Maybe the court will surprise everybody and rule that Prop 8 is super awesome and should apply everywhere.
Don’t worry about reading the Constitution before finding out a Supreme Court decision; there’s no spoilers in there.
“Looking over this constitution, I think you basically mandated gay marriage in here.” -Founding Father no-one listened to
I think the thing I like least about gay marriage is the moral preening.
I thought the progressive stance was to belittle the whole concept of marriage?
This is just like the civil rights movement of the 60s, except remade as a wacky comedy.
The reason you’ve never heard anyone speak out against Prop 8 before is because all the people opposed to it have tape over their mouths.
The path we’re on with gay marriage is a bad idea, but feels like rationalizing with lovesick teenagers that regular marriage is a bad idea.
In the end, there is just nothing particularly rational about marriage. Emotion wins.
So what are all these equal signs about? Affirmative action protest?
“We were sure this was the big civil rights issue of our era; thus we changed our Facebook avatars.” -rambling old people decades from now
So how did people get to thinking marriage was a man/woman thing in the first place?
So we all understand polygamy is inevitable, right? You can’t say the genders are unimportant but the number is sacrosanct.
Well, you could make a religious argument.
Argument against SSM: Marriage has always been between a man and a woman!
Argument against polygamy: Marriage has always been two people!
I don’t get the whole red equals signs either…if it’s supposed to represent equality for gay marriage shouldn’t it be an equals sign made with 2 pen!ses?
Might look that way if the icon were rotated 90 degrees.
Meanwhile I’m amused that people with lousy marriages are telling everyone what should be OK for a marriage. It’s like listening to Ceratain Celbs With Lousy Movies Coming Out saying we shouldn’t have a right to bear arms, but it’s OK for him to have armed bodyguards because shut up.
BTW: If someone maintains that sex & marriage is no longer about procreation and is really about love, ask if it’s OK then for sibs to get married. Perhaps the ones that shout “Ugh!” haven’t “evolved” enough yet….
@2 – Well, we can’t let brothers marry sisters – inbreeding leads to birth defects that Obamacare doesn’t cover. But bro/bro or sis/sis? No argument against that if gay marriage is ok.
@3 – so man-goat or women-table lamp should be ok too under Obamacare since there’s absolutely no chance of birth defects as a result? In fact maybe we’ll have “Marriage Panels” some day that will encourage that sort of thing…
“so….I see here that you’ve voted Republican in the last 4 elections….may we strongly suggest this attractive Tiffany lamp?…and my “strongly” we mean “do it or pay an extra $5000 tax”
@4 – Well, The Rent Is Too Damn High Party would go for it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk0AepboK3I
The can have her kittens in the oven,,,,,,that doesn’t make them biscuits.
CAT!!! damn.
Regarding marriage, apparently the human race has been doing it wrong for thousands of years.
Bitter Divorce Man says: “I don’t hate gay people enough to wish marriage on them”
@7 Call my name all you like – I’ll just ignore you.
My cousin, Biscuit, was born in Wheeling.
So… whatever happened to “civil unions”? Wasn’t that supposed to have the legal benefits and none of the M-word, and thereby make everyone happy? Why hasn’t anyone mentioned it at all this year?
If 2 welfare mothers get “married”, do they get twice the welfare or no welfare at all? Since welfare was partially invented to make sure
poorstupid people would never get married, isn’t there some sort of racism going on here? Homophobic racism?I learned yesterday that the term “you guys” is now on the list pf bad things you’re not allowed to say so if you see 2 gay men, don’t ask, “hey, when are you guys getting married, it’s a hate crime.
Seems like talking about “civil unions” is now considered “quaint” and “old fashion.” Sorta like saying “colored.” (And y’know, when I was a kid, calling a Negro peer “black” was an insult; “colored” was the prefered term. Whatevs…)
@14 – You forgot their brief preference for “Afro-American”.
Au Contraire: Marriage in the bible was polygamous for most of the prophets and kings. That said it was also fraught with problems and issues like who gets the birth right the son born first or the son born to the first wife?
If they pass gay marriage I think I want to be polygamously married to my sweet spouse and my sewing machine. I love my machine. It and I make beautiful things together. I don’t ever want to separated from my sewing machine and seek to have the government make that so. Or maybe I could be married to some yet unborn person so that they’ll take care of me when I’m older and infirm. (it would be in name only because by that time I’m probably going to be drooling in my oatmeal but hey one has to look ahead) Or maybe I could marry James T Kirk or Captain Picard, both are dreamy!!!!! See this kind of stuff won’t be a problem at all.
Hehe – seanmahair and her sewing machine are joined at the hip!
Is that from a sewing accident?
@14 – You forgot their brief preference for “Afro-American”.
Afrocans?
Oh boyo, we’re not joined at the hip, that’s me and me darlin’ spouse. The sewing machine is like a wonderful flirtation. It doesn’t really mean anything but it’s so much fun to play around with ; P
Just something else that isn’t any of the government’s business. You would think they would spend a little time on things that really matter like crumbling infrastructure… but that’s not really a problem, is it?