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Author Topic: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread  (Read 1247137 times)

Nadaka

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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3915 on: November 07, 2012, 11:43:43 am »

And a bad night for slippery slopes. People will be petitioning to marry their pets before you know it, mark my words.
anndddd who cares? As far as I'm concerned people can marry a rock if they feel like it.

Is it a rock that is capable of providing written consent while signing a marriage license without duress? Ok.

But there is nothing even remotely similar between allowing "the gays" to suffer through marriage like the rest of us, and allowing marriage to inanimate or non sapient objects/food items.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3916 on: November 07, 2012, 11:45:27 am »

In the immortal words of Jimmy McMillan ~ You wanna marry a shoe, I'll marry ya.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3917 on: November 07, 2012, 11:52:25 am »

Honestly, the only sort of slippery slope I see is for 3+ person marriages, and that's honestly a ways down the road as far as public support, technically difficult, and not actually a bad thing.

So a big ol' *shrug*
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3918 on: November 07, 2012, 12:03:02 pm »

Changing the number of people clearly requires legal changes to allow it to make sense.  Changing the gender of a participant doesn't.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3919 on: November 07, 2012, 12:04:30 pm »

But you have to admit that requiring people of the same gender to be able to marry is an needed step for marriages involved more than one person. :P

So it's a slope... but it's honestly not that slippery, with all those road blocks and brambles and technical legal debris in the way.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3920 on: November 07, 2012, 12:06:04 pm »

The only problem with legalizing polygamous marriage is logistical, not moral.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3921 on: November 07, 2012, 12:18:59 pm »

And a bad night for slippery slopes. People will be petitioning to marry their pets before you know it, mark my words.
anndddd who cares? As far as I'm concerned people can marry a rock if they feel like it.
Indeed. And they actually can, right now. They just can't get the legal definition of "marriage," which is just a piece of paper and some extended privileges, not anything remotely "sacred," and that stuff wouldn't apply to rocks (or goats for that matter) anyway.

The only problem with legalizing polygamous marriage is logistical, not moral.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3922 on: November 07, 2012, 12:35:27 pm »

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not anything remotely "sacred," and that stuff wouldn't apply to rocks (or goats for that matter) anyway.

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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3923 on: November 07, 2012, 12:37:43 pm »

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not anything remotely "sacred," and that stuff wouldn't apply to rocks (or goats for that matter) anyway.

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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3924 on: November 07, 2012, 12:38:39 pm »

No you didn't.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3925 on: November 07, 2012, 12:38:42 pm »

Like hell you did.

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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3926 on: November 07, 2012, 12:43:22 pm »

Well at least I see it fine that way, whereas the original doesn't work.
Can you see this:
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3927 on: November 07, 2012, 12:44:10 pm »

Well at least I see it fine that way, whereas the original doesn't work.
Can you see this:
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3928 on: November 07, 2012, 12:45:39 pm »

Well at least I see it fine that way, whereas the original doesn't work.
Can you see this:
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Wait... Now I can't see them either. WHAT IS THIS MADNESS!?!?

EDIT: Refreshing the page, they occasionally seem to work.
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Re: PoH's Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #3929 on: November 07, 2012, 12:46:04 pm »

I can't see any of them.
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