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Is There A Legal Reason As To Why Gay Marriage Should Not Be Legal?
Yes
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 42%  [ 6 ]
No
57%
 57%  [ 8 ]
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Sharon den Adel
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PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 4:58 am    Post subject: Is There A Legal Reason... Reply with quote

As to why gay marriage should not be legal? That is, and arguement that would stand up in court of law.

This ones for Fred, I want to see him wrangle his way outta this one.

Now, considering the things that are illegal, and why they are illegal - why should gay marriage fit into this category?
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PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 4:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's a no from me, folks. Wink
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PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 6:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I voted no, but I have a logical reason against it . . .

because then Sharon would marry a chick instead of marrying me. . . Sad Laughing
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PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 9:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

no legal reason, just ethical...
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PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 9:18 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

coolman wrote:
I voted no, but I have a logical reason against it . . .

because then Sharon would marry a chick instead of marrying me. . . Sad Laughing


You are already married, but I'll be your mistress if you like. Wink
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PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 2:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tell me... how different is letting gay marriage any different than drug users wanting to legalize cocaine use?


Both are not hurting anybody... why not allow both?
Teens are allowed to have sex at 16... why not allow them to drink alcohol then too?


You allow gay marriage and you tell our children that Anal sex is acceptable.
Does everyone here want that message sent to TEENS when Anal sex is the riskiest sex out there?

How do you women feel about men after they have gotten down on their knees and sucked off another man?

Is that a man you want raising your sons?
Because that's what you will get when Anal sex is normalized.

You feminists may like gay men since they are truly your equals.
But between men.... your not a man when your down on your knnes sucking another mans C***.

You feminists may like the touchy feely type gay men that you can talk too.
But those men are typically not good for marrying and defending you.
They too think they can solve things with talk.
Real men take action.

Like Oprah says... gay men are good for friends.. But nothing else.
Now you say that has nothing to do with straight men... but it does.
It further emasculates men and leaves you with men less than the men your fathers were.
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PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 3:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The ass hole is not designed for sex.
Yet gay marriage implies that it now is.

Well... if you can marry something and have sex with part of it that was never designed to have sex in the first place....
What can you not marry and not have sex with then?
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PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 3:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How many women here really want their sons having sex with other boys and men?

Because it's going to happen when gay marriage is allowed.
THe old thinking of men not having sex with other men will go by the wayside.

Is that what you want for your daughters?
Men that have had the riskiest of sex (Anal) and then having sex with the most disease vulnerable of sexes... your daughters!


Think long and hard about that....
Because the reason black women have the highest incidence of AIDS is because of men on the DOWN LOW.


IS that the life you want for your daughters?
Life long fights with sexually transmitted disease?
is that what you want for the children of your daughters too?
For when they breastfeed your grandchildren... they become infected too!
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PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 4:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Take the Boy Scouts of America.


An institution designed to make boys into MEN does not need someone that likes it up the ass teaching anything about what it means to be a man!


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PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 4:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sharon den Adel wrote:
coolman wrote:
I voted no, but I have a logical reason against it . . .

because then Sharon would marry a chick instead of marrying me. . . Sad Laughing


You are already married, but I'll be your mistress if you like. Wink


Big Hug
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PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 4:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The 1972 Gay Rights Platform
Platform created at the National Coalition of Gay Organizations Convention held in Chicago in 1972
FEDERAL LEVEL:

1. Amend all federal Civil Rights Acts, other legislation and government controls to prohibit discrimination in employment, housing, public accommodations and public services.

2. Issuance by the President of an executive order prohibiting the military from excluding for reasons of their sexual orientation, persons who of their own volition desire entrance into the Armed Services; and from issuing less-than-fully-honorable discharges for homosexuality; and the upgrading to fully honorable all such discharges previously issued, with retroactive benefits.

3. Issuance by the President of an executive order prohibiting discrimination in the federal civil service because of sexual orientation, in hiring and promoting; and prohibiting discriminations against homosexuals in security clearances.

4. Elimination of tax inequities victimizing single persons and same-sex couples.

5. Elimination of bars to the entry, immigration and naturalization of homosexual aliens.

6. Federal encouragement and support for sex education courses, prepared and taught by gay women and men, presenting homosexuality as a valid, healthy preference and lifestyle as a viable alternative to heterosexuality.

7. Appropriate executive orders, regulations and legislation banning the compiling, maintenance and dissemination of information on an individual's sexual preferences, behavior, and social and political activities for dossiers and data banks.

8. Federal funding of aid programs of gay men's and women's organizations designed to alleviate the problems encountered by Gay women and men which are engendered by an oppressive sexist society.

9. Immediate release of all Gay women and men now incarcerated in detention centers, prisons and mental institutions because of sexual offense charges relating to victimless crimes or sexual orientation; and that adequate compensation be made for the physical and mental duress encountered; and that all existing records relating to the incarceration be immediately expunged.

STATE LEVEL:

1. All federal legislation and programs enumerated in Demands 1, 6, 7, 8, and 9 above should be implemented at the State level where applicable.

2. Repeal of all state laws prohibiting private sexual acts involving consenting persons; equalization for homosexuals and heterosexuals for the enforcement of all laws.

3. Repeal all state laws prohibiting solicitation for private voluntary sexual liaisons; and laws prohibiting prostitution, both male and female.

