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#177 Oct 07 2015 at 6:25 PM Rating: Good
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This is generally a flawed argument because same *** couples do adopt children and thus he is also paying for a stable marriage that may also have children.


Not only with they sometimes adopt and raise children, but those children will come out of the subset of orphaned/surrendered children who would otherwise be wards of the state, and a drain on resources.

See, that was always my argument: these gay couples are taking all the leftover kids from the failed (yet sacred!) hetero marriages. But I guess he'd rather his tax dollars go to orphanages and foster homes than to stable, loving families. Man, conservatives have fucked up priorities.
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I can't believe you people are wasting time debating SSM with Gbaji. I thought the main benefit of the Right's devastating loss would be that we wouldn't have to do that any longer. Also, homosexuals could get married to one another but mainly the debate thing.
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I can't believe you people are wasting time debating SSM with Gbaji. I thought the main benefit of the Right's devastating loss would be that we wouldn't have to do that any longer. Also, homosexuals could get married to one another but mainly the debate thing.

When this thread hits critical mass you can just start another new one. Again.
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I never figured out how the government subsidizes SSM. Can you run that one by me again?


Tax incentives for marriage. Gbaji does not mind paying for tax incentives to create stable families that will (likely) have children.


I'd say "that may create children" though. The objective is to try to maximize the degree to which children are born to a stable family where both biological parents are legally bound to their continued support.

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This is generally a flawed argument because same *** couples do adopt children and thus he is also paying for a stable marriage that may also have children.


You're kinda playing with the word "have", which could mean "have, as in 'to possess'", or "have, as in 'to create'". I'm talking about creation of children, which gay couples cannot do. Thus, there is zero reason to subsidize that couple to form, since they don't cause the problem we're trying to avoid. The problem we're trying to prevent/reduce is children born out of wedlock. Adoption is an entirely different issue, and is problematic since it kinda relies on others already having produced a child, presumably in that problematic case we're trying to avoid.

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The rate for opposite *** families with children is around 40% and the rate for same-*** couples with children is around 20%. Same-*** couples face more barriers to having children; most must go through a lengthy application process in order to adopt, whereas opposite *** couple can quite literally acquire children accidentally. I believe a better route to subsidizing married families is either to attach the tax incentives to having children, or alternately, decrease the barrier to entry for same-*** couples acquiring children via adoption (although there are intrinsically more liability concerns with this method). In any event, if the child-rearing rates were similar or quite close for opposite *** and same *** married couples, there would no longer be an economic argument against same *** marriage.


Again though, these are two different sides of the issue. Adoption is a fix after the fact. Marriage incentives are an attempt to prevent the need for that fix in the first place. We can have both, of course, but trying to mix them up like that seems odd to me.

I'm going to ask whether your use of the phrase "having children" in the context of subsidies refers to possessing or creating children? We already have a ton of tax breaks and programs that assist those who possess children, whether married or not. And that's actually part of the problem IMO. Now, if you're suggesting that we restrict those programs and tax breaks to only those who posses children and are married, I might actually agree. But I still see that as fixing the problem after the fact. The stats overwhelmingly show that if the children are created in an already existing marriage between the two biological parents of the child, their odds of needing any kind of assistance programs (ie: taxpayer cost) is much lower than otherwise. So the subsidies for marriage can be a great deal cost wise, if we'd actually stick to using them for that purpose rather than politicizing them as some kind of "right" to be handed out to everyone, regardless of applicability.

It would also help terrifically if we *didn't* provide so much assistance to single moms, effectively creating a disincentive for them to get married to the man they're shacking up with at the moment. Safety nets help people who find themselves in difficult situations, but they also increase the rate at which people find themselves in those spots. This again goes to the difference in approach between treating the symptoms of a problem after the fact versus preventing the problem in the first place. We'd be much better off focusing more of our efforts on the latter approach IMO, and marriage status is a key component to that.


