Posts by Danielle
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Well, I liked getting married despite accepting the institution as an Original Gangsta Misogynist Tool of the Patriarchy, so you never know.
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I don't want the state telling any particular church, or any other group, that they have to perform same sex marriages.
But the state tells all sorts of groups that they're not allowed to discriminate on the basis of all kinds of things. Why should churches be exempt?
(I'm actually not sure what I think on this point, TBT, because there might be a perfectly good reason why churches should be exempt. I'm just throwing that out there.)
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It's a bit like chemists refusing to sell contraception though, isn't it? If you're clergy and you refuse to marry two of the faithful because of the number of penises in the partnership, you *are* affecting that person's life by 'following your faith'. Craig's a Catholic, and he wants to marry his partner. Is he somehow less of a Catholic because of this two-penis partnership? (Sorry to use you as an example, Craig, since I don't think you agree with me, but you happened to be handy. Heh.)
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protected religious groups from participating
AKA: given them an excuse to be bigots.
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'Overly Confident Othering': Tombstone remembrance? Band name? Bit-before-the-colon in a thesis title?
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And get divorced in Reno, or wherever it is that you get divorced.
I have an awesome postcard, sent to me by a friend, of Frank Sinatra below a sign in Reno saying 'Divorce Your Loved One With Dignity'.
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Hell, the more we talk about it, the more I lean towards TracyMac's idea - let's blow this thing up.
But... can we still go to Las Vegas?
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However I suspect that no politician would be prepared to get rid of "marriage" and replace it with civil unions completely. Which I think is a shame.
But, from your perspective, isn't that just a way of ghettoising anyone who can't fulfill the preconditions for the Catholic sacrament of marriage?
Like: 'here, you have civil unions, everyone, and we'll keep this Very Important Ritual Which Is Better to ourselves.'
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Tess, you haven't answered the question about a civil form of marriage between same-sex couples. Surely that should be peachy keen with you, since they're not interested in it as a Catholic sacrament?
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I told people not to give me gifts because we were already living together. But they ignored me, because I have nice peeps.