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Message 1320729 - Posted: 28 Dec 2012, 9:37:39 UTC - in response to Message 1320712.  

I know enough of Es's background to support all that she has said, and have the standpoint that she does. I won't say any more than that.

Not knowing Es I can't comment. But I would venture to say that for every "Es type" situation I could quote one where the woman was the prime instigator of the situation.

Women are much better at psychological warfare than men are.

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Message 1320737 - Posted: 28 Dec 2012, 9:56:23 UTC
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I support Chris, as I am fairly aware of Es's situation and can understand her view point.

This is a complex issue and each situation is unique in it's circumstances.

I can thank God that Sheila and I got on and stayed together, and can now meet the Grand children, our 3 being grown up, after nearly 45 years of marriage.
It's good to be back amongst friends and colleagues



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Message 1320806 - Posted: 28 Dec 2012, 14:44:36 UTC

I understand both view points. And I will say that parents far too often turn their children into pawns of hate during their divorces. I cry for the children.

And having those parents still together is even worse for them.




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Message 1320821 - Posted: 28 Dec 2012, 16:15:24 UTC - in response to Message 1319890.  
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Now here's a seasonal conundrum for supporters of the thread title.

A 'dad' is tenth most popular Christmas list request for children

Which when, I would guess, about 70% of kids live in a home with a "Dad", means that a lot of those that don't have one, must have asked for a "Dad"

A request for a "mum" reached number 23 on the list.

Hmm, seems this post started an anecdote fest, a report on a survey conducted at two shopping centres, with confusing references as to who was asked (there's an implication that it was the parents who provide the answers). The report indicates that there were at least 50 different requests, and a survey population of 2000, so the average number of requests for a given item was at most 40 (2% of 2000). Whether 10th place was above this average is not in the linked article. The circumstances of the respondents is not in the article (how many requests were from families where the requested parent had died?). To be frank, aside from generating debate the report on the survey is somewhat less than useful.

Can we get back on topic?
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that ...

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Message 1320945 - Posted: 28 Dec 2012, 20:26:23 UTC - in response to Message 1320706.  

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Es, you seem to have the attitude that men are emotionless goons with no feelings for their kids. You ignore the emotional strain that is put on them by only having limited access to them. i.e. One day per week, per fortnight, per month or sometimes less when they really want to be a full time father. Fathers Day

What you say I think and feel is your assumption. It bears no connection with reality. I've been to court multiple times with my current partner as he fought to keep contact with his children. I watched his ex wife lie repeatedly to the judge. I heard how she told the children that she would cut them off completely from her life if they tried to live with their dad. It was the most disgusting display of selfish behaviour I have ever seen. Well her youngest son now lives with us and will have very little to do with his mother. She did that herself.

Some men just can't handle the stress this puts on them so they cut themselves off all together in order to survive.

Boo bloody hoo. Being a parent is hard. It also means putting your kids first. The need to grow up and get over it. It's just as hard for the mother, but they don't get the option to just walk away.

The problem is parents, who when they split, are so full of hate to the other they use the kids as a weapon against the other party, ignoring the effect this has on the children themselves. To hear one person you love bad mouthing another person you love and demanding that you take sides is traumatic for them.

Children are not dumb, they know what is going on. My Mother used to give my Father a quite unjustified hard time, even at 10 years old I could see this. One day I asked him why he didn't leave. His reply was "Because I have four very good reasons to stay". I have never forgotten that and many years later when my wife and I broke up, the kids were all given the option as to which parent they lived with and no questions asked.

That is one thing I have always been grateful for. Despite the situation between us, my ex and I had the maturity not to drag the kids into it.

Edit: Part of the problem is the sexism of the Divorce/Family courts that in almost all cases give custody to the mother even though there are many cases where the children would be better off with the father.

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I totally agree with this...and tried to follow this when I split up with my kids father. I expected him to look after the kids half time and see them as often as the kids wanted to.

Unfortunately TA, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
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Message 1320946 - Posted: 28 Dec 2012, 20:27:00 UTC - in response to Message 1320821.  

Now here's a seasonal conundrum for supporters of the thread title.

A 'dad' is tenth most popular Christmas list request for children

Which when, I would guess, about 70% of kids live in a home with a "Dad", means that a lot of those that don't have one, must have asked for a "Dad"

A request for a "mum" reached number 23 on the list.

Hmm, seems this post started an anecdote fest, a report on a survey conducted at two shopping centres, with confusing references as to who was asked (there's an implication that it was the parents who provide the answers). The report indicates that there were at least 50 different requests, and a survey population of 2000, so the average number of requests for a given item was at most 40 (2% of 2000). Whether 10th place was above this average is not in the linked article. The circumstances of the respondents is not in the article (how many requests were from families where the requested parent had died?). To be frank, aside from generating debate the report on the survey is somewhat less than useful.

Can we get back on topic?