Um... I actually also agree with you on the barriers to adoption angle. What I would propose (and I believe I have proposed in the past) is to separate the legal contract of marriage from the legal status of marriage. Allow any two people to enter into a legal marriage if they want, complete with power of attorney, joint finances and property, etc. Basically, all the civil arrangements needed for a marriage to be a marriage. Then, you can tie things like adoption, custody, etc, to that status, and it's about the choices of the people and the agencies they're interacting with. If married couple X qualify for adoption based on the agencies criteria, they quality. No barrier based on being gay or straight. Doesn't matter. Well, except to faith based adoption agencies, but again, as a private process, they should be free to set whatever criteria they want. I'm sure plenty of different agencies will exist to fill the need. You keep the government granted benefits and whatnot as an incentive for potential breeders who qualify for them, with "being in a legally binding marriage" being one of the requirements (but we could add more).

What this would do is get the social/civil concept of "marriage" out of a situation where it's tied to a whole bunch of things that don't necessarily make sense for newer concepts of what a marriage may be or can include. Heck. Since these are just private contracts between people, you could have group marriages under this system. Anything you want. Why not? The big stumbling block for a lot of this stuff is government involvement. We have systems (like say social security) that grant benefits to married couples based on assumptions about that married couple (that they'll likely consist of a breeding pair, and one of them will likely give up some career opportunities to produce and raise children, meaning that person should get their spouses SS benefits if they outlive him/her). The entire thing is based on that concept so people balk at the idea of something like say group marriages, for example, since you could then theoretically keep adding members and maintain the marriage for eternity, collecting on all the deceased spouses social security the whole time.

Same deal (to a degree) with SSM. Adopting is a choice, not a necessary component to keeping the species alive. That's great, but then it's really on you to have the resources to raise that child. Expecting the rest of the population to provide you benefits for doing so seems strange. Expecting them to do so on the off chance you *might* choose to adopt is doubly so. Providing a surviving spouse with the social security benefits of the deceased spouse, because that couple chose to adopt, and one of them chose to be a stay at home mom/dad, seems strange to me. Those were all choices you made, that are not necessary choices at all. The cost should be born by you. You should presumably be financially capable of handling those choices on your own without government subsidy, or you should not make that choice.

The same can't be said of traditional male/female couples. They *must* procreate (at some rate as a group, of course, not each individual couple). We want them to procreate in the best environment for the children. So we should create an incentive for them to do so. Which is what the marriage status, and all the attendant benefits and effects are about. Gay couples (again, as a group) don't need to adopt. We don't need for them to adopt. It's nice if they do. But it's nice if I help clear my neighbors yard too. I don't expect the government to reward me for that.

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This is generally a flawed argument because same *** couples do adopt children and thus he is also paying for a stable marriage that may also have children.


Not only with they sometimes adopt and raise children, but those children will come out of the subset of orphaned/surrendered children who would otherwise be wards of the state, and a drain on resources.

See, that was always my argument: these gay couples are taking all the leftover kids from the failed (yet sacred!) hetero marriages. But I guess he'd rather his tax dollars go to orphanages and foster homes than to stable, loving families. Man, conservatives have fucked up priorities.


That would make sense if even a tiny percentage of children available for adoption were produced by a married couple. They aren't. They are produced by single mothers, often (75% of the time) with no involvement of the birth father at all (in the adoption, that is). The better solution, if our objective is really to reduce the burden of those children on the state, should be to strengthen the incentives for those women to marry the men they are having children with before having children with them, right?

No solution is perfect, of course, but you're arguing based on the smallest case, while I'm looking at the far far bigger side of the issue. The impact of SSM on total adoptions in the US is more or less statistical static. The impact on the number of children born to and raised by single mothers, and those given up for adoption, as a result of the weakening of marriage as a social institution in our country is massive. We should be looking to fix that latter problem, and not worry so much about the former.
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#182 Oct 07 2015 at 7:54 PM Rating: Excellent
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We don't need for them to adopt.
Yes, we do

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It's nice if they do. But it's nice if I help clear my neighbors yard too.
Raising children is just like clipping hedges!!!

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I don't expect the government to reward me for that.
But you'll let them reward you for buying a house.

