# Argentina legalized Same Sex Marriage and everything is just fi **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 15, 2010, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767 "2010-07-15T13:04:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767/21 "2010-07-15T18:41:14Z")
> [@Shirley\_Ujest](#): > > Congrats on the SSM, not getting Phred! Getting Phred? That sounds like… A SOCIAL DISEASE!!! 😃 Conga Rats to all you happy Argentinians! ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767/22 "2010-07-15T18:49:41Z")
I wanted to be adopted by some lesbians, but my wife disagreed 😕 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767/23 "2010-07-15T20:40:12Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > It’s not just same-sex marriage the bill that just passed both houses of the Argentine Congress also allows (married) same-sex to [adopt](http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100715/wl_nm/us_argentina_gaymarriage_5) children as well. This is very surprising. I knew President Fernandez was in favour of SSM, but I didn’t think it’d make it though Congress. Argentina didn’t even have _divorce_ 25 years ago. So much for the Roman Catholic Church’s claims of “moral authority”. 😛 For that matter, Spain didn’t have divorce until 1981. Hell, Portugal only legalized abortion in 2007, and they have same-sex marriage now. Hell, in the fifties in Quebec, we were governed by a man who had had priests campaigning for him in the pulpit by saying _Le ciel est bleu, l’enfer est rouge_. 25 years later in 1977 it became the first government in the world to ban sexual orientation discrimination. We’re very efficient. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767/24 "2010-07-15T22:05:39Z")
Woo Woo, congradulations Argentina ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767/25 "2010-07-15T23:08:26Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > (Still waiting, the earthquaques will start any minute now… _checks watch_) Get in line. We’re still waiting here, and it’s been years already. 🆒 Oh, and congratulations. The club is getting less exclusive by the minute, but it’s better that way. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2010, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767/26 "2010-07-15T23:20:31Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > (Still waiting, the earthquaques will start any minute now… _checks watch_) Is an earthquaque a gay earthquake? 🙂 Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767/27 "2010-07-16T01:50:25Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > I think it’s happened enough that legalizing SSM doesn’t generate Nazis riding dinos anymore. Now the best you can get nowadays is **Newt Gingrich on a woolly mammoth**. That makes a certain kind of paleologic. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767/28 "2010-07-16T03:10:02Z")
Turned me into a newt, but I got woolier. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767/29 "2010-07-16T03:12:02Z")
This is totally gay ---
**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767/30 "2010-07-16T05:13:07Z")
People do seem rather happy about it, don’t they? It’s certainly queer isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767/31 "2010-07-16T06:13:06Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > Hell, in the fifties in Quebec, we were governed by a man who had had priests campaigning for him in the pulpit by saying _Le ciel est bleu, l’enfer est rouge_. 25 years later in 1977 it became the first government in the world to ban sexual orientation discrimination. ObContext: blue (bleu) is the colour of the Conservatives; red (rouge) is the colour of the Liberals. So the priest was advising his parishioners that “heaven is blue and he’ll is red”. It’s amazing how quickly and thoroughly such attitudes changed during the Quiet Revolution. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767/32 "2010-07-16T07:02:58Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > I’m sure is just a matter of time before a volcano erupts in downtown Buenos Aires or something. > > _Checks watch_ > > Any time now > > … > > Still here. 😃 One thing to take into account: I still remember that: > **[Pat Robertson controversies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Robertson_controversies)** > > Baptist minister and broadcaster Pat Robertson (1930–2023) had outspoken opinions on religion, politics, and other subjects. Many of his statements have stirred controversy and several have been headline news in the United States and elsewhere. Robertson made many of these comments on his daily talk show, The 700 Club. > In an August 1986 New York magazine article Robertson was quoted as saying: "It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a... > [@](#): > > In the 1998 edition of his show, Robertson denounced Orlando, Florida and Disney World for allowing a privately sponsored “Gay Days” weekend. Robertson stated that the acceptance of homosexuality could result in hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, terrorist bombings and “possibly a meteor.”[9] > > … > > The first hurricane of the 1998 Atlantic hurricane season[10], Hurricane Bonnie, actually turned away from Florida and instead damaged the rest of the east coast. **The area hardest hit by the hurricane was the Hampton Roads region,[11], which includes Virginia Beach[12], where the Robertson’s The 700 Club is broadcast from [13].** While other hurricanes did hit Florida,[10] none of them hit Disney World.[14] I guess God is angry, but with the ones calling for punishment from above. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767/33 "2010-07-16T09:37:16Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > Hell, in the fifties in Quebec, we were governed by a man who had had priests campaigning for him in the pulpit by saying _Le ciel est bleu, l’enfer est rouge_. “If the ceiling is blue, you can infer that I’m wearing makeup?” _\_ Ah. That seems more likely. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767/34 "2010-07-16T11:25:08Z")
Welcome to the club, Argentina! Has anyone taught you the secret handshake yet? ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767/35 "2010-07-16T12:43:19Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Is an earthquaque a gay earthquake? 🙂 > > Congrats! :D, I mixed Spanish and English letter sounds in the same word by mistake, “Que” sounds like “Ke” in Spanish. , fonetically “Earthquake” would be written “ertzcueic” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767/36 "2010-07-16T12:45:15Z")
> [@flodnak](#): > > Welcome to the club, Argentina! Has anyone taught you the secret handshake yet? We each got a toaster delivered to our house tonight, wooo! free toaster! ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767/37 "2010-07-16T17:38:14Z")
> [@Frodo](#): > > :D, I mixed Spanish and English letter sounds in the same word by mistake, “Que” sounds like “Ke” in Spanish. , fonetically “Earthquake” would be written “ertzcueic” 😃 SOCKS! (¡Eso, si que es!)🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767/38 "2010-07-16T17:49:07Z")
Us residents of Mass. have been waiting for something to happen for a while now. So far the streets have not run red with blood and Godzilla is conspicuous by his absence. ---
**Author:** ![Frodo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frodo/32/302_2.png) [@Frodo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frodo)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767/39 "2010-07-16T17:52:39Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > SOCKS! > > (¡Eso, si que es!)🙂 🙂 In an old BBS I used to frequent, we had the “guerguolf inglish mezod”(Werewolf English Method") where a poster whose nick was “Werewolf” would post his messages in “English” this way, for example: "We each got a toaster delivered to our house tonight, wooo! free toaster! " would be “ui ich got a touster deliverd tu ouer jous tunait, wooo! fri touster!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767/40 "2010-07-16T17:56:17Z")
Oh, here we go: [A judge refuses to apply the law and will fight it to the death. TO THE DEAAAAAAAAAAATH.](http://www.cyberpresse.ca/international/amerique-latine/201007/16/01-4298866-une-juge-defie-le-mariage-homosexuel-en-argentine.php) > [@](#): > > “A relationship between a pair of homosexuals is, in God’s eyes, something bad,” Maria Covella, a justice of the peace in the town of General Pico, 700 km south of Buenos Aires, told the press. > > “They’ll accuse me of everything they want, but God tells me something else, and I intend to obey Him whatever the cost, even if I have to give my life,” she said, saying she had been “raised in Scripture.” “Give her life?” What exactly is she picturing? Lesbian terror squads with softball bats? 1920s-style “death gays”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/argentina-legalized-same-sex-marriage-and-everything-is-just-fi/546767.md?page=3)