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That's very sad! As crappy as it can be being gay in America it sounds it may be better than even what we'd otherwise consider to be fairly progressive European or Scandinavian countries.

Good for him

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$5 million a year profits for a troll…....
However if i understand correctly the change in procedure means local state courts handle local state cases only and not multi-state bundles ?

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Don't like Pennsylvania anyway.

I just think it's funny that Christians (particularly the effervescent body known only as "The Church") keep pretending that they somehow hold a monopoly on the very concept of "marriage", despite the fact that people of all religions (including a lack thereof) and walks of life get married (or whatever their equivalent of "marriage" is) all around the world, with or without their "sanctification".

It's why I truly believe that we need to rip the entire concept of "marriage", at least that which religions want to dogmatize, from the legal status of "marriage". Or just completely abolish the paperwork version of marriage altogether, and replace it with a gender- and number-neutral civil union contract setup which gives precisely all of the same rights that current "marriage" does. I've been saying this for a long time, but it needs to happen if we ever hope to get past this issue, because the religious right will keep stirring it up as long as they continue to exist.

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Oh com'on Irish do'nt be daft, ye and yer religious hokus pokus  😄

No, it isn't that. The data base contains all completed torrents of a member still listed on the site. Only the value of how many will be displayed in that list has been increased from 50 to 250. Mine was showing immediately more.

However, I've noticed some years back (2010?), when working to get the "lost torrents" from the spring 2009 server crash back, that from one day to another many torrent's completions lists (not visible any more to non-staff) became empty or very short. It looked for me as if some data base purging was done, but never got any confirmation from the Administrators.

@ric58hard: Do you have javascript enabled in your web-browser?

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“religious liberty”

What does a gay couple getting married have to do with their "religious liberty"?!

Archbishop Dolan also came prepared to answer questions about the sexual-abuse scandal at Penn State University, which has reminded so many observers of the Catholic Church’s own abuse scandal. He said that the accusations against a former university football coach were a reminder that sexual abuse is a universal problem that affects most institutions.

But name any other institution that "institutionally" refuses to turn the child molester in.

Nevertheless, the bishops remain a forceful political lobby, powerful enough to nearly derail the president’s health care overhaul two years ago over their concerns about financing for abortion

That' religion for you.  They'd rather no one have health care than for anyone to have an abortion.

US Presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann's business, run by her husband, that advocates "pray the gay away" gets support from Uganda's hate mongering Rev "dey eat da poo poo" and his church.

Nature not nurture…........................

As the "unwashed immoral loser" it's not my job to help the needy, even though I do.  I'd be willing to bet that IF your side were honest and opened their books, we'd see that I give a larger portion of my income to help the needy than churches do.

Religious people need to learn that we are all atheists, just that some of us believe in less gods than others.

Religious people need to understand that there are others on the planet as well, but they tend to forget that or worse.

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Ok, so you and your philosophy teacher think that instead of trying to help people, the Vatican should just hoard the wealth.

We'll never know exactly how much the RCC et al has, because it's broken up into mini sub corporations and they aren't exactly open and honest about such things. However, we do know just a tiny fraction of the money they have because we know at least some of the money the church's Philippines branch has from the line I posted earlier.

The difference between Bill Gates and Warren Buffet is that they aren't trying to claim the moral high ground.  However, both Warren Buffet and Bill Gates give away huge chunks of cash every year.

Warren Buffet and Bill Gates doesn't hate you, but your church does.

Churches should pay taxes as they use the nation's infrastructure. It's another example of them using and giving nothing back.

"Unwashed immoral losers" is in reference to non believers, not people that disagree with you.

Churches haven't lost control to government by taking taxpayer money.  In fact, the government, due to being full of believers, is pandering to churches and allowing them to use taxpayer money to fund their hate.

Your side (believers) are doing everything in their power to destroy the separation between church and state.  The first clue is GWB creating the so called "faith based initiatives" giving churches money to fund their hate.  I'm sure you can find countless examples of believers doing everything in their power to destroy the separation of church and state.