Porforis
14 years ago
Also, this is the only place I've ever been able to have a reasonable and rational discussion with someone about the following topics:

1. Religion
2. Socialism/Communism vs capitalism
3. Homosexuality

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4PackGirl
14 years ago
so you think a website is a proper substitute for parental acceptance? my best friend came out to her parents a few years ago & it was HORRIBLE! her mom called her 'carpet muncher' & a whole lot of other terrible things. thankfully she was in her 30's before she came out. if that had happened in her teens, i can tell you right now - she wouldn't be here. since then, her parents have calmed down quite a bit & have been kinder to her face but still trash talk her behind her back. i seriously cannot imagine having that happen. your parents are supposed to be where you get unconditional love. for them to say these things about her simply because she's a lesbian is flat out cruel.

and you're right - this place is amazing with these types of discussions.
4PackGirl
14 years ago
oh & getting back to the thread title...no - you don't have to support gays or anyone else - doesn't matter one bit to me. nobody needs to bash them though. they're people, they bleed, they cry, they succeed, they fail, just like every heterosexual out there.
Nonstopdrivel
14 years ago

I'm a rare fairly-far-right conservative that says gays and lesbians should be allowed to marry LEGALLY

"Porforis" wrote:



I actually disagree. I don't think there should be such a thing as legal marriage. As far as I'm concerned, no government has any business regulating or even defining marriage. Marriage is a private arrangement between freely consenting individuals. If a man and a woman, two men, two women, a man and two women, three women and a man, or three women and two men want to call themselves married, that is between them, the witnesses to the ceremony, and (if applicable) their God. By excluding government entirely from marriage, this frees anyone to marry as they see fit -- and also allows the rightful arbiters of marriage the discretion to choose whom they will marry and whom they will not. Under such a system, a Catholic priest can refuse to marry two women, an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America pastor can marry two men, and a pagan priestess can marry a polyamorous quartet.

The counterargument that is always advanced at this point is, "Well, if we allow gays to marry, we'll have to allow polygamists to marry." My answer is why not? How does it affect you? The answer is usually that polygamy tends to be coercive. This is utter nonsense. Marriage, as I stated previously, is contracted between informed, consenting adults. I can think of no activity under the law, least of all marriage, that can be forced on another by coercion. For every illicit polygamist union formed by forcing underage girls into the relationship, there are polygamist marriages in which it's actually the wives doing the recruiting. Coercion in any relationship (except parent/child) is prima facie illegal. Therefore, this argument is a red herring.

The next argument advanced is, "Well, if we allow polygamists to marry, who's to say we won't allow pedophiles to marry children or zoophiles to marry animals?" Again, a nonsensical red herring. Marriage is a relationship predicated upon consent. By definition, children and animals cannot consent; therefore, they cannot marry. As it is, it's legal for teens to marry in every state of the Union. In Wisconsin, one can wed at 14 with a court order (most often obtained in cases of pregnancy) and at 16 with parental consent. Young people are already getting married. But no one is marrying prepubescent children; it's by definition impossible.

Christian conservatives are making a huge strategic error by appealing to the government to outlaw gay marriage, just as pro-gun advocates have made the strategic error of appealing to personal self-defense arguments in favor of their 2nd Amendment Rights. These Christians never contemplate that if the government can mandate who cannot be married, the government can also mandate who must be married. Churches are 501(c)(3) tax-exempt corporations. As such, they must abide by government regulations. By ceding control over the legal definition of marriage to the government, instead of retaining it in-house where it belongs, churches are running the risk that a future administration might mandate that in order to maintain their tax-exempt status, churches can no longer discriminate against alternative lifestyles in weddings.

Churches should be loudly asserting their autonomy on this issue, not appealing to the government to enforce their pet agenda.
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Porforis
14 years ago

so you think a website is a proper substitute for parental acceptance?

