Or, you could say this is a new government agency created to prevent banks and other consumer financial agencies from screwing us as they have been screwing us for years. What is wrong with Consumer Protection?
If you’re worried about the government controlling every aspect of your life, you should keep in mind that Republicans are the ones that want to control who you marry, who you have sex with, and whether you can have an abortion.
Agree we need comsumer protection. To deny there is evil that comes from greed is to deny the nature of man. I’m not sure we needed a whole new agency.
I’m a Republican, not in congress. I whole heartedly agree that government oversteps itself when it regulates marriage. A gays love toward their partner is just a valid qas mine towards my wife. Sex,any two consenting adults can do whatever they want with their body parts. It’s none of my business. It’s perverse that one person would care what another one does. Abortion, same thing. It’s not my business to decide what a woman should or shouldn,t do with her body. It’s her moral/religious decision and last I heard we had freedom of religion. And… I am one of those Republicans, socially as liberal as I am.
Republican or not, your views are fueled by passion and not logic, unfortunately just like your new friend TOPOV. Abortion law has to do with the rights of a fetus as a human being, not a woman’s right to choose. The supreme court “split the baby” and that’s about all anyone logically can do. As for marriage, the word itself as well as the institution has existed for thousands of years. It was created to protect and define peoples relationship involving procreation. I have no problem with two humans male female or both doing whatever they want or even their legal rights to be together under the law, but it is not marriage. Why do I not have a right to keep the word marriage?
Marriage has been between one man and one woman for thousands of years and has to do with procreation, you say?
Thousands of years ago, men had numerous wives. Abraham had at least two. Jacob had at least two. Should we make that the rule then?
Procreation? Are you serious? My grandmother got remarried at age 82 to a guy who was 85. Should they have been refused a marriage license because they can’t procreate?
Since when do you have the right to “keep the word marriage” whatever that means? Look, if you don’t want to marry someone of the same sex, don’t.
Of course, you could be a poster boy for family values, like Newt Gingrich, a guy who likes families so much, he’s had three of them. Gays are not a threat to marriage. Heterosexuals are doing just fine tearing down the institution without any help from gay people.
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ijs,
It’s compassion not passion.
Social institutions change, they evolve. Abraham and Sarah were of the same father, brother and sister, not so cool these days.
Marriage? I’m not sure what you are out to protect when about
50% of the couples who stand at the altar and promise to God and the world “until death do us part” never make it that far. I’ve been to weddings where it’s “as long as we both shall love” That’s a set-up for losing if I’ve ever seen one. Why exclude from marriage couples that really want to be together for life because of gender?
I love it when you prove other peoples points. I never mentioned family values, or one man and one woman and unless your grandmother left your mom or dad at someone’s doorstep, procreation and the subsequent relationships are still in place. This is not an attack, take a deep breath and take a step back. You are supposed to be the other point of view not a liberal talking point machine. I am espousing a point of view which has nothing to do with politics. If you are always going to espouse such a narrow minded agenda then I respectfully ask that you revise your moniker.
I don’t want to take any rights from gay or transgender couples, an the contrary. I truly believe if they want the rights granted to married couples, they should have them. Believe it or not I have lots of gay friends and once they understand my point of view some actually agree with me (not many mind you). Why do I NOT have the right to keep the work marriage?
Right to keep the word marriage? You mean to yourself? To your definition? Excluding whom? Same gender? Different race? It wasn’t too long ago that mixed marriages weren’t allowed. If you’re married you can keep the term marriage for what you have you just need to learn how to share. People not like you or I are NOT less human.
Ahh the race card, now I know you have run out of arguments. Race has been inserted and removed from what marriage means for thousands of years, one thing has not changed. Why is the word so important to this debate. Take the rights and priveledges, leave the word alone.
I’d worry more about contradictory rules than duplicate rules. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
This is another of the bloated Federal Bureaucracies designed to regulate and control every aspect of our lives.
They’re trying!
Or, you could say this is a new government agency created to prevent banks and other consumer financial agencies from screwing us as they have been screwing us for years. What is wrong with Consumer Protection?
