;Posted on 04/01/2013 4:56:56 AM PDT by xsmommy
Word For The Day, Monday, 4/1/13
;In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
fatuous; adj.
1. foolish or inane, especially in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly. 2. unreal; illusory
Etymology: [C17: from Latin fatuus ; related to fatiscere to gape]
'fatuously
— adv
'fatuousness
— n
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Can you imagine Frank Costanza there?
I think the high court will sanction marriage for same sex couples because of the government involvement in tax breaks for married couples, etc.
I think it will happen because the pirate Roberts has been told to make it so. He is on a short leash held by the globalists.
I cant imagine him in any dignified setting. Remember the dinner with Susan’s parents? There’s the hen, the chicken and the rooster...
Its not just taxes, its all the law about spouses. You can make medical decisions. You dont have to testify against. You inherit naturally from a dead spouse.
Its not “marriage” as traditionally understood, but people are going to need the liberty to partner as they see fit.
They already can be included on health insurance, which they couldn’t do a few years ago. And of course can adopt - so laws are already moving that direction. You are correct about the other issues.
You should know that anything that happens on the east coast is far more deserving of coverage. The reporters dont even have to travel anywhere.
Of course I saw the infor daily on our local news but didn’t recall seeing much anywhere else (Fox News is the only place else I look...) - You would think no one else ever had any weather related issues or destruction. I have as much sympathy for the Jersey Coast as they had for Galveston.
Marriage is not a “right” for government to bestow-I don’t see it listed anywhere in the constitution or the bill of rights.
The other issues like SS and military benefits could (should) be moved into the same column as everything else that is handled in a will drawn up by an attorney now-insurance beneficiaries, property, medical decisions, etc. You can name anyone you damn well please for those now-doesn’t have to be a spouse-believe me, I dealt with all that rather recently when MrT5 fell ill and died. And look at all the libraries, parks (and pets) who are beneficiaries of the deceased now.
I just believe personally that the sacrament of marriage should belong to religion, separate from any civil contract-maybe have a pre-nup filed with a lawyer, but get the damn government out of the marriage part-no courthouse ceremonies. If you want a marriage, get a priest, rabbi, whatever, if you are Catholic, Jewish, Hindu, Wiccan-get a clergyperson of your faith to marry you.
If a clergyman is willing to perform a fictional “marriage” of a same gender couple, let it be on their heads-the rest of us can’t/shouldn’t be constrained to recognize it, any more than we recognize polygamy now-it wouldn’t take long for the novelty to wear off if enough of those couples are ignored-being the center of attention is very important to most of them-they don’t call them drama queens-of either gender-for nothing.
Some of my workers comp clients who were homosexual-either gender-even brought their significant others along to my office to literally hold and pat their hands while they sobbed and whined as if they had a spinal cord injury instead of a bulging disc-some of those performances were deserving of an oscar (but not an increase in sibs)...
Sorry for the rant, but I think too many are concentrating on the trees rather than the forest...
OMG I just about had a heart attack. My daughter’s new boy friend posted a pic of her hand with an engagement ring. On April Fool’s Day no less. Looks like a joke, better be as I have not been informed. Shook me up for a minute there.
I find it interesting that Rush said it was inevitable today, too. Abortion is legal and WRONG, so it won’t be the first time SCOTUS has messed up. Roberts has been bought. Must be the two adopted kids are being threatened. I am sick to death of all this and have NO trust in SCOTUS at all. Make that scotus.
Well said.
Uh-oh!
And that would be another good reason to get issues like abortion , defining marriage, etc away from the scotus for once and for all-leave it to the churches first, and states, where we the people vote on it, not justices who are human and fallible as the rest of us.
They need to stick to the constitutional issues, period. People voted same gender marriage down in California, and since the opposition didn’t agree, they got the scotus involved-directly shafting the will of the people in that state-what part of “no” did the opposition not understand?
In this state, if a person dies intestate, the estate is split in half between the surviving spouse and the children-sppouses do not inherit “naturally” from a spouse here.
And I don’t normally stutter...
Why thank you, SG-I just wish we could keep our eyes on the trees, because when go flailing around in the forest, we get lost...
I just don’t think it will pan out that way - I think the idea that it is a civil rights issue will lead their thinking. If, for example,one of the evil Southern States didn’t want blacks to vote they could vote it to be law...or for women to be back in the kitchen (as I heard on tv today) I think scotus will vote that the rights of gays are being held down by conservative thinking voters and will circumvent any choices by regions of the country. I am pretty sure it is a done deal.
Marriage isn’t a civil right, any way it is sliced or diced, and pretending it is one is where the whole problem started-just because someone says a thing is so, that does not change the constitution or the bill of rights.
I think it would be unfortunate if they went there, especially when homosexuals don’t happen to be a separate gender, race or ethnic group-they already have the same civil rights we all have. If they overturn doma, then some new court will come back in another 20 years or so and overturn their overturn, and on and on it goes depending which way the poilitical wind blows...
I don’t use the word gay, and if any of them looked it up, I doubt they would either-it was first used as a pejorative a hundred years and more ago. The word for same gender sexual preference is homosexual, all the way back to ancient Greece, at least. If they think the word sounds bad, so do a lot of other words, and people don’t go around trying to change them...
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