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13 months ago  ::  May 28, 2012 - 6:38PM #41
Ken
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May 28, 2012 -- 5:45PM, CharikIeia wrote:

Why should I care for US laws?



This thread is about US laws. If you don't care for them, don't contribute.
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13 months ago  ::  May 28, 2012 - 6:40PM #42
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May 28, 2012 -- 5:45PM, CharikIeia wrote:

I'd believe you if at face value, people weren't campaigning pro marriage as if that were the prime and important topic...


Marriage is not what people are fighting for; it's equality. Marriage is just one part of that issue.


Why should I care for US laws?....


Why should you care about gays getting married? I can find no reason to care - except that their not being able to marry is discriminatory. Gay marriage will have absolutely no effect on my life what so ever. Marriage equality will not change any thing for any heterosexual marriage. So, what's the problem?

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13 months ago  ::  May 28, 2012 - 6:42PM #43
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May 28, 2012 -- 6:38PM, Ken wrote:


This thread is about US laws. If you don't care for them, don't contribute.



Good advice. It just makes me sick anyway.


Maybe we can talk on once the USA have jumped on the bandwagon and the first glamour is gone.

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13 months ago  ::  May 28, 2012 - 6:50PM #44
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Marriage is not a Human right , it IS a CIVIL right and carries with it other CIVIL rights, such as familial  tax breaks,  familial protection, creating two people as one family unit.   Only a radical  or someone making a poor word choice would call marriage a human right.   In  Germany  at least it was 25 years ago, Legal marriage was  state function and on  US bases  a Chaplain could only perform a rite of marriage if the couple had already  had a civil  marriage.   

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13 months ago  ::  May 28, 2012 - 8:33PM #45
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Human right, civil right - what's the difference?
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13 months ago  ::  May 28, 2012 - 8:58PM #46
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May 28, 2012 -- 8:33PM, Ken wrote:


Human right, civil right - what's the difference?




I don't see much of a difference. Aren't civil rights for human?


What then is a human right?

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13 months ago  ::  May 29, 2012 - 12:58AM #47
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May 28, 2012 -- 8:33PM, Ken wrote:

Human right, civil right - what's the difference?



There is a difference. One is rights which are universal and accorded through the simple fact of being human. The other are rights accorded by a particular society to citizens of that society. In practice though, the distinction is only of interest to philosophers and legal theorists.


Incidently, Article 12 of the European Convention on Human Rights (which the UK are signatories to and functions as our Bill of Rights) does classify marriage as a human right. So far, it's an undecided legal question whether that includes same-sex marriage but since Cameron (our PM) is, in possibly his only excuse for existing, committed to extending marriage to same-sex couples, it makes little difference (currently, UK same-sex couples have Domestic Partnerships but the law classifies them as marriage in every respect but the very technical).

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13 months ago  ::  May 29, 2012 - 3:41AM #48
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May 29, 2012 -- 12:58AM, Ebon wrote:


May 28, 2012 -- 8:33PM, Ken wrote:

Human right, civil right - what's the difference?


There is a difference. One is rights which are universal and accorded through the simple fact of being human. The other are rights accorded by a particular society to citizens of that society. In practice though, the distinction is only of interest to philosophers and legal theorists.



I think in practice, the distinction boils down to what your own society has agreed upon in its domestic law, and what it has agreed upon when negotiating with other societies.


In the USA, we have the individual gun ownership issue as a civil right. It is not a human right because it is not part of any international rights treaty or declaration. Easy to spot, the difference, isn't it?


By that token, marriage indeed is a human right (part of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights), with the clearly stated purpose of mandating governments to protect the family as "fundamental unit" of society.

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13 months ago  ::  May 29, 2012 - 3:49AM #49
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May 28, 2012 -- 1:15PM, CharikIeia wrote:


May 28, 2012 -- 11:42AM, Do_unto_others wrote:


DO BETTER.



Okay, next try.


Those who think that out of all the possible issues we face on this planet, getting married is an important one, they have no truly important issues.


Yes, I see how marriage can be a cheap package deal to solve all sorts of real problems, and yes, it would be unfair to offer the package deal only to heterosexuals.


Nonetheless, marriage remains a pointlessness. The way in which the marriage contract differs from separate contracts on all the important issues that were mentioned, is only by money (it's cheaper) and by emotional delusion (it's less sober).


The essence of marriage therefore, IMO, is cheap intoxication.




Do you have anything else to add besides your usual hatred of marriage?

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13 months ago  ::  May 29, 2012 - 4:05AM #50
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May 29, 2012 -- 3:49AM, Yavanna wrote:


... your usual hatred of marriage?



I don't hate marriage as such, just the general attitude towards marriage :-)

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