Posted by Proud Veteran on Aug 17 2008 5:29PM - How long will it be before we have gay marriage in this country?
Look at all the people that worked and payed in Social Security. If gay marriage is law, will this allow the gay marriage partner to draw social security benefits from the other partner.

This will bankrupt social security. Will pensions have to give the gay marriage partner equal status for benefits?? Will this increase the chance of pension programs going broke for giving benefits to those not being intended for??

Look at all the people that did manual labor and only have Social Security to finance whatever retirement they will ever have. Making gay marriage equal to traditional marriage will result in disorder in the retirement systems.

It is easy to tear something apart when you did not build it!

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Posted by f_16falcon on Aug 20 2008 1:25AM - Same thing would happen if immigration reform were to *finally* be passed. Either way, Social security is screwed in 20 years anyway, so what's the big deal?

I'm as straight as an arrow, but I also understand that human beings need to be treated with understanding, no matter if they share the same views as us or not. If a partner wants to visit the other in the emergency room/hospital, I think it's out of human nature just to let them. It's American. And, though you probably would never admit it "Proud Veteran", its what you fought for... for people to think and do as they please, even if its something we dont agree with.

So bottom line, SS will be bankrupt without them on the rolls either way. Get use to it.

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Posted by damndilettante on Aug 22 2008 7:16AM - As a closeted gay man who married a woman as soon as I turned 18 and became a conservative christian spewing hateful homophobic rhetoric in a sad attempt to run away from my true feelings, I disagree with Sen. Obama. It's Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve!!!

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Posted by nikkigoolden on Aug 22 2008 12:46PM - Civil Union marriages between a man and a woman was established for several reasons; the start of families and all that comes along with it. If we allow the state to state decided on gay marriage this may lead to the foundation of the family to decrease. It is already a task to keep marriages together. It's hard to believe that when you have two of the same sex as partner's, where's the future in that? No children bilogically only thru adoption...if people chose to live that life style, it is totally different than the civil relationships, so therefore eventhough I will vote for Obama, I disagree with him as far as allowing gays to marry. There is no future in that, we as a nation will suffer even more.

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Posted by AD on Aug 22 2008 7:44PM - DD's got the jokes....you fooled me before with the white guy criminal...so shame on me! Well played!

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Posted by sheilanagig on Aug 28 2008 2:27PM - I don't really see what difference it will make. It won't threaten people who were heterosexual in the first place, and it would not change the legal system already in place. It's a legal agreement between two people, not a religious sacrament. Religion can carry on with their sacraments as they wish, and legal agreements can be entered into without disturbing that practice. The same kind of effect would be produced by one adult adopting another for purposes of inheritance, and that has been going on for a long time. It's just changing the title it goes under.

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Posted by galabs2000 on Aug 28 2008 8:53PM - I would like inform you that Scarlett Johansson (actress)actually is a clone from original person,who has nothing with acting career.Clone was created illegally by using stolen biomaterial. Original Scarlett Galabekian last name is nice, CHRISTIAN young lady!I'll tell you more,those clones(it's not only one)made in GERMANY-world leader manufacturer of humans clones,it is in Ludwigshafen am Rhein,N. Bavaria, Mr. Helmut Kohl home town.You can't even imaging the scale of the cloning activity.But warning! H. Kohl clone staff 100% controlling their clones spreading around the world,they are very accurate with that, some of them are still NAZI type disciplined and mind controlled clones,be careful get close with clones you will be controlled too.Original family did not authorize any activity with stolen biological materials,no matter what form it was created,it all needs back to original family control to Cedars-Sinai MedicalCenter in LA.Original Scarlett is not engage,by the way!

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Posted by lonewolvie on Sep 1 2008 9:55PM - Do people who engage in these strange behaviors deserve the same rights as man and woman in a marraige? I am tired of that worn out "it's a genetic disorder" excuse for this. This is a behavior choice that people make plain and simple. Why is this behavior so closly tied to liberalism? When have we even been given a "genetic" excuse for someone who does good things? Also these same sex unions are dangerous for children to live in. Research and experience has proven that children who are raised by a mother and a father in a functioning family turn out to be much better children.

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