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Finally! A religion that teaches love and sharing 🙂

The republican party is imploding!  They would actually be more successful if they got away from using "moral" issues as primary source of their agenda.  Pick topics that truly interest all of your citizens and nit just the right wing nut jobs. Simplify the tax code for everyone, pass a balanced budget amendment, enact some kind of tort law reform, shore up social security, and fix the ACA.

Great, just what we need, more reasons to mutilate baby boys.

right in me face  :crazy2: lol

It's funny how the one thing that was never mentioned in the whole article is how well the staff at the school knew the parents of the kid. I say this as it was a support staff member of my high-school that outed me to my parents under such circumstances. In my case however, they only did so because I trusted and confided in this particular staff member and they got to know my parents well enough to know that it wouldn't cause any harm at all to do so, and would actually make explaining certain things easier.

It all boils down to circumstance in the end, and how well the parents were known, etc. The argument that it could have made a bad situation worse is true, but misleading since there is a great chance that the staff knew the parents and knew the situation. I'm not sure I could formulate an opinion on either side on this one.

yummie….. thanks for this! I'd really appreciate more of this...!

Yet they deported that Australian man that lived with his long time American lover who had AIDS.

Soloway based the request to dismiss the case on Alcota's marriage to her U.S. citizen spouse, Cristina Ojeda, her deep ties to her community, the absence of any adverse factors and her activism against the Defense of Marriage Act, signed into law in 1996.

That is an odd stance to take.

Since I'm against the "war on drugs" (not for drug use reasons, but rather we should legalize and tax drugs), I can start doing heroin and the courts won't mind?

It's a sad reality, but perhaps this could go a long way in the end to getting more widespread support for gay rights being human rights. After all in the end, it could be argued that such an example proves scientifically that the myth of gays being "inferior" to heterosexuals is a complete myth based on pure documented fact.

However, Obama has stopped short of backing gay marriage, saying only that his personal views on the matter are evolving.

Why does he insist on repeating this tired fucking old lie?!

He used to support gay marriage, that is until he decided to run for the US Senate. That is when he threw us under the bus to gain votes in the conservative southern half of the state.

His stance on gay marriage evolved as a political ploy to get votes, nothing more.

This reminds me of a video I found on YouTube that made the point of "Being a hater doesn't make you straighter". Guess it was right after all lol

It's ironic that they are not forced to hold them if they don't want to, but they demand that churches that want to hold them can't.  The Quakers, MCC and many other churches fully support full gay marriage and want to do civil partnerships, but the religious nazis won't let them.

Religious freedoms are only for those that hate gays.

As we know, hating any other group is generally frowned upon by the public and illegal.

@leatherbear:

LAGOS, Nigeria – A bill originally designed to outlaw gay marriage in Nigeria likely has consequences far beyond its initial scope – criminalizing gay groups and organizations could jeopardize millions of dollars of Western aid geared toward stopping the spread of HIV and AIDS in Africa's most populous nation.

WOAH!! Back the f*** up a second!! Where does the Nigerian government get their facts from? According to Statistics Canada, in 2003, the number of heterosexual females known to be infected with HIV on a worldwide group officially raised above that of any other category of person. This was primarily stemmed from the HIV epidemic in that geographical region, namely the whole part about that geographical region's days of "HIV in the 80's" being what they're living now. It is was also noted that the greatest percentage of heterosexual females infected were located in this general geographical region of the world.

All that being said, the question is this: "How would banning of gay marriage help prevent the spread of HIV when the majority of the cases in that area are in heterosexual females, unless the government is only examining the statistics within North America where the greatest population infected with HIV is in fact homosexual males, or they are otherwise uneducated on the matter and use one of the common myths of HIV as an excuse?"

@leatherbear:

There are nearly 1.2 million people who have HIV in the U.S., but just 28 percent of them have what is called a "suppressed viral load," which means that they have less than 200 copies of HIV per millilitre of blood, the report said.

I'd like to know where this report received their facts. According to medical science that is known to anyone who is HIV+ and is receiving medical treatment for it (such as myself), it is known that the point of having the virus "suppressed" is to have what is referred to as an "undetectable" viral load, which actually equates to less than 50 copies of the HIV virus per 1mL of blood. Anything over that is a detectable load, which bears a count. I think the study may have confused this information with the first guideline required for AIDS diagnosis with respect to the CD4 count.

The bill passed Tuesday comes nearly a month after British prime minister, David Cameron, threatened to withhold aid from nations violating gays rights, sparking outrage in Africa where leaders interpreted it as "colonial" display of power.

If you remember the other article about this, it won't change how much money they will get, just which account the money comes from.

We've passed the point of no return: the inflection point (the spot where the red and blue lines meet) starts off at (A) opposition of gay marriage softens and becomes less popular, which leads to (B) it is no longer politically advantageous for candidates to oppose same-sex marriage, which brings (C) they will disengage from the issue, which in turn brings us back to (A) softening of opposition. The trend accelerates, creating a sort of progressive feedback loop.