The problem with "domestic partnership"Follow

Ash,



fixed

Ash,

I'll pray for you.

Whatever gets your rocks off, slick.



Edited, May 5th 2009 1:26pm by AshOnMyTomatoes

Is this what you act like when you're backed into a corner but actually choose to reply? It's rather endearing. You should do it more often. I almost feel like I shouldn't be laughing at you.




I don't understand this at all. This is like saying that people who died to playing russian roulette died because it was an act of God. No, it was a bunch of people living in a risky area.

Maybe not "that nurse" in particular, but absolutely. If a nurse in a hospital is unaware of the legal changes involving the adoption of domestic partnerships, she's just as likely to be unaware of similar legal changes with regard to marriage.

No matter how many lines of legal code we change, most people's assumptive response is that a "spouse" in this context meaning "someone allowed into the room to make decisions about a person in severe medical condition" is going to be the opposite sex of the injured person. That's the most likely reason she responded the way she did. Had a man come up and claimed to be the spouse of another man in the exact same situation, it's entirely possible she would have responded the same way regardless of whether he was a domestic partner or a husband.

I'm frankly surprised you'd assume anything else.

Dear Hangten,

Mr. President

To messers Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & Stephen S. Nelson a committee of the Danbury Baptist association in the state of Connecticut.

Gentlemen

The affectionate sentiments of esteem & approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a faithful & zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, and in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more & more pleasing.

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man & his god, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church and state. [Congress thus inhibited from acts respecting religion, and the Executive authorised only to execute their acts, I have refrained from presenting even occasional performances of devotion presented indeed legally where an Executive is the legal head of a national church, but subject here, as religious exercises only to the voluntary regulations and discipline of each respective sect.] Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection and blessing of the common Father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves and your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem.

(signed) Thomas Jefferson
Jan.1.1802.

Where's the cite?

Edited, May 5th 2009 4:06pm by Kaelesh

And several surveys since then in the US report the percentage to be between 6-10%. Several also note that many people have had same-sex thoughts and inclinations, but had not acted upon them. A 2008 survey shows about 9% of men had sex with another man within the past 12 months (note, this is Joseph Fried's survey, and was comparing Republicans to Democrats on a variety of factors, not just sexual habits).

Did you miss the part where I named the source?

Edit: Remember that part where you said "If I post a quote and it has the source named in it I don't link it?" Yeah. So do other people.


Edited, May 5th 2009 4:56pm by LockeColeMA

Locked,

I thought you were kidding about Joseph Fried; being sarcastic.

Most of the actual scientific surveys i've looked at shows between 1-3%.




I'm curious if you came to believe homosexuality did in fact create a greater health risk among the population would you feel the same way about homosexual marriage?



Edited, May 5th 2009 5:03pm by hangtennow

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Edited, May 20th 2009 9:20pm by BoondockSaint