As You Like It - Men Becoming Women

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Meh.... I'm going inworld. (=_=)

I think the First Amendment is behind DOMA (The Defense of Marriage Act).

How could gays win this issue? Perhaps petition to have consummation done away with altogether as part of marriage and let a marriage be simply via a license and the signing of said document. Once it's signed, no recourse for annulment, just divorce. Just a thought...?

And I don't see enforcing common law statutes on states as an option because I don't want to be married because someone says "I have too be common law married". I don't want to get married, not at this point in time. I have no desire to be married right now nor forced to be called a common law marriage. Anyhow, my state does not recognize common law marriage so you have to realize it's a big mess because each state can set their own marriage laws within reason of course.

It is not.

Regarding religion, the First Amendment does two things. It prohibits the establishment of an official state religion, and guarantees the right to the free exercise of religion.

If the DOMA is based on religious beliefs, it would be unconstitutional under the First Amendment, if anything, as it would be legislating religion.

The DOMA addresses the rights of states to recognize same sex marriages performed in other states under the full faith & credit clause of the Constitution, not the First Amendment.

So now gays aren't just standing in the way of REAL penis/vagina marriage, we're also stopping you from getting divorced?

BWAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHaaaaaa!

(btw, consummation is not required for ANY marriage to be legal in the USA, which you've already been told, shown, and informed many times on this thread. Do you have short term memory problems?)

haha! Perfect!

*one user agrees.....


and laughs her ass off

/me weeps with laughter

I've been lurking in here for days. Can't decide if this is the best thread evuh or should disappear.

/goes to get left-over Chinese food and read more.

Except, and I think you keep missing this, based on your posts you are on the other side of what the First Amendment really says. You assume to speak with and within some established religion and, at least de jure, they don't exist.

I would say that your holidays managed de jure status, except none of them are really yours, other than through theft. Yule predates Christianity in several forms (as would be expected for something that is or approximates the Winter Solstice), Easter you have a death but kept the bunny and egg from the fertility rites to reaffirm life for us pagans, and on and on. Hallows Eve we don't even need to go into... (Happy Samhain to you, to.)

I thought Easter was when he came out and saw his shadow and we had 6 more weeks of Winter.

It isn't? That's what us Jews were always taught.

Uh, that would be, "Happy Samhain to you, too." Or maybe, "Happy Samhain to U2." But the above was incorrect. I expect an immediate visitation from my 12th grade English teacher, Mrs. Black. Formidable, one of those teachers that was born and baptized with no first name, none needed.

But it was STILL a PAGAN groundhog. Perhaps an animist. Or animator.

That's the religion we need. Anime-ism. Tentacle monsters deserve to be married too.

And then he took everyone out for Deli afterward.

And someone stands up and says, "You can't get a good bagel or cheese cake outside New York City" and schism was born...

Well as a native NY'er, who has lived elsewhere and traveled extensively, this happens to be the truth

OK that does it. I'm definitely going to ship a few dozen bagels home when I'm in NYC in January. nom nom nom
*weeps for the lack of bagels in this town*

That's right, listen to Hastings.

When it comes to Satanism, Anti-God and everything evil and dirty, she should know.

Isn't that right, Pudding pop?

Based on all the contradictory things this person (or, apparently, people) are posting, I've come to the conclusion that they are either:

A) completely retarded
B) Trolling for fun, just winding everyone up.
C) completely retarded.

I'm betting on B), based on the quick, completely bizarre excuses (defending the use of Hindi, then making an excuse for it), the contradictory logic "I didn't say Catholics weren't Christians, I said Hitler wasn't Christian, he was Catholic", and the continued arguing things that have been proved completely wrong.

This person is just playing games.

Or is completely retarded.

I'm done. I'm surprised you lot hung in for this long.

*takes off Brenda's pants and salutes you all with them*

Hey,

Don't talk about Connolly, only I can do that.

No, that's me.