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RE: Obama supports Gay Marriage - 5/9/2012 6:32:54 PM   
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You did not read my statement. One type, the homosexual type will never lead to procreation. The other type, the heterosexual type does sometimes not lead to procreation.

My point was, "So what about procreation?" A marriage is not valid depending on the ability or desire to conceive

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When children are adopted according to the UN declaration of Children's Rights, the children should be able to know both biological parents.

I see you are in Belgium. Here in the US, adoptions are both open and closed. There's no guarantee an adoptee will ever know his or her bio parents.

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RE: Obama supports Gay Marriage - 5/9/2012 6:35:22 PM   
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Given the newness of Master2811's profile, I have to wonder if this is a prankster having a bit of fun with us by parodying the antigay position. I'm having a hard time believing anyone actually espouses these views.

ETA: Then again, I did tangle earlier today with a poster on another site who chided me for hypocrisy in advocating marriage equality for gay folk but not necrophiliacs or those who become overly fond of their houseplants. As Dave Barry would say, I am not making this up.

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RE: Obama supports Gay Marriage - 5/9/2012 6:36:07 PM   
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Do you find the millions of women who chose to be child-free to be "unnatural?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childfree#Statistics_and_research

...Overall, researchers have observed childfree couples to be more educated, more likely to be employed in professional and management occupations, more likely for both spouses to earn relatively high incomes, to live in urban areas, to be less religious, to subscribe to less traditional gender roles, and to be less conventional.[13] Economist David Foot of the University of Toronto concluded that the female's education is the most important determinant of the likelihood of her reproducing. The higher the education, the less likely she is to bear children.
In 2003, a U.S. Census study found that a record 19% of U.S. women age 40–44 did not have children (compared with 10% in 1976). Being childless was considered bizarre in the 1950s.[14] [15] In 2004, a 2004 U.S. Census study found that 18.4% of U.S. women age 35–44 were childless.

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RE: Obama supports Gay Marriage - 5/9/2012 6:45:40 PM   
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Such a decision can change and still lead to procreation whereas homosexuality never leads to procreation. You are trying to find the exception on the rule where the rule is pretty clear.


Who the fuck are you to say what is normal and what is not?
Who the fuck are you to presume to impose your moronic views on anyone?
Did god die and leave you in charge?
I must have missed the memmo




I have the right to form my own opinion based on studies, facts and wisdom. I have a democratic right to find something normal and something else not normal. Because I am an adult I also have the right to vote in elections. I vote those people into office who mostly agree with what I think is normal. If you want to talk about God, His position seems pretty clear to me. I don't have to be in charge. There is no memo. If I were as unpolite as you debating this matter I could come up with the same rethoric you used in your paragraph, but I choose to keep myself from debating in such a manner. Welcome to our western democracy.

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RE: Obama supports Gay Marriage - 5/9/2012 6:47:02 PM   
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Too little too late. Discrimination still goes on. Why can not bisexuals marry two partners and why  multiple wives issue has not been solved satisfactorily for Islam and Mormons? Romney has work to do as the last is concerned. Come on Obamny show us some balls.  There is nothing more important than this. 

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RE: Obama supports Gay Marriage - 5/9/2012 6:50:15 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Master2811


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ORIGINAL: thompsonx


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ORIGINAL: Master2811

Such a decision can change and still lead to procreation whereas homosexuality never leads to procreation. You are trying to find the exception on the rule where the rule is pretty clear.


Who the fuck are you to say what is normal and what is not?
Who the fuck are you to presume to impose your moronic views on anyone?
Did god die and leave you in charge?
I must have missed the memmo




I have the right to form my own opinion based on studies, facts and wisdom. I have a democratic right to find something normal and something else not normal. Because I am an adult I also have the right to vote in elections. I vote those people into office who mostly agree with what I think is normal. If you want to talk about God, His position seems pretty clear to me. I don't have to be in charge. There is no memo. If I were as unpolite as you debating this matter I could come up with the same rethoric you used in your paragraph, but I choose to keep myself from debating in such a manner. Welcome to our western democracy.



I do not debate I discuss.
Your post was disgusting and I pointed that out.
If you do not like my syntax and diction perhaps you might acquaint yourself with the block function.
Welcom to cm.

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RE: Obama supports Gay Marriage - 5/9/2012 6:52:45 PM   
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ORIGINAL: kalikshama

Do you find the millions of women who chose to be child-free to be "unnatural?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childfree#Statistics_and_research

...Overall, researchers have observed childfree couples to be more educated, more likely to be employed in professional and management occupations, more likely for both spouses to earn relatively high incomes, to live in urban areas, to be less religious, to subscribe to less traditional gender roles, and to be less conventional.[13] Economist David Foot of the University of Toronto concluded that the female's education is the most important determinant of the likelihood of her reproducing. The higher the education, the less likely she is to bear children.
In 2003, a U.S. Census study found that a record 19% of U.S. women age 40–44 did not have children (compared with 10% in 1976). Being childless was considered bizarre in the 1950s.[14] [15] In 2004, a 2004 U.S. Census study found that 18.4% of U.S. women age 35–44 were childless.


Very nice! The higher people get educated the more likely the human race is goint to extinct. Me thinks at least a balance in procreation and dying of people is more preferable to our species. Or you might one day wake up in a world where there are way to less younger people taking care for the elderly, no? Or do you suggest a mass euthanesia of older people then?

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RE: Obama supports Gay Marriage - 5/9/2012 6:55:44 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Master2811


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You are trying to find the exception on the rule where the rule is pretty clear.


Whose rule is this, by the way?



Try biologic rule. A homosexual relation will never lead to procreation. Heterosexual relations can lead to procreation. Therefore homosexual- and heterosexual relations are not equal, not in a million years.


