Obama spoke at my college, Carnegie Mellon University. I always hated stuff like that when I was there. In 2000, Al Gore gave a speech from the front steps of a building I had a graded lab in. Had to find back entrance and dodge Secret Service.
Oh. Got an e-mail sent on behalf of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia denying the Jew ban rumors. Good to know they’re watching me…
So, if you’re a Jew going to Saudi Arabia, nothing to worry about. And if you are going, could you deliver some Bibles for me?
Marriage is a religious custom enshrined in law. I don’t think changing its meaning is a well thought out response.
Going to say something radical: Deciding for yourself whether you should be allowed to eat transfats is a right, marriage isn’t.
If the government decided to stop recognizing marriage at all, no ones rights would be violated.
Whatever arrangements two (or more) have with themselves is their right, but when the govt is involved they’ve ventured out of that realm.
I am so much smarter than everyone. I really should sneer at everybody more.
“Marriage is special so more people deserve to join in it and marriage isn’t special so it doesn’t matter if you change its meaning.”
Politicians care about….you?
No, they care about booze, sex with people who aren’t married to them, and expanding their powers to assuage their egoes.
Or maybe I’m just in an ornery mood this morning.
As Thomas Sowell explained carefully in 750 words (What a skill that requires), the government, Congress especially, has expanded in every field from health care to the military to oil to foreign policy to public
indoctrinationeducation to destroying our economy. All of those fields are filled with professionals who have spent their entire adult lives within them.What do Congresscritters do to entitle them to being involved with everything? Does commiting adultery really prepare you for that responsibility?
It takes many years of practice to be like Lincoln, who could listen as a crazy person ranted and raved, only to dismiss him in a few short words. I.e., “If you gentlemen say General Grant is drinking, please find me his brand of choice so we may send it to our other generals to make them more like General Grant.”
I have a hard time with rolling my eyes, but what other recourse is there? Avoiding eye contact is considered equally impolite.
Love your views on marriage they are what i have been saying for awhile. Remove marriage from the government Marriage is a religious institution and should be watched over by the religious organizations. For the legal parts that are seen as needed call it something else … How about a temporary private partnership? I could rant more but ill leave it at that.
I watched Ron Paul on CSPAN last night and concluded that the reason he wants to be president is to bring maximum attention to his legislative agenda.
But this has nothing to do with Frank’s theme for today: marriage. I’ll try to think of something to say about that… but it might take all day.
Hi IMAO
I too graduated from Carnegie Mellon (Engineering, 1969). Good school. We are a select few. I am unfair, unbalanced, and fortunately medicated.
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The government should have the power to limit the number of cats I own and also to make it legal for me to marry one of them. Tax money should be given to Jimmy so he can cover his nude body with transfats a and call it art but make it illegal to serve him food that contains transfats. Maybe we should have our churches adopt government edicts as doctrine and have the government outlaw their practice.
Okay, I thought of something…
It’s amazing how many bird species bond for life. Ducks, geese, crows, herons, etc., all have the bird equivalent of ‘marriage’ (and I’ve personally witnessed all of these).
Funny, I’ve never seen members of the same gender bonded for life in the animal world.
So, what’s up with homo sapiens sapiens, Dohtimes? Is it the word “homo” in our classification?
Frank is deep this morning. I’ll get the shovels….
Well, Jimbo me boy, the reason is that Satan doesn’t try to tempt animals because they weren’t made in God’s image.
Marko, if a species turns homosexual, it ought to become extinct.
I’ve always viewed homosexuality as a biological malfunction.
I applaud this move by the New York elected officials, as it brings us one step closer to recognizing things like heroin addiction as a legitimate “alternative lifestyle.” And someday, God-willing, people will stop trying to “intervene” and “help” encourage these addicts to change their lives and, instead, find a way to add more legitimacy to what is today viewed as “destructive” or “abnormal” behavior. Thank you New York.
I am so much smarter than everyone. I really should sneer at everybody more.
There’s a job waiting for you at the New York Times. You’ll be assigned to David Carr for training.
+1 for Son of Bob
Also, Ace brought up a good point. The left is pushing gay marriage in an effort to lend the credibility of the government to gay relationships. This may backfire, however, with people deciding that the government has no credibility any more, instead of being more accepting of gay marriage.
My wife has a “male” dog that seems to get “confused” every time our neighbor’s dog gets “his” hair cut.
“Marriage is a wonderful institution. But who wants to live in an institution.” -Groucho Marx
The pro-fanny bandit laws serve two purposes. One is to extend to fanny bandits with fanny bandit issues the same legitmacy and benefits normal marraige provides. The second is to further intrude the state upon the church. Expect law suits to force a church to marry these “folks”.
Maybe we should have our churches adopt government edicts as doctrine and have the government outlaw their practice.
There’s something to this. Hmmmm. . .
First legitimize homo behavior and then pass laws calling any talk against it “hate speech”!
Then step 2, close down every church in America.
Step 3, burn every Bible in the United States because God doesn’t take a hankerin’ to man on man lovin’! He actually is quite opposed to it!
Step 4, imprison everyone who continues to preach or believe what is taught in the Bible
Step 5, because of prison overcrowding, start executing all the Christians and Jooooooooos that you have imprisoned for anti-homo speech!
Step 6, mission accomplished!
Thanks for the clear thinking Frank!
Marriage is a contract. It’s not a right given by government. It is a right given by one individual to another. It can be made “official” by a religious entity of the individual’s choice, or it can have no religious entity blessing at all.
If the gays want to make a wedding contract registration organization, fine for them. It has no bearing on a Christian wedding or the church. It has nothing to do with us and our lives any more than the other kooky behaviors folks do in private.
Either way it is none of the government’s business.
I’ve never been in favor of the government having anything at all to do with marriage. Not sure why I should have to pay the gov’t for a license to get married. Just have a “Personal Contract Between Two Persons for Tax Purposes” and then go to your church if you want to get married.
The Supreme Court just overturned the 9th Circuit Court and said that Violent Video Games must be available to children! I say yay! This must mean that violent content on the internet is ok too. So, Mr. Carnegie Mellon smarty pants, I wanna see guts on IMAO! When I open up IMAO, I wanna see guts spill out on my desk top! I want to be able to grab a guys intestines and jump out the window hanging on to them (as in Machete the world’s greatest movie EVER)! So get to work on this pronto with your huge Carnegie Mellon brain, OK Poindexter? Thanks! It’s going to be sweet!!!
You mean that HUGE (Carnegie) Mellon on the top of Frank’s shoulders, ussjimmycarter? I ain’t afraid of no ghost!
Justice Scalia said that children’s stories like Grimm’s fairy tales are violent, so violent video games are OK. Er… Justice Scalia? I don’t want to be critical or nothing… you being a big, important judge and all, but well… the characters in the fairy tales didn’t score extra points for being violent towards pedestrians and little old ladies like in Grand Theft Auto. Most of the violence in the fairy tales was directed against giants, ogres, witches and wicked step-mothers who had it coming, so there was an element of justice in it. C.S. Lewis said that most of the objections to violent fairy tales seemed to come from adults but as he put it, “Adults are guilty and thus prefer mercy, but children are innocent and thus prefer justice.” There ain’t no justice in violent video games, only winners and losers (and no mercy for the losers). Sorry, parents. I guess it’s back in your hands now to decide what you expose your little darlings to.
My random thought: Looks like Hugo Chavez is in Cuba with a bad case of a$$ cancer…too bad it’s not Jane Fonda.
What did the Jews do to everybody to tick them off? Win a couple wars, escape an oppressive tyrant, set up there own country, and try to live in peace doesn’t sound like something to hate but to look up to.