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The INDEFENSIBLE Defense of Marriage Act
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Originally posted by nots View PostI'm loathe to wade too deeply into this but....
why should anyone get an economic benefit from the government for being married (be it hetero or homo)? It is discriminatory against single folks, widowers and the divorced--groups of people who are probably more likely (at least in a very broad, generalizing way) to need an economic boost.
Why shouldn't the federal government treat us all as equally as possible? W"You know what's wrong with America? If I lovingly tongue a woman's nipple in a movie, it gets an "NC-17" rating, if I chop it off with a machete, it's an "R". That's what's wrong with America, man...."--Dennis Hopper
"One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real." -- Klaus Kinski
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Originally posted by In the Corn View PostInteresting how that sounds."There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed. I say this in order to impress upon you, if you are not already so impressed, that no small matter should divert us from our great purpose. "
Abraham Lincoln, from his Address to the Ohio One Hundred Sixty Fourth Volunteer Infantry
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Well guys I guess I will just have to remain "tone deaf"... I don't have any agenda for "separate but equal". I want the argument to stop and just move on. You can call me intolerant if you will, I'm just tired of the whole thing and want the argument to cease or better yet have the politicians stop playing tennis with it and using it to continue making money for the parties.
Don't kid yourself kids this is as much a political hot potato as it is a money maker for each party.It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years and we must stop it.
Bill Clinton 1995, State of the Union Address
"When they go low - we go High" great motto - too bad it was a sack of bullshit. DNC election mantra
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Originally posted by baldgriff View PostYou can call me intolerant if you will, I'm just tired of the whole thing and want the argument to cease or better yet have the politicians stop playing tennis with it and using it to continue making money for the parties.
Don't kid yourself kids this is as much a political hot potato as it is a money maker for each party."There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed. I say this in order to impress upon you, if you are not already so impressed, that no small matter should divert us from our great purpose. "
Abraham Lincoln, from his Address to the Ohio One Hundred Sixty Fourth Volunteer Infantry
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Originally posted by Fresno Bob View PostMarriage is a merger of assets and liabilities/debt, with state-mandated procedures for division of such assets/debts should the marriage terminate by mutual agreement or the death of one party, that's more of what I meant...
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Originally posted by baldgriff View PostWell guys I guess I will just have to remain "tone deaf"... I don't have any agenda for "separate but equal". I want the argument to stop and just move on. You can call me intolerant if you will, I'm just tired of the whole thing and want the argument to cease or better yet have the politicians stop playing tennis with it and using it to continue making money for the parties.
Don't kid yourself kids this is as much a political hot potato as it is a money maker for each party.
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Originally posted by eldiablo505It's also a pretty real thing for a lot of gay couples (or just gay folks who also have hopes to marry or just have a vested interest in the issue). It may just tire you but for a lot of folks it's a fight worth fighting.
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Originally posted by nots View PostI was thinking more of the tax code advantages for married filers as opposed to other non-married folks. Seems unfair.I'm not expecting to grow flowers in the desert...
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Originally posted by heyelander View Postand why the extra deductions for kids? What's up with that? I've got to pay a higher % because I'm using less resources?"Instead of all of this energy and effort directed at the war to end drugs, how about a little attention to drugs which will end war?" Albert Hofmann
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Three cheers for the Supreme Court. One step closer to complete and total equality for allConsidering his only baseball post in the past year was bringing up a 3 year old thread to taunt Hornsby and he's never contributed a dime to our hatpass, perhaps?
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