Lesbian couples have birthed children with the assistance of a sperm donor proxie father who is known to them. So, strictly speaking such a relationship is not necessarily governed by your biologicial rule. Are you sure you are not more concerned with an issue of morality rather than an issue of biology?

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RE: Obama supports Gay Marriage - 5/9/2012 6:59:13 PM   
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Very nice! The higher people get educated the more likely the human race is goint to extinct. Me thinks at least a balance in procreation and dying of people is more preferable to our species. Or you might one day wake up in a world where there are way to less younger people taking care for the elderly, no? Or do you suggest a mass euthanesia of older people then?


We already have a non-replacement birth rate in the West. That's why immigrants are tolerated.

Also, have you noticed that with the industrialization of agriculture large families are no longer needed on our farms?

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RE: Obama supports Gay Marriage - 5/9/2012 7:00:02 PM   
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The key element to debate isn't gay marriage or straight marriage...it's the idea that the government should be involved in the marriage business at all.

There are only a few reasons why the government does get involved:

1) Taxes - Yes, tax advantages/disadvantages based on your marital status. The real problem here is not marriage, it's taxes. Flat tax cures this.
2) Disposition of assets post mortem - The problem here isn't a marital one, it's an individual one. One law stating that a person can leave his/her assets to whomever they please and that doing so in a will or trust is legally binding settles it.
3) Health coverage - Whether or not someone can be put on your health insurance coverage. If you make the prerequisite for this cohabitation or family, problem done, solved and forgotten about.

Marriage is a ceremony. Relationships are the commitment.

Why argue it any further than this?

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RE: Obama supports Gay Marriage - 5/9/2012 7:01:13 PM   
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Are you sure you are not more concerned with an issue of morality rather than an issue of biology?


As usual you have percieved the eye of the storm.

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RE: Obama supports Gay Marriage - 5/9/2012 7:02:40 PM   
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How about hospital visitation rights and family medical decisions?

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RE: Obama supports Gay Marriage - 5/9/2012 7:03:33 PM   
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Flat tax cures this.


The flat tax makes rich people richer and poor people poorer.

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RE: Obama supports Gay Marriage - 5/9/2012 7:04:44 PM   
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ORIGINAL: thompsonx

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Are you sure you are not more concerned with an issue of morality rather than an issue of biology?


As usual you have percieved the eye of the storm.


No question about it, tx. It comes down to a clash of moral values no matter all this bullshit talk of procreation.

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RE: Obama supports Gay Marriage - 5/9/2012 7:05:09 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Master2811
I have nothing against gays/lesbians/bisexuals in person. I am not a homofobic person. What they do in their bedrooms is their business. But I will never consider a homosexual relation equal to a heterosexual relation. It is not equal because it can never lead to a normal pregnancy or procreation.



By this line of thinking, you need also to be against older people marrying.

Many people remarry later in life when they cannot become pregnant or procreate.

Do you also believe that in addition to elders, anyone who has been declared infertile should not be permitted to marry?

If you do not carry this thought on to these levels, then yes, you are homophobic.

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RE: Obama supports Gay Marriage - 5/9/2012 7:07:57 PM   
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Very nice! The higher people get educated the more likely the human race is goint to extinct. Me thinks at least a balance in procreation and dying of people is more preferable to our species. Or you might one day wake up in a world where there are way to less younger people taking care for the elderly, no? Or do you suggest a mass euthanesia of older people then?


We already have a non-replacement birth rate in the West. That's why immigrants are tolerated.

Also, have you noticed that with the industrialization of agriculture large families are no longer needed on our farms?


Immigrants will only help temporarily if they also get higher education in western countries, no?

We don't need at least a balance in procreation and dying of people because of farms, but to maintain a civil world in general.

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RE: Obama supports Gay Marriage - 5/9/2012 7:11:24 PM   
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The key element to debate isn't gay marriage or straight marriage...it's the idea that the government should be involved in the marriage business at all.


Interestingly, though, I never heard anyone voice their concern about the government's role in marriage until gay marriage became a possibility. Of course, that could be a coincidence.

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RE: Obama supports Gay Marriage - 5/9/2012 7:11:36 PM   
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For me the arguments against it is that it is not natural


Not natural???? Those are the words that stuck out for me the most. For something that homophobes say is not natural, it sure does happen in nature an awful lot...

http://www.news-medical.net/news/2006/10/23/20718.aspx

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/5550488/Homosexual-behaviour-widespread-in-animals-according-to-new-study.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d68_vlLD60Y

http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_gay_animal_kingdom


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RE: Obama supports Gay Marriage - 5/9/2012 7:16:57 PM   
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Immigrants will only help temporarily if they also get higher education in western countries, no?

We don't need at least a balance in procreation and dying of people because of farms, but to maintain a civil world in general.


How is it possible that the world had dramatically fewer people than now some five or ten thousand years ago and civilization did not cease, rather it flourished.
Anyone with a three digit iq and a pulse can see that we are overpopulated and most of the poorest of us are dying of malnutrition. Yet you don't seem to think there are enough of us so you don't want gays to marry because they wont make more people to be hungry.
Are you sure you are not homophobic? Your post certainly seem to echo that mindset.

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RE: Obama supports Gay Marriage - 5/9/2012 7:17:04 PM   
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Why argue it any further than this?


Because of Brenda and Melanie.

When Brenda--my witty, wise, and otherwise wonderful aunt--died in 2006 (before New York had achieved marriage equality), a doctor came into the room and demanded to speak to the next of kin. Melanie, her beloved long-term partner, introduced herself and explained that she held Brenda's power of attorney. "That expired when she did," said the doctor. "I need a member of the family."

I invite you to convince me that this would have happened to a legal spouse.

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