Apologies to BK. You were right about gay marriages.

[Wiglaf]

I am sorry fetishtoast. I did not mean it.

[fetustoast]

[Wiglaf]

[fetustoast]

:angel:

[DaShi]

Finally a poster we can all agree with.

[KrazyHorse]

Fetustoast is the best kind of toast. Goes great with blastocyst butter.

[MikeH]

I've noticed a mellowing in attitude since gay marriage has been legalized in Canada. It allows people to have their opinions of what homosexuals are to be publicly reshaped...too many people pigeonhole homosexuals as promiscuous sex addicts rather than people who want to be in a loving relationship just like everyone else. The increased visibility has helped a lot.

My perception is we've experienced a similar change in the UK since we allowed civil partnerships (which is gay marriage in all but name, you get all the same rights as straight married couples. I'd like us to change the name so either everything is marriage or everything is civil partnership...)

[Elok]

Personally, I'd like civil marriage as an institution to be abolished and replaced with an "a la carte" option. You want to file taxes jointly with someone? Sign a contract! You want a clause where you get half their stuff upon dissolution? Put it in! Don't give a damn about hospital visitation rights? No need to check the box, then. The benefits of "marriage" for whoever wants them (roommates, siblings, pen-pals if for some reason they want it), none of the ridiculous spectacle of the government worrying about who's screwing whom.

Also, hopefully nobody whining about the "sanctity of joint-privileges resolutions," or whatever the hell they'd be called. You want to be married, you can go to a church, or, if atheist, I'm sure you can find a humanist society to do it. In a pinch, ask the Unitarians...

[Asher]

My perception is we've experienced a similar change in the UK since we allowed civil partnerships (which is gay marriage in all but name, you get all the same rights as straight married couples. I'd like us to change the name so either everything is marriage or everything is civil partnership...)

Poor 16 year-old Jack Frew, a wee openly gay lad from Scotland just had his throat slashed open and he died out in a wooded area.

You guys have a long way to go.

[MikeH]

Reprehensible actions of the few don't represent the views of the majority, thankfully

[MikeH]

also, not clear from the reports I've seen that he was killed because he was gay.

[Fve Crathva]

The girl in Ben's avatar is a hottie. Who is she?

SP

[giblets]

also, not clear from the reports I've seen that he was killed because he was gay.

yeah, but how often is someone found with their throat slashed in the middle of the woods? I'd say there's a pretty good chance that it happened because he was gay.

[Asher]

They arrested his 17-year old "friend" for doing it.

[Ben Kenobi]

I'm gay and Christian. Wrap your teen-tiny mind around that.

You are Christian like the Pharisees were Jews. Christian on the outside, maybe.

It's not hard. Christians believe in what Christ teaches. You, sadly, do not. Why not be honest?