Edited, Oct 7th 2015 7:57pm by Bijou
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We don't need for them to adopt.
Yes, we do


Gay couples specifically? No. Any couple or person? Sure. You're aware that you don't have to be married to adopt, right? Gay or straight isn't the issue. Marriage isn't the issue. Supporting a SSM agenda on the ground that "well, now they can adopt and make the world a better place" is incredibly weak.

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I don't expect the government to reward me for that.
But you'll let them reward you for buying a house.


Sure. Just as I already pointed out that we provide tons of assistance for those raising children already. What your arguing is more equivalent to the government rewarding me for opening up a bank account, because I might use that account to save money, and I might use that money to buy a house. If you want to reward people for doing something, you reward them for doing that thing. You don't reward them for doing some other thing, which might just result in them choosing to do the thing you want them to do.

The causal relationship between opposite sex couples marrying or not marrying and children being born out of wedlock (and potentially being given up for adoption) is direct and strong. The causal relationship between same sex couples marrying or not marrying and children born out of wedlock and given up and later being adopted by that same sex couple is incredibly torturous and weak. To equate those two is bizarre.
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gbaji wrote:
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This is generally a flawed argument because same *** couples do adopt children and thus he is also paying for a stable marriage that may also have children.


Not only with they sometimes adopt and raise children, but those children will come out of the subset of orphaned/surrendered children who would otherwise be wards of the state, and a drain on resources.

See, that was always my argument: these gay couples are taking all the leftover kids from the failed (yet sacred!) hetero marriages. But I guess he'd rather his tax dollars go to orphanages and foster homes than to stable, loving families. Man, conservatives have fucked up priorities.


That would make sense if even a tiny percentage of children available for adoption were produced by a married couple. They aren't. They are produced by single mothers, often (75% of the time) with no involvement of the birth father at all (in the adoption, that is). The better solution, if our objective is really to reduce the burden of those children on the state, should be to strengthen the incentives for those women to marry the men they are having children with before having children with them, right?

No solution is perfect, of course, but you're arguing based on the smallest case, while I'm looking at the far far bigger side of the issue. The impact of SSM on total adoptions in the US is more or less statistical static. The impact on the number of children born to and raised by single mothers, and those given up for adoption, as a result of the weakening of marriage as a social institution in our country is massive. We should be looking to fix that latter problem, and not worry so much about the former.


Both problems take children out of the "children of non-married couples" pool and put them in the "children of married couples" pool. It literally makes no difference whether you are incentivizing otherwise single mothers to be part of a marital union, or putting those children into a different stable parental unit. Stability is what matters, and reduction of state burden. Both incentivizing marriage, and incentivizing adoption do this. So does removal of people who would generate wards of the state from the gene pool for that matter, but that solution is generally regarded as barbaric. Unless your solution involves damning single mothers to destitution, it's a more appropriate solution to allow those with the resources to pick up the tab for some of the children who fall through the cracks.

You are assuming that because a group is small, and thus statistically insignificant it should not be incentivised to make decisions that positively impact the collective. If so, why stop at same sxe couples? Why not also say, well Asians are a minority, so they aren't a group that needs to be subsidized? Why not also left handed people?

The point is to offer the same deal to everyone: Take on the burden of having children and we will lend a helping hand. It won't cover everything, and it won't come close to the cost we would be forced to collectively pay otherwise, but we will help.
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Both problems take children out of the "children of non-married couples" pool and put them in the "children of married couples" pool. It literally makes no difference whether you are incentivizing otherwise single mothers to be part of a marital union, or putting those children into a different stable parental unit. Stability is what matters, and reduction of state burden. Both incentivizing marriage, and incentivizing adoption do this. So does removal of people who would generate wards of the state from the gene pool for that matter, but that solution is generally regarded as barbaric. Unless your solution involves damning single mothers to destitution, it's a more appropriate solution to allow those with the resources to pick up the tab for some of the children who fall through the cracks.

You are assuming that because a group is small, and thus statistically insignificant it should not be incentivised to make decisions that positively impact the collective. If so, why stop at same sxe couples? Why not also say, well Asians are a minority, so they aren't a group that needs to be subsidized? Why not also left handed people?

