Posts made by raphjd

Another muslim preaching hate while whining that people hate him and his kind.

Can we say HYPOCRITE?!

It's not exactly what we mean by torrent comment.

It would be better to send by PM, but we would not punish you for posting that as a torrent comment as it's not aggressive or flaming.

It's true that all groups need to lighten up.

However, it seems that the world demands that gays lighten up while everyone else refuses to do the same. And for this very reason I won't give stereotype because people will scream that I'll a racist and whatnot.

Sadly, this will not prevent Uganda from getting aid from the west.

They are not the same thing, however they are supposed to be treated the same in most cases.  This is one of the cases where both are supposed to be treated the same..

Areas like work and private pensions can exclude transferring the pension benefits to civil partners, but they have to give it to hetero married partners.

The homophobe couple are appealing the court ruling.

The Christian Institute is funding the appeal.

There are many articles that talk about the government paying for it.  The wikipedia article says the government paid the Bishop of Exeter and his 2 cronies for the slaves.

Under the UCMJ, the fact that it's consensual doesn't mean diddly squat.

Let's ignore the HIV part of this story for the moment.

The judge also convicted Gutierrez of indecent acts for having sex in front of others and eight counts of adultery.

The US military is extremely prudish in it's rules any type of sex, so I wonder how this will play into the repeal of DADT.

The only legal sex according to the UCMJ is between married heteros and in the "missionary position".  The "missionary position" only rule means gays can be prosecuted for having any form of sex.

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Read that.

Also note that the £13,000 talked about was the amount paid in 1833, not today's money.  That was just one Bishop and a few of his cronies.

We also have to remember that there were Africans involved in the slave trade as well.  Slavery in Africa still continues to this very day.

@stealfire:

Personally, even if I was straight I don't think marriage is of personal importance.  If two people are right for each other they'll stay together.  A marriage certificate isn't going to change that.  However, I think the right to marry is an important stepping stone to being treated as equals, as a precedent for future issues, for the satisfaction of those who choose to marry and to assuring benefits, etc., to our chosen family.

You don't see the 1,400+ rights granted under marriage in the US as important?

I'm not sure where you got the idea that no porn stars are tested.  They all are.

Ok, maybe some shit hole country not required testing, but the US and Europe do require it.

The biggest single slave owner was the Church of England and they are the reason that it took so long for the UK to ban slavery.

From memory, it cost the UK government an equivalent of £64 Billion in today's money to buy them out of the slave industry.

YES, you did very off topic.

IN Canada we had MAD COW DISEASE, IN USA its was known as downer syndrome
IN CANADA it was called SARS, in the USA it was known as severe pneumonia

Down Syndrome in the US is not related to mad cow disease and never has been.  The US also had SARS.

Down Syndrome and "mad cow" have some similar symptoms, maybe that's what you are thinking.

Google "sars in the us" and the first 3 links will be to the US's Center of Disease Control or CDC and it talks about SARS.

NO, my first sentence wasn't a joke.  It's not just the US that has that sort of knee-jerk reaction either homophobia is still quite common in many places, even the supposedly gay friendly ones.

I don't doubt they are homophobes and used their religion, if they are indeed religious, as an excuse.

Because of this ruling, christians are demanding that the coalition government exempt them from the Equalities Act of 2010 parts that prohibit discrimination against gays, due to their religion/beliefs.

NOTE:  The Equalities Act of 2010 is nothing more than the combining of all previous anti discrimination laws and grouping it all under 1 umbrella law.

I think the "G-men" that are bitching about this are afraid that people will automatically think they are gay too.

Hmmm, maybe that is what "G-man" always stood for.

If this hotel owner couple really believed that only hetero married couples share a bed, then they should have put it on their website and their brochures.

That would still be illegal in the UK.

The only legal way they can do this is to not allow anyone to share a bed, regardless of marital status and/or gender.

Caprica {cancelled prequel to Battlestar Galactica} and Modern Family {sitcom} are both US shows.

Yes, John Inman was gay.

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