Conn. Supreme Court rules gays can marry

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

Will Cuda and Biggie adopt, or will they attempt in vitro anal insemination?

[shudder] Turkey baster [/shudder]

[Cuda]

which one of them gets to be the "man"?

[TIGRDOG]

I think you know my feelings on this

[Screw_Michigan]

I think you know my feelings on this

Shouldn't you be busy circle jerking with your collective high school dropout associates down at tards.net?

[Snake]

which one of them gets to be the "man"?

the big dude scares me....I'm going with him........

[Goober McTuber]

which one of them gets to be the "man"?

Either one probably surpasses your credentials.

[Smackie Chan]

I'm going with him.

I hope the two of you have a long and happy life together.

[LTS TRN 2]

Begin...by understanding your insanity..

The Bush administration this month is quietly cutting off birth control supplies to some of the world’s poorest women in Africa. Thus the paradox of a “pro-life” administration adopting a policy whose result will be tens of thousands of additional abortions each year — along with more women dying in childbirth.

The saga also spotlights a clear difference between Barack Obama and John McCain. Senator Obama supports U.N.-led efforts to promote family planning; Senator McCain stands with President Bush in opposing certain crucial efforts to help women reduce unwanted pregnancies in Africa and Asia.

There is something about reproductive health — maybe the sex part — that makes some Americans froth and go crazy. We see it in the opposition to condoms to curb AIDS in Africa and in the insistence on abstinence-only sex education in American classrooms (one reason American teenage pregnancy rates are more than double those in Canada). And we see it in the decision of some towns — like Wasilla, Alaska, when Sarah Palin was mayor there — to bill rape victims for the kits used to gather evidence of sex crimes. In most places, police departments pay for rape kits, which cost hundreds of dollars, but while Ms. Palin was mayor of Wasilla, the town decided to save money by billing rape victims.

The latest bout of reproductive-health madness came in the last couple of weeks when the U.S. Agency for International Development ordered six African countries to ensure that no U.S.-financed condoms, birth control pills, I.U.D.’s or other contraceptives are furnished to Marie Stopes International, a British-based aid group that operates clinics in poor countries.

The Bush administration says it took this action because Marie Stopes International works with the U.N. Population Fund in China. President Bush has cut all financing for the population fund on the — false — basis that it supports China’s family-planning program.

It’s true that China’s one-child policy sometimes includes forced abortion, and when traveling in rural China, I still come across peasants whose homes have been knocked down as punishment for an unauthorized child. But the U.N. fund has been the most powerful force in moderating China’s policy, and a State Department team itself found no evidence of any U.N. involvement in the coercion.

Mr. Bush’s defunding of the U.N. Population Fund — backed by Senator McCain — has persisted since 2002. What is new is the extension of that policy to a leading private family-planning organization like Marie Stopes International.

“The irony and hypocrisy of it is that this is a bone to the self-described ‘pro-life’ movement, but it will result in deaths to women who just want to space their births,” said Dana Hovig, the chief executive of Marie Stopes International. The organization estimates that the result will be at least 157,000 additional unwanted pregnancies per year, leading to 62,000 additional abortions and 660 women dying in childbirth.

That may overstate the impact. Kent Hill, an official of the U.S. aid agency, insists that there will be no increase in pregnancies because the American contraceptives will simply be routed to other aid groups in Africa.

That will work to some degree in big cities. But it’s a fantasy in rural Africa. Over the years, I’ve dropped in on a half-dozen Marie Stopes clinics, and in rural areas there’s typically nothing else for many miles around. Women in the villages simply have no other source of family planning.

“This nearsighted maneuver will have direct and dire consequences,” a group of prominent public health experts in America declared in an open letter, adding that the action “will translate almost immediately into increased maternal death and disability.”

Proponents of the cut-off are not misogynists. They are honestly outraged by forced abortions in China. But why take it out on the most impoverished and voiceless people on earth? Mr. McCain seems to have supported Mr. Bush, mostly out of instinct, and when a reporter asked him this spring whether American aid should finance contraceptives to fight AIDS in Africa, he initially said, “I haven’t thought about it,” and later added, “You’ve stumped me.”

Retrograde decisions on reproductive health are reached in conference rooms in Washington, but I’ve seen how they play out in African villages. A young woman lies in a hut, bleeding to death or swollen by infection, as untrained midwives offer her water or herbs. Her husband and children wait anxiously outside the hut, their faces frozen and perspiring as her groans weaken.

