Comments on: Equality

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 02:48:11 +0000

Common law marriages are the result of the fees required to get your ‘partnership agreement’ registered, and since most people didn’t have anything, or any real hope of acquiring anything, the matter was settled without any official involvement of any kind. There would be a party in their village and that would be it.

The marriage contract is making a big comeback in the form of prenuptial agreements, which is sort of like agreeing to the divorce settlement before the wedding takes place.

By: Kryten42

Kryten42 — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:56:34 +0000

It really is too funny. 🙂 I mean, for centuries, Marriage was simply a *business* deal! It had nothing whatsoever to do with *love* or any kind of physical or emotional attraction, other than money (or it’s equivalent) between two families. Basically, the son’s and daughter’s of well-to-do families were seen mostly as *assets* or pawns. Something to be traded and bartered with. And for the most part, it is the current irrational, irresponsible, inbred wealthy cretins who are the most vocal about “Love in marriage” etc, when the only think they know about Love is how to spell it! 😆 Well, love between two people at any rate. Put a million dollars in front of them, and then they get palpitations and all misty eyed! 😈

It’s no wonder the current crop of GOP (Gang-Of-Perverts) rethugs have zero idea about love since their ancestors never cared a whit about it and everything was always *just business*.

Hypocrites. I truly cannot abide hypocrites!

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 04:06:11 +0000

Marriage is a partnership agreement that various levels of government have been attaching all sorts of benefits to over the years. In Florida it is obvious because even notary publics can perform a marriage, the same way they finalize any other legal agreement – by witnessing the signing of the appropriate forms. Religions may not admit it, but that is all they are doing under the law – witnessing the agreement. This is commercial law, not any great moral issue.

The real benefit to society of marriage is the associated celebration, as it generates a lot of business activity. If figure that encouraging people to get married is a very positive thing for the economy, certainly a great deal more positive than a visit from the Phelps clan.

Many of the same people demanding an end to abortion are also demanding an end to the minimal support system we provide for children. If they were really interested in children there would be free prenatal care and low cost child care options available.

But, as I said, these things are really none of my business, and egregious invasions of other people’s privacy for no obvious societal reason. One person’s morality may be another person’s heresy, so keep the public laws out of it.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 15:44:27 +0000

Hmm, appears you’re making the same argument about abortion that I make — “Do you have a vagina? No? Then shut up, it’s none of your business.” If it doesn’t hurt me or mine, it ain’t none of my business and the law’s got no place talking about it. Same deal with gays. If they want to gay marry, fine. If they don’t, fine. Gay marriage can’t affect my own personal life or the personal life of any of my family in any way, so why should I — or the law — care whether gays marry or not?

People making comparisons between abortion and murder are off their rockers. Luckily none of my family has been murdered — but it could happen, and if it did, I d*mn well want a law against it so the murderer gets his due. But I can’t think of any way that myself or any of my family could be aborted. Sorta too late for that ;). So how does abortion (or gay marriage) harm me or mine (or you and your own family)? If you can’t answer that, the law’s got no place talking about it.

– Badtux the MYOB Penguin