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Houston TX voted today for Same Sex benefits
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RyanH
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good to hear that Houston is finally acknowledging homosexuals, bisexuals, and lesbians as people......now if only other major cities will follow suit..
Atlanta recently did.
I wish someone could offer a legitimate, grounded argument as to why gays should not be entitled to benefits like the rest of society. Gays and lesbians go to work, pay sales taxes, property taxes, give to charities, just as the rest of society does.
This is simply a FAIRNESS issue......
Atlanta recently did.
I wish someone could offer a legitimate, grounded argument as to why gays should not be entitled to benefits like the rest of society. Gays and lesbians go to work, pay sales taxes, property taxes, give to charities, just as the rest of society does.
This is simply a FAIRNESS issue......
RyanH
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spentagn said:
neither was slavery...Some thing are so unfair that to turn away from them makes us inhumane....this is an example of an issue so unfair that we have to face it. If not now, eventually.
There is no legitimate justification that hard-working, tax-paying, gays and lesbians, should not have the same rights as all Americans.
TxCollegeguy
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Ryan this is one of the few issues that I will agree with you on. Just cause I dont support someones lifestyle doesn't mean they shouldn't be protected to the same rights I have being straight
the nature boy
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spentagn said:
I agree, marriage is no big deal. But the law and society have different views on marriage than you or I. Who is getting hurt by letting these people have marriage rights as heterosexuals?
musclebrains
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spentagn said:
The issue isn't the wedding, the romantic aspect of marriage, but the legal benefits that married couples receive. THere are literally hundreds of benefits that married people receive -- from income tax deductions to rights of inheritance -- that are denied gay people. Anyone who has served as executor on the estates of gay men -- I've had the horrific experience more than a dozen times -- can tell you quite quickly how marriage laws perpetuate prejudice.
Personally, I don't know why ANYONE wants to get married and I think all special benefits and rights that marreid people enjoy should be assigned to the entire population. Those that can't be should be eliminated. The right to marry ranks slightly above the right to have my fingernails pulled out. (Mkay, it's true, I was married and divorced.)
the nature boy
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spentagn said:
so then it would be okay to take all marriage benefits from everyone then. my point is, why should one group not have the same rights and advantages as another group, just because of sexual orientation differences?
