2013-07-31, 19:30 | Link #29741 |
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NSA chief defends surveillance programs at hacking conference
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...96U1A920130731 U.S. intelligence official says no one fired over Snowden http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...96U0P920130731
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2013-07-31, 19:41 | Link #29742 |
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Another right that homosexual couples aren't getting is visitation rights for their partners who are hospitalized. With gay couples, if one of the members of the couple is sick or injured and bedridden in a hospital, even if they are seriously sick or injured or on their death bed, their partner can't be by the side of their loved one. Heterosexual couples who are married are granted this right. Even with states that allow gay marriage, gay couples are still not getting full rights. I don't know if this has changed in some of the states. I don't know if any states give full rights to gay couples who marry, but back in 2008 I heard that gay couples that marry in Massachusetts didn't have full rights, including the visitation rights I just mentioned.
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2013-07-31, 22:12 | Link #29743 | |
Logician and Romantic
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2013-08-01, 00:11 | Link #29745 | |
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Well I guess for a homosexual person it must feel the same when someone of the opposite sex asks them out. In that case the ones who got it best are Bi-sexuals Well whatever... I still prefer being hetero myself.
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2013-08-01, 00:37 | Link #29747 | |
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2013-08-01, 01:12 | Link #29748 | |
Logician and Romantic
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Gay people aren't desperate, they aren't going to go around trying to seduce random people.
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2013-08-01, 01:36 | Link #29749 | ||
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I saw a report once on whether being married really cost less in taxes. The answer is that it depends. Unless we're talking about a couple of fiscalists, most people don't really know for sure if they'll play less in taxes when they marry. Being married is about a lot of other things, like child custody, visitation right... It's also a matter of principle. Even though the back of the bus goes to the same places as the front, is it alright to tell Black people, or whatever minority, where they can or cannot sit? |
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2013-08-01, 02:23 | Link #29750 |
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As long as laws related to marriage are "biased" (for lack of a better word) towards heterosexual marriages and childbirth, it will take some time for homosexual marriage to be fully accepted within the realm of the law.
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2013-08-01, 02:43 | Link #29751 |
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Well, that partly depends on the social environment you were brought up in. Like, one of my friends roommate is gay. When he told my friend that he was gay, he almost immediately wanted to be allocated a different room (Of course, he didn't say as much in that person's face). His, and admittedly of quite a few people I know, misconception is that being gay somehow means that they are incredibly promiscuous, which scares them. Yes, my country is pretty much 3rd world in terms of social structure and behavior but, its an example worth considering nonetheless.
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2013-08-01, 03:53 | Link #29752 |
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Well, shared living space is an entirely different issue.
Many girls feel uncomfortable living with non-family male, even if they are good friends. It happens with heterosexual people too, if there is a possibility of roommate becoming a relationship partner.
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2013-08-01, 04:12 | Link #29753 | |
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Don't ever mention it again.
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2013-08-01, 04:26 | Link #29754 | |
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"Your window display is really delicous, but above all you are the most delicious". The dood was like ... 70 years old, believe me, it didn't please me the slightest. Just remembering how maintaining a proper face was hard hurts my jaw. |
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2013-08-01, 04:49 | Link #29755 | |
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But yeah, being the reciepient of such a compliment or confession seems...unpleasant and out of place.
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2013-08-01, 04:53 | Link #29756 | ||
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Still, that case is bit different as his statement seems to be very creepy.
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2013-08-01, 05:16 | Link #29757 | |
We're Back
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"No Homo."
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2013-08-01, 05:32 | Link #29758 |
books-eater youkai
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Activity picks up at big China factories, smaller firms struggle
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...97004W20130801
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2013-08-01, 08:33 | Link #29759 | ||
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2013-08-01, 08:58 | Link #29760 |
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The difference being that he went one whole year without any kind of incident (the gay guy wasn't into alcohol and stuff, as far as I know). He stayed with him for a whole year and suddenly he becomes paranoid that his roomie will do something.
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