2006-11-01 09:41:57 · 28 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
This has NOTHING to do with protecting marriage. It is all about denying a class of folks basic human rights. No one in the cries about the "sanctity of marriage" ever offers the solution of outlawing divorce. And most folks who are shouting the most have divorced once or twice.
Marriage is an institution created by government so that partners have legal rights and responsibilities.
Folks who are married less than 2 minutes (think Las Vegas weddings) have more legal rights than a gay/lesbian couple who've been together for more than 15 years.
The fact that we cannot be married denies us, and our families, to over 1,138 federal rights, protections and responsibilities automatically granted upon marriage. A few of these are:
- The right to make decisions on a partner's behalf in a medical emergency. Specifically, the states generally provide that spouses automatically assume this right in an emergency. If an individual is unmarried, the legal "next of kin" automatically assumes this right. This means, for example, that a gay man with a life partner of many years may be forced to accept the financial and medical decisions of a sibling or parent with whom he may have a distant or even hostile relationship.
- The right to take up to 12 weeks of leave from work to care for a seriously ill partner or parent of a partner. The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 permits individuals to take such leave to care for ill spouses, children and parents but not a partner or a partner's parents.
- The right to petition for same-sex partners to immigrate.
- The right to assume parenting rights and responsibilities when children are brought into a family through birth, adoption, surrogacy or other means. For example, in most states, there is no law providing a noncustodial, nonbiological or nonadoptive parent's right to visit a child - or responsibility to provide financial support for that child - in the event of a breakup.
- The right to share equitably all jointly held property and debt in the event of a breakup, since there are no laws that cover the dissolution of domestic partnerships.
- Family-related Social security benefits, income and estate tax benefits, disability benefits, family-related military and veterans benefits and other important benefits.
- The right to inherit property from a partner in the absence of a will.
- The right to purchase continued health coverage for a domestic partner after the loss of a job.
And there are many more! A dear friend of mine lost his partner after 15 years. My friend was the primary breadwinner and paid for his partner's life insurance and some income property. When his partner died, and he inherited it, he had to pay taxes, whereas a married couple would not. Why?
The argument that marriage is for procreation is hogwash. One does not need to be married to have children. If that argument is held up, then why allow folks past child-bearing age to marry? Or those who are impotent or sterile?
The majority of hippocrites claim that gay marriage would erode the "institution of marriage." Unlike those marriages that last about a week and are dissolved.
If that was their true belief, then why not outlaw divorce? Because they want, and need, an out.
Whether or not you want to be married is your choice. But do not deny me a choice -- with rights, responsibilities and benefits -- because my family does not resemble yours.
If you don't want a gay marriage, don't have one.
2006-11-01 10:39:34 · answer #1 · answered by yetanothergwm 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
LOL! Good point! I love it when hypocrisy just runs into a brick wall like that.
Personally, I think it's hilarious that a loving gay couple of 30 years wanting to marry is called an "abdomination," but Britney Spears marrying and divorcing a childhood friend in the same weekend is something sanctified and protected. =P Silly.
2006-11-01 17:49:04 · answer #2 · answered by teresathegreat 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Outlawwing divorce is just way way too extreme!
People can make mistakes in life, and are entitled to be free of their spouse!
George Bush says he wants to protect a lot of things that he could not care any less about.
One cannot believe anything he says, my friend.
2006-11-01 17:45:20 · answer #3 · answered by peekie 3 · 4⤊ 1⤋
George Bush doesn't want to protect marriage anymore than he wants to protect democracy. He's an evil, spoiled rich kid who had no clue as to what he wants; he only does what his handlers tell him to do.
George W. Bush hasn't had an original thought in his demented lifetime. -RKO-
2006-11-01 17:45:04 · answer #4 · answered by -RKO- 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
Well Mr Bush sees marriage as a brand as being quite exclusive - this will raise its market value.
I think soon he is going to ban non christians from getting married unless they repent their sins at the alter. If you repent your sins at the alter you get two marriages for the price of one. - Limited time offer.
2006-11-01 17:44:02 · answer #5 · answered by Bebe 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
He's not trying to protect marriage at all. He just wants to limit the rights of gay people, who scare him because he doesn't understand them.
He also wants divorce to stay legal for his good buddies and to protect their a$$ets and A$$es.
2006-11-01 17:49:23 · answer #6 · answered by Tommy D 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
gday on mates day on 360
sorry mate but theres a problem in that outlaw divorce, okay what happens if a woman or a men is in a abusive oppressive relationship subjected to torture an they dont realy love that person .
chop ther heads off?
2006-11-01 18:03:36 · answer #7 · answered by GOOCH 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Because divorce is something that is needed. People say that God does not like divorce, but it is not true. he doesn't like divorce for uneccesary reasons, but if you are being abused mentaly or physically, he doesn't want you to just "hang" in there. It is a total different thing and you cannot relate the two.
2006-11-01 17:45:22 · answer #8 · answered by Mikey 2 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Exactly. Marriage doesn't need to be saved from monogomous gays, it needs to be saved from philandering spouses who don't know how to make a marriage work and don't take it seriously. THAT has destroyed the institution of marriage, not gays wanting equal rights.
2006-11-01 17:44:23 · answer #9 · answered by brsug15 2 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Because he doesn't want to protect marriage. He's just trying to placate the people who can make or break him.
FP
2006-11-01 17:43:14 · answer #10 · answered by F. Perdurabo 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