In a gay divorce, how is the judge supposed to find a way to be biased against the man?
06-07-2016 04:12 PM
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The problem with gay marriageIn a gay divorce, how is the judge supposed to find a way to be biased against the man? |
06-07-2016 04:24 PM
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06-07-2016 04:28 PM
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Assuming there is a problem is the borderline surfing of hate speech that got me riled up in your "The problem with Islam" thread. | |
06-07-2016 04:40 PM
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06-07-2016 05:15 PM
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06-07-2016 05:18 PM
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06-07-2016 05:45 PM
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06-07-2016 09:37 PM
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Fun fact: | |
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06-09-2016 01:36 PM
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I wonder how many people saw the title and who posted it and in their minds said "fuck off" and didn't click. |
06-09-2016 06:38 PM
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Fun Fact: | |
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06-09-2016 07:57 PM
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Fun fact - if you're in a relationship with a sheep in Wales, you're much more likely to be the victim of social exclusion than the sheep is. | |
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06-09-2016 07:58 PM
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Fun fact - there's no domestic violence in any lesbian porn that I watch. | |
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06-10-2016 08:15 AM
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06-10-2016 08:52 AM
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06-10-2016 08:56 AM
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I really don't like violence in porn. I'd prefer to watch two women licking each other and playing with dildos. Not quite sure who gets turned on by violence, I just know I don't. | |
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06-17-2016 11:04 PM
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Serious question: | |
06-18-2016 04:05 AM
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A person has a similar right to hold a belief according to his moral code, as others have of criticizing his belief. If you're saying the person has a right to be free of criticism of his beliefs, shouldn't the objects of those beliefs then have an equal right to be free of oppressive beliefs? | |
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06-18-2016 07:15 AM
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06-18-2016 12:14 PM
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You're right, there shouldn't be any threat of violence for their beliefs or statements. | |
06-18-2016 12:58 PM
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Is there any sense that we're dealing with homonyms, here? | |
06-18-2016 01:02 PM
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I had this discussion with my friend who I rent a room off. He thinks "marriage" should be between a man and a woman, while not being remotely homophobic. He bases this on the traditional definition or marriage. But he's not remotely religious either. I found it strange that he is willing to uphold religious values at the cost of equality, when he is neither religious nor intolerant. | |
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06-18-2016 01:19 PM
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Sometimes people just miss the point. |
Last edited by Savy; 06-18-2016 at 01:22 PM. | |
06-18-2016 01:33 PM
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"Because tradition" is a cop-out. It's not a real reason. And traditions change over time. | |
06-18-2016 01:34 PM
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This topic reminds me of this bit: | |
06-18-2016 01:58 PM
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This gets little play in the popular discussion of gay marriage, but its most significant detraction comes from people who view gay marriage as eroding the values that make for a strong, moral, progressing, and sustainable society: the nuclear family. The desire to promote the nuclear family is where everything from anti-fornication to anti-gay mostly comes from. |
06-18-2016 02:02 PM
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06-18-2016 02:06 PM
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On a related note, my sister is hardcore fundamentalist christian. Homosexuality basically infuriates her. At our last family reunion, I dug into the logic she uses for being anti-gay. The fundamental belief she falls back to is that she thinks that homosexuality is corruption by the Devil. It doesn't matter that animals portray homosexuality in the wild, it doesn't matter that the more male babies a woman has the more likely the later males will be born gay, and it doesn't matter that homosexual feelings are as natural for some as heterosexual feelings are for people like her or me; the bottom line is that the soul has been corrupted. She thinks that if this isn't the case and that if homosexuality is not wrong, it puts the Bible as the Word of God in question, which would shatter her emotional sanity. |
06-18-2016 02:18 PM
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Thinking Fast and Slow gets brought up a lot on this forum, and rightfully so. Its a pretty good book. In it, the idea that we reach conclusions first, and then look for rationals is discussed. We have our immediate, gut reaction to something...and then attempt to find reasons that this reaction is legitimate. | |
06-18-2016 02:22 PM
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@ top bit - I don't agree with discarding all of that obviously I just think marriage is a bad way of going about it. You talk about legal definitions changing well same could be said here. Marriage isn't even a particularly good solution to those problems you mention either imo but different topic of conversation. |
06-18-2016 02:45 PM
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06-19-2016 12:00 AM
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Yeah you're right, marriage isn't the only way to protect the interest of a partner. But having said that, there needs to be some form of contract between a couple in order to protect each other. Otherwise, are we saying that someone you dated for a month in the 1990's has a claim to part of your pension should you die? A marriage is a contract, currently between two people only in this country, but there's no reason why that should be the case, unless spoon is right and that it would just result in too many single men who would become aggressive. | |
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06-19-2016 09:54 AM
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06-19-2016 10:02 AM
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06-19-2016 10:05 AM
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Troo. | |
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06-19-2016 10:10 AM
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Though, I suppose there is something to say to the resilience of people. They live in situations that shouldn't work by any measure - like Liberia or whatever other bumblebeezed nation you can think of in south-of-sahara-africa or north-of-south-korea. | |
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06-19-2016 10:20 AM
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06-19-2016 11:12 AM
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Yes, quite. | |
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06-19-2016 11:15 AM
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If you were to say that "a hammer worked, shouldn't change it", I'd agree with you. | |
06-19-2016 11:24 AM
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I have no idea what the context was when I said that, but is a hammer the best method of getting a nail into a piece of wood? It's the most practical based on the tools we usually have at our disposal, but it's probably not the most efficient. | |
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06-19-2016 11:53 AM
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06-19-2016 11:54 AM
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06-19-2016 11:55 AM
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06-19-2016 02:54 PM
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06-19-2016 03:04 PM
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Last edited by a500lbgorilla; 06-19-2016 at 03:08 PM. | |