"4PackGirl" wrote:



Actually, I stated that parents were the most important aspect of a teen's support structure, and was careful to point out that it wasn't a replacement for real-world support.
zombieslayer
14 years ago



I actually disagree. I don't think there should be such a thing as legal marriage. As far as I'm concerned, no government has any business regulating or even defining marriage. Marriage is a private arrangement between freely consenting individuals. If a man and a woman, two men, two women, a man and two women, three women and a man, or three women and two men want to call themselves married, that is between them, the witnesses to the ceremony, and (if applicable) their God. By excluding government entirely from marriage, this frees anyone to marry as they see fit -- and also allows the rightful arbiters of marriage the discretion to choose whom they will marry and whom they will not. Under such a system, a Catholic priest can refuse to marry two women, an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America pastor can marry two men, and a pagan priestess can marry a polyamorous quartet.

The counterargument that is always advanced at this point is, "Well, if we allow gays to marry, we'll have to allow polygamists to marry." My answer is why not? How does it affect you? The answer is usually that polygamy tends to be coercive. This is utter nonsense. Marriage, as I stated previously, is contracted between informed, consenting adults. I can think of no activity under the law, least of all marriage, that can be forced on another by coercion. For every illicit polygamist union formed by forcing underage girls into the relationship, there are polygamist marriages in which it's actually the wives doing the recruiting. Coercion in any relationship (except parent/child) is prima facie illegal. Therefore, this argument is a red herring.

The next argument advanced is, "Well, if we allow polygamists to marry, who's to say we won't allow pedophiles to marry children or zoophiles to marry animals?" Again, a nonsensical red herring. Marriage is a relationship predicated upon consent. By definition, children and animals cannot consent; therefore, they cannot marry. As it is, it's legal for teens to marry in every state of the Union. In Wisconsin, one can wed at 14 with a court order (most often obtained in cases of pregnancy) and at 16 with parental consent. Young people are already getting married. But no one is marrying prepubescent children; it's by definition impossible.

Christian conservatives are making a huge strategic error by appealing to the government to outlaw gay marriage, just as pro-gun advocates have made the strategic error of appealing to personal self-defense arguments in favor of their 2nd Amendment Rights. These Christians never contemplate that if the government can mandate who cannot be married, the government can also mandate who must be married. Churches are 501(c)(3) tax-exempt corporations. As such, they must abide by government regulations. By ceding control over the legal definition of marriage to the government, instead of retaining it in-house where it belongs, churches are running the risk that a future administration might mandate that in order to maintain their tax-exempt status, churches can no longer discriminate against alternative lifestyles in weddings.

Churches should be loudly asserting their autonomy on this issue, not appealing to the government to enforce their pet agenda.

"Nonstopdrivel" wrote:



Holy s***! Someone out there actually gets it.
+1

By the way, I have one rule about marriage - thou shall not marry zombies. Other than that, let the State set the age and it's all fair game from there. Might be a nightmare for insurance companies but insurance companies aren't exactly on The Zombieslayer's fave list right now.
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Porforis
14 years ago

I'm a rare fairly-far-right conservative that says gays and lesbians should be allowed to marry LEGALLY

"Nonstopdrivel" wrote:



I actually disagree. I don't think there should be such a thing as legal marriage. As far as I'm concerned, no government has any business regulating or even defining marriage. Marriage is a private arrangement between freely consenting individuals. If a man and a woman, two men, two women, a man and two women, three women and a man, or three women and two men want to call themselves married, that is between them, the witnesses to the ceremony, and (if applicable) their God. By excluding government entirely from marriage, this frees anyone to marry as they see fit -- and also allows the rightful arbiters of marriage the discretion to choose whom they will marry and whom they will not. Under such a system, a Catholic priest can refuse to marry two women, an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America pastor can marry two men, and a pagan priestess can marry a polyamorous quartet.

The counterargument that is always advanced at this point is, "Well, if we allow gays to marry, we'll have to allow polygamists to marry." My answer is why not? How does it affect you? The answer is usually that polygamy tends to be coercive. This is utter nonsense. Marriage, as I stated previously, is contracted between informed, consenting adults. I can think of no activity under the law, least of all marriage, that can be forced on another by coercion. For every illicit polygamist union formed by forcing underage girls into the relationship, there are polygamist marriages in which it's actually the wives doing the recruiting. Coercion in any relationship (except parent/child) is prima facie illegal. Therefore, this argument is a red herring.

