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RE: Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?
May 19, 2015 at 6:34 am
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Anyone who doesn't support equal rights for gays is a moron and a bad person in my books. So yes, I support.
Quote:Sure, you don't have to be a believer in marriage to support it, but there are also legal privileges involved when two people are married instead of just living in a relationship. Such as getting full disclosure when your partner is hospitalised and being entitled to inherit. It usually also involves childcare. I say usually, since I don't know the American legislation about adopting and caring for children one or both of the partners brought into the relationship.
Totally agree with this. I married my girlfriend solely because of legal reasons. It made our life significantly easier.
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RE: Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?
May 19, 2015 at 12:28 pm
(April 26, 2015 at 1:42 pm)Esquilax Wrote: Actually, that claim is just bullshit to begin with: The majority of Americans don't support same sex marriage? Since when was 46% a majority of anything?
54% percent of Americans (read: an actual majority) support legal same sex marriage, and the trend is that this number is rising, not falling. OP, your relative was talking out her ass.
Must be a xtian. They do that all the time.
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RE: Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?
May 19, 2015 at 12:30 pm
49-0!
Atheist actual morality ftw.
If you don't believe in God, how do you know who to persecute and how to execute them when society permits it?
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RE: Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?
May 19, 2015 at 12:33 pm
(May 19, 2015 at 12:30 pm)robvalue Wrote: 49-0!
Atheist actual morality ftw.
If you don't believe in God, how do you know who to persecute and how to execute them when society permits it?
Good point. I have been leaving my neighbors alone lately, so maybe I need to start believing in God so I know who I should be torturing and killing.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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RE: Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?
May 19, 2015 at 12:40 pm
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It's like the song goes:
"Open your eyes on saviour's day
Don't look back, or turn away
Life can be yours, if you only stay
He is calling you, calling you
Unless you're black or gay."
You have to listen closely.
http://youtu.be/FTI8CWSiZ40
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RE: Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?
June 21, 2015 at 11:16 pm
Also support it, in Canada here it's a non issue with all the people I know.
Science is measurably beautiful.
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RE: Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?
June 22, 2015 at 12:15 am
Hetero. Atheist. Adamantly support. We are never going to get rid of heterosexual marriage in the USA. We just aren't. So, if gays wish to marry, why the hell not.
I haven't read too much about this, but it seems as though in some jurisdictions, a divorce component hasn't been put in, so unhappily married same-sex couples are kind of stuck.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
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RE: Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?
June 22, 2015 at 2:53 am
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Hmm, I thought I had posted in this thread a while ago. Guess not.
Straight male American atheist: hell yes, I support marriage equality.
Edited to add: And I favor taxing religious institutions (in reference to the Ricky Gervais meme) unless they are willing to submit to the same standards as non-profits.
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RE: Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?
June 22, 2015 at 2:55 am
Actually, I changed my mind.
I'm not gay, and if there was gay marriage, I'd be forced to divorce and marry a man. And also marry a horse or something. So no, it's best we keep things how they have always been since the last change.
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RE: Atheists, do you support same-sex marriage?
June 22, 2015 at 5:16 am
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.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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