The point is to offer the same deal to everyone: Take on the burden of having children and we will lend a helping hand. It won't cover everything, and it won't come close to the cost we would be forced to collectively pay otherwise, but we will help.
He knows all that. His ideology is to pretend to care; not to actually care. Well, except about money. Money is the most important thing, like, ever.


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The point is to offer the same deal to everyone:
But if you treat everyone the same then you can't run on a political platform of how people are invading your holy land and ruining your tradition and stealing your soul.
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Both problems take children out of the "children of non-married couples" pool and put them in the "children of married couples" pool. It literally makes no difference whether you are incentivizing otherwise single mothers to be part of a marital union, or putting those children into a different stable parental unit. Stability is what matters, and reduction of state burden. Both incentivizing marriage, and incentivizing adoption do this. So does removal of people who would generate wards of the state from the gene pool for that matter, but that solution is generally regarded as barbaric. Unless your solution involves damning single mothers to destitution, it's a more appropriate solution to allow those with the resources to pick up the tab for some of the children who fall through the cracks.

You are assuming that because a group is small, and thus statistically insignificant it should not be incentivised to make decisions that positively impact the collective. If so, why stop at same sxe couples? Why not also say, well Asians are a minority, so they aren't a group that needs to be subsidized? Why not also left handed people?

The point is to offer the same deal to everyone: Take on the burden of having children and we will lend a helping hand. It won't cover everything, and it won't come close to the cost we would be forced to collectively pay otherwise, but we will help.
He knows all that. His ideology is to pretend to care; not to actually care. Well, except about money. Money is the most important thing, like, ever.


Edited, Oct 7th 2015 10:10pm by Bijou


Ok, but my point is that even if that were the case, the structure should be either all married couples should be subsidized, all married couples with children should be subsidized, or no couples should be subsidized.
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I guess it should be "dropping" his bid -- by reports, McCarthy didn't leave the conference meeting happy.
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Jason Chaffetz still in the running, I guess? Wonderful.
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Webster vs. Chaffetz for the GOP, neither looks particularly strong. A House divided against itself, etc.
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You are assuming that because a group is small, and thus statistically insignificant it should not be incentivised to make decisions that positively impact the collective. If so, why stop at same sxe couples? Why not also say, well Asians are a minority, so they aren't a group that needs to be subsidized? Why not also left handed people?


Because I'm not creating a criteria for marriage status qualification based on whether it would make it easier for that couple to adopt. You are. I have repeatedly rejected that as a good reason to expand the marriage status.

By your argument, why not expand marriage to siblings then? Why not parents and adult children? Heck. Why not whole families? Why not groups of people? If two people is a more stable condition for raising children than one, wouldn't three be better? Or 5? Or 10? We could argue that any number of people greater than one should be allowed to marry by your argument, because all of those have the same result with regard to potential for that larger number of people adopting children.

It's a really weak argument for expanding marriage.

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Again though, then why not argue for offering the same deal to everyone? You're offering it just to SS couples. Why the restriction? I get the whole slippery slope fallacy thing, but when your argument literally is a slippery slope, and you've provided no reason it shouldn't slide further, then it's a perfectly valid response. Clearly, unless you are arguing for further expansion, there must be some other criteria for marriage that is stronger than just "if we let them marry, they might adopt". Can you tell me what that criteria is now? Prior to SSM, that criteria was simple: "Grant marriage status to the set of all couples who might procreate". Now? What is it? What purpose does it serve? And where is the boundary for that status within the context of that purpose?