The next argument advanced is, "Well, if we allow polygamists to marry, who's to say we won't allow pedophiles to marry children or zoophiles to marry animals?" Again, a nonsensical red herring. Marriage is a relationship predicated upon consent. By definition, children and animals cannot consent; therefore, they cannot marry. As it is, it's legal for teens to marry in every state of the Union. In Wisconsin, one can wed at 14 with a court order (most often obtained in cases of pregnancy) and at 16 with parental consent. Young people are already getting married. But no one is marrying prepubescent children; it's by definition impossible.

Christian conservatives are making a huge strategic error by appealing to the government to outlaw gay marriage, just as pro-gun advocates have made the strategic error of appealing to personal self-defense arguments in favor of their 2nd Amendment Rights. These Christians never contemplate that if the government can mandate who cannot be married, the government can also mandate who must be married. Churches are 501(c)(3) tax-exempt corporations. As such, they must abide by government regulations. By ceding control over the legal definition of marriage to the government, instead of retaining it in-house where it belongs, churches are running the risk that a future administration might mandate that in order to maintain their tax-exempt status, churches can no longer discriminate against alternative lifestyles in weddings.

Churches should be loudly asserting their autonomy on this issue, not appealing to the government to enforce their pet agenda.

"Porforis" wrote:



I guess the problem I have, is that legal marriage DOES bestow specific rights and benefits upon people. Some are pointless, others (hospital visitation for example) are a lot more important. When you eliminate the concept of legal marriage, you are forced to redefine the qualifications of all of these benefits. A massive undertaking, that's to be sure...
Cheesey
14 years ago
I agree with Formo......teen suicide should have been addressed LONG before this. But because it's gays being bullied, lets drop everything to help them!!! At least that's the way it seems. NO ONE should be bullied. Why do these kids suddenly get attention, and offers to help them? Being "gay" make them somehow more special then the other kids that are bullied and kill themselves?

I was bullied every day at school......would have been VERY easy to take the easy way out. Yet i'm still here. And i didn't have anyone holding my hand. Yes, i'm not gay. But i wasn't a big muscled brute, and was an easy target for the bullies. Just as the gays are.
Bullies will ALWAYS be out there. Sadly.
What they NEED to do is take the bullies and put them in reform school....or prison.
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Nonstopdrivel
14 years ago

legal marriage DOES bestow specific rights and benefits upon people.

"Porforis" wrote:



I don't think any of the benefits bestowed by legal marriage (with the possible exception of tax advantages) are legally mandated. They are simply granted by private organizations at their own discretion. For example, my mother is under my father's insurance because she is married to him, but my father's benefits have been steadily eroded since I was a child. There's no guarantee of these benefits, even if a couple is legally married. Furthermore, there are entities (like the UW system) that grant domestic-partner benefits to non-married couples.

Under the system I outlined above, every entity would be free to bestow domestic benefits as it saw fit. Insurance companies could refuse to cover more than one domestic partner, for example. I have to imagine they'd be happy to cover more family members for an additional charge, however; I've never heard of an insurance company telling a family it will only cover a certain number of children and the rest are out of luck. Similarly, employers could decide to only extend benefits to one "spouse," and only so long as the relationship remained intact. Likewise, government agencies could set policies for how many domestic partners they would be willing to work with.

As their name implies, fringe benefits aren't legally protected. They're simply extra goodies handed out to encourage certain behaviors.

I'm actually surprised tax officials aren't falling all over themselves to encourage polygamous relationships. Imagine how many more families would find themselves in higher brackets if there were three or four adults in the household! If every adult made even $30,000 a year, the gross household income would be in excess of $100,000 a year. Even with tax breaks, that would still result in a net increase in tax revenues.

But of course, benefits and tax laws have nothing whatsoever to do with anti-polygamy laws in this country, which are nothing more or less than expressions of anti-Mormon bigotry (as even the Supreme Court has admitted). In a nation predicated on religious freedom, I find this lapse disturbing.
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4PackGirl
14 years ago
do you really think the gays & lesbians are 'happy' with this attention? do you think they're jumping up & down & saying 'yay - now they have to pay attention to us'?? seriously?? the talk i've heard & i've done TONS of research on bullying lately - is not ONLY about gay/lesbian bullying - it encompasses ALL types of bullying.

oh & sorry porforis - guess i missed that part of your post. my bad.

my final thought because this thread hits way close to home for me is this:
intolerance & ignorance go hand in hand.
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