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Old 05-18-2006, 01:43 PM   #1
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Default Can the senate focus on something other than banning gay marriage?

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We have foreign issues:Iran, Iraq, N. Korea and Afghanistan. We have legitimate domestic issues:Immigration, Health Care, Social Security. Yet these zipperheads want to control who can officially love who. Debating Gay marriage is a waste of Congress' time and my tax dollars. Lets leave it to the states or better yet just give them the damn rights. Can someone on here please explain to me how two men or two woman getting married to each other affects your life (non-gay)? How about we have our government resolve real issues rather then something that shouldn't be an issue in the first place!

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Old 05-18-2006, 01:57 PM   #2
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We have foreign issues:Iran, Iraq, N. Korea and Afghanistan. We have legitimate domestic issues:Immigration, Health Care, Social Security. Yet these zipperheads want to control who can officially love who. Debating Gay marriage is a waste of Congress' time and my tax dollars. Lets leave it to the states or better yet just give them the damn rights. Can someone on here please explain to me how two men or two woman getting married to each other affects your life (non-gay)? How about we have our government resolve real issues rather then something that shouldn't be an issue in the first place!
I couldn't agree with you more. But it's an election year.
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Why debate, just ban it it is what the people they represent want.
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Why debate, just ban it it is what the people they represent want.
You sure do have the pulse of the people. How many people? 25%? 50%? 75%?

Haven't both sides admitted this thing hasn't a snowball's chance in hell of passing the Senate? It doesn't seem as obvious to me as your post makes it out to be.

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You sure do have the pulse of the people. How many people? 25%? 50%? 75%?

Haven't both sides admitted this thing hasn't a snowball's chance in hell of passing the Senate? It doesn't seem as obvious to me as your post makes it out to be.
Well every state that it was on the ballot, banned it, and in most cases by a wide margin. But than of course you have a single judge in most cases decide that it doesn't matter what the people say(even if Pujo disagrees).
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Well every state that it was on the ballot, banned it, and in most cases by a wide margin. But than of course you have a single judge in most cases decide that it doesn't matter what the people say(even if Pujo disagrees).
Your first sentence is a big, fat fallacy. Of course the states that had a ballot question approved of it - those were the states with enough conservative push to have a ballot question at all. What about the majority of the states that haven't even had the impetus to put the question on the ballot? What about polls and empirical evidence that says Americans are split on the issue (maybe not an exact 50/50 split, but certainly not an 80/20 landslide or anything like that)?
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Your first sentence is a big, fat fallacy. Of course the states that had a ballot question approved of it - those were the states with enough conservative push to have a ballot question at all. What about the majority of the states that haven't even had the impetus to put the question on the ballot? What about polls and empirical evidence that says Americans are split on the issue (maybe not an exact 50/50 split, but certainly not an 80/20 landslide or anything like that)?
Yeah Michigan and Oregon real conservative bastions, right?

Sorry but when people go and vote on something that means a hell of a lot more than a poll of 500 people. Oh wait your a democrat so a poll does mean a lot more.
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Shouldn't gay marriage be a state issue?? I thought the Republicans were huge on states rights, and not imposing the will of the Federal Gov't on the average citizen, who gives a flying f...ck..

The Senate also stepped to the plate on the Baseball Steroids issue as well..
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Shiavo's, intelligent design, and some other very important wedge issues are on the way...

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