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Get the State Out of Marriage
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| January 27, 2014
| Mark Baisley
Posted on 01/27/2014 3:28:50 PM PST by Kaslin
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posted on
01/27/2014 3:28:50 PM PST
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
Keep it to the place of worship.
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posted on
01/27/2014 3:32:13 PM PST
by
Biggirl
(“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
To: Kaslin
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posted on
01/27/2014 3:38:24 PM PST
by
Ray76
(How modern liberals think: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaE98w1KZ-c)
To: Biggirl
Keep it to the place of worship.
No Thanks.
I wonder what the Founders would say to that capitulation if they were standing in front of you today?!
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posted on
01/27/2014 3:39:12 PM PST
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: SoConPubbie
What capitulation? Marriage isn’t mentioned in the U.S. Constitution.
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posted on
01/27/2014 3:41:55 PM PST
by
SatinDoll
(A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN IS BORN IN THE USA OF USA CITIZEN PARENTS)
To: Biggirl
My militant lesbian cousin is now hospitalized over her depression.
She won her great battle for same sex marriage in Minnesota, “married” her girlfriend and found that nothing had really changed. What she did find was that without the fight, she and her “wife” no longer have anything in common to bind them together.
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posted on
01/27/2014 3:42:39 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Kaslin
Might as well demand that the state “get out of the burlary, theft, robbery, rape and murder businesses” as well.
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posted on
01/27/2014 3:44:29 PM PST
by
fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: Kaslin
That’s only fair - since it was conservatives who invited the state into marriage in the first place - in exchange for a tax break. Once that happened, it was inevitable that everybody who could count to two would demand equal access.
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posted on
01/27/2014 3:44:51 PM PST
by
Mr. Jeeves
(CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
To: SatinDoll
I can’t find any evidence of state issued marriage licenses till shortly before the civil war in Kansas. If I recall correctly it was a legal maneuver having to do with whites marrying blacks and statehood.
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posted on
01/27/2014 3:46:26 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: SatinDoll
What capitulation? Marriage isnt mentioned in the U.S. Constitution.
That's right, it wasn't, either way.
Neither was abortion.
You skipped right over what I posted.
Do you think the Founders would approve?
Or do you think they didn't include Marriage as an issue with regards to Homosexuality and other perversions because they could not see a time where such perversions would be included in the definition of Marriage?
Do you think if they were alive today that they would have included provisions for protecting human life at all stages and strongly defined marriage?
Or are you a Libertarian who believes that morality has no place either in natural or constitutional law.
Do you think the founders thought that way?
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posted on
01/27/2014 3:46:46 PM PST
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: SoConPubbie
Tell me again why it is capitulation to reduce the size and scope of government.
To: Kaslin
If you don’t care if your marriage is legal, then don’t comply with the law, it is that simple.
This would merely mean that there is no such thing as marriage, which is silly, all societies have to deal with marriage law, and always have.
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posted on
01/27/2014 3:47:09 PM PST
by
ansel12
(Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
To: RightOnTheBorder
Tell me again why it is capitulation to reduce the size and scope of government.
For one simple reason, as the founders themselves were aware and stated, this form of government, a Democratic Republic, was only meant for a Christian people, and if this nation walks away from God, it will fall.
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posted on
01/27/2014 3:49:07 PM PST
by
SoConPubbie
(Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
To: Kaslin
As long as the federal government of the US equates two perverted homos as the same as a true husband-and-wife, whether via tax breaks or military housing... America, my own country, can just go burn in hell. That’s my bottom line. Not whether some individual state drops marriage.
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posted on
01/27/2014 3:51:01 PM PST
by
greene66
To: cripplecreek
I cant find any evidence of state issued marriage licenses till shortly before the civil war in Kansas. If I recall correctly it was a legal maneuver having to do with whites marrying blacks and statehood. Marriage licenses have existed for many centuries, since the 1300s, and before that Banns, and before that other formal actions that made marriage legal, Thomas Jefferson obtained a marriage license, George Washington paid for the license for his favorite nephew.
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posted on
01/27/2014 3:52:29 PM PST
by
ansel12
(Ben Bradlee -- JFK told me that "he was all for people's solving their problems by abortion".)
To: fwdude
Burglary, theft, robbery, rape and murder are all crimes against persons. Without the state to enforce the priveledges and responsibilities of marriage I don’t see how two homos engaging in some silly ceremony affects anyone other than those foolish enough to attend.
To: ansel12
If you say so but I haven’t seen them.
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posted on
01/27/2014 3:53:16 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: SoConPubbie
Marriage is a religious rite.
Israel has adopted this practice. There is no civil marriage and the effect of marriage is very limited legally.
This has prevented governmental interference with our free exercise of religion.
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posted on
01/27/2014 3:54:12 PM PST
by
Jewbacca
(The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
To: Kaslin
Marriage is between a man, a woman and God.
Government gets involved so that they can collect on licenses. For the money. And for social experiments.
And that is that.
To: Jewbacca
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posted on
01/27/2014 3:56:21 PM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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