California Court Affirms Right To Gay Marriage

by BenV 280 Replies latest jw friends

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  Indo_Dude

  Bizzybee:

  But masturbating in public is disgusting and offensive by any standard of human behavior.

  Perhaps by your standards. I've seen worse, and hell even done worse. There are venue appropriate places to engage in such activity, and both my boyfriend / parnter and I have partaken in such behavior. Again, there is a time and a place for such. I've seen straight people having sex at a concert at an arena filled with 30,000 patrons before. I've watched straight people having sex thinking they were being sly at a public beach. There will always be people who engage in inappropriate behavior, gay, straight, or in-between.

  Likewise, for many to get upset over the displays of homosexuality in San Francisco, or the gay parts of major cities elsewhere. Well, guess what? Welcome to our world. We have had, and continue to be forced into seeing heterosexuality everywhere from walking down the streets, to films, to songs, advertisings, television, and magazines. I've been accused of 'flaunting' my homosexuality from simply walking down the street hand in hand with my boyfriend, or giving him a peck on the lips kissing him goodbye at the airport. That isn't 'flaunting' it but rather simply showing similar public displays of affection straight people do. If you don't like it, don't watch. It's why many gay people move to gay friendly and gay cities like San Francisco and Philly. Frankly, most of us aren't interested in hearing what any straight, judgmental person's opinion is. Then again don't move into the gay area of the city, and expect the world to stop because you don't want to see gay behavior. For the longest time no one was interested in living in the Castro, or SOMA in San Francisco until the gays moved in and cleaned the neighborhood up. Now all the businesses, and 'regular' people are moving in.
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  freydi

  Now maybe California will finally fall into the ocean.
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  VoidEater

  Shamus says: "I would love it if those parades were toned down - then maybe I'd go."

  I suppose it depends on what parades you are going to...I've seen some wild and some tame SF parades, although the worst mistake I observed had nothing to do with overt sexual expression (it had to do with being so tolerant as to allow an infamous group to march in the parade, and no I don't mean Irish cops).

  Ever been to the Calgary parade? Or Las Vegas? If you want hot action, you'll be terribly bored. Oh, we did have a "pole dancer" float in Vegas this year, but everything was covered as per Clark County blue law. It was as tame as Hooters - more so, perhaps. You get more skin on the billboards along the freeways!

  If the pedants didn't make such a big deal out of our private sex lives, there would be a lot less need to flaunt anything.
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  VoidEater

  Now maybe California will finally fall into the ocean.

  Maybe now we can get on with addressing real problems in the world.
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  Junction-Guy

  We will just have to see how the illegal alien vote influences the upcoming constitutional ammendment vote in California.
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  BizzyBee

  I have little grandchildren in San Francisco. I hope they never get their "parades" mixed up!

  If the pedants didn't make such a big deal out of our private sex lives, there would be a lot less need to flaunt anything.

  This does not follow logically.....what does one have to do with the other? (Or are you saying that masturbating in public is society's punishment for "making a big deal" out of homosexual sex practices?)

  However, you may have inadvertently hit upon an important point - perhapsthere is an unconscious fear that society in general will be subjected to unrestrained "flaunting." I don't know - just throwing that out there.
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  Indo_Dude

  JunctionGuy: We will just have to see how the illegal alien vote influences the upcoming constitutional ammendment vote in California.

  LMAO. Could you strive to be any more petty? A.) As if illegal aliens vote in any statistically important number in the first place. B.) As if illegal aliens care one whit what someone (American citizens) do. C.) Of that tiny portion that does perhaps, maybe, possibly show up to vote, they would in fact be better off voting in favor of allowing gay marraige as that now opens up an entire new subset of people in which they can marry for their green card.

  LOL.
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  BlackPearl

  And this...a response from Indo in Indonesia...not Cali-fornia. (As Arnold would say)
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  BizzyBee

  A.) As if illegal aliens vote in any statistically important number in the first place. B.) As if illegal aliens care one whit what someone (American citizens) do. C.) Of that tiny portion that does perhaps, maybe, possibly show up to vote, they would in fact be better off voting in favor of allowing gay marraige as that now opens up an entire new subset of people in which they can marry for their green card.

  I love it! Let's bash the immigrants! (Well, why not?)

  As PC runs rampant, every special interest demographic is going to be at each other special interest segment's throat, demanding their piece of the victimhood pie! 'Be tolerant of me and mine or I'll punch yer effin' lights out!' And don't forget the fat people who are responsible for increased health care costs and global warming. We are amazingly getting further and further away from the ideal of freedom and equality for all. We're doomed!
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  shamus100

  The immigrants... the Satan of the 21st century...

  Bizzy, you're too funny.