With the right to marriage also comes the right to divorce.
One of the poster couples that challenged California's same-sex marriage ban in 2008 just decided to split up — a reminder how all LGBT couples experience the same ups-and-downs in relationships as straight couples.
Robin Tyler filed for divorce from Diane Olson on January 25 — days before yesterday's landmark overturning of Prop 8.
"We're human and we went through difficult times," Tyler said. She told LA's NBC4 the marriage sadly ran its course. The former pair wed in 2008 and had been together for 18 years.
On Tuesday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled that California's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional in a 2-1 vote.
Their relationship may have fizzled but their efforts contributed to a major win for marriage equality in California, and across the country.
And more good news for marriage equality supporters. Today, lawmakers in Washington state voted to approve gay marriage. The state is set to become the seventh in the country to allow same-sex partners to tie the knot.
Leave a Comment:
Letting the Gay minority have control or influence over our leaders will have a negative effect on the United States as a society. We cannot allow them to gain a strong hold on our decision making process. Namely the Government. We need to rethink the concept of Gay’s in the Military and the influence the Gay’s have on the societies Majority. We cannot allow them to dominate the majority of society or dominate the religious sector of society and how the Bible is taught or understood. Marriage of the same sex is not allowed in the Bible. The fact is that a Pastor or Priest or any Biblical authority cannot marry the same sexes without contradicting themselves. It is against God’s Law. If They want to be joined in (Holy?) matrimony, in society, then have a law judge do it. God doesn’t allow it. We cannot allow the society to determine the teachings of the Bible. We will "not" Change the Bible. "It is" After all "The very word of God."
Written By
Kevin C. Mead
Pasco, Washington
02/03/2012
To Kevin C. Mead: I will defend to my death your right to hold whatever religious views you want to.
But I will also defend the right of every other American to ignore you. Your beliefs are not law here. No one will force a church to marry two people of the same sex. But no one should try to force a government or judge NOT to marry them.
Every society has had gays in the military. We've just finally gotten around to admitting it.
Did we forget that there are laws concerning Sodomy?
Think back to the Whig’s and the issues of Ferm’s and Merm;s. The categories Herms (named after "true" hermaphrodites), Merms (named after male "pseudo hermaphrodites"), and Ferms (named after female "pseudo hermaphrodites").,
Gay’s have become political organizers lobbying physicians and politicians to change social treatment . More generally, the debate over our cultural conceptions of gender has escalated. In 1843 Levi Suydam, a 23-year-old resident of Salisbury, Connecticut, asked the town's board of selectmen to allow him to vote as a Whig in a hotly contested local election. The request raised a flurry of objections from the opposition party, for a reason that must be rare in the annals of American democracy: Only one vote decided the Whig’s election. The Whig’s won the election based on that one vote.
Even as strange as he was he still voted against Sodomy.
In the bible, Even God was against sodomy. Along with (later) Jesus Christ and the new (covenant) testament. The laws concerning sodomy delve into the ways society deals with domination. To be dominated means The act of domination
exercise of power in ruling; dominion; supremacy; authority, often done in an arbitrary or insolent way. From Latin dominātiō (“rule, dominion”), from dominor (“domineer; rule”). Spanning hundreds of years, discrimination, oppression, torture, brutality, and tyranny remain all too common features of the human condition. This nearly ubiquitous barbarism surfaces in cultures consistently across the globe. Why is oppression so hard to eliminate? What is our own human capacity to torture?
These are just a few of the questions that we tried to answer while doing research and surveying for our project on the essentiality and existence of dominance in our society.
Our group believes that peopleÕs morals are in direct correlation with their views on torture and dominance. In order to prove this hypothesis we surveyed over 150 people to see how moral or immoral they thought certain subjects were, ranging from littering to war crimes to committing adultery. We hope to prove that what individuals think is moral and immoral is a direct reflection of what society has deemed right and wrong. Along these same lines we also hope to prove that dominance (and the acts that go along with it, such as torture) are not only necessary in our society, but that human beings are very capable of assuming this role.
Introduction:
As animals, we all have the capacity to be either dominant or submissive. However, in human society, dominance and submission become much more complex than genetics. Genocide, prejudice, and torture do not exist in the animal world, nor do the motivations behind them. Although there are similarities, dominance in modern human society is no longer restricted to competition for resources/wealth/mates. Often times, it is the product of ideologies, values, rationalizations, and beliefs. These belief systems are built into the infrastructure of human societies (laws, rights, religion, socio-economic status, education, etc.), and are used by the people at the top to keep other people at the bottom in submission. Advances in technology and weaponry have also radically changed our ability to dominate and destroy. We believe that dominance is highly situational, which would mean that it could be both controlled and induced. We are interested in examining what in our biology allows us to be so malleable, so capable of becoming the oppressor or the oppressed. In conjunction with avenues of social control, this is a scary combination, which can have horrible implications. We will examine specific cases where the dynamics of the culture determines where one stands and who prevail. We will do a case-study analysis of honor killings in Pakistan and Nazi concentration camps and see how the maintenance of and motivations behind the dominance differs from that in the animal world. This research is interesting because the question of how humans are capable of committing unimaginable atrocities against one another remains unanswered. Does our increased capacity for intelligence bring with it an increased capacity to justifiably harm and manipulate others?
