Same sex marriage is constitutional.
Those of you who don't like it: sux to be you, huh?
Everything has consequences. Has anyone thought of common law marriage and how this will come into play. There are many homosexual men that each make a large amount of money. If they live together as husband and husband whether they are married or not will this be considered as common law marriage. If their combined salary is over 400,000 a year will their tax rate not sky rocket.
What happens when two men live together and then split up in the states that have spousal support laws? This marriage thing will or could affect the situation where homosexual men or homosexual women live together even though they are not married. I am sure many homosexuals will be financially disappointed by this law and many will wish it did not exist.
Sounds like you looking to conjure up problems just to say "I told you so" Divorce and alimony are touchy and difficult subjects for all couples of all kinds. Alimony reform is long over due. I would guess that there is a need to develop case and statutory law to deal with new situations. It is not a reason to say that gays are going to regret marriage any more than a lot of straight people do at some point. Now be nice and wish them well.
Well the case law is already in place. As the courts now recognize simply "marriage," the generations of alimony and divorce procedures of case law would apply, the marriage being heterosexual or homosexual in nature should be completely irrelevant.
Even custodial matters with same sex couples already has some case law on the record, likely if it comes up in any other states they'll rely on the existing decisions made in states that accepted SSM from the get go. The same goes with adoption, though I believe Alaska had one same sex couple adoption case on record for referral to the Superior Court, I'm not sure what the details of it were.
Happy Queers Day, I knew the USMB assclown brigade would be happy. Now they can celebrate a government forcing everyone to recognize their religious ceremonies. So much for separation of church and state!
That makes NO damned sense at all. Only the government has to recognize the marriage. No one is going to make the churches do anything. You really can't be serious with that
I didn't say it was forcing the churches to do anything. Nothing ever prevented churches from performing gay marriages in the first place.
But now suddenly the government is forced to accept these queer "marriages", which will also mean these queers will be given equal opportunity for things like adoption. Only assclowns like the idea of young boys being handed over to perverted queers. Next they'll be given the right to mutilate their adopted children for a "sex change".
I never cared what fags do with each other, but pretending they are normal is bullshit. Most queers are batshit crazy and belong in a mental institute.
Yea see the last part above. Same sex adoption has been happening in this country for a long time. It's been legal in Alaska since 2007, the same sex parents just weren't considered as married because SSM was banned by our state constitution; did not stop them from adopting as a single individual and raising the child together. I've not heard anything negative happen up here because of same sex adoption; though do feel free to search through whatever anti-gay sites and see if you can find something. If it were to come up an issue, I have no doubt Alaskan Christians would bring it to court; they did put millions into the political effort to ban SSM.
For that matter, the reality is that same sex couples all over the country have been adopting and raising children just like Alaska for a very long time. I've not heard anything bad, but again the liberal media doesn't report shit that "doesn't fit the agenda" so give us some links for issues with same sex adoption issues and I'll take a look at them.
I can agree that sex change for children is an issue we need to address more adequately, though I do not think that issue has anything to do with SSM legalization, but rather it is a social issue that /all/ parents have.
There was a case of a couple actively working on a sex change procedure for their child brought up not to long ago in the current events thread here. ( Linky to article
Transgender kids Painful quest to be who they are - CNN.com )
I'm torn on the issue of sex changes for children. On the one hand I instinctually think it's better for the parents to wait and let said child make the legally visible decision to do such a thing on their own (18 would be the age of maturity for that I believe) when they've "settled" a bit as it were, but on the other hand, I can 100% understand how difficult high school would be for a child who feels stuck in the wrong sex; I mean HS is already a pretty horrible experience regardless of ones sexual orientation. If /anyone/ is even the slightest bit self-conscious it amplifies that "dread" even further, certainly a child with a gender identity issue is going to have a far, far worse time dealing with that phase than a heterosexual child.
To expand the latter thought, I also look at the widely practiced act of circumcision. The general consensus is that it might reduce the transmission of STD's and it's cleaner for the child. Now if we can accept that such a procedure should/could be decided by parents in order to possibly increase the child's physical well being and safety, then shouldn't we also accept possible psychological "benefits" of a sex change for a gender confused child given the higher risk of suicide during that phase of life? And, in relation specifically to the thread that was here in current events, the drugs they were giving their child are apparently hormone suppressants; given that wildly fluctuating hormones are thought to be one of the major underlying causes of teenage suicide, perhaps, at least that part of, the procedure isn't against the child's best interest and thus should fall under the same "scrutiny" as the somewhat controversial, but near universally decided as a parents right, procedure of circumcision.
