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WCT: October 19-23, 2009
mustang6172:
I for one am dissapointed with this arc. Maurice should have gone on some long tirade about how he doesn't believe in marriage!
If the comic isn't going to use toilet humor, it should at least use soap opra-like drama.
Mojo:
Well, I haven't read all through it, but I have no doubt that the usual gay marriage debate has been raging, so here's my take.
First, I don't understand the problem people are having with it. If two people get married, it has absolutely nothing to do with me, so why should it matter what their genders are? Further, even if I felt it was immoral for whatever reason, what gives me the right to impose my beliefs on someone else?
Thus, on these grounds I do not oppose gay marriage. Further, I actually support it. Two people that love each other should have the same right to marry as anyone else.
Now, legally speaking, I don't see how it can be denied to people. That is, at least in Canada, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982) states quite clearly that the law cannot discriminate against anyone on the basis of several characteristics, in this case GENDER.
That is, marriage provides a number of legal rights and priveleges to couples, so the institution is one provided by law. This being the case, you cannot prevent a person marrying another person on the basis of the GENDER of one of those people.
Thus, the law MUST recognize gay marriage as LEGAL.
Now, that is not to say that churches should have to perform the ceremonies. They are entirely within their rights to say that people cannot be married in their church, but they cannot say they cannot be married AT ALL. Couples would still have the recourse of going to the government (City Hall).
Now, I don't know American Law, but I imagine the same argument could be made. I'd have to look into it.
maddness:
--- Quote from: ChristKnows on 23 Oct 2009, 18:47 ---Have to say as accepting of gays I am, I have mixed feelings about gay marriage. I agree that homosexuals deserve all the rights of married heterosexuals but in the end the church are the ones offering the service of marriage and if they don't want to offer that service to a particular group of people then that sucks but it's their right, especially given that there are alternatives (civil partnerships) that offer all rights of marriage.
--- End quote ---
When you marry you have to have a license from the state to make it legal. So long as you have that license and are married by someone who legally has the power to perform a marriage, you are considered to be married under the law. Whether you have a religious ceremony or no matters not at all to the state. I was married in a courthouse by a Justice of the Peace. I was semi-Catholic at the time, but did not belong to a local church in my husband's home town, and he was raised in a split household, Pentecostal and Southern Baptist. We decided to eschew religion altogether when it came to our marriage.
I believe that every religion has it's own right to decide whether they can perform a marriage between same-sex couples. I may think it sucks if they don't, but as a religion, the state has no say in whether they do or not.
kemon:
mojo, if only people had the capability to grasp it in the clear and concise manner you've presented it. unfortunately, there are far too many who cannot and choose to blatantly ignore the fact that it is clearly discrimination to deny marriage between any couple.
Near Lurker:
--- Quote from: Killbot on 23 Oct 2009, 12:47 ---they'll only commit to something if it's fun. that and they're directed by people with FAR more patience and capability for strategic thought.
--- End quote ---
Wait...political intrigue = fun, romantic relationships = BO-ring!
...right. Also, the Illuminati have every well-known homosexual on speed dial, Conservapedia is a reliable source, and LHOOQ doesn't exist.
I can't help but notice that for all your moralizing, you've ignored the other, more obvious homosexuality thread right next door. But that concerns lesbians, and lesbians actually bite back.
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