Living in Utah

[The Nexerus]

mdk said
They seem okay

The Black Belt is less prominent than I was expecting. I guess there's plenty of white trash in the Deep South too.

[Aragorn]

mdk said
check out .I can't decide if I've ever heard a more outlandishly sane solution to the 'controversy' of marriage equality.

Or, god forbid, they leave the people the fuck alone? Is it that fucking hard? Why does it have to matter who you marry? Just leave them the hell alone for gods sake.

[Turtlicious]

Aragorn said
Or, god forbid, they leave the people the fuck alone? Is it that fucking hard? Why does it have to matter who you marry? Just leave them the hell alone for gods sake.

omg aragorn, it's god they're championing for. lrn2bbl

[Hank]

The Nexerus said
Banning gay marriage does not mean banning people from being gay.

It's a ban on the legitimacy of gay couples, though.

[idlehands]

The Nex said The Black Belt is less prominent than I was expecting. I guess there's plenty of white trash in the Deep South too.

Y'think?

[The Nexerus]

Hank said
It's a ban on the legitimacy of gay couples, though.

I don't know much about illegality of gay marriage, but it's my understanding that gay couples can still have civil unions in all states, right?

[aza]

idlehands said
Damn, independent Alaska is anything but.And look at Oregon...all those socialist hippies.

Everyone in Oregon is like.... 129 years old.

[Hank]

The Nexerus said
I don't know much about illegality of gay marriage, but it's my understanding that gay couples can still have civil unions in all states, right?

Which, to a lot of gay people, especially gay Christians, feels more like a consolation prize than anything else.

[Weyr]

The Nexerus said
I don't know much about illegality of gay marriage, but it's my understanding that gay couples can still have civil unions in all states, right?

No, I wanna say its 20 states right now that have legal civil unions or same sex marriages...

And civil union=/=marriage

[Awson]

Civil unions don't receive certain benefits that marriage does. Like insurance things and such. I feel like I've had this conversation a dozen times.

[idlehands]

Civil unions aren't the same as marriage, as has been stated. And a straight couple can get married without it being religious. We got married with a JP and a non religious ceremony. Religion has shit all to do with it these days. It's only something the religious folk drag out because they really have no valid arguement that gays should not get married. If their church decides not to perform a ceremony, that's on them. But legally, they should be allowed to because of things like Awson mentioned, only a spouse can have access too. Time to stop the seperate but equal crap because we all know that it doesn't work and it's not true.

[mdk]

Aragorn said
Or, god forbid, they leave the people the fuck alone? Is it that fucking hard? Why does it have to matter who you marry? Just leave them the hell alone for gods sake.

well that's the idea with this one, 'Hey guys about this whole marriage thing -- we're out, good luck, sort it yourselves.' No more of that 'By the power vested in my by the state of Kentucky' crap, no more 'You're not married until you pay the court for a license' crap, nothing. It's bonkers but it makes sense.

[The Nexerus]

Awson said
Civil unions don't receive certain benefits that marriage does. Like insurance things and such.

Really? I'd always thought that civil unions carried all of the same legal benefits and provisions that marriage does.

[Awson]

The Nexerus said
Really? I'd always thought that civil unions carried all of the same legal benefits and provisions that marriage does.

Put a "vs." between the two, google it, and have fun clicking around.