Yes, we can.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

If it matters, I think the government should be out of the marriage business all together.

Could you please define "out of the marriage business"?

Does that include the IRS?
How would you deal with a contentious divorce?
Child custody?


As a total aside, I just saw the comment Leno made on the subject of gay marriage. "They should have the same right to be miserable as the rest of us".

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

Could you please define "out of the marriage business"?

Does that include the IRS?
How would you deal with a contentious divorce?
Child custody?


As a total aside, I just saw the comment Leno made on the subject of gay marriage. "They should have the same right to be miserable as the rest of us".

Yes on the IRS.
Contentious divorce and child bustody....good questions. Admittedly no idea.

[Morrigoon]

Instead of leaving it blank, how about a write-in vote?

[Capt Jack]

found this. thought some might enjoy it.



that is all

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Capt Jack

that is all

But, it's not all.
I think this is a pertinent picture to post. Obama needs to find his inner Sith and go on the attack. (No, I'm not saying he should be evil...) But right now he's in uncool Jedi-Land, always on the defense, boringly preaching. And we all know what happened to the Jedi.

[innerSpaceman]

I'm hardly wasting it, Tenigma. I'm casting the most important vote of my life. The vote to RETAIN my rights to marry the person I love.


There's never been a presidential election in California nearly as important. The presidential election has NEVER been a contest in this state for the 30 years I've lived here.


Don't presume to tell me my vote is wasted. Where did I EVER say I'm not casting a vote for president? I said I'm not voting for either the Republican or Democratic candidate. Sheesh.

[scaeagles]

For the record...from an AP article....

Palin said during her 2006 gubernatorial campaign that if she were elected, she would not push the state Board of Education to add creation-based alternatives to the state's required curriculum, or look for creationism advocates when she appointed board members.

At a GOP presidential debate in May 2007 in Simi Valley, Calif., McCain said he believed in evolution.

"But," he added, "I also believe, when I hike the Grand Canyon and see it at sunset, that the hand of God is there also."

Palin's children attend public schools and Palin has made no push to have creationism taught in them.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

For the record...from an AP article....

And she was for the bridge to nowhere. Until she had the power to do something about it.

[Alex]

No on the IRS. I don't see any reason why two married people living in different houses should get different tax consideration than two unmarried people living together.

No on the contentious divorce. If the government isn't defining marriage then there is nothing for government to dissolve. Either the people in the "divorce" will never have legally solidified their relationship in which case they are free to walk away however they want or they have legally solidified it in other ways and they can pursue remedies through the civil courts.

Irrelevant on child custody and support. Those laws already mostly exist independent of marriage anyway and to the extent they don't, they should regardless of what happens with marriage. It isn't like I get out of supporting my child or lose any legal right to participation simply because I was never married to the mother.

[scaeagles]

Because of the other Obama picture posted, I had to post one I came across. No idea if it is photoshopped or not, but I found it funny.