First you allow gay marriage and then the slope slips to allow siblings or animals or children or whatever.
Actually, that slope starts to slip at straight marriage.
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Fred Pete - May 26, 2009 9:11:34 am PDT #10937 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.
beth b - May 26, 2009 9:14:33 am PDT #10938 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
CA being half-assed. This is a weird place.
Will people please send decision making ma ~~~ to my DH. He's got a job offer , that isn't as secure as his current job. But this co he is in now is crazier than his old job.
Gris - May 26, 2009 9:20:29 am PDT #10939 of 30000
Hey. New board.
I'm with Laga on the sibling marriage thing. Not my bag, but if a pair of consenting adult siblings makes that decision and is willing to fight the social stigmas, who am I (or the government) to stop them?
I'm not even certain how I feel about prohibiting siblings from having children. Strongly discouraging, sure, and encouraging termination in the case of detectable problems, okay. But legally forbidding it or forcing termination? Sounds dangerous to me.
WindSparrow - May 26, 2009 9:21:08 am PDT #10940 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Laura, get-better-quick~ma for Bobby.
I'm sad too, to see that Prop 8 got upheld. It is crappy and half-assed to uphold it, yet let the marriages stand that took place before it passed. It's not fair to the couples who are ready NOW to be married, who were not there yet for that brief window of opportunity.
WindSparrow - May 26, 2009 9:24:54 am PDT #10941 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Decision~ma for Matt.
And I hope I don't come across as not being supportive of you and your DW, GC, when I said the California Supreme Court decision about Prop 8 is crappy and half-assed. Because I'm glad that your marriage is still legally valid, but the rest of the decision is most uncool.
Glamcookie - May 26, 2009 9:25:42 am PDT #10942 of 30000
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Not at all, WindSparrow. I'm completely furious about it.
Barb - May 26, 2009 9:30:52 am PDT #10943 of 30000
“Not dead yet!”
CA Supreme Court was smoking something bizarre.
sj - May 26, 2009 9:34:54 am PDT #10944 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I'm so sorry for everyone adversely affected by the CA Supreme Courts decision today. My heart goes out to you.
Jessica - May 26, 2009 9:35:02 am PDT #10945 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I'm with Laga on the sibling marriage thing. Not my bag, but if a pair of consenting adult siblings makes that decision and is willing to fight the social stigmas, who am I (or the government) to stop them?
Yeah, I agree. Ditto for mutually consensual everyone-of-age polygamy. (Though in that case, I can see that it would be something of a legal nightmare to enact. Same-sex marriage is just a matter of taking an existing two-person legal contract and blotting out the gender references. Expanding that contract to include multiple parties would be waaaaaaaaay more work.)
WindSparrow - May 26, 2009 9:36:29 am PDT #10946 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
I'm completely furious about it.
It's infuriating. You deserve to have the happiness that marriage brings. And you deserve to have the contentment of knowing that any other couple around you can have the same happiness.