----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew Small" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 10:42 AM
Subject: Re: You People
| What happens when a same-sex couple divorces? Who gets the child? Who pays
alimony? WIll be be ok for any two people to get married just for the benefits?
A couple of guys are roommates, one needs health insurance, the other has it so
they get married. In the military, a person gets extra money to live off base
when he/she gets married - will that apply to a couple of privates who don't
want to live in the barracks? There are a lot of issues that this will
confound.
|
| - Matt Small
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: Haggerty, Mike
| To: CF-Community
| Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 11:24 AM
| Subject: RE: You People
|
|
| I'm not sure this is guilt some much as my stupid-people sense kicking
| in. I mean, I'm not rapidly opposed to the idea, I can just see
| situations where it might be put to bad use.
|
| Soemthing strikes me as odd when two guys could watch the Red Sox play a
| 1:00 game, get wasted on Schlitz, and end up at a county courthouse
| later that day with the full legal right to get married. That's not
| catholic guilt, that's a joke people were telling back in the 50s.
|
| Or a fraternity could use it as a hazing ritual, getting all the plebes
| married off to one another. I have seen this done in mock fashion, and I
| know people who would have made kids go all the way (and kids who would
| have).
|
| Or a gang thing where you have to prove how hardcore you are.
|
| Imagine if downtrodden men were marrying themselves off to help
| immigrants get citizenship. Panhandlers will beat themselves up with
| sticks for a $20, why not marriage?
|
| It just strikes me as running counter to the stated aims of the
| instituion of marriage, to bring social and financial stablity to a
| country. People could easily abuse this for short-term gain, amusement,
| status, etc. The bar would need to be set fairly high in order to avoid
| the problems that go along with it.
|
| M
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Heald, Tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 11:05 AM
| To: CF-Community
| Subject: RE: You People
|
| >I blame the Liberals on this list for derailing my train of thought.
| >Nobody ever talk about same sex marriage again, it gives me the
| willies.
|
| That's just your catholic guilt reflex kicking in man. You'll get over
| it
| :)
|
| Tim
|
| -----Original Message-----
| From: Haggerty, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 11:05 AM
| To: CF-Community
| Subject: You People
|
| I had something important I was going to respond to, where someone asked
| a question and didn't get a response. I had it all thought out and was
| getting ready to put it to email, when someone asked me something about
| stylesheets here in the office. I helped him out, then that thread about
| Massachusetts came up and I had to post something dumb.
|
| Now I can't remember what I was going to say, or who I was going to
| respond to. I looked through all the messages (handily sorted by
| Microsoft Outlook 2003, the best email editor there is or ever will be)
| and realized I cannot find what I was going to respond to.
|
| ...
|
| I blame the Liberals on this list for derailing my train of thought.
| Nobody ever talk about same sex marriage again, it gives me the willies.
|
| M
| _____
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