Logic has no place in this conversation, sirrah! NONE!
unlicensed breeders - thier progeny will always be thought of as less than perfect pedigree, and will be unable to get registered.
Similarly, if the breeder - regardless of licensed status, should ever attempt breeding with one of dissimilar pedigree, then they will never be able to have ‘real’ progeny.
Backyard breeders, if you will.
Civil union laws often do not carry the same benefits of marriage, leaving, for instance, some homosexuals without the ability to be at their loved one’s hospital bed when they are dying.
Also, legal recognition as equal, not just “separate but equal” as we used to have with African Americans, assists in culturally recognition of the affected party as equal.
You’re right, of course. You’d think this would be obvious. But the other side has never been convinced by such simple truths. As jsgoddess noted, “Logic has no place in this conversation, sirrah! NONE!”
Of course the numbers keep going down. The pent-up demand among gays created a marriage bubble when the law allowed gays to wed in 2001. Those numbers wouldn’t and couldn’t be sustained. If they didn’t, there’d be more same-sex marriages than couples.
Anyway, marriage is declining throughout Europe. Opposite-sex marriages (the linked article dates from 2006). So an increasing number of opposite-sex couples are living in sin all over Europe! Gasp Think of all the *illegitimate *children!
As for the Netherlands
Any declining numbers of same-sex marriages in the Netherlands are only background noise.
So will breeders who can only breed with chemical assistance be called “asthmatics”?
Because I don’t want to imagine the results of someone huffing Viagra. They might get meningitis.
(You know: A stiff neck.)
Anyway, be nice to cornopean. This is his last splash. Him and his generation will be invisible soon.
How about straights get “marriage” but gays get “marriage”, though they have to pronounce it differently, like mah-REE-udge.
MARY-dge.
It’s like homage and homage! I always assumed gays got homage not homage.
Mawwage…
I performed the ceremony for my brothers wedding a couple weeks ago. As a joke I did part of the Princess Bride speech during the rehearsal. My brother and his new in laws thought it was hysterical and wanted me to do it at the actual ceremony. I would have but our mom would have killed me.
Really! What did I do?
I got a homophobe to admit it’s okay for a same sex couple to live together as long as they don’t have sex!
All this talk about gay people not being able to have children is wrong, wrong, wrong. Unless we are going to say that artificial insemination and surrogate mothers are only to be used by straights, then most gays can have children.
I think they should avoid physical contact and do it only by dialing each other up and talking about sex.
I guess that makes me a homophone.
Does that still happen IRL? Recently, I was in the hospital for three weeks, and no one even asked about the relationship between my visitors and me.
Here’s one from 2013 where the guy was arrested for refusing to leave the side of his dying partner.
So, yeah. Still happens.
Also, there’s a world of difference between someone visiting, during visitation hours, and a spouse being able to receive information from the hospital staff, make necessary decisions, and set up camp.
Right. My first husband was in the hospital a lot, and in some hospitals I was offered a bed, either the other bed in a shared room or a couple of hospitals had neat pullout beds from side chairs. I was offered meals, drinks, had no restrictions on my visiting hours, etc. This is in addition to being part of every medical decision, or being the decision-maker at times.
That’s not why he was arrested.
It’s actually illegal now to discriminate on a patient’s choice of visitors or healthcare decision makers on the basis of gender or relationship. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t still happen. Mostly where things get sticky is when the patient doesn’t have an Advance Directive stating that their partner is their chosen Power of Attorney for Healthcare, and the hospital staff therefore follows state law by listening to a biological relative instead.
Also, while you cannot be removed or prohibited from entering a patient’s room because of your gender or relationship, you can be removed for being a jerk, causing a disturbance, etc. Since, “You have to leave,” is quite likely to make someone agitated, even as they start furiously searching on their cell phone for the patient bill of rights and Medicare guidelines, in practice many people are forcibly removed even with the full legal right and consent of the patient to be there.