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State gay marriage amendments
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 12:23 am
by Jonathan
http://www.slate.com/id/2152799/?nav=tap3
Fascinatingly, Ohio's ban of any marriage-like union is throwing out heterosexual domestic abuse cases involving unmarried couples. Will Virginia's gay marriage amendment be next?
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 2:19 am
by George
Without digging into the Ohio case, would it really be legal to choke someone you're not "married" to? I'm not sure I understand the need for separate domestic abuse laws, when assault, battery, and other generic crimes are already applicable.
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 5:55 am
by Alan
The New York Board of Health is considering making gender a personal choice:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/nyreg ... yt&emc=rss
That would basically indirectly make gay marriage legal, except that they would all be "straight" marriages.
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 7:48 am
by Jonathan
I think penalties, resources, attention, protection is greater for people who are victims of domestic abuse than people who are assaulted. Being a victim of domestic abuse gets you certain things that being a victim of assault doesn't, not the least of which is credibility as a victim.
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 2:52 pm
by Dave
Gender should be optional and marriage should just be a legal agreement to have 2 people represented as one really fat one. Thus fat people would be taxed differently as well.
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 8:40 pm
by George
But what happens when two fat people marry? And since a divorce is just a termination of marriage, would it be legal for a fat person to divorce them self?
Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 9:14 pm
by Dave
They are forced to consume another fat person of equal weight to restore order in the force.