TOUGH STOUGH wrote: Homosexuals in this country are not oppressed, repressed or any other kind of 'pressed. I am sick and tired of arguments to the contrary. They can live together, have sex with one another (no one's peekin' in their bedrooms), acquire property, work, vacation etc (and do). They have legal means to assure the distribution of their property, or handling of their estate upon death and can even author living wills which will give their partners the same rights to make decisions regarding their health during illness and death as married spouses have.
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Tax Reduction for Homosexuals Denied Rights and Benefits by Government Petition
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http://www.petitiononline.com/LGTaxes/petition.html Changed:3:16 PM on Tuesday, March 23, 2004
Did you even bother to read the above, Tough?
Can you refute their claims?
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Tough:
The legal definition of marriage should not be changed to accommodate their desires. We have seen what happens to the family and how it is further destroyed, when the definition of marriage is changed to permit homosexual marriage in places like Sweden for instance.
We all must stand firmly against the changing of the legal definition of marriage, to include homosexual marriage or any other kind of marital arrangement other than one man or one woman. We cannot allow homosexuals or any other group to hurt traditional marriage and traditional values any further.
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We cannot allow further Amendments to our Constitution that infringe upon our individual rights.
Government has no business in dictating the terms of civil marriage between consenting adults.
Granted, our States can regulate the rules on 'uncivil marriages', [polygamy, incest, etc], -- using constitutional due process, but they can't 'ban' queers from calling themselves married, and from demanding equal tax & insurance treatment from government.
187 -tpaine-
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How is this an infringement upon gay rights? As I said and I'll repeat, "homosexuals have the right to marry someone of the opposite sex just like the rest of us."
LOL! I am crying bucket loads of tears after reading THAT one. Homosexuals are so terribly REPRESSED and OPPRESSED. Your positions are ridiculous.
What about people who never marry and live with other family members or friends all their lives and thus pay higher taxes?
Is the tax structure fair to them?
189 -Tough-
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No, the tax structure isn't 'fair', as we all know.
The solution? --- Amend the tax structure. The Republican supported 'Fair Tax' would work.
We don't need to amend the Constitution on marriage.
It is ~your~ positions on that, -- that are ridiculous.
190 tpaine
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Homosexuals NEVER had the right to marry in this country.
No one has ever interpreted a constitutional right for homosexuals to marry in this country, until now. It is you and people and activist judges like you who want to extend "rights" that just aren't there.
Therefore, a constitutional amendment, is very much in need.
191 -Tough-
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There is no need for an Amendment, if: -- "Homosexuals NEVER had the right to marry in this country."
Just ignore their demands, and they will fade away. -- Simple solution, right?
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TOUGH STOUGH wrote:
You seem to have this unusual habit of considering only a PORTION of someone's post.
Now that activist judges in several states seem to have suddenly and incorrectly found a homosexual right to marriage and are attempting to foist homosexual marriage upon the nation, an amendment is a virtual necessity.
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TOUGH, - you have this unusual habit of reading & replying to only a PORTION of someone's post.
So? -- Let the gay activists & judges "foist" their marriage claims. -- You say they have no rights on this issue? -- Ignore them. Refuse to recognize those claims in your State or County.
-- No amendment necessary.