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Originally Posted by AOII Angel
Why? Who do you think issues marriage licenses? Who do you think hands out divorce decrees? When you get married in a church, it means NOTHING except that you are married in the eyes of the church until you turn the signed paperwork in to the state. The government has everything to do with marriage. The federal government or the supreme court only gets involved in the matter of marriage when the states screw up. I agree that taxation based on marriage is stupid, but that's the decision of your elected officials and my elected officials. What Obama did has nothing to do, however, with marriage. It has to do with making sure that hospitals don't decide for patients who gets to visit when they are ill. If you only get to see two people, fine...limit to two, but if you haven't been speaking to your parents for five years, why would they have precedence over your partner for visitation? In medicine, we haven't been able to make decisions for patients in over 20 years. It's time this archaic practice is gone as well.
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Can you imagine if one was kicked out of their home, and cut off from family, built a life anyway with people who love them and was happy, and then those who cast you out start running your life? I am sure that doesn't happen as often as it used to, but hell yeah I'd be pissed off and really upset by that. I say again people over 18, make your wishes known in a legal document, just in case. I want to not be on a machine if my brain is dead, I want my organs harvested, and then I want to be cremated and sprinkled, that's it. My family is into that as well, but having it in writing helps the process along.
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Originally Posted by Munchkin03
Can't we just legalize gay marriage in all 50 states already? DUH.
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Because that isn't GOD'S WAY, and OMFGWTFBBQMSNBC they will make our churches marry them, and what's wrong with a civil union, marriage is sacred!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I still have yet to hear an argument against non related, single, same gendered/sexed, adults marrying that doesn't involve religion or slippery slope beastiality.