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Old 2012-09-09, 21:58   Link #301
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It's a movie; that's all I need to know to pass judgement. If you want facts you have to do your own research, films are for spoon feeding. This applies to both GOP and Dems.

Frankly the anti-Obama stuff just isn't convincing. His only crime is governing as a moderate Republican wile calling himself a Democrat.
Sure, Obama and his administration aren't perfect, but I think many (probably most) of the anti-Obama people are just over the top with their criticism. Usually they don't have the facts straight, or they will stretch things (usually by a lot), or they will accuse him of things that aren't completely true, or only have a little bit of truth to them, or are just flat-out false.
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Old 2012-09-09, 22:19   Link #302
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Old 2012-09-09, 22:33   Link #303
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Just to illuminate to our non-USA posters that tricky minefield of "state's rights" versus federal domain, several states are challenging the DOMA (the misnamed "Defense of Marriage Act") that Congress passed as unconstitutional in that the regulation of marriage is a state's domain. They assert the federal law is illegal basically.

In jurisprudence, normally the federals set the minimum standards to protect the rights of citizens and the state may exceed them. The feds telling state's to restrict rights? Well, several states are calling bullshit on it legally.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...ng-battlefield
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......they won't come into your house and steal your children.....
Really, for a moment I thought when passing DOMA would rescind any laws imposing minimum age of marriage. Apparently it is just another useless law thay forcibly enforces male-female marriage only.

Same-sex marriage is not widespread enough to cause some major damage to the morality of society or survival of human species, why the need for such laws anyway?

Since the Big Religion that was fostering and pushing this through the legal system, shouldn't they, with their business acumen shown being able to milk millions from thier followers, sweeten the deal and make marriage as tradtional as possible, complete with marriage sacks, bethrohals and bride buying regardless of age?
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Old 2012-09-09, 22:43   Link #304
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Same-sex marriage is not widespread enough to cause some major damage to the morality of society or survival of human species, why the need for such laws anyway?
The rules were once created and applied to tiny tribes in the Middle East where the local population can possibly be affected if some people don't pull their weight to generate new offspring. It's effectively martial law to enforce population stability when infant mortality is high.

Doesn't apply now. And frankly it is not illegal to be childless. But so many people are stilling living in the B.C. era.
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Old 2012-09-10, 09:42   Link #305
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So, on the issue of same-sex marriage and homosexuality.. As someone that leans left, I thought I'd share a conversation with my very close friend who is a a gay lawyer that grew up in a very wealthy conservative part of town in Vancouver, B.C. (Canada). His family is quite wealthy and he is only halfway out of the closet with his coworkers and his family.

I learned two things due to my somewhat a-hole style devil's advocate type queries:

1) I asked him after watching X-men 3, if a "cure" for gayness was discovered or if he could otherwise get "turned" would he do so? He admitted that based on his socio-economic status, his personal and business circles, he's ashamed to say he would. He admits it would make his life much easier.

2) Secondly, I asked whether he would be OK if instead of allowing same-sex marriage, a new status was created that was identical in every way but was labeled differently, like "committed union" -- that way marriage could continue to be defined as between a man & woman, and we'd just have to "ctrl+f" "find and replace" our existing legislature. His response "lawyered" me a little.

Rationally he wouldn't have any issues with it, and he can understand why conservative religious types who believe "marriage is an institution directly tied to their beliefs of faith and his rules regarding behaviour and morality" but his point (which I agree with) is that the create of a status that is "different" works well when people are reasonable, rational, educated and tolerant. When they are not, the "different but the same" argument won't work and would continue to result in future discrimination.
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Old 2012-09-10, 10:12   Link #306
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Romney and Ryan do the worst job of hating things ever...

Romney supports Obamacare provisions like pre-existing condition coverage and keeping young adults on parents plan...but a campaign aide says he does not support those things? *boggle*


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Ryan apparently didn't vote for the defense cuts he voted for...

