Attention gay folks!

[Boris Godunov]

Yes, it's irrelevant. A marriage is a thing unto itself, and the only people it need concern are the two people involved. If one couple feels their marriage is somehow rendered less by another couple being married, then it is the first couple whose relationship I question.

[Zylka]

Fair enough. In general, what are the monetary benefits heterosexuals gain? Is this more of prinicpal, or economics?

[Boris Godunov]

The primary benefits are not monetary, but protection: hospital visitation rights, funerary planning, estate planning, inheritance rights, etc. Even gay couples who individually had these granted via individual legal documents have had those overturned by courts at the behest of other family members.

The monetary rights could be considered benefits rights, such as Social Security, medicare, pensions, as well as health insurance coverage.

I think it has been estimated there are 1,049 benefits of marriage, great and small. However, I don't know about there being any significant monetary advantage, at least in the U.S., as we have the much-discussed "marriage penalty" tax.

[Whaleboy]

think you can handle your grandchildren exchanging vows with farm animals?

Comparing homosexuality with bestiality of child molestation is hardly valid, because animals, children etc, dont generally have a choice, are aware of their sexuality, or indeed are anything other than easy victims. An adult, be them of the same gender, can decide. There is a natural limit to where such things lie, and it is slanderous to compare homosexuals to zoophiles or paedophiles, as the conditions for the latter two are entirely different to the former.

[Whaleboy]

Zylka and Boris: Its a love thing

[Boris Godunov]

I don't think many people who make such a reference realize how deeply hurtful it is to a homosexual to compare his relationship to someone he loves and who loves him to raping a child or buggering a farm animal. If someone made the same allusion to a man's relationship with his wife, I can't imagine his outrage.

[Zylka]

ok

I'm sorry, that was insensitive. It came of my inability to understand homosexual love, and exaggeration of definition. I just don't know if I'll ever be able to understand, because to tell you the truth - looking at a picture like the one featured in this article, makes me giggle

[Asher]

Why don't you ask your younger brother about it?

[Boris Godunov]

At least there is no danger of them breeding.

[Zylka]

Originally posted by Asher
Why don't you ask your younger brother about it?

about what?

[Boris Godunov]

Uh-oh.

[Agathon]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
At least there is no danger of them breeding.

Jesus! Where'd you get that pic. :ugh:

[Zylka]

Your team is weirder than my team

"Gay marriage" provides more than enough on google image. Uglypeople.com is a little too easy, cheater!!!

[Zylka]

[Asher]