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SCOTUS poll - RgrF - 03-27-2013
Full disclosure: one of my five brothers is gay and my wife's gay brother succumbed to AIDS 30 years ago, so we have a defined position on this.
Re: SCOTUS poll - Pops - 03-27-2013
From the beginning, I have always objected to the term "marriage" being used by the government. Legal civil unions, with their appropriate legal protections should be the government's concern. Whether those rights or non-rights are federal or state related is a constitutional matter, IMO. I think the term "marriage" should be a religious issue determined by religious institutions, with no civil meaning attached.
That's just one atheist's view. One who has been "married" 40 years come this August.
Re: SCOTUS poll - beagledave - 03-27-2013
Re: SCOTUS poll - Lemon Drop - 03-27-2013
none of the above
marriage should be between two adults of legal age, neither currently married to anyone else, not related by blood according to that state's laws.
I don't care who performs the ceremony (it's just a ceremony afterall) but the law should apply equally to all meeting the above.
Re: SCOTUS poll - RgrF - 03-27-2013
Lemon Drop wrote:
none of the above
marriage should be between two adults of legal age, neither currently married to anyone else, not related by blood according to that state's laws.
I don't care who performs the ceremony (it's just a ceremony afterall) but the law should apply equally to all meeting the above.
That would explain the push from same sex couples for equality and why would you object to option one?
Re: SCOTUS poll - Lemon Drop - 03-27-2013
RgrF wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]
none of the above
marriage should be between two adults of legal age, neither currently married to anyone else, not related by blood according to that state's laws.
I don't care who performs the ceremony (it's just a ceremony afterall) but the law should apply equally to all meeting the above.
That would explain the push from same sex couples for equality and why would you object to option one?
"all adults" ?? No. that's not the legal definition of marriage in the US, including same sex marriage.
Re: SCOTUS poll - RgrF - 03-27-2013
I thought the purpose of the poll was to determine how MR posters felt, never in my wildest imagination did I think it would supplant the decision of the SCOTUS, what were you thinking?
Re: SCOTUS poll - Ted King - 03-27-2013
I think Lemon would have preferred that your clarify what you probably thought was implicit - that "all" adults would exclude those who are already married, legal age, etc. I thought about that, too, and initially wasn't going to answer because of the same thing, but I decided that you probably just took the "not already married, legal age" thing for granted and so I voted for the first choice.
Re: SCOTUS poll - RgrF - 03-27-2013
Is there nothing we cannot split hairs about?
Re: SCOTUS poll - rgG - 03-27-2013
RgrF wrote:
Is there nothing we cannot split hairs about?