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Old 2012-09-10, 10:49   Link #307
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2) Secondly, I asked whether he would be OK if instead of allowing same-sex marriage, a new status was created that was identical in every way but was labeled differently, like "committed union" -- that way marriage could continue to be defined as between a man & woman, and we'd just have to "ctrl+f" "find and replace" our existing legislature. His response "lawyered" me a little.

Rationally he wouldn't have any issues with it, and he can understand why conservative religious types who believe "marriage is an institution directly tied to their beliefs of faith and his rules regarding behaviour and morality" but his point (which I agree with) is that the create of a status that is "different" works well when people are reasonable, rational, educated and tolerant. When they are not, the "different but the same" argument won't work and would continue to result in future discrimination.
See, the only reason you would have something that is "same but different", is for the purposes of discrimination. It would be like saying Obama can be the POTUS only if his title is deliberately changed to "Black President". Obama is POTUS; this isn't up for debate. But if you decide that he needed to be specifically labelled differently from all the other POTUS in history, because of the colour of his skin, then that is discrimination by default.

Labelling is discriminatory. Here is another example: what if only couple who have children can be considered "married", and all other couples are called "Pseudo-married", all other things remain the same?

The impossible part, is the justification that somehow separate labelling is necessary. That married people who are the same sex needed to be isolated from those who are hetero, to keep marriages pure and untainted.
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Old 2012-09-10, 11:29   Link #308
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Frankly, just labelling everything "civil union" should be the logical outcome, but then labelling traditional marriages as civil unions will cause quite a bit of backlash.
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Old 2012-09-10, 11:44   Link #309
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Frankly, just labeling everything "civil union" should be the logical outcome, but then labeling traditional marriages as civil unions will cause quite a bit of backlash.
You just have to sell it right. Start off by making it seem like the Government is trying to control all marriages (which they are kind of doing already). Then have a religious personality step in to tell the masses that marriage is a religious institution before the eyes of god, not before the government. Finally, get the masses to start chanting "keep your hands off my marriage". Once all this has occurred, marriage will be left up to which ever religion you are a member of, and everyone will be issued civil union certificates. .

Honestly, I hate to say this, but the whole marriage issue can wait for another day. There are more critical issues at hand than the various social issues that always seem to drive these elections.
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Old 2012-09-10, 11:51   Link #310
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Honestly, I hate to say this, but the whole marriage issue can wait for another day. There are more critical issues at hand than the various social issues that always seem to drive these elections.
If the GOP voters care about critical issues, they would have demanded more details on how Romney is going to balance the books. The Republican Convention is proof that their supporters just don't care.
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Old 2012-09-10, 13:01   Link #311
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If the GOP voters care about critical issues, they would have demanded more details on how Romney is going to balance the books. The Republican Convention is proof that their supporters just don't care.
Of course. It is within the Republicans best interest to focus on these issues, and as long as we are forced to focus on these issues, especially in the debates, the American people will never be confronted with the reality that the current Republican economic, health care, military, energy and environmental plans are absent or woefully lacking.
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Old 2012-09-10, 13:22   Link #312
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Thought some of you would find this interesting: http://secotm.tumblr.com/post/308517...-or-is-there-a

Also, for further interestingness:

http://zfacts.com/metaPage/lib/Cato-...Lenin-Plan.pdf

Enjoy, comrades!
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Old 2012-09-10, 13:44   Link #313
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Thought some of you would find this interesting: http://secotm.tumblr.com/post/308517...-or-is-there-a

Also, for further interestingness:

http://zfacts.com/metaPage/lib/Cato-...Lenin-Plan.pdf

Enjoy, comrades!
Yeah, I saw the art on facebook. I'm half convinced the artist did this on purpose, the idiots had no clue (having failed history), and the artist walked away with their money laughing.

