Reply With QuoteCan you marry your beer in Austrailia. Cam wants to know.
... took an unexpected leap when private members bill was drawn this week proposing the law be amended to allow same-sex people the right to marry. The right wing coalition government hasn't exactly been opposed to the idea (or so it has claimed) but has simply claimed it had beter things to do, so this is nice. Better yet, while some politicians are opposed the Prime Minister John Key, who voted against the civil unions bill a few years ago, has indicated he will support the bill (it is a conscience vote, so the whips have no power). The law is broadly supported and looks reasonably likely to pass. So yay my adopted home!
"Being agnostic is all about the realization that even though there probably is some sort of god or creator out there somewhere, the human race is and will always be too stupid to find them.” Oscar Wilde (alleged!)
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Can you marry your beer in Austrailia. Cam wants to know.
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Well according to the "slippery slope" argument wheeled out by some Republicans, it'll only be about six months before you can marry a duck.Originally Posted by saintsaucey
People say I'm in a world of my own. I call it Planet Karen.
Ah, yes. The good old False Precedent Fallacy. I think it was in 6th grade that I learned it was nonsense, which is why we can understand Republicans not knowing about it.
"If we allow gays to marry, next thing you know we'll have to let people marry farm animals!" is the exact logical equivalent of "If we allow men and women to marry, next thing you know we'll have to let people marry farm animals."
If we let doctors perform brain surgery, next thing you know we'll have to let Animaniacs perform brain surgery!
"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power." --Benito Mussolini
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and to bid defiance to the laws of our country." --Thomas Jefferson
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