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RE: Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?
June 22, 2015 at 6:21 am
I'm against all marriage. It's blatant discrimination against people - like myself - who are too stupid and ugly to find anyone willing to marry them.
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RE: Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?
June 22, 2015 at 6:59 am
I feel that pain, brother.
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RE: Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?
June 22, 2015 at 9:28 am
(June 22, 2015 at 6:21 am)Homeless Nutter Wrote: I'm against all marriage. It's blatant discrimination against people - like myself - who are too stupid and ugly to find anyone willing to marry them.
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RE: Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?
June 22, 2015 at 9:30 am
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RE: Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?
June 22, 2015 at 12:23 pm
(June 22, 2015 at 5:16 am)Stimbo Wrote: I'm trying to remember who it was that said "the fact that you can no longer sell your daughter for three goats and a cow means we've already redefined marriage". I'll say it was me, as long as you promise not to use the Google.
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RE: Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?
June 22, 2015 at 12:38 pm
America's Best Christian FTW!
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RE: Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?
June 24, 2015 at 7:06 pm
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apparently I am in the minority. I'm in favor of removing marriage completely and taxing everyone equally.
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RE: Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?
June 24, 2015 at 7:15 pm
Maybe replace official recognition of marriage with an organized process for winning breeding rights ??
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RE: Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?
June 24, 2015 at 7:28 pm
(June 24, 2015 at 7:06 pm)das_atheist Wrote: apparently I am in the minority. I'm in favor of removing marriage completely and taxing everyone equally.
Marriage is not just about taxes. It affects parental duties and rights, inheritance, other financial obligations (in some states, you are liable for your spouse's debts), the right to make healthcare decisions in the event one is incapacitated, and probably some other things that I am forgetting. To get a complete list, you would have to look at the laws of the particular jurisdiction with which you are concerned, as the laws vary from one place to the next. That makes it a very interesting and unique type of contract.
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RE: Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?
June 24, 2015 at 7:50 pm
(June 24, 2015 at 7:28 pm)Pyrrho Wrote: (June 24, 2015 at 7:06 pm)das_atheist Wrote: apparently I am in the minority. I'm in favor of removing marriage completely and taxing everyone equally.
Marriage is not just about taxes. It affects parental duties and rights, inheritance, other financial obligations (in some states, you are liable for your spouse's debts), the right to make healthcare decisions in the event one is incapacitated, and probably some other things that I am forgetting. To get a complete list, you would have to look at the laws of the particular jurisdiction with which you are concerned, as the laws vary from one place to the next. That makes it a very interesting and unique type of contract.
That's one of the problems with marriage. There is so much packaged into it. Marriage should be modularized into many smaller contracts and be disassociated from the religious word, "marriage". That way the religious people wont care because it has nothing to do with religion.
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