Re: Victory for Marriage in Maine

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• Question 1
• Maggie Gallagher

[dickyguapo]

Brave video. Thanks. Keep on keeping on, because the world is evolving, and bigots cannot stop progress. I live in Spain, where marriage equality has existed for the last 5 years. It did not cause the devastation that Ms Gallagher likes to imagine, and feed to her neurotic followers. The best, and ironically most political, thing a gay man can do is live a good and happy life. Bigots cannot stop that. And I wish you that happiness AbsurdnMisherd !

[AbsurdnMisherd]

@dickyguapo Thank you for uplifting comment. It made my day :)

[AntarcticaPride]

@AbsurdnMisherd Im from the Religious Society of Friends, I joined when I was 14.

we accept gays, homosexuals, or whatever you prefer to call your orientation.

what do you think of this kind of a phenomenon ?

a religious group, fighting for your rights.

[AbsurdnMisherd]

@kenballer00 (Part 3) say you're married and your wife was in a coma, even if there was a 90% chance of her waking up, and her dad wants to pull the plug, he gets to choose not you. Now that her dad pulled the plug the state says your kids aren't your kids. Children you raised. So they're taken away. And the house? not in your name? They'll just take that too. and the pension now that she's gone. You have no access to that or any other form of insurance other then your own.

[AbsurdnMisherd]

@kenballer00 (part 2) So it was with me lying on the ground bleeding that I realized I wasn't thought to be equal. Because I was different I was apparently a threat. Gay marriage recognizes on a federal level the fact that homosexuals can love just as much as heterosexuals. Something anti-marriage equality tend to lack: love. I know this concept of loving another person may be hard to grasp for you, but it does happen. and those two people should be allowed to have the safety marriage provides

[AbsurdnMisherd]

@kenballer00 Dear Kenballer00,

Have you ever had the shit beat out of you for being different? For being tall or short, black or white, left-handed or right handed? Something you couldn't help?

Being gay is not a choice. I know because my Christian parents tried to make me believe otherwise, which almost resulted in my suicide. Why live if I can't be myself. After that I accepted who I was. But society didn't. I was attacked because I was gay. I wasn't harming anyone. just walking.

[AbsurdnMisherd]

@kenballer00 Dear Kenballer00,

Have you ever had the shit beat out of you for being different? For being tall or short, black or white, left-handed or right handed? Something you couldn't help?

Being gay is not a choice. I know because my Christian parents tried to make me believe otherwise, which almost resulted in my suicide. Why live if I can't be myself. After that I accepted who I was. But society didn't. I was attacked because I was gay. I wasn't harming anyone. just walking.

[BIitzed]

If you don't think gays should raise children, why are you arguing against marriage? Gays already can and do raise kids without marriage, so either you should start attacking that or drop the argument all together. Otherwise you are merely advocating stripping rights away from kids and their families, just because their parents happen to be gay.

[BIitzed]

"for centuries, we have understood traditional marriage to be the best thing for children and society " For hundreds of years, people thought slavery was the best thing for our society, too. Obviously historical opinions are worthless in this discussion, so stop throwing around appeals to tradition.

[BIitzed]

It's perfectly possible for us to procreate and to rear children naturally. Besides the obvious fact of in vitro being done by some, we also adopt. There are plenty of infertile straight couples who do the same, so how are we any less deserving of marriage rights than they are?