And yeah, this is the end-game of a 30 year effort by essentially the same people who brought us the 1870s, the 1890s, the 1910s, the 1930s (all depressions from reckless speculation and manipulation by unregulated banks/corporations and international trading companies). They want to return to those "good old times" where they made a lot of money and the other 90% of us took it in the backside.
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Old 2012-09-10, 14:13   Link #314
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Thought some of you would find this interesting: http://secotm.tumblr.com/post/308517...-or-is-there-a

Also, for further interestingness:

http://zfacts.com/metaPage/lib/Cato-...Lenin-Plan.pdf

Enjoy, comrades!
I did mention earlier that technically, China is modern GOP's ideal role model.
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Old 2012-09-10, 14:25   Link #315
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2) Secondly, I asked whether he would be OK if instead of allowing same-sex marriage, a new status was created that was identical in every way but was labeled differently, like "committed union" -- that way marriage could continue to be defined as between a man & woman, and we'd just have to "ctrl+f" "find and replace" our existing legislature. His response "lawyered" me a little.

Rationally he wouldn't have any issues with it, and he can understand why conservative religious types who believe "marriage is an institution directly tied to their beliefs of faith and his rules regarding behaviour and morality" but his point (which I agree with) is that the create of a status that is "different" works well when people are reasonable, rational, educated and tolerant. When they are not, the "different but the same" argument won't work and would continue to result in future discrimination.
This sounds similar to back in the day with Civil Rights. The whole "Seperate but equal" thing which obviously wasn't right.
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Old 2012-09-10, 14:57   Link #316
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Well the hang up seems to be the word "marriage" and its modern religious meanings. The logical approach would be to take the religious part out and make that the seperate but equal section. Everything else would be civil and secular, the only added feature for a "marriage" would be religious based and that varies by religion already anyway.
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Old 2012-09-10, 15:08   Link #317
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Well the hang up seems to be the word "marriage" and its modern religious meanings. The logical approach would be to take the religious part out and make that the seperate but equal section. Everything else would be civil and secular, the only added feature for a "marriage" would be religious based and that varies by religion already anyway.
People don't need to be religious to get married. So there is no grounds to give the word "marriage" to the religious organisations. The ceremonies are purely decorative these days anyway, and not legally binding.

So no, "marriage" is not religious no matter what anyone say. Not unless you want only those who have a registered religion could marry. There is nothing to separate. Religion can disappear tomorrow and it would still change nothing of legal marriage.
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Actual meaning and what it means to the public are not always the same thing. You can have a word that officially means one thing while it is used in public to mean something totally not related to the meaning of the word...and have that public meaning being the generally accepted meaning even if the actual definition of the word has not changed.

The ones caught up in the ideology and making the largest amount of noise are those that want to keep marriage as "sacred", thus religious.

That might mean more in the United States than in other countries. We have a fairly large population that still has religious ideals in mind without being directly involved with their own religions anymore. These are the people that still hold on to the ideal or tradition of a church wedding. Regardless of what it means or doesn't mean.

Some of this is just tradition. Some of it is the older style "girls dream" of the wedding dress. Some of it is that they hold a god (or gods) as a higher authority than the government and thus it is the legal paperwork that is the formality while the ceremony is the real deal.
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Old 2012-09-10, 19:18   Link #319
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Old 2012-09-10, 19:54   Link #320
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Actual meaning and what it means to the public are not always the same thing. You can have a word that officially means one thing while it is used in public to mean something totally not related to the meaning of the word...and have that public meaning being the generally accepted meaning even if the actual definition of the word has not changed.

The ones caught up in the ideology and making the largest amount of noise are those that want to keep marriage as "sacred", thus religious.

That might mean more in the United States than in other countries. We have a fairly large population that still has religious ideals in mind without being directly involved with their own religions anymore. These are the people that still hold on to the ideal or tradition of a church wedding. Regardless of what it means or doesn't mean.

Some of this is just tradition. Some of it is the older style "girls dream" of the wedding dress. Some of it is that they hold a god (or gods) as a higher authority than the government and thus it is the legal paperwork that is the formality while the ceremony is the real deal.
You can say the same thing about sexual and racial discrimination being tradition and religion based. My question is does the law of the land pander to such people or actually be truly follow justice and fairness.

The "Higher Authority" already spoken thousands of years ago. Then again as the West Wing TV show pointed out, people still see football players touching the skin of a pig when they watch the Superbowl.
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