Homosexual Marriage

[MarisaKirisame]

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Also, nice bump. You fail.

gj

It's only a month. You don't have to get all personal about it.

In fact, things should never get personal here.

[devonin]

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Even more in fact: In CT, the rules about bumping old threads are substantially relaxed, since by its nature, CT threads get a flurry of activity, then go dormant until someone comes in with a fresh take on the subject.

[GuidoHunter]

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paxaea: five days for spam in CT. Maybe instead of yelling at other people about things that are actually within the rules, you follow the rules yourself.

This isn't the first time you've done it, either.

--Guido

http://andy.mikee385.com

[Fasty50]

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i think as long as two people are happy then they should be able to do what they want as long as its ethical because to be honest on a POV of a homosexual maybe its wrong to be hetero you know what i mean

[mike2727]

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yeah it should be allowed lmao because its an invasion of peoples privacy

[Shamo0]

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I think it should be allowed. Religion is flawed and should not be in any law regulating system what so ever.

[devonin]

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I think this thread has about run its course. Perhaps it should be sunk, maybe in a few months something sufficiently new on the subject will justify reopening it.

[Oi]

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Marriage is no longer only a religious thing. I think if two people truly love eacother, I don't see why same sex marriage should be a problem. I'm all for it.

[Godnick]

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Most states don't allow gay marriages.

Signing papers is only a formality I agree.

We prevented others from having slaves because thats invading THIER right to the constitution and the rights of freedom.

Sorry for having bad grammer, i'm not as blessed as some of you. I could just type out in my own language if ya want and have you guys try to translate it to english. Its not as easy as it seems.

There is no question if marriages should be allowed or not by homosexuals. You're removing rights of homosexuals of getting married. Why aren't homosexuals allowed to get married? Its thier choice, not yours. Don't like gay marriages? Don't marry one.

Oregon was also known for allowing gay marriage until they took a stop to it, sometime ago.

[z0mgfightme]

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It should be allowed. I think it's a violation of constitutional rights not to allow a gay couple to marry. This is taking us back to days of slavery where black people weren't granted the same rights because they weren't "equal" to whites. Same with gays. THEY ARE THE SAME! They feel and they love and they DEFINATELY deserve the same marital rights as heterosexuals.

[MarisaKirisame]

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The only problem with that is that people sometimes view homosexuality as if it's always a choice.

Being black is not a choice.

I'm not saying that means people will be unwilling to change their opinions on it, I'm just saying that it'll probably be more difficult.

[Snapps]

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I'm coming in to voice my opinion. If it's already been said, then you're wrong since it wasn't spoken by me.

Marriage is just signing legal documents. Ceremonial services are slightly religious based, but mostly just custom and not many people think of it as religious.

I personally think gays should be able to marry, since it's just a legal statement binding two people together for legal reasons like status, sharing opportunities, and such.

[Snowcrafta]

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To put things really into perspective, this is about money.

Everything is about money, any issue that makes news is about money. If it wasn't about money, our government would give less than a **** about it.

The issue more than anything is the marriage penalty tax law. When two heterosexual people are married, they're taxed differently than if they were two single heteros.

Copy/paste from wikipedia to look smart

The marriage penalty in the United States refers to the higher taxes required from some married couples, where spouses are making approximately the same taxable income, filing one tax return ("married filing jointly") than for the same two people filing two separate tax returns (as single, not "married filing separately"). The percentage of couples affected has varied over the years, depending on shifts in tax rates.

The source of this increase in taxes has its roots in the progressive tax-rate structure in income-tax laws, that is, a higher income pays a higher rate of tax. In such a context income averaging is advantageous to the taxpayer. E.g. two persons, one making $80,000 and the other making $20,000 in a particular year, will pay a larger combined tax than they would if both had an income of $50,000 in the same year.

Married couples normally combine their income which, when the spouses' monetary incomes are disparate, affords them the advantage of this income averaging. To compensate for this somewhat, the U.S. income tax law provides for somewhat higher tax rates on that averaged income (married couples pay more than twice the tax of a single person making half of the income) for the "married filing jointly" taxpayer class. So although couples with disparate incomes (which is the case for a stay-at-home spouse married to a "breadwinner") will gain a tax advantage from the income averaging, married couples having roughly equal personal incomes gain nothing from such income averaging yet remain subject to the higher tax bracket (for "married filing jointly") and thus pay more total tax than they would as two single persons.

Occasionally, this "marriage penalty" has become a campaign issue for various candidates and there have been piecemeal laws enacted to reduce it, none completely successfully

Gay people have always had the ability to get married from the religious point. If you wanted to, you could get married to a daffy duck rubber raft. All you need to do is find a preacher, give the vows, wala. You're married.

[devonin]

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So...to address the disparity in tax rates, married couples are taxed -MORE- but gays can't be legally married because of money? That makes no sense.

[jewpinthethird]

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So...to address the disparity in tax rates, married couples are taxed -MORE- but gays can't be legally married because of money? That makes no sense.

Well, it make sense from the perspective that it should be more costly to be in a homosexual relationship...you know, to weed out those people who are just doing it to be hip and cool.