Opposite-sex marriage leads to incest and inbreeding. Maybe we should just outlaw marriage altogether.
this post was submitted on 26 Oct 2023
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Honestly, I don't know why marriage is even codified into law.
I take that back, I do. But it's a stupid reason.
There really is no modern reason that marriage needs to be something you need to let the government know about.
This is of course a non-US view, I’m not sure how different the laws are there. But marriage is a great one-stop shop that lets you get a lot of legal kerfuffles sorted in 20-30 minutes with nothing but a couple signatures. I don’t think it is a stupid reason, the stupidity comes from all the other bullshit people want to dump onto marriage.
Modern Marriage is a legal contract, it needs government more than ever because it’s pretty much tax benefits.
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I’ve always thought that the word “marriage” should be removed from all laws since that’s a religious term and constantly quibbled about. Replace it with “civil union” defined as a joining between two consenting adults and leave the definition of “marriage” to the churches.
I don't think we should cede marriage to religion. Marriage predates all modern religions. It has always been about property, a civil matter. Religion can fuck right off laying claim to the institution.
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I agree. Its critical in the US because of how we ration healthcare. Which is just stupid.
"Rationing healthcare" is such a dystopian ideology. It sounds like we're unable to increase heathcare availability due to force(s) out of our control ... which is the exact opposite of what happens.
I'm so tired of these fucking twats inflicting their neuroses, hang ups, mental illnesses, and kinks on the rest of us.
Get out of politics and get into therapy.
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Election deniers should be sentenced to hard labor
Generous, aren't you?
If the hard labor was building roads or railways, it would be generous to everyone.
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So if I'm a male I can fuck my female dog no problem cos it's not same sex. Good to know.
Mike Johnson approves this message!
just don't fucking say 'gay'
Sings the ending lines to The Flintstones.
🎶
When you're with the Flintstones
Have a yabba dabba doo time.
A dabba doo time.
We'll have a gay old time.
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IDK about anyone else here, but when I see anodyne-sounding-but-doublespeak org names like 'Alliance Defending Freedom', it's a red flag.
ADF has never defended freedom, unless by 'freedom' you mean the ability to discriminate against LGBT folk and women. They proclaim themselves to be for "the right of people to freely live out their faith" but really that only seems to cover folks whose faith is some flavor of political bigotry.
Yeah so when Johnson remarked that "God has ordained each of us" to congress, the flavor of God he's talking about is the one that wants laws to protect anti-LGBT bullies and vigilantes, not their victims. Meanwhile everyone else whose faith does not abet that shit now gets to hear him claim to speak hate on God's behalf
Also in case you forgot, the history of sentencing people to 'hard labor' derives from the post-civil-war practice of convicting black men in kangaroo courts (after all, the 13th Amendment allowed for slavery if it was punishment for a crime). When they were told they couldn't keep slaves but they could enslave people if they were convicts, the notion of 'convict leasing' was born.
It's only day two and I'm already sick of his face.
Pregnancy doctor sentenced to labor.
I'm sorry. It's early.
Sounds like someone has been having romantic feelings for their pet.
You should live your pets, but you shouldn’t “love” your pets.
So then let people marry their pets. Who gives a flying fuck.
Bird husbands probably
Always pecking around my fun...
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GOP sending their best & brightest I see.
Throw bibles at him. Hard covers only.
Original copy written in the stone of sinai itself please
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So with the whole republican projection thing, I'm seriously worried for Mr. Johnson's pet(s).
I'd say religious extremists should be loaded on cruise ships and denied port entry until their god manifests them a new continent (it's close enough to their bible), but at the rate things are going with Antarctica that's far too lenient.
Seems like the perfect repesentant to the GOP lol
May his loss of power be swift and embarrassing to him and his ilk, and cause the RNC to sink further into self destruction.
And religious extremist lead the GOP to children rape and to all the laws against women to keep the supply of young kid so if i have to choose ? Let a guy marry is turtle
What is it with "hard labor"? Do the speakers really thing that makes them sound badass? The loss of freedom is a huge punishment already. The labor part is just letting someone profit off of human misery.
They want to bring back open slavery... Slavery with extra steps should be obvious: They want to get rid of the extra steps!
The profit is the whole point for them
That's the point for them. They want to make others miserable who don't agree with them, and beyond that they want to benefit and profit off of others misery.
If this isn't motivation to stop voting delirious, brain-dead geriatrics into the presidency, I don't know what is. This dude is two accidents away from being a fascist dictator.
I was thinking it could be worse than this guy, but it actually can't.
They picked the worst possible dipshit they could have possibly picked. The next 30 years of living in America are going to be rough.
It’s more likely to lead to polygamy again, which is kinda what the ultra religious want anyways, ratio weighted towards the alpha male of course.
Polygamy will be legal and they’ll complain about any relationship with more than one man. Cause the Bible says….
That sounds great, multiple women pissed at me giving me lists of chores. Oh how I can't wait
Gay marriage never leads to that.
"Alliance Defending Freedom" lol
So this really is the most representative person for the job then!
I could think of like 500 really terrible things that have come as a result of crappy Republican legislation that are worse than people marrying their pets.
What is the slippery slope fallacy?
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