When she dies, her body is bundled in an old blanket and buried in a shallow hole, with brush piled on top to keep wild animals away. Her children sob and shriek and in the ensuing months they often endure neglect and are far more likely to die of hunger or disease.

In some parts of Africa, a woman now has a 1-in-10 risk of dying in childbirth. The idea that U.S. policy may increase that toll is infuriating.

WW

[Whitey]

Warning Label on Viagra will now include:

Talk to your doctor if you experience an erection lasting longer than four hours.
He will recommend that you stare at these 2 and imagine them naked with their meat curtains dangling near your mouth.

If that does not cause immediate flaccidity, go to the nearest Emergency Room! STAT!



*****
btw. The Big one is almost always the Dude!

[Shlomart Ben Yisrael]

When did Oliver North get the sex change?

[poptart]

After all, didn't Jesus instruct us to give to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s?

A little out of context, but hey, was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

Forget it, Jsc's rollin'.

[_Porter_]

I'll never get the whole gay marriage issue. I have no problem with a committed ghey couple being granted the same rights as a married couple through by way of a civil union or whatever the fuck they want to call it. But marriage is a religious ceremony, based on religions that are repulsed by homosexuals and their closed door activities. That being the case, why in the hell would a couple of gays want to get married?

Begin...by understanding your insanity..

BLAH BLAH BLAH

WW

Screw Benadryl. When a kid is annoying the fuck out of their parents and they want to knock him out for awhile, they should just read him on of your posts. Jeezus...

[War Wagon]

Begin...by understanding your insanity..

The Bush administration this month is quietly cutting off birth control supplies to some of the world’s poorest women in Africa.

Since when did it become our never ending respsonsibilty to provide birth control to Africa, and what the fuck does it have to do with Gay marriage in Connecticut?

I wish your mother had been or done one or all of the following:

a. Gay
b. Pro-choice
c. practiced birth control
d. family planned

If she had been or done any of the above, I wouldn't have ever been subjected to one of your mind numbingly repetitive and boring shit posts.

[_Porter_]

But marriage is a religious ceremony

There's the flaw in your argument. Marriage is a civil contract that may be entered into through a religious ceremony, or a civil one.

But just because gays will be allowed to get married, that won't mean they will be able to get married in your Church. That decision will be made exclusively by your Church.

Marriage is a civil contract in modern times, mostly so that it can be taxed (marriage license). I supposed I should have worded it better, but what I was getting at was that the ceremony is based in religion, whether Christian, Muslim or other, so it seems bizarre to me that a couple of buggerers would want anything to do with it. I mean, marriage is associated with heterosexuals and two dudes getting hitched in a courthouse isn''t exactly your traditional wedding, so I'm surprised that someone (or the media :roll:) hasn't come up with a name for the ghey version of tying the knot.

By the way, just to clarify, I'm not anti-gay, I'm just not pro-fag.

[Whitey]

When did Oliver North get the sex change?

I don't care who you are, That's just plain funny, right there!!



Before and 21 years later..

[JayDuck]

[Cuda]

give to Caesar what is Caesar’s,

The "a husband to every wife, and a wife to every husband"? That Cæsar?

[Diego in Seattle]

Last time I checked that determination is made by the duly elected legislators of the state of Connecticut.

You would benefit from a Con Law class.

No need for that. I'm already able to read. Show me the law not some pompous fuckwits' "interpretation" of that law.

Yeah, it's the law that matters. Not that pesky Constitution thingy.

[Cuda]

fuck off, idiot. they said fags could marry.

they said nothing about letting you molest pre-schoolers

[Diego in Seattle]

fuck off, idiot. they said fags could marry.

they said nothing about letting you molest pre-schoolers

Cuddles;
Do you work at being this dull, or does it just come naturally to you?

[Dan Vogel]

Maybe it's not a popular opinion with a lot of you on this board but this picture is warming to my heart. These people have had to have an unnecessary burden on them and now it can be released and they can do like we all want to do. Love someone openly with all of our heart. Of course it should be legal for homosexuals to marry. It's equality of choice under the constitution. It's a seperate thing if a church wants to grant them a ceremony or not. That should be left up to individual churches to decide. But of course it should be allowed by law. That's just my opinion and I don't hate you if you think differently than me.

[PSUFAN]

Dan, it appears you're coming around to a broader interpretation of the term "marriage"...and none too soon, either. Your own situation is hardly typical. Your fiendish excesses are well beyond the pale - and they inspire some of the avenging activities from us that have proven to be so tumultuous for your family setup.

I suppose the day that your kids don't have to laugh bitterly when you say the word "family" is still a bit far off, but it's nice to see you thinking about it a bit.