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To: gdc61
get it now? or do you approve of forced beliefs?

Absolutely not. The remedy for judicial activism is impeachment, not a constitutional amendment. People just don't want to be bothered with performing their civic duty. It's easier to bitch on fora like this.

The Constitution must be protected at all costs.

Nobody is forcing his or her beliefs on the people of the United States. Activist judges are trying to force taxpayers to pay for the expression of those beliefs.

Personally, I don't care if two men or women want to live together under the same roof. That's their right in a free country. When you get down to it, marriage is a division of labor and an economic convenience as much as anything else.

In the stone age, the men hunted and the women raised the children. For most of American history, men worked on the farm or in a factory, and the women raised the children. Thanks to the fruits of our form of government here in America, we have other options these days, moral or not.

If two men or women want to live together, I don't call it marriage, but I don't mind calling it a civil union.

I think the rights of people who chose that lifestyle should be protected under law just like "normal" couples. The law should provide for inheritance of assets for the survivor and the adopted children. The law should not give them special benifits.

When two men or women share a household for a lifetime, they should be able to pass their assets to their "spouse" regardless of sex.

Personally, I believe that homosexuality is immoral, but it is not the function of government to prevent people from doing immoral things.

396 posted on 07/14/2004 4:49:22 PM PDT by snopercod (I remember when Gallo Red Mountain wine was $1.59 a gallon.)
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To: snopercod
Personally, I believe that homosexuality is immoral, but it is not the function of government to prevent people from doing immoral things.

Nor is it the governments place to put the imprimatur on homosexuality but thats exactly what the courts are doing.

400 posted on 07/14/2004 4:52:27 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: snopercod
When two men or women share a household for a lifetime, they should be able to pass their assets to their "spouse" regardless of sex.

And the reason that these hypothetical homosexual lifetime partners cannot write a personal services contract and reciprocal wills under existing law, in fact under common law as it has existed for millenia, is what?

425 posted on 07/14/2004 5:52:37 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Now you go feed those hogs before they worry themselves into anemia!)
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To: snopercod
The Constitution must be protected at all costs, agreed.

"The remedy for judicial activism is impeachment"... in whose world? with Arlen Specter stepping into the chair of the SJC.
"Nobody is forcing his or her beliefs on the people of the United States. Activist judges are trying to force taxpayers to pay for the expression of those beliefs".... excuse me? an overwhelming majority oppose same sex unions. we are being forced to accept it AND pay for it.
no matter how hard anyone tries, you can't tell me homos portray family values let alone are equal to OR deserving of equal rights as compared to minorities or married couples.
They have the same rights as me. I can shack up with whom I please or marry whomever I choose from the opposite sex. You think the government should place its stamp of approval on gay marriage? and say "protect the constitution" in one paragraph,wow. whats to stop the Mormons from asking for bigamy rights? what if I want to marry my dog or little sister? there is a reason they lump sodomy in with beastiality and pedophilia. Sodomy rights? I don't think so.
498 posted on 07/15/2004 5:15:31 PM PDT by gdc61
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