"Dominance is almost invisible in human affairs and yet arguably present everywhere." (Conniff, p. 1) It is very true that dominance, as well as submission, can be found in absolutely every situation, and is therefore, essential to our world. Although there has never been any scientific research done on the subject of dominance, scientists have come up with several qualifications for identifying the dominant animal within in social groups (including humans). These criteria come from and article by Richard Conniff, "I want to be boss? (The Psychology of Dominance)" in Discover magazine:
1. The one that can beat everybody up Ð but doesnÕt necessarily need to
2. Displays the most aggression
3. Who the others pay the most attention to
4. The one who gets first pass at resources
By using these principles to determine whether or not there is an existence of dominance scientists found that some form of social hierarchy is present amongst children as early as age three, and it continues to mature as individuals grow older. This helps to reinforce the hypothesis that social hierarchy is necessary for groups to function properly, and it helps to smooth social interactions. Although it seems that scientists think that once dominance is established the dominator becomes less aggressive, evidence shows that it is not so. Viktor E. Frankl, in The Politics of Pain, shares with us that authorities use torture as a way of control amongst a big group, one of the most extreme form of aggressiveness. By looking at the history of devaluing the Jews we can find a prime example of this societal predisposition towards group violence. A brief overview of the relations between the Nazis and the Jews is listed below, and serves as key evidence in demonstrating the social hierarchy of the Holocaust and how by using torture members of the Nazi party meet all criteria for being dominators.
The first thing that the Nazi party did to win submission of the Jews was to restrict their living quarters to designated ghettos. These ghettos consisted of a community of houses that were cut off from their surrounding neighbors and given too little food to live off. Then the Nazis mandated that a Jewish council be established, this group was then held responsible for implementing and enforcing the NaziÕs orders. This is the beginning of when some members of the Jewish population went from being in dominant positions to submissive ones. One of the orders that the Jews had to follow while living in the ghettos was to eliminate all public religious practices. This was one of the biggest ways of making the Jews submissive because it was their faith that had kept them motivated and hopeful. Through this demoralization of the Jews remained submissive in the ghetto settings, which added to the domination of Hitler. Have we forgotten that Hitler was Gay?
That he was a Psychophant? Psychophant : One who attempts to garner favor by flattering influential people, but does so to a psychotic, often violent degree.
Usually someone who feels insignificant in their own life, this drives their need to tort the lives of others in a negative way to exercise any kind of power
He went in and Shot a group of Gay’s in the sleep in order to dominate the public into believing he was heterosexual and against the Gay movement in Germany at the time.
Having the public believing he was heterosexual was a plus in his domination of the public. Letting the Gay minority have control or influence over our leaders will have a negative effect on the United States as a society. We cannot allow them to gain a strong hold on our decision making process. Namely the Government. We need to rethink the concept of Gay’s in the Military and the influence the Gay’s have on the societies Majority. We cannot allow them to dominate the majority of society or dominate the religious sector of society and how the Bible is taught or understood. Marriage of the same sex is not allowed in the Bible. The fact is that a Pastor or Priest or any Biblical authority cannot marry the same sexes without contradicting themselves. It is against God’s Law. If They want to be joined in (Holy?) matrimony, in society, then have a law judge do it. God doesn’t allow it. We cannot allow the society to determine the teachings of the Bible. We will "not" Change the Bible. "It is" After all "The very word of God."
Written By
Kevin C. Mead
Pasco, Washington
Wow, that's some crazy sh*t you've written there. What LGB people want is equality. They don't seek world domination. No need to freak.
Accidental double post.
Today, lawmakers in Washington state voted to approve gay marriage.
Sadly, there are religious exemptions again. Religious organisations are not required to perform same-sex marriages. Optional equality is no equality.
Now isn't that just ironic but also not surprising.
And these are the same group of people who are tying to ruin our society and change the definition of traditional marriage between a man and a woman only.
Since homosexuals want to impose restrictions on heterosexuals in regards to getting divorces maybe that should mean that they (homosexuals) cannot get one either. Fair is fair.
God is His own avenger...gay couples are delusional, because they are victims of a chronic pathological condition...marriage is a SACRAMENT OF GOD, no more, no less...the purpose of marriage is for the human race to PROCREATE, not masturbate...that is why this "marriage" failed and all other such "marriages" will fail...prayers....Mater Dei, ora pro nobis...