The mods are welcome to move this current conversation to my gender bias thread if they so wish.
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Message 1321559 - Posted: 29 Dec 2012, 19:07:09 UTC - in response to Message 1321349.  
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The best of Fred Hutchison Intelligent design vs. gay marriage

Thanks for posting this ID. After reading the article in the link, I read several more of Fred Hutchinson's essays.

While I might not have agreed with everything he was saying, it was a pleasure to read such well thought out, well written and logically presented articles. While I am pro-choice, his essay on Saving the crumbling liberal world view was a very interesting read.

He seems like a man I would have dearly loved to invite around for a barbeque and a few quiet ports on a Sunday afternoon.

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Message 1321581 - Posted: 29 Dec 2012, 19:34:49 UTC - in response to Message 1321559.  

The best of Fred Hutchison Intelligent design vs. gay marriage

Thanks for posting this ID. After reading the article in the link, I read several more of Fred Hutchinson's essays.

While I might not have agreed with everything he was saying, it was a pleasure to read such well thought out, well written and logically presented articles. While I am pro-choice, his essay on Saving the crumbling liberal world view was a very interesting read.

He seems like a man I would have dearly loved to invite around for a barbeque and a few quiet ports on a Sunday afternoon.

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Never met him in person. However, I dearly miss him. Taken from us too soon. I recommend the book.
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Message 1321598 - Posted: 29 Dec 2012, 20:13:42 UTC - in response to Message 1321559.  
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The best of Fred Hutchison Intelligent design vs. gay marriage

Thanks for posting this ID. After reading the article in the link, I read several more of Fred Hutchinson's essays.

While I might not have agreed with everything he was saying, it was a pleasure to read such well thought out, well written and logically presented articles. While I am pro-choice, his essay on Saving the crumbling liberal world view was a very interesting read.

He seems like a man I would have dearly loved to invite around for a barbeque and a few quiet ports on a Sunday afternoon.

T.A.

Well thought out and logically presented? Seems we were reading different articles, take, for instance, the following (from the linked article):

The liberals might argue that the first principles of their opponents are grounded in faith and therefore are not admissible in public debate on the grounds of the separation of church and state. The answer to this idea is elementary:
Faith in first principles for philosophical reasoning is not the same thing as a creed or a formal confession of faith.

All first principles in philosophy are embraced by a kind of faith, but not necessarily a religious faith. One can trust a first principle to be true without having personal faith in God. One can trust God without having first principles. Self-evident truths and presuppositions that are unthinkable to question are often received by intuition, a kind of quasi-faith or an inspiration of reason.

French Rationalist philosopher Rene Descartes (1596-1650) called the mystical flashes of light that brought him first principles "intuitions of pure reason." Who is to say whether such eureka moments come from God or are from our own minds and intuitions? Who is to say that God cannot give an unbeliever a eureka moment so that he might have a first principle? Obviously, such questions are way beyond the scope of issues of church and state.

Without first principles, there can be no reason or rational discourse, and therefore it is absurd to ban first principles from public discussion.
If first principles are excluded from public discourse because they are grounded in faith, the foundations for reason will be destroyed. If reason is washed away, the logic of moral principles will go with it. "If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?" (Psalm 11:3) When we drive God out of the public square, we also drive man out. Without reason and morality, we are no longer men, but beasts — like barbarians, nihilists, and rock stars.


Note how the original objection to first principles grounded in faith becomes a rejection of all first principles? Or how faith in first principles starts out as not a confession of faith, though the rejection of first principles is equated to driving God out of the public square?

In other parts of the article cognitive dissonance appears to be on display, how else could we have free will and not be programmed automatons while at the same time have a true destiny and an innate nature?
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that ...

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Message 1321608 - Posted: 29 Dec 2012, 20:28:50 UTC - in response to Message 1321598.  

+1 bobby

I find the Rene Descartes mystical flashes very interesting, almost like hearing voices. He had to come up with something, otherwise his logic left him at: I think, therefore there is thinking. He couldn't get to I am without invoking that which he just disproved.

I also find his quotes about human heart telling that there is no logic here
The advocates for traditional marriage have the advantage in the debate over first principles. It is easy to persuade a man that he has an innate nature because the idea is simple and clear and is naturally agreeable to the instincts of the human heart. In contrast, telling a man that he is a construct of myriad external factors reduces him to a programmed automaton, an idea that diminishes man and is repellant to the human heart.

the entire piece exists on emotion and nothing else.

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Message 1321614 - Posted: 29 Dec 2012, 20:41:04 UTC

No marriage equality law ever proposed in the United States would, nor ever will, force unwilling churches to perform marriage ceremonies for same sex couples, contrary to dishonest Catholic and Mormon propaganda, for example, about California's Proposition 8 in 2008. And if you object to same sex couples for religious reasons, then I'm sure you belong to a church that won't be performing them. State recognition of contracts between or among consenting adults is entirely a secular matter. You have no grounds to object, much less any legal standing.
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Message 1321624 - Posted: 29 Dec 2012, 20:59:22 UTC

To redefine marriage after more then 230 years of prescendance is wrong on the surface. To redefine the word itself is more then wrong after more then 6,000 years of prescendance. A marriage is between one man and one woman.

