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FReep this Poll: Should marriage be legally defined as only a union between a man and a woman?
CNN.com ^ | 8-03-03 | CNN

Posted on 08/04/2003 5:23:00 PM PDT by Salvation

Edited on 04/29/2004 2:02:54 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Should marriage be legally defined as only a union between a man and a woman?


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Should marriage be legally defined as only a union between a man and a woman?
Yes
  31%
264817 votes
No
  69%
598953 votes
Total: 863770 votes
This QuickVote is not scientific and reflects the opinions of only those Internet users who have chosen to participate. The results cannot be assumed to represent the opinions of Internet users in general, nor the public as a whole. The QuickVote sponsor is not responsible for content, functionality or the opinions expressed therein.

1 posted on 08/04/2003 5:23:01 PM PDT by Salvation
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To: Salvation
Click to vote!
2 posted on 08/04/2003 5:24:19 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Salvation
Looks like this one is being "Queered" by someone else--LOL!
3 posted on 08/04/2003 5:24:40 PM PDT by basil
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To: Salvation
Poll needs freeping bump!
4 posted on 08/04/2003 5:26:44 PM PDT by jocon307
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To: Salvation
Give it up already. The Gay Jihad has hijacked the poll and are crashing it into the Twin Towers of reason and morality.

-Jay
5 posted on 08/04/2003 5:27:04 PM PDT by Jay D. Dyson (But I can't get nothin' that can be bought, so I'll just live with what I got... Lord, forgive me.)
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To: basil
"This QuickVote is not scientific and reflects the opinions of only Homo's...
6 posted on 08/04/2003 5:29:33 PM PDT by jdontom (BacktheBadge)
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To: Salvation
Why should people be required to get a LICENSE from the GOVERNMENT to marry, anyway??
7 posted on 08/04/2003 5:30:06 PM PDT by FReepaholic (My other tag line is hilarious.)
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To: Salvation
I'll Freep the thing, but there are a lot more queers than there are FReepers.
8 posted on 08/04/2003 5:33:58 PM PDT by Nucluside
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To: tscislaw
You don't.

Ever hear of "common law" marriage?

9 posted on 08/04/2003 5:34:11 PM PDT by PokeyJoe (The great chickenhawk returned on Friday!)
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To: tscislaw
"Why should people be required to get a LICENSE from the GOVERNMENT to marry, anyway??"

That's a good point.
10 posted on 08/04/2003 5:36:53 PM PDT by Nucluside
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To: Salvation
Once homosexuals are given the right to "marry", then will Mormons be given the right to legally have more than one wife? Or could two "married" homosexuals be given the right to marry a woman, thus affording them a way to have children? Or, could...

Ah, forget it! What a bunch of nonsense this whole thing is!!!
11 posted on 08/04/2003 5:37:38 PM PDT by Maria S ("This time I think the Americans are serious. Bush is not like Clinton. I think this is the end" Uda)
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To: PokeyJoe
>>...Ever hear of "common law" marriage?...<<

Yes. But not all state's Governments "recognize" common law marriages.

12 posted on 08/04/2003 5:39:12 PM PDT by FReepaholic (My other tag line is hilarious.)
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To: Jay D. Dyson
**The Gay Jihad has hijacked the poll and are crashing it into the Twin Towers of reason and morality.**

But that is no reason for us to give up!
13 posted on 08/04/2003 5:42:07 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: Salvation
Give up CNN polls are rigged!
14 posted on 08/04/2003 5:43:11 PM PDT by El Laton Caliente
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To: Nucluside
No, the deviants are just louder...

Freeped and bumped.

15 posted on 08/04/2003 5:43:51 PM PDT by TaxRelief (Welcome to the #1 discussion board dedicated to the sustenance of a free republic.)
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To: *Catholic_list; father_elijah; nickcarraway; SMEDLEYBUTLER; Siobhan; Lady In Blue; attagirl; ...
Action Ping!
16 posted on 08/04/2003 5:44:00 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: tscislaw
Of the 50 states, 40 no longer allow such marriages to be contracted within their borders. Nevertheless, most states will recognize a marriage that was valid in the state of the parties' residence at the time of marriage. See 1 Homer H. Clark, The Law of Domestic Relations in the United States 2.4 (2d ed. 1987); Annotation, Common Law Marriage, 92 A.L.R.2d 1102 (1963). This fact, combined with the mobility of modern society, continues to force courts in all states to confront common law marriage issues.

So move to Texas, shack up for a year, refer to each other as husband and wife in name and letter - and wala. =)

17 posted on 08/04/2003 5:44:05 PM PDT by PokeyJoe (The great chickenhawk returned on Friday!)
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To: drstevej; RnMomof7
Can you ping your lists?

I hate CNN, but this does not deserve to stand.
18 posted on 08/04/2003 5:45:02 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: tscislaw
They don't. God instituted marriage.
19 posted on 08/04/2003 5:47:46 PM PDT by gitmo (We have left the slippery slope and we are now in free fall.)
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To: tscislaw
Why should people be required to get a LICENSE from the GOVERNMENT to marry, anyway??

Three simple reasons:

  1. Legal record for inheritance and family involvement in related affairs.
    (I sure don't want Jagoff Jones claiming inheritance on my estate without sufficient documentation.)
  2. Legal record to inhibit and prosecute bigamy.
    (Of course, bigamy has its own built-in punishment: two mothers-in-law.)
  3. Legal record to assert paternal responsibility.
    (So the rest of society doesn't get socked because some jackass can't keep it in his pants. Remember that the institution of marriage far predates blood and DNA tests.)

That's why the government issues marriage licenses.

-Jay

20 posted on 08/04/2003 5:53:14 PM PDT by Jay D. Dyson (But I can't get nothin' that can be bought, so I'll just live with what I got... Lord, forgive me.)
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