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How will gay marriage affect your marriage?

How will gay marriage affect your marriage?

  • It wont

    Votes: 37 86.0%

  • It'll make me want to divorce my partner

    Votes: 6 14.0%
  • Total voters
    43
Kandahar said:
What does society gain from preventing gays from getting married?
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Pride from knowing we keep people down? That's why poverty stricken whites during the Civil War in the South joined the Confederate Army. It gave them pride in knowing that someone was below them. Why do you think Arabs fundamentally hate Jews?
 
obvious Child said:
Pride from knowing we keep people down? That's why poverty stricken whites during the Civil War in the South joined the Confederate Army. It gave them pride in knowing that someone was below them. Why do you think Arabs fundamentally hate Jews?
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Because Arabs base their political philosophies on religion and economic influence while Jews base it on nationalism and economic control.
 
Kandahar said:
What does society gain from preventing gays from getting married?
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that's not my concern. what I want to know is, what does society gain from allowing gays to get married?
 
emdash said:
I quoted you last time you asked me where. RIGHT HERE:



ok?
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I don't know if you're having technical difficulties or what, but that big blank space in the quote? Yeah, that's what I see in your post. One way or another, it's irrelevant, though, because my point was that you pulled it out of your ass.

for one thing it's going to get really expensive and the budget would need to be adjusted accordingly. you see no financial repercussions whatsoever?
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Right. I see no financial repercussions whatsoever. So please, elaborate.
 
Eko Ren said:
A more completely happy and complacent society.:doh
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oh really? when the majority doesn't want it, as seen in california?
 

post 95. you don't want to confine marriage to any sort of relationship. if this is you taking it back, I understand and we don't need to discuss it.
 
emdash said:
oh really? when the majority doesn't want it, as seen in california?
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Who cares what the majority "wants"? Do you seriously lose sleep at night because somebody might be having gay sex on your block?

Upsetting people by giving a group what they want usually ends anticlimactically.

Upsetting people by taking rights from them usually ends badly.
 
Eko Ren said:
Who cares what the majority "wants"?
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if your goal is a more completely happy society, thwarting the majority isn't the smartest move.
 
Cristina said:
What does society lose if it allows same sex marriage?
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that's not my concern. what I want to know is, what does society gain from allowing gays to get married?
 
I'll tell you what society loses from prohibiting gay marriage: delegation costs about something that doesn't ****ing matter.

"Oh, American education is a joke? Whatever! We need to make sure our taxes are appropriated in ways that will piss all those homos off!"
 
emdash said:
that's not my concern.
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Of course not. It's such a simple question, yet it's one that the pro-bigotry lobby has never been able to provide an answer. So rather than even going through the motions to PRETEND to have a rational position on this issue, you just ignore the question entirely.

emdash said:
what I want to know is, what does society gain from allowing gays to get married?
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Society gains because equal rights are extended to a class of people who previously did not have them. Society gains because more people are now able to have their partner visit them in the hospitals, make decisions for them when they are incapacitated, and share in their property.

And even if society didn't gain anything, the people who would be directly affected certainly do. And that should be enough as long as society doesn't LOSE anything.
 
emdash said:
that's not my concern. what I want to know is, what does society gain from allowing gays to get married?
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I just told you. Refute it. And not with an opinion with support from one state out of fifty.
 

the burden of proof is yours. I'm not the one who wants something to change.

I already gave one answer, which you ignored. if it's not good enough for you, there's nothing I can do about it.

Kandahar said:
Society gains because equal rights are extended to a class of people who previously did not have them.
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gay people have the same rights as straight people.
 
emdash said:
the burden of proof is yours. I'm not the one who wants something to change.

I already gave one answer, which you ignored. if it's not good enough for you, there's nothing I can do about it.
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Actually, since your premise is a call for action, in that it is a restriction, as opposed to simple tolerance, which is inaction, the burden of proof is on you.

gay people have the same rights as straight people.
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Lies. People are corny when they have to lie to pretend they're right.
 
Eko Ren said:
I just told you. Refute it. And not with an opinion with support from one state out of fifty.
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not even one of the most liberal and progressive states out of fifty?
 
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