Twittered from a Twit somewhere in the East Bay of Californezuela. Is this something that is commonly believed among very stupid people? And am I wrong, or is xe apparently advocating political violence?
The Internet home for American gay conservatives.
As I have said repeatedly, gays have had the right to marry for a very, very long time. All they had to do was to go into a Unitarian Universalist Church and they could get married. Simple.
No, what they wanted was government sanction of marriage, something which the government should never have been in the business of doing in the first place.
That does not make it a right. You do not need government sanction to be married. Look up common law marriage some time.
Well, he’s cute. But as we say back in Gaffney, as dumb as a sack of nails. [/Frank Underwood]
Ted B and I have vastly divergent ideas of “cute.”
Are you saying that the government should not be in the business of formalizing “couplehood contracts,” or that the government should not be in the business of giving people “license” to sexually cohabit?
These are very different things, and in general, advocates of SSM were not seeking to avoid the danger of anti-fornication laws.
Hehhehheh…
You can’t argue with the masses. You make sure you have good shutters, sharp knives & plenty of ammo. There’s no reason to be polite or bother with rational dialogue.
Let me guess, he is a barrista at Starbucks because he is too moronish to get a job at a classy place.
…Holy Crap!
Throbert:
I’m saying that there is nothing, whatsoever, in a marriage certificate that cannot be granted by other means than a marriage certificate.
Inheritance? That’s what wills are for, and even married couples should have wills anyway.
Hospital visitation? Old hat. It was never a federal law. It was purely a policy from hospital to hospital. Most hospitals are going with ICE contacts, designated by the patient. Why? Estranged spouses.
I can’t think of anything that a marriage certificate grants that something else cannot do the same.
If you want to talk tax advantage, there isn’t any. That has been shown over and over.
I believe that marriage is the only way to have tenancy of the entirety.
He is just another of the many leftist activists who are trying to rewrite history and objective reality to fit his own personal truth…just like the kids at Evergreen State who think they are still slaves and Hillary in who she is blaming for the election and the 3rd grader who started crying in my classroom because she thought the boy across from her looked at her with an “ugly face.” For them, there is no longer truth…only their perception of truth based upon their feelings
Karen,
One hundred fifty years ago, there were no marriage licenses. How in the world did they survive without them?
Is it just me, or is there an apparent decline on the gay aesthete when it comes to on-line pics. Note the background in barrista-boy’s pic; the unmade bed, the TV cushion*, the lack of ANY art on the landlord-White walls, the general distracting clutter in the background.
We’ve all seen them — and received them — selfies and bathroom-mirror “portraits” with horrid clutter and general slovenliness in the background (and the foreground) from potential-mates, amateur polemicists and creepy trolls alike. the unmade beds, the underwear on the floor, the unsorted midden-heaps in the corners. Or, that hot hottie you’ve been chatting-up for weeks FINALLY sends sends you a shirtless selfie, but …the tacky furniture, shag carpeting and fake-gold mirror in the background would repulse even Liberace. Or the leather daddy whose trailer-trash living room would frighten even a Redneck chainsaw-killer…I’m sorry, but “No!”
I’m perfectly-wiling to make allowances for Twinks and frat-boys stuck with dorm-room with no storage. But really….
* – That alone deserves a social shaming!
IMHO, government should not be involved in marriage one way or another, except maybe in the same way it can enforce or nullify any other contract or formal agreement. That is, laws requiring that the parties involved be consenting adults, and legally competent.
The government should not be able to force a Methodist minister or Orthodox rabbi to perform a gay wedding ceremony, and it should not have the authority to prohibit a Presbyterian minister or Reform rabbi from voluntarily performing a gay wedding ceremony.
What SJW’S really want is for the government to officially sanction their position on an issue, so that anyone who disagrees with them will be officially labeled a criminal.
It’s the same, BTW, with their demand for anti-“hate speech ” laws, and it’s part of the reason for their demand for “gun control ” laws.
If they dislike or disapprove of it, they want it outlawed. They are ironically similar to Christian fundamentalists who want anti-gay laws , e.g., defining marriage as one man and one woman.
Once something is defined as a right, some people will demand that it be provided to them, “free” (i.e., at taxpayers’ expense), and by coercion if necessary. For example, the gay couples in the US suing bakeries and caterers. And the gay couple in the UK suing the Church of England, even though British law both allows gay marriage and protects churches from performing ceremonies that violate their religion.
In the latter case, when it was pointed out that the gay couple could have had a civil ceremony or gone to a Presbyterian church, one of them whined, “I still didn’t get what I wanted.”
(Sigh) And I never had a threesome with Xena and Gabrielle. You don’t always get everything that you want. Just grow up and get over it.
Gay marriage “breaks” the marriage tradition, but it does not cause societal breakdown. Those who can’t “get over it” will just have to sit and fester.
However, gay marriage broke through an important traditional barrier and the several other remaining traditional barriers are weakened as a result. Throughout the world, plural marriage and child marriage have far more tradition and longevity than gay marriage.
Government-licensed marriage will always eventually imply government-licensed divorce and some sort of family code along with the hordes of benevolent lawyers and bureaucrats to facilitate the plunder of the producers by the users.
It’s as simple as that and has already happened across the west.
I’m still waiting for the person who will be able to show me any evidence that anything good has come out of it for the new generations — especially after considering what happened in Berkeley no earlier than February and April again this year.
A societal freaks-making machine. That’s what.
The judeo-christian God-hating left has always been absurdly religious to the most extreme. That God puts the burden of faith on the individual, hence requires him or her to accept and abide by individual responsibility, be it in aiming for success or avoiding to repeat errors and failures.
While the left’s faith and worship both are solely based on the Mob Rule. And their altar is what they now call (after so many opportunistic renamings) — “Social Justice”.
The govt shouldn’t be in my bedroom kitchen, basement, attic, or laundry room. BTW guys if you buy Tri sodium Phosphate from the paint isle of the hardware store you can have a dishwasher and laundry as clean as people used to have them before it was banned from detergent.
The entire point of gay marriage was not to get married in front of a justice of the peace but to force churches to hold them.
A simple thought experiment will reveal why marriage as an institution was established:
Imagine a world where sexual intercourse never resulted in pregnancy or childbirth. Children simple grow in a cabbage patch or are produced from budding (parthanogenesis).
In such a world, would there be any marriages?
Answer: No. Because the primary reason for the marriage (i.e. offspring) would be missing.
Even if we look at polygamy and child marriage, the reason is still offspring.
Even if we look at royal arranged marriages, the reason is still offspring.
If two people want to spend their lives together, fine. They don’t need a marriage license for that.
And if that is the only thing that a marriage license sanctions, then the marriage license needs to be eliminated.
The guy in the meme is perpetuating the old revisionist myth that “trans women of color” were the ones that started the Stonewall Riots.
@22, more than likely it was white gay guys