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| No rainbow flags for Angela Merkel | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 15 2015, 07:18 AM (537 Views) | |
| George K | Jul 15 2015, 07:18 AM Post #1 |
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/angela-merkel-gay-marriage-vote-germany-10389762.html
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Copper | Jul 15 2015, 07:32 AM Post #2 |
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Shortstop
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Axtremus | Jul 15 2015, 09:02 AM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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What is the German people's take on this? |
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| Klaus | Jul 15 2015, 11:19 AM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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It's not nearly such a hot button issue as in the US. |
| Trifonov Fleisher Klaus Sokolov Zimmerman | |
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| John D'Oh | Jul 15 2015, 11:31 AM Post #5 |
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It's funny how nobody seems to get all riled up about this elsewhere. As long as they allow civil unions and equal benefits, most people don't seem to mind, since from a legal perspective it's pretty much equivalent. If I was gay, I'd be pretty much OK with that, too. |
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| George K | Jul 15 2015, 11:43 AM Post #6 |
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Agreed. However, I think the homosexual population wants the legitimization of their relation to be such that it's called a "marriage." Seems to me that Merkel's making the point that, for her, at least, the definition of that is man/woman. Beyond that, she doesn't give a rat's ass, and neither do I. All the more reason to keep marriage in the churches and the contract in the government.
Wait... What???? |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Axtremus | Jul 15 2015, 11:57 AM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I would be OK with it too ... heck, I prefer it... if government would completely not deal with "marriage" at all and just do everything through the construct of "civil partnership." Not sure whether that's the case with Germany, but since the US government does indeed deal with "marriage," then it's only fair that whatever it does with "marriage" applies to heterosexual and homosexual couples. |
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| Copper | Jul 15 2015, 12:22 PM Post #8 |
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Not until the scotus started to legislate. Except maybe for some irs and ss rules. |
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| Renauda | Jul 15 2015, 02:18 PM Post #9 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Matrimony remains exclusively between a man and woman regardless of civil legal definitions of the term marriage. Matrimony is a religious sacrament binding a man and woman together. Marriage is a legal status between two individuals. |
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| John D'Oh | Jul 15 2015, 03:07 PM Post #10 |
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So matrimony is like the religious equivalent of credit card debt? |
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| Renauda | Jul 15 2015, 04:20 PM Post #11 |
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I wouldn't want to wade into those waters. Suffice to say it is not a secular institution. |
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| Steve Miller | Jul 15 2015, 07:15 PM Post #12 |
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Bull-Carp
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Wag more Bark less | |
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| Jolly | Jul 16 2015, 06:45 AM Post #13 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Pretty much where most of America is at, including the Far Right. Even as conservative as the Deep South is, I think you would elicit nothing much more than a yawn against a civil union bill in any state... |
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| jon-nyc | Jul 16 2015, 06:53 AM Post #14 |
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As recently as 2004 Arkansas passed a referendum explicitly outlawing recognition of same sex civil unions performed in other states. |
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| John D'Oh | Jul 16 2015, 06:57 AM Post #15 |
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Yes, it seemed to me from what I'd read that a lot of people didn't want to allow homosexual civil unions at all. |
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| George K | Jul 16 2015, 07:22 AM Post #16 |
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Edited by George K, Jul 16 2015, 07:23 AM.
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| George K | Jul 16 2015, 07:24 AM Post #17 |
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And even more recently than that, candidate Obama declared marriage as being the union of one man and one woman. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| jon-nyc | Jul 16 2015, 07:24 AM Post #18 |
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Yes, and even more recently than that I had ham and cheese on a roll. |
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| John D'Oh | Jul 16 2015, 09:01 AM Post #19 |
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A Presidential candidate changing his firmly held beliefs like a flag waving in the breeze in order to get elected? Say it isn't so! |
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| Jolly | Jul 16 2015, 10:29 AM Post #20 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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Maybeso. But the trial balloon was floated down here, and at the time, Jindal said he would endorse it. There wasn't much opposition. |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| John D'Oh | Jul 16 2015, 11:00 AM Post #21 |
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It's probably a bit late to be willing to accept universal civil unions at this point. |
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