By: Barb Chamberlan
The only government interest in marriage is uniting children to their mothers and fathers. Pseudo marriage is the vehicle that severs this link. Children deserve a mother and a father whenever...
View ArticleBy: John
So much in our culture is completely arbitrary. Societies can survive and even prosper without universities, without money, without our form of representative democracy, certainly without a president,...
View ArticleBy: Barb Chamberlan
Jon, regardless of whether or not same-sex couples adopt, we shouldn't redefine marriage. We don't abandon the ideal in order to accommodate the exceptions.
View ArticleBy: M. Jones
My position is the same as the GOP Platform in Oklahoma, which states: “Those promoting homosexuality or other aberrant lifestyles should not be allowed to hold responsible positions over children,...
View ArticleBy: leviticus
This is why Obama and the rest of the Democrats in the Senate need to go.
View ArticleBy: Paul McMichael
@Barb - If the only government interest in marriage is uniting children to their mothers and fathers then divorce is the vehicle that severs this link.
View ArticleBy: Rick DeLano
Divorce is an evil that reminds us of how much damage we have done to marriage and to our civilization by buying into the "me me me" and "my my my" worldview which underlies both quickie divorce and...
View ArticleBy: Daughter of Eve
Paul McM., where marriage is concerned, name one State or U.S. territory where legislation exists which singles out and specifies "gay" persons as ineligible for marriage. Please produce even one...
View ArticleBy: Richard
So much fodder... Marriage is arbitrary. Has always been. Each society determines how pairings happen and how to recognize those couplings. Marriage itself has changed dramatically in the last few...
View ArticleBy: Daughter of Eve
Actually, marriage isn't arbitrary. If it weren't, eligibilty requirements wouldn't be codified in law. Your own words contradict your first statement: "Each society determines...." Determination isn't...
View ArticleBy: Richard
Aw, DOE, "Customs around marrriage may have changed..." You contradict yourself. Customs have been codified and changed throughout history. Marriage is arbitrary, as any social institution gets changed...
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By: Daughter of Eve
Well, Richard, can you back up your claims with examples? For instance, in our country, women have customarily worn a white dress to their wedding as a symbol of sexual purity. Can you show where this...
View ArticleBy: Richard
DoE- it is apparent that I lack your education, but let me try. You are using ceremonial examples not the actual marriage itself. I might use an example of polygamy, which was the norm for many more...
View ArticleBy: Barb Chamberlan
Thanks for that, DoE. I was thinking the same thing, that redefining marriage better fits the definition of "arbitrary." "Richard" just swings by here once in a while to blather.
View ArticleBy: Daughter of Eve
Richard, you are missing the point: at it's core, marriage is an opposite-sexed union. Even polygamy, which includes more than one wife, still includes the husband. SSM does not. There are actual...
View ArticleBy: Rob
Jesus you bigots, give it up ... Let people who love each other get married, whats it to you?
View ArticleBy: Daughter of Eve
On a side note, Richard, what has become of the great empires of Persia, Egypt, Rome, Greece--even China? Japan? They once ruled the world. Their downfall? Corruption, sexual licentiousness, the...
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