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Message 1321625 - Posted: 29 Dec 2012, 21:00:42 UTC

California's Proposition 8 was voted on by the people and "We the People" make law, not Judges by decree.
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Message 1321653 - Posted: 29 Dec 2012, 21:34:29 UTC - in response to Message 1321614.  

No marriage equality law ever proposed in the United States would, nor ever will, force unwilling churches to perform marriage ceremonies for same sex couples, contrary to dishonest Catholic and Mormon propaganda, for example, about California's Proposition 8 in 2008. And if you object to same sex couples for religious reasons, then I'm sure you belong to a church that won't be performing them. State recognition of contracts between or among consenting adults is entirely a secular matter. You have no grounds to object, much less any legal standing.

Quite true. If they want some mumbling by an appointed enlightened one, they can have that. If they want to be able to check the married box on the tax return and have anyone recognize it to be a marriage, they better head to the government and get the license. Maybe it is time to change the law so priests can't be officiants at weddings. After all the church and state should be separate.


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Message 1321768 - Posted: 29 Dec 2012, 22:46:57 UTC - in response to Message 1321349.  

The best of Fred Hutchison Intelligent design vs. gay marriage

It's a very nicely written , but fundamentally flawed straw man argument.
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Message 1321772 - Posted: 29 Dec 2012, 22:50:41 UTC - in response to Message 1320482.  

and trust me..work places are actually LESS sympathetic to women who take time off for kids. Surprising I know, but sadly true.

A female manager who shall remain nameless ...
"What do you mean you have to take you kid to the doctor, that's what your wife is supposed to do. I'm not giving it to you."
"I'm going to fire her for getting pregnant."
A male manager had to countermand in each case.

You cite one extreme example.

Do you want me to cite all the times I've gotten crap from pretty much every job I've ever had for needing to take time off when the kids are sick? One job was so bad I ended up walking out...and it was a woman manager.

Do you want me to cite how many times I dosed my kids up with medicine and sent them to school sick because I knew I couldn't take anymore time off work?

Do you want me to cite all the times I looked at a promotion I would have loved to do and had to say no because I knew that as a mother I would have to choose between being there for my kids or for my job?

Shall I tell you how many times I had to miss school plays because I wasn't allowed the time off work?

How many times I had to let my kids walk home alone? How about the time I had to stay late at work, and my then 12 year old son had to walk his little brother home from school. He got mugged by two men who took the money I had given him to buy the dinner I couldn't cook because I couldn't get the time off work. While he was trying to protect his little brother, they punched him in the face so he would be too scared to go get help.

Yes, us women clearly have it so much easier.

I'm sorry. You clearly don't have a clue.

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First if you dosed up your kid and sent him to school that was highly

irresponsible, second if your boss would not let you have time off for a truly

sick child you should have taken him to work. If your boss objects point out

that it was his decision that necessitated bringing the child to work.

If the boss still take's exception remind him that a judge might find a work

ethic that requires a sick possibly vary sick child to be sent to school

a little odd.

If the boss is still a problem get another job for god sake the kid comes first.

better two crappy jobs that let you be with your child than 1 good one that does not.

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Message 1321787 - Posted: 29 Dec 2012, 22:57:44 UTC - in response to Message 1321772.  



First if you dosed up your kid and sent him to school that was highly

irresponsible,

Letting my children go without because I lost my job would be more irresponsible. Of course I could have gone on welfare, but we all know how much people look down on that.

second if your boss would not let you have time off for a truly

sick child you should have taken him to work.

If your boss objects point out

that it was his decision that necessitated bringing the child to work

Not every workplace is suitable for a child to be in.


If the boss still take's exception remind him that a judge might find a work

ethic that requires a sick possibly vary sick child to be sent to school

a little odd.

Have you any idea how often children get small virus and colds? No, they shouldn't really be at school, but when you have more than one kid, you simply can't take all the time off work they need.

If the boss is still a problem get another job for god sake the kid comes first.

better two crappy jobs that let you be with your child than 1 good one that does not.

Not if it means that I can't pay the rent...or buy what they need...and two crappy jobs means more time away and more money spent on childcare. Have you any idea how much childcare costs?
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Message 1321800 - Posted: 29 Dec 2012, 23:03:38 UTC

And just so you do not think me heartless, I think any company that can should

provide day care and flex time. Study's show repeatedly that this makes for

better happier workers and saves money lost to unplanned days off and overtime.

Any business that is as inflexible as the one you describe should not be able

to find good employees. If you want to fix this vote with your feet and get a

better job. I think from reading your posts below that you are talented enough

to make a better way for your self that includes time for your children, It can't

hurt to look around for one.
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