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Almost certainly more of the latter than the former. Could be something else entirely though. Prominent Republicans come under amazingly high scrutiny (liberal media, dontchaknow), so even the slightest problem in his past will come up and will be used against him politically. Maybe he went to a swingers party 20 years ago or something. Maybe he had an affair once. Maybe he went to a Celine Dion concert once? Had a mullet? Who knows?
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...used a position of trust to rape a minor. You know, something laughably silly like that.
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Prior to SSM, that criteria was simple: "Grant marriage status to the set of all couples who might procreate".
In reality the criteria was "how much land and status will you give me to fuck my daughter?" But you still ignoring facts aside, prior to SSM conservatives were whining about how black and white people could marry each other and how it was against their religion and traditional values. I guess black and white people couldn't procreate together in the 60s, right? Once that stopped for a while it was quiet because no one was making any noise, and now another group of people got tired of being treated like second class citizens forced to pay taxes into a system they can't benefit from and started making noise, and looky looky you twits are making the same excuses to discriminate and try to look like victims at the same time. Thankfully, history shows how this is going to go, no matter how revisionist you want to be. You can either go blue in the face complaining about it or you can just relax but it's going to happen. Women won the right to not be property, black and white can get married, and now it's the anti-breeders. Slippery slope, so what if groups of people want to get married? Oh, right, because it's against your religion (it's not, by the way. Sorry not Noah, Abraham had 3. Was thinking something else. Correcting on my own, point still stands though.), it's against tradition (if you ignore any time before 1000, and the Mormons), it's unnatural (all marriage is unnatural), and it's against the law (gee, wonder how that will go).

Those who don't study history yadda yadda.

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Well, McCarthy has admitted that the Benghazi admission was part of the reason for him dropping out. He hasn't admitted to raping Celine Dion's kid at a swingers club though. He's trying to frame it as "I don't want to be a distraction" but foes within the GOP were using it against his nomination. Successfully, it would seem.

Boehner is now saying he's going to retain his seat until the GOP coalesces around a single candidate which has to be thrilling the people who cheered his initial resignation.
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So he's Speaker for life?
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Imperial Speakership! Boehner's regime!

I assume he'll want to get the fuck out of town before, oh, say... December 11th? By Nov 30th, he'll be giving his gavel and tiara to the House janitor.
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Prior to SSM, that criteria was simple: "Grant marriage status to the set of all couples who might procreate".
In reality the criteria was "how much land and status will you give me to fuck my daughter?"


It was the government doing that? It was private citizens making deals among themselves. Which, um, you didn't need a supreme court ruling for gay couples to do. You know, if they wanted to, that is. Great job totally missing the entire issue. I'm talking about the government granted status. You know, the one that a portion of my tax dollars goes to pay? I don't care what relationships private citizens enter into on their own time and with their own money. When they're asking me to subsidize those relationships is when I think I should have some choice about it though.

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But you still ignoring facts aside, prior to SSM conservatives were whining about how black and white people could marry each other and how it was against their religion and traditional values. I guess black and white people couldn't procreate together in the 60s, right?


Well. If we're paying attention to facts, we'd realize that prior to Loving v Virginia (back in 1967), the Democrats were whining about black and white people marrying, not conservatives. It was the GOP that fought against racial discrimination for 100 years until the political left realized they were losing on that issue, and changed tactics to oppressing poor people of color by using government entitlement programs. Which, as it happens, has been even more successful at keeping them poor and in ghettos than any of their Jim Crow laws they'd passed previously.

And we'd also realize that one of the big justifications for the Loving case ruling was the fact that mixed race couples could procreate, and thus needed the same marriage capability as same-race couples. Something that has been completely forgotten since.

So once again, you're proving just how little you understand the issue at hand.

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Once that stopped for a while it was quiet because no one was making any noise, and now another group of people got tired of being treated like second class citizens forced to pay taxes into a system they can't benefit from and started making noise, and looky looky you twits are making the same excuses to discriminate and try to look like victims at the same time.


No. The same people who argued that blacks and whites should be granted marriage licenses because they form procreative pairs are now arguing that two people of the same sex should not be granted them because they don't meet the same criteria. We're not looking at whether a group looks like a victim group, or we feel sorry for them, or whatever. We're looking at the status, the purpose it serves, and whether existing restrictions make sense within that context. The same criteria we used in the 60s to allow mixed marriages does not allow for SSM. That's the point so many people don't seem to get.


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Are going to constantly get their facts wrong, like you've done?
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