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posted by scantron
What a fascinating moment in U.S. history. In some states a person can marry someone of the same sex, in others they cannot. Tax programs trying to help people file their federal and state taxes need to record both kinds of marriages because they collect information for both tax returns simultaneously in order to reduce the time burden on the client.
But why not just ask people if they were married? Perhaps the people who designed these questions thought that the term “marriage” is so deeply associated with heterosexuality that it wouldn’t occur to people who were married to someone of the same sex to check it. Then again, I would think that those gay couples who are legally married would be especially cognizant of their right to check the “marriage” box whether same-sex marriage was specified or not.
Or are there different tax rules applied to gay and straight marriage?
In any case, if we’re going to separate homo- and hetero-marriage, why not label “marriage” as “opposite-sex marriage” or “other-sex marriage”? Why normalize heterosexual marriage (real marriage, you know, the original marriage, marriage marriage!) and mark homosexual marriage (the gay kind, duh, so gay)?
I don’t know what they were thinking… but it’s fascinating.
[source: http://contexts.org/socimages/2010/04/15/the-u-s-government-wants-to-know-if-you-are-gay-married/]
posted by scantronYesterday, Republican Arizona Senate candidate J.D. Hayworth said that allowing gay marriage would mean that “I guess you could marry your horse.” Tonight he was on Maddow and acted like a man who would say this.
posted by scantron
New York State Senate Rejects Gay Marriage
“The defeat revealed stark divides: All 30 of the Republican senators opposed the bill, as did most of the members from upstate New York and Long Island. Support was heaviest among members from New York City and Westchester County and among the Senate’s 10 black members (!!). Seven of the Senate’s 10 women voted for it.”
What can be said when one of the country’s most “progressive” states couldn’t muster up enough courage to provide equal marriage rights to gay people? Senator Kevin S. Parker (a Brooklyn Democrat) stated that the vote was “ the worst example of political cowardice” he’d ever seen. “Clearly people said things prior to coming to the floor and behaved differently.” So people were ultimately afraid of how they would be viewed, and intimidated by the reactions of others.
Well, I must say I’m tired of the bullshit.
It’s wrong that gay people don’t have the same marriage rights as their straight counterparts – period. When are people going to realize that giving us rights does not undermine the ones they already have – it enhances them, validates them even?
Richard E. Barnes, the executive director of the New York State Catholic Conference, made this statement: “Advocates for same-sex marriage have attempted to portray their cause as inevitable, However, it has become clear that Americans continue to understand marriage the way it has always been understood, and New York is not different in that regard. This is a victory for the basic building block of our society.” Wrong, buddy. It is inevitable. So get your weight up ‘cause we’re coming for it.
(via NYTIMES)
What are people so afraid of?
posted by scantron
posted by scantron10 Year Old Explains He Won’t Pledge Allegiance to The Flag Until There is Liberty and Justice for All.
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posted by matildastone posted by matildastone
Thousands march in Taipei for gay marriage
Thousands of people from Taiwan’s LGBT community marched through the streets of Taipei on Saturday to demand recognition of same-sex marriage and equal rights. The island’s seventh annual Gay Pride Parade, with an estimated turnout of 25,000, also attracted supporters from neighbouring Hong Kong, Japan and South East Asian countries.
“We urge the government to better protect gay human rights including same-sex unions so we can have the same legal rights as heterosexual couples” said chief organiser Tung Chu-chu.
word.
(AFP)
posted by matildastone
“Ben & Jerry’s is celebrating the legalization of same-sex marriage in Vermont by changing the name of one of their most popular ice cream flavors from Chubby Hubby to Hubby Hubby for the month of September. The company released a statement, saying that they hoped the name change would raise awareness and cause other states to follow suit, but opponents of gay marriage weren’t thrilled at the idea of the flavor makeover. ‘It’s a bad idea, especially because I think they’re just doing it to rub it in that Vermont has legalized gay marriage,’ Brian Camenker of MassResistance.org told the Boston Herald.” HAHAHAHAHA!
posted by babeuseless “ If gay assimilationists wanted actual progress, they’d start by fighting for the abolition of marriage (duh), and universal access to the services that marriage can sometimes help procure: housing, healthcare, citizenship, tax breaks and inheritance rights. ”
— that’s revolting: queer strategies for resisting assimilation
posted by scantronHow long until N.C.?
posted by mellowtonesA Gaythering Storm
There is a storm being caused by gay marriage and we are all in serious trouble. Check out Hollywood’s take on it… I remember when Sophia Bush stopped by Wilmington’s Prop 8 rally last year…I think it’s cool that people are standing up for gay-marriage, but lets hope it’s just not another publicity stunt.
posted by teknacolorninjaPerez Hilton was Shocked by Miss California’s Gay-Marriage Answer click here for a the video response. What do you think ?
posted by teknacolorninja
Thinking About Getting Married!
I’m sitting here eating an orange and dealing with mixed feelings about the recent gay-marriage victories.
With Vermont’s legislature and Iowa’s Supreme Court legalizing same sex marriage, millions of queers are eagerly hoping to dash towards altars and bind their love with a state sanctioned contract. Simultaneously millions of hetero assholes are trying to strip away this basic civil right.
I find myself in the mournful pocket of queers wishing the privileges afforded to married people could be given universally to everybody, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, or relationship status.
Married people don’t deserve better health-care than single people. Marriage does not justify rigid national borders. Close friends, life-long non-sexual, non-domestic partners should be able to visit their significant others in the hospitals as they die.
We need a better system of contracts than marriage to accommodate the hundreds of types of intimacy and interdependency that all people face. At the state level, the contractual institution of marriage should be abolished. (I mean, really, I think the state should be abolished too, but that’s for another day…)
If we must have a state, marriage…love that is…should have nothing to do with it. Universal rights, privileges, and benefits should! The job of government, though ours fails at every turn, is to give and protect rights and benefits. Beyond that, state’s are useless.
No matter the type of relationship(s) individuals have, the state should have a responsive system for maximizing the rights given to all people based on desires and needs within myriad relational configurations no matter what the romantic or procreative nature of those relationships is.
Even compulsive masturbators deserve the rights and privileges accorded to couples.
Kyle Harris lives in a basement in denver, watches documentaries for a living, makes movies for fun, and runs around with sweethearts, friends, rebels, and queers fighting for liberation from the violence of the uber-nasty capitalist-state system. If you want Kyle’s dirty secrets and sexy fantasies, go to queerradical.com
posted by guestqueerMONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont has become the fourth state to legalize gay marriage — and the first to do so with a legislature’s vote.
The Legislature voted Tuesday to override Gov. Jim Douglas’ veto of a bill allowing gays and lesbians to marry. The vote was 23-5 to override in the state Senate and 100-49 to override in the House. Under Vermont law, two-thirds of each chamber had to vote for override.
The vote came nine years after Vermont adopted its first-in-the-nation civil unions law.
It’s now the fourth state to permit same-sex marriage. Massachusetts, Connecticut and Iowa are the others. Their approval of gay marriage came from the courts.
