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posted by takyon on Friday June 26 2015, @05:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the love-and-divorce dept.

In a 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that states can not prevent same-sex couples from marrying and must recognize their marriages from other states. In the majority opinion by Justice Kennedy it is stated:

The Court, in this decision, holds same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry in all States. It follows that the Court also must hold—and it now does hold—that there is no lawful basis for a State to refuse to recognize a lawful same-sex marriage performed in another State on the ground of its same-sex character.

...and:

It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization's oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right. The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is reversed. It is so ordered.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @06:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @06:01PM (#201625)

    > We've already had at least one "married" pair of homos adopt a little male child, just so they could kiddie-diddle him.

    Ugh, the same old shit conflating homosexuality with pedophilia.

    After a post like that who could possibly ever give runaway the benefit of the doubt in anything he says? The dude lives down to the absolute worst stereotypes.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @06:31PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @06:31PM (#201668)
    Runaway has the balls to speak the truth. In contrast , I hide by AC cover.

    Sexual deviancy leads to worse sexual deviancy, therefore homo leads to pedo. NAMBLA exists to get this kind of stuff legalized. Their unending drive for greater deviancy will do great untold damage.

    What is tolerated now will be accepted then legal then normal. Seems fine except mankind just never moves forward on its own. Therefore what ever is becoming normal is almost always worst than what was previously normal. The times we do move forward is a miracle with most men kicking and screaming along the way.
    • (Score: 5, Insightful) by aristarchus on Friday June 26 2015, @07:17PM

      by aristarchus (2645) on Friday June 26 2015, @07:17PM (#201701) Journal

      Sexual deviancy leads to worse sexual deviancy,

      Great theory you have there! Yup, give 'em an inch, and it's santorum all the way! Next thing you know, . . . But, it's wrong. Psychology says that perversion (literally, turning aside) is the result of frustration or some other trauma. So it is not the deviancy that is a cause, it is a symptom.

      And secondly, since you bring up Runaway's Pacu-bait, you have begged the question by assuming that same-sex attraction is deviant. Now what usually demarks sexual behavior as immoral in the religious traditions is that it is hedonistic, and egoistic, and in extreme cases results in the exploitation of others to that end. So it seems that the opposition to gay marriage wants to keep homosexuality like that, that it not be a shared relationship between equals. No wonder they will immediately go to sexual abuse of children, because at root that is what their conception of sex is, no matter what its object is. In other words, opponents of of gay marriage are in favor of deviancy.

      I have often wondered if the fear of gay marriage is not that we will all have to get gay married, but if we allow gay marrying, the number of sexual targets for sexual predators, and the ease which which they can be coerced, controlled, and silenced (Hi! Congressman Hastert!), can be increased, for the abuse by closeted egoistic hedonists. Ultimately, the issue is about power over others, or what in more general terms is called "evil".

      (Resistance: psychological principle: the more opposed a person is to something, the more they are admitting their attraction to it. If someone is worried about deviancy that much, they already are one.)

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @08:42PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 26 2015, @08:42PM (#201764)

        Holy crap! There still are people out there who actually know what begging the question actually means and how to use it properly in a sentence!!!

        • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday June 26 2015, @09:04PM

          by aristarchus (2645) on Friday June 26 2015, @09:04PM (#201782) Journal

          Too queer, eh? But I am a philosopher, and am 2400 years old, so I should know such things.

      • (Score: 2) by edIII on Friday June 26 2015, @09:01PM

        by edIII (791) on Friday June 26 2015, @09:01PM (#201777)

        Now what usually demarks sexual behavior as immoral in the religious traditions is that it is hedonistic, and egoistic, and in extreme cases results in the exploitation of others to that end.

        You nailed it. It's the "Bad" sex that is usually accompanied by plenty of other bad behavior. The choice of "target" is irrelevant when it's the egoistic activities that cause all of the harm. I'm not sure about hedonistic as an explicit negative, but it can be as well.

        To say that gay people are completely incapable of normal loving relationships with healthy sex lives has always been nonsensical to me, and purely an emotional conflation of the negative religious messages with assumed negative character traits. As you can see with Runaway, and his run away bigotry, the conflation has worked itself up to very upsetting and emotional acts of pedophilia. Isn't that what the devil did when he was bored? Rape his children?

        Just like you said, as long as the gay men and women are ostracized, terrified, marginalized, effectively invisible, how can we see them as possessing the same healthy relationships straight people do? The longer they keep showing Neil Patrick Harris in the news with his husband, and children, looking well adjusted and happy, the more ridiculous their arguments become.

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