ll be till writing such a letter or speaking such sentiments will be considered hate speech and made illegal? It’s already happened in Canada.
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It’s been in effect there for about 10 years. I give it 5 years here before we’re at their point.
 
on_the_hill said:
Look on the bright side: Gay divorce is now legal in all 50 states. 😛

I should’ve gone to law school… 😉
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Statistically, homosexual relationships are not long lasting. I also think that lots of couples will be getting “married” in the next severals weeks/months just to make a statement, not necessarily because they want to have a life-time commitment.

Same-sex divorce lawyer sounds like it will be moving up on the vocations index.
 
Corki said:
Statistically, homosexual relationships are not long lasting. I also think that lots of couples will be getting “married” in the next severals weeks/months just to make a statement, not necessarily because they want to have a life-time commitment.

Same-sex divorce lawyer sounds like it will be moving up on the vocations index.
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As ugly as divorce gets…get ready for the ante to be upped. Way up.
 
pianistclare said:
As ugly as divorce gets…get ready for the ante to be upped. Way up.
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When the child is already viewed as a piece of property that each parent has a “right” to, I imagine the custody battles are going to get ugly.
 
Corki said:
Statistically, homosexual relationships are not long lasting. I also think that lots of couples will be getting “married” in the next severals weeks/months just to make a statement, not necessarily because they want to have a life-time commitment.

Same-sex divorce lawyer sounds like it will be moving up on the vocations index.
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When I was growing up, one of the arguments I heard to reinforce the concept that African Americans were somehow “less than” was their propensity to live in substandard housing but drive expensive cars. When I got a little older, I realized that, at that point in time, AA’s were prohibited from living in most of the better areas and therefore used their discretionary income for better cars since car dealers were happy to take anyone’s money, no matter what their skin color was.

I wonder if this isn’t related to those statistics about gay relationships. Most grew up knowing that a stable marriage was not available to them and formed a different opinion about choosing a partner. Even those who were in long-term relationships and, more recently, marriages did not have the backing of a supportive society behind them as heterosexual couples.
 
ProdglArchitect said:
When the child is already viewed as a piece of property that each parent has a “right” to, I imagine the custody battles are going to get ugly.
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Yeah. The David Tutera case comes to mind. Sad. Beyond sad, really.
 
unstoppable_II said:
A Pennsylvania newspaper has notified the world that it will no longer print anti-gay marriage op-eds or letters to the editor. Should the opinion pages be declared public accommodations?
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What newspaper?

Christi pax,

Lucretius

St. Peter and St. Paul, pray for us!
 
I think the next step is the removal of marriage as a legal institution. I know people my age (interestingly enough, many of them homosexuals) who are telling me that marriage needs to be destroyed, since everybody “knows” that it was “started” as a “patriarchal” institution to “suppress” women, and that it should have died out in the '60s :rolleyes: Of course, these people do not yet recognize the tax benefits of being legally marriage yet 😉

But seriously, once people sit down and remember that following “gay marriage,” the state has no purpose to support such a thing anymore, eventually they will probably just erase it.

If marriage is about consenting persons (some of us are still behind and say “consenting adults” still 😃 ), then why do I even need the state? Why does the state need to be some sort of middle man?

Christi pax,

Lucretius

St. Peter and St. Paul, pray for us!
 
on_the_hill said:
Look on the bright side: …
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I keep looking for a bright side. I can’t see it. I am so sad. The past several years have been so difficult and it just doesn’t get any better… We just keep spiraling ever downward… God help us. God save us.
 
Book_Worm said:
When I was growing up, one of the arguments I heard to reinforce the concept that African Americans were somehow “less than” was their propensity to live in substandard housing but drive expensive cars. When I got a little older, I realized that, at that point in time, AA’s were prohibited from living in most of the better areas and therefore used their discretionary income for better cars since car dealers were happy to take anyone’s money, no matter what their skin color was.

I wonder if this isn’t related to those statistics about gay relationships. Most grew up knowing that a stable marriage was not available to them and formed a different opinion about choosing a partner. Even those who were in long-term relationships and, more recently, marriages did not have the backing of a supportive society behind them as heterosexual couples.
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This 👍
 
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