If you’re worried about the government controlling every aspect of your life, you should keep in mind that Republicans are the ones that want to control who you marry, who you have sex with, and whether you can have an abortion.
Agree we need comsumer protection. To deny there is evil that comes from greed is to deny the nature of man. I’m not sure we needed a whole new agency.
I’m a Republican, not in congress. I whole heartedly agree that government oversteps itself when it regulates marriage. A gays love toward their partner is just a valid qas mine towards my wife. Sex,any two consenting adults can do whatever they want with their body parts. It’s none of my business. It’s perverse that one person would care what another one does. Abortion, same thing. It’s not my business to decide what a woman should or shouldn,t do with her body. It’s her moral/religious decision and last I heard we had freedom of religion. And… I am one of those Republicans, socially as liberal as I am.
You, my friend, are a rara avis. :) Peace.
Republican or not, your views are fueled by passion and not logic, unfortunately just like your new friend TOPOV. Abortion law has to do with the rights of a fetus as a human being, not a woman’s right to choose. The supreme court “split the baby” and that’s about all anyone logically can do. As for marriage, the word itself as well as the institution has existed for thousands of years. It was created to protect and define peoples relationship involving procreation. I have no problem with two humans male female or both doing whatever they want or even their legal rights to be together under the law, but it is not marriage. Why do I not have a right to keep the word marriage?
Marriage has been between one man and one woman for thousands of years and has to do with procreation, you say?
Thousands of years ago, men had numerous wives. Abraham had at least two. Jacob had at least two. Should we make that the rule then?
Procreation? Are you serious? My grandmother got remarried at age 82 to a guy who was 85. Should they have been refused a marriage license because they can’t procreate?
Since when do you have the right to “keep the word marriage” whatever that means? Look, if you don’t want to marry someone of the same sex, don’t.
Of course, you could be a poster boy for family values, like Newt Gingrich, a guy who likes families so much, he’s had three of them. Gays are not a threat to marriage. Heterosexuals are doing just fine tearing down the institution without any help from gay people.
ijs,
It’s compassion not passion.
Social institutions change, they evolve. Abraham and Sarah were of the same father, brother and sister, not so cool these days.
Marriage? I’m not sure what you are out to protect when about
50% of the couples who stand at the altar and promise to God and the world “until death do us part” never make it that far. I’ve been to weddings where it’s “as long as we both shall love” That’s a set-up for losing if I’ve ever seen one. Why exclude from marriage couples that really want to be together for life because of gender?
Just what we need another government bureaucracy.
Gee! I can’t see why everyone’s upset, this just goes to show that there can never be enough regulations, one good one begats another and yet another.
I love it when you prove other peoples points. I never mentioned family values, or one man and one woman and unless your grandmother left your mom or dad at someone’s doorstep, procreation and the subsequent relationships are still in place. This is not an attack, take a deep breath and take a step back. You are supposed to be the other point of view not a liberal talking point machine. I am espousing a point of view which has nothing to do with politics. If you are always going to espouse such a narrow minded agenda then I respectfully ask that you revise your moniker.
I don’t want to take any rights from gay or transgender couples, an the contrary. I truly believe if they want the rights granted to married couples, they should have them. Believe it or not I have lots of gay friends and once they understand my point of view some actually agree with me (not many mind you). Why do I NOT have the right to keep the work marriage?
Right to keep the word marriage? You mean to yourself? To your definition? Excluding whom? Same gender? Different race? It wasn’t too long ago that mixed marriages weren’t allowed. If you’re married you can keep the term marriage for what you have you just need to learn how to share. People not like you or I are NOT less human.
You two also bash marriage. If everyone thinks so little of the institution then why do gays want to have any part of it?
Ahh the race card, now I know you have run out of arguments. Race has been inserted and removed from what marriage means for thousands of years, one thing has not changed. Why is the word so important to this debate. Take the rights and priveledges, leave the word alone.
LMFAO I’m white, so is my wife. Was that all you had?