Bush is a what?

[chequita guevara]

Bush is a homophobe because he opposes gay marriage.

He is a religious zealot because he claims to be one (though he may just be pandering the the religious right, who knows what he believes in private).

[Jon Miller]

opposong gay marriage does not make one a homophobe

Jon Mikller

[chequita guevara]

If you oppose equal rights for someone you are supporting their oppression. Gay marriage is part of equal rights. So yes, opposing gay marriage makes you heterosexist (much better word then homophobe, since it's not really about fear).

[C0ckney]

'heterosexist'

oh my god...

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by C0ckney
'heterosexist'

oh my god...

It's hardly new and it's a much more useful term than sexist or homophobe, since they all stem from the same reactionary ideas about what men and women's roles in society are allowed to be.

[Elok]

Gay marriage is hardly a matter of equal rights. Marriage was classically a male-female thing, the foundation of a biological family, and without religion it's more or less irrelevant anyway. The phrase "gay marriage" makes about as much sense as "license to wear shoes," or "rock-hunting permit." If all you want to do is sex, you don't need the government's permission. Heteros have been fornicating for years, and it doesn't seem to bother them.

[C0ckney]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


It's hardly new and it's a much more useful term than sexist or homophobe, since they all stem from the same reactionary ideas about what men and women's roles in society are allowed to be.

yeah, well all that aside, it sounds ****ing ridiculous.

'hetrosexist'

[Arrian]

Bush is a what?

Shmuck.

-Arrian

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Elok
Gay marriage is hardly a matter of equal rights. Marriage was classically a male-female thing, the foundation of a biological family, and without religion it's more or less irrelevant anyway. The phrase "gay marriage" makes about as much sense as "license to wear shoes," or "rock-hunting permit." If all you want to do is sex, you don't need the government's permission. Heteros have been fornicating for years, and it doesn't seem to bother them.

Some American Indian cultures had gay marriages. Christianity had gay marriages for many hundreds of years.

In our own society, mariage provides a whole host of other benefits, like lowered taxes, shared health care, power of attorney, social security, hospital visitation rights, protection from testimony in court, etc. Marriage is about more than sex, and so are gay relationships.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by C0ckney


yeah, well all that aside, it sounds ****ing ridiculous.

'hetrosexist'

whatever.

[Pekka]

Bush is the boss of the US, making whole lotta progress taking terrorist out with great success
Bush is the boss from Texas, driving a Lexus hitting all evil doers in solar plexus

Bush is what? Bush is what?

Bush is the leader of allies, giving you an advise how to hit dictators between their crossed eyes
Bush is a man with a plan, after the the whole mess began he's solving the problem to the last man.

What? You asked...

[Jac de Molay]

Originally posted by Elok
Gay marriage is hardly a matter of equal rights.

So gays and heterosexuals can both enter into business partnerships, give one another power of attorney, name each other beneficiary and executor of wills and life insurance, etc etc......but when it comes to legally recognized marriage unions, only one group is allowed the privelege.

How is this NOT a matter of equal rights?

[Elok]

Marriage is a farce nowadays. Without religious overtones, a marriage is nothing but a mutually binding exclusive screwing rights agreement. For the modern hang-out-till-you're-sick-of-each-other-then-split crowd, it's an anachronistic inconvenience used to shackle the dumber members of society. You'd think people would have figured that out by now.
Heterosexual civil marriage has an (admittedly hazy) social function insofar as the fear of divorce can keep loveless couples faithful, so their kids grow up with two parents, which ensures a full if probably unhappy childhood. People seem to be starting to wake up and realize their lives are a joke though, judging by the rising divorce rate. So even that is probably on the way out.
Which is not to say I think that state of affairs is right; I hate the shallowness of endless schmoozing and refuse to live that way. But that's how most have apparently chosen to be, and in a life with no lasting loyalties civil marriage is a comforting sort of hindrance. If you're going to sleep around, you should at least be honest to yourself and others about it, and not penalize yourself with a divorce settlement when you do what you knew deep down you would inevitably do.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Elok
If you're going to sleep around, you should at least be honest to yourself and others about it, and not penalize yourself with a divorce settlement when you do what you knew deep down you would inevitably do.

I perfectly know I'll sleep around, and damn I can tell you I'll do it before marriage. There's no way I ruin my marriage because of some bloody urge or curiosity => I'll satisfy the urge and the curiosity before being married.

[Elok]

Originally posted by Spiffor
I perfectly know I'll sleep around, and damn I can tell you I'll do it before marriage. There's no way I ruin my marriage because of some bloody urge or curiosity => I'll satisfy the urge and the curiosity before being married.

Well then, what exactly does the marriage mean to you? Legal/tax privileges or the possibility of losing half your stuff if you cheat? By government edict, you are one flesh, until you decide otherwise, in which case you get another government edict to contradict the first one. Whatever.