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After 4th Circuit rules Virginia Gay Marriage Ban is Unconstitutional, NC to not defend A1 in court

moving101

Posted 10:12 pm, 09/15/2014

I've thought all along that the Freedom of Religion amendment is the basis that the gays could use to be legally married.

kenc

Posted 10:09 pm, 09/15/2014

Hey WG , been away from my computer , I know I'm bad, just can't help myself .

moving101

Posted 9:32 pm, 09/15/2014

fonzo, what's the difference in one husband having to insure one wife and having to insure several? What if the others stay single and below the poverty line and end up on Medicaid anyway?

It's less about the ability to insure, and more about the legal right to just be present in a hospital room if a loved one is sick/dying. There are rights afforded to hetero couples that we take for granted that gay couples would like to have without a court battle.

alonzo harris

Posted 9:23 pm, 09/15/2014

A lot of the justification given by those demanding gay marriage; is access to insurance coverage, and other financial benefits.

So if a guy has 7 spouses as muse is okey-dokey with, are all these spouses entitled to these benefits by law? Who's gonna pay for this?

So much for his false claim that the deconstruction of marriage affects no one, and is nobody's business.

moving101

Posted 9:21 pm, 09/15/2014

I believe everyone of legal age should have the right to marry anyone else of legal age so we can all be miserable together.

wrestlers Grandpa

Posted 9:09 pm, 09/15/2014

KENC oh you are bad to make the Local Far Right GOP know that V Foxx is not one of them....oh my....

TheMUSE

Posted 8:56 pm, 09/15/2014

for the record Alonzo... If a guy wants to have 7 wives, or a chick wants 7 husbands... it's fine with me. As long as they are above the age of consent. It's none of MY business how many spouses a person wants... It doesn't hurt me at all. Polygamy is in the bible that you hide behind. As old as prostitution and slavery.....

kenc

Posted 9:50 am, 09/15/2014

Shhhh , to be , Wilkes County Repubs are trying to forget all the mean things they used to say about Mormans.

They're trying to forget that Va. Foxx is not a Baptist, they thought she was when they voted for her.

to be or not to be

Posted 9:39 am, 09/15/2014

alonzo harris (view profile)

Posted 7:16 am, 09/15/2014

Monday, 01 September 2014 15:15 The Utah Polygamy Ruling and the Tale of the Slippery Slope


Isn't that Utah Polygamy bunch Mitt Romney's group,

You know the MORMON'S

TheUUShadow

Posted 8:35 am, 09/15/2014

Bite your tongue. None of us wants Alonzo.

Gay Democrats Unite

Posted 7:59 am, 09/15/2014

Alonzo You need to *** out of the closet

alonzo harris

Posted 7:18 am, 09/15/2014

[Marriage engineers] attack traditionalists with the notion that the time-honored definition of marriage is exclusive and discriminatory, but then defend themselves by saying that their agitation for faux marriage won't lead to polygamy and other conceptions of "marriage" being legalized. But what is implicit in these claims is contradictory. For if they're putting forth an alternative definition � such as marriage being the union of any two adults � they're also being exclusive and discriminatory, as any definition excludes what doesn't meet it. Yet if they don't put forth an alternative definition and exclude something, they are including everything. And everything encompasses every conception of "marriage" imaginable. This definitional failure would also contribute to the destruction of the institution because the closer marriage gets to meaning anything, the closer it gets to meaning nothing.

This brings us to traditionalists' great mistake: falsely accusing the other side of redefining marriage. They've done no such thing because they haven't, in fact, consistently propounded any alternative definition.... So if the anti-marriage side isn't redefining the institution, what are they actually doing?

They are "undefining" it.

And only definitions define � and limit. "Undefintions" exclude nothing.

alonzo harris

Posted 7:16 am, 09/15/2014

Monday, 01 September 2014 15:15 The Utah Polygamy Ruling and the Tale of the Slippery Slope

Of course, this opening of a door to polygamy was entirely predictable and had been predicted, by me and many others. How could anyone know? Because ideas have consequences, arguments accepted get recycled, and precedents are called precedents because they precede.

Consider, for instance, the slogan "Marriage equality!" The acceptance of this "principle" would inevitably lead to the recognition of not just faux marriage ("gay marriage") but also polygamy because, wrote scholars Robert P. George, Sherif Girgis, and Ryan T. Anderson last year, "if marriage were simply about recognizing bonds of affection or romance, then two men or two women could form a marriage just as a man and woman can. But so could three or more in the increasingly common phenomenon of group (�polyamorous') partnerships. In that case, to recognize opposite-sex unions but not same-sex or polyamorous ones would be unfair � a denial of equality."

To support their point, the authors then cite people who actually welcome the slippery slope's start:

University of Calgary Professor Elizabeth Brake supports "minimal marriage," in which people distribute whichever duties they choose, among however many partners, of whatever sex.

NYU Professor Judith Stacey hopes that redefining marriage would give marriage "varied, creative, and adaptive contours ..." and lead to acceptance of "small group marriages." In the manifesto "Beyond Same-Sex Marriage," 300 leading "LGBT and allied" scholars and activists call for the recognition of multiple partner relationships.

Influential columnist and "It Gets Better" founder Dan Savage encourages spouses to adopt "a more flexible attitude" about sex outside their marriage. Journalist Victoria Brownworth cheerfully predicts that same-sex marriage will "weaken the institution of marriage."

alonzo harris

Posted 7:09 am, 09/15/2014

Is Polygamy the Next Gay Marriage?

Should we really care if more than two consenting adults want to marry each other, or if polygamy advocates see the LGBT movement as an inspiration?

http://www.thedailybeast.co...riage.html

TheMUSE

Posted 11:11 pm, 09/14/2014

nc268, with all due respect my friend. Sometimes in your youth you say things that are crass and tacky and quite frankly, they don't help our cause. Please keep that in mind my friend. It's better to be right with tact, than to be tacky.....

voices are meant to be heard, but they are better heard when they aren't shrill and offensive. Big hugs to you.

nc268

Posted 11:07 pm, 09/14/2014

when the wife is bleeding lol the bi husband goes looking

Top Soil

Posted 11:03 pm, 09/14/2014

TheMUSE (view profile)

Posted 10:54 pm, 09/14/2014

lol scab PICKING? you mean why did someone bring to life a thread from July? If you don't pick it, it will heal? lol


yes, exactly

TheMUSE

Posted 10:54 pm, 09/14/2014

lol scab PICKING? you mean why did someone bring to life a thread from July? If you don't pick it, it will heal? lol

Top Soil

Posted 10:52 pm, 09/14/2014

What's up with all the scab picking?

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