Huh, I thought that would have been a link to Courtship Rite.
It gets better in that Pope Francis actually has a Masters Degree in Chemistry.
So, you know, scientist.
Ted Cruz jokes about Joe Biden before his son Beau is even in the ground:
Abortion parties! You know how crazy chicks are these days, right? They’ll be getting knocked up just so they can all meet a few months later, have some Chardonnay and bitchin’ tunes on, and all have abortions together. Fun!
Hell, get rid of all the restrictions, abortions sound like so much fun, I might even get one! Or three, or a dozen! And I’m a man, so that makes it even more awesome!
Cruz, like so many other Republican/Tea Party folks, seems to have absolutely zero awareness of what’s going on outside his own head.
Plus, his “apology” (we’re praying for the Biden family and offering sincere condolences during this difficult time) only appeared to come after his joke (which usually slayed his audiences with raucous laughter!) landed flatter than the proverbial flapjack this time. Because, you know, Biden’s son had died.
I don’t see it as stupid or evil (which I guess is the other thing). I can’t think of any particular reason that a marriage needs to be licensed. The contract the article talks about seems like a fine process, and removes a roadblock. Notaries being a dime a dozen, anyone should be able to find one to finalize their contract.
Sure. Isn’t minimum regulation the general principle of things for Republicans?
What business is it of yours, anyway?
I have visions of a Hinterland Who’s Who playing on TV… As the wind whistles over the frozen tundra you can hear the oncoming rumble of the toddler herd. Spooked into sudden movement…
Isn’t there a minimum age for Tributes?
Have they thought it through? Is dissolution of the contract comparable to divorce? Can one party be compelled to testify against the other?
I’m curious how this will work in practice where third parties are involved, but the goal of the legislation seems reasonable - to remove the discretionary element from government officials who’ve been denying licenses to gay couples. Ideally, instead of a couple asking for a license to marry, the couple simply informs the government that they are married. The effects could be interesting.
Well I’m not sure what licenses are or how they work in practice in the US, but there’s a definite upside to the State being involved in marriage : accurate record keeping. Seeing as we still want to avoid polygamy, and married status is tied to a number of social advantages (inheritance, tax breaks, hospital visitation rights, etc…) the State must know who’s married to whom at any given time.
This is much easier to do when it’s the State who does all the official marrying business with paperwork in triplicate ; as opposed to when every Tom, Dick and self-ordained Harry gets to officiate in their little corner. Same reason birth and death records aren’t handled by the Church(es) any more.
As well, letting just about any third party handle it opens up opportunities to forge/retrodate/alter/creatively lose the paperwork.
I live in Alabama (I know, get the obligatory jokes out of the way) and I think this is in reaction to (1) A US Government Judge ruling that SSM is legal in Alabama despite state laws against it and (2) A number of Court Clerks and Politicians (remember Roy Moore, folks?) saying they do not want to issue them for religious reasons or in opposition to state laws (nullification is still a cause in the South).
So taking the “State” out of the process is their answer, it appears.
Meanwhile, we have a $200M deficit (yep, cutting services and taxes worked real well) and there are no more services to cut (prisons are at 160% capacity) and the Republicans in charge are doing everything they can to avoid raising taxes, because, Republicans don’t do that. After weeks of huffing and puffing, they still haven’t done anything constructive.
I live across the state line from KS (aka Brownbackistan), where they are in a similar pickle. The legislature is in OT, and spending around $43,000/day that they of course don’t have.
It’s also unconstitutional I think. Didn’t SCOTUS rule that marriage is a right?
Your fat sisterwife won’t let us.
From society’s point of view, a marriage is essentially a contract. A contract cannot be made by an incompetent person nor by an animal.
Getting a contract notarized (and registered/filed?) would be the essential element, but that doesn’t preclude jumping over a broom stick or the fanciest of cathedral ceremonies.
This is, more or less, the prevailing method in Europe and I have long advocated for it here in the USA.
I’m sure that won’t happen. I have it on the very best authority:
Why allow women the choice that no woman would choose in case a woman chooses it?!
Priorities, people!
I think it qualifies as a stupid Republican idea that Rick Perry is giving it another shot for POTUS. Goddamn it, Republicans, I don’t want to be one of those voters who reflexively reaches for the “D” lever on voting day. But if you’re going to load your slate with incompetents, sociopaths, religious extremists and self-serving demagogues, then I just can’t take you seriously. Of the declared candidates, I think Pataki, from what little I know of him, is the only one I’d even trust to do more than run the local water board, and he has virtually no chance.
Seriously, is it too much to ask for them to run a candidate who the thought of them winning doesn’t actively terrify me?