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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-02-04 12:27 PM
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3. so my "family's rights" trump my rights? excuse me?
"That is a very low standard by which to measure right and wrong by, but even against that benchmark, same-sex marriage comes up short. If same-sex marriage is declared a constitutional right, family members risk the nightmare of being dragged before a Human Rights Tribunal if they refuse to consider and treat a same-sex marriage as being every bit as real and valid as their own. They will have that threat hanging over them even if their views are based on religious convictions, making them prisoners of conscience in a nation that has made it unconstitutional for them to live their faith.
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These people elicit the deepest disgust in me. "Family members" have no rights in my life if they are not my children or my partner, PERIOD.

I love my family but I have earned my own way, and what I do with that is purely up to me. And if my family members refuse to treat my unlawfull marriage as being every bit as real and valid as their own, I won't hesitate to disown them. Life is too short for bullshit.

Fortunately the in-laws love each other, and as far as I know nobody in our combined extended family has anything but love and respect for us, and that includes all generations of two rural families.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it Paul Albers! Oh and get laid, dude. You're getting old and bitter.
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