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2013-03-28 Home Front: Culture Wars

Ted Olson: Prohibiting Polygamy Not Like Prohibiting Same-Sex Marriage

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Posted by Fred 2013-03-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 They'll still put you in jail for sleeping with your German shepherd. Or with your chicken.
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Dear Fred: I sleep with a German duck down Batiste. Should I be concerned ? :-(

Posted by Besoeker 2013-03-28 01:58|| 2013-03-28 01:58|| Front Page Top

#2 They'll still put you in jail for sleeping with your German shepherd. Or with your chicken.

You just called the next progressive issue, Fred.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2013-03-28 04:36|| 2013-03-28 04:36|| Front Page Top

#3 Once the ~~camel's nose under the tent~~ "consenting adults" argument was taken [see - Lawrence vs Texas], the Fed are sliding down the quick slope to opening it all up without a fig leaf to show. Though I suspect in their twisted world of logic - commerce sex will still be treated not as consenting adults but as pure 'commerce' and subject to prohibition. Certain things should have been left to the states, but the central government can't help itself to expand its reach in into the minutia of everyday life and general society.

Posted by Procopius2k 2013-03-28 09:58|| 2013-03-28 09:58|| Front Page Top

#4 The same sex issue is all about health benefits, inheritance of property and social security benefits for the "widow"

All of that can be covered without marriage.

Here in Californicate, the gay advocates wanted to limit the domestice partnership thing to gay couples, however, the state supreme(?) court said no it had to be everyone. So in a way the accommodation of gay partnership has allowed thousands in Californicate to garner most of the benefits of marriage without the "stigma" of a marriage...kind of part of that antiestablishment cancer that still lingers on after all the hippies went off to teach at colleges.

The title on a property can list both names and include "rights of survivorship" in the terms and conditions to protect the survivor from paying all kinds of taxes on the house and domestic partnership provisions cover the rest.

The gays do not want equal protection under the law, they want to be a priviledged group.

They should bring back the old Common Law definition of marriage and just leave it at that. If they did, the gays would get what they want and we would have more people getting married because the long term domestic partnership would be defined as marriage and if one left, the other could claim property rights.

Posted by Bill Clinton 2013-03-28 10:17|| 2013-03-28 10:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Time to get the state out of marriage IMHO.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2013-03-28 10:18|| 2013-03-28 10:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Can we renegotiate that statehood agreement now?

Posted by Brigham Young 2013-03-28 10:38|| 2013-03-28 10:38|| Front Page Top

#7 Very Heinlein-like vision, Fred.

Posted by Iblis 2013-03-28 11:30|| 2013-03-28 11:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Civil Unions that grant all the same benefits would be an appropriate answer acceptable to most everyone I know. The Gay Marriage Industry demands that you call it marriage to force the acceptance. It's a "power and framing the argument" movement. Grant them a civil union? What are you? Racist bigotted homophobic and ignorant?

Posted by Frank G 2013-03-28 11:32|| 2013-03-28 11:32|| Front Page Top

#9 "Sell me your women! How much for the little girl?"
-- The Blues Brothers

Posted by Muggsy Mussolini1226 2013-03-28 12:24|| 2013-03-28 12:24|| Front Page Top

#10 I seriously believe the people who are pushing this are divorace lawyers. Think about all the 'landmark' gay marriages and how virtually everyone of them is now divoraced. Think of all the lawyers fees if gays, who generally don't have long lasting relationships even compared to the serially married on the hetero side, are now in the tank for divorace proceedings.

Posted by Silentbrick - Schlumberger Squishy Mud Division 2013-03-28 12:36|| 2013-03-28 12:36|| Front Page Top

#11 They'll still put you in jail for sleeping with your German shepherd. Or with your chicken.

Only if you're active duty military. See United States v. Sanchez, 11 C.M.A. 216, 29 C.M.R. 32 (1960) (UCMJ Art. 134, indecent acts with a chicken). No one is quite sure about the, er, mechanics of that, nor which came first: the chicken or Sanchez? Tee hee!

Posted by RandomJD 2013-03-28 13:05|| 2013-03-28 13:05|| Front Page Top

#12 United States v. Sanchez, 11 C.M.A. 216, 29 C.M.R. 32 (1960)

Ewww!

Posted by Mullah Richard 2013-03-28 15:26|| 2013-03-28 15:26|| Front Page Top

#13 No one is quite sure about the, er, mechanics of that, nor which came first: the chicken or Sanchez? Tee hee!

That's not funny, that's sick... no wait... it is funny.

Posted by Shipman 2013-03-28 18:10|| 2013-03-28 18:10|| Front Page Top

#14 All this crap is just a distraction for the masses so they don't notice what is really going on. Bread and circuses, doncha know.

Posted by Glenmore 2013-03-28 19:15|| 2013-03-28 19:15|| Front Page Top

#15 "If the egg can get out, I can get in!"

I can't remember who said that.

Posted by Fred 2013-03-28 20:01|| 2013-03-28 20:01|| Front Page Top

#16 OMG, Fred. Dude. That is disgusting! In all the countless hours of late-night drunken lawyer debates in bars all over the world, I never heard that. And these were the kind of guys who made a deliberate effort to horrify the ladies.

So wow, yeah, ok, congratulations, you solved the mystery. Now, please excuse me while I go scrub with brain bleach!

Posted by RandomJD 2013-03-28 23:06|| 2013-03-28 23:06|| Front Page Top

#17 We all come here to learn things not found elsewhere, RandomJD. Aren't you glad today you made it here twice? I do wish I were a fly on the wall when you retail that particular bit of knowledge as if it were in passing -- if your response is any indication it will be absolutely delicious.

(That I learnt a number of things in just this thread doesn't count -- I learn things in every thread. just about.)

Posted by trailing wife 2013-03-28 23:50|| 2013-03-28 23:50|| Front Page Top

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