4. Enactment of legislation prohibiting insurance companies and any other state-regulated enterprises from discriminating because of sexual orientation, in insurance and in bonding or any other prerequisite to employment or control of one's personal demesne.

5. Enactment of legislation so that child custody, adoption, visitation rights, foster parenting, and the like shall not be denied because of sexual orientation or marital status.

6. Repeal of all state laws prohibiting transvestism and cross-dressing.

7. Repeal of all laws governing the age of sexual consent.


8. Repeal of all legislative provisions that restrict the sex or number of persons entering into a marriage unit; and the extension of legal benefits to all persons who cohabit regardless of sex or numbers.

You actually think that thinking wont come back when society NORMALIZES two gay people?
Because that's what you open the door to is #7.
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PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 4:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Here is what happens when a society openly allows gay marriage.....
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19310780-23109,00.html


Pedophile party announces policies

From correspondents in Amsterdam | May 30, 2006

DUTCH pedophiles were launching a political party to push for a cut in the legal age for sexual relations from 16 to 12 and the legalisation of child pornography and sex with animals.
The Charity, Freedom and Diversity (NVD) party said on its website it would be registered officially on Wednesday, proclaiming: "We are going to shake The Hague awake!"

The party said it wanted to cut the legal age for sexual relations to 12 and eventually scrap the limit altogether.

"A ban just makes children curious," Ad van den Berg, one of the party's founders, told the Algemeen Dagblad (AD) newspaper.

"We want to make pedophilia the subject of discussion," he said.

He said it had been a taboo since the 1996 Marc Dutroux child abuse scandal in neighbouring Belgium.

"We have been hushed up. The only way is through parliament," Mr van den Berg said.

The Netherlands already has liberal policies on soft drugs, prostitution, and gay marriage
, but the NVD is unlikely to win much support, the AD quoted experts as saying.

"They make out as if they want more rights for children. But their position that children should be allowed sexual contact from age 12 is of course just in their own interest," anti-pedophile campaigner Ireen van Engelen told the daily.

The party said private possession of child pornography should be allowed although it favours banning the trade of such materials.

The broadcast of pornography should be allowed on daytime television, with only violent pornography limited to the late evening, according to the party.

Toddlers should be given sex education and youths aged 16 and up should be allowed to appear in pornographic films and prostitute themselves.

Sex with animals should be allowed although abuse of animals should remain illegal, the NVD said.

The party also said everybody should be allowed to go naked in public.

The party's programme also includes ideas for other areas of public policy including legalising all soft and hard drugs and free train travel for all.
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PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 5:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Take a close read of this statement page and ask yourself if they are suggesting that they DO NOT want the age of consent lowered.


The Woodhull Freedom Foundation and Federation (WFF) work through research, advocacy, and public education to affirm sexual freedom as a fundamental human right.

We address laws, government policies, and corporate practices that restrict sexual freedom and discriminate against people on the basis of their consensual sexual expression.

The Foundation addresses these issues through research and public education, while the Federation conducts strategic advocacy campaigns.

The global perspective of the Foundation and Federation relies on research and analysis of laws, judicial decisions and enforcement practices.

Through education, we seek to mobilize diverse communities, write model legislation, build alliances, and change public attitudes to advocate for the sexual rights and responsibilities of all.

Specifically:

* We educate the public on the importance and value of sexual freedom and counter the arguments of groups seeking to restrict sexual rights;

* We advocate for decriminalization and social acceptance of consensual sexual expression;

* We seek to change antiquated, repressive and discriminatory sex laws and enforcement practices;

* We advocate for freedom of speech and artistic expression on sexual themes;

* We promote the empowerment of people to take control of their bodies and their sexuality;

* We support legal action to overturn court decisions adverse to sexual freedom and privacy rights, and we work to affirm and expand decisions, like Lawrence v. Texas, that support sexual freedom and privacy;

* We oppose abstinence-only sex "education" and endorse an age-appropriate, comprehensive approach to sex education; and

* We seek to protect and foster scientific research on sexuality.

Notice they have no position declaring at what age one cannot have sex!
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Endorsement of adult-child sex on rise
By Robert Stacy McCain
THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A new book that says child molesters are not a major peril to children is part of a larger movement within academia to promote "free sexual expression of children."


The movement to legitimize sex between adults and children is "gathering steam," warns Stephanie Dallam, researcher for the Leadership Council for Mental Health, Justice and the Media in Philadelphia, an organization that deals with prevention and treatment of child abuse.
"Some people view children as the next sexual frontier," Ms. Dallam says.
Feminist writer Judith Levine's book "Not Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Kids from Sex" has been condemned by those who say she excuses sexual abuse of children ? a charge she strongly denies.
Ms. Levine says she was "misunderstood" after a news article last month quoted her saying a boy's sexual experience with a priest "conceivably" could be positive.
"Do I advocate priests having sex with their child parishioners? No, absolutely no," she said in a telephone interview. However, she said, "The research shows us that in some minority of cases, young ? even quite young ? people can have a positive [sexual] experience with an adult. That's what the research shows."

Featuring a foreword by Clinton administration Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders, Ms. Levine's book endorses a Dutch law, passed in 1990, that effectively lowered the age of consent to 12.
Ms. Levine cites research about "happy consensual sex among kids under 12," and writes: "America's drive to protect kids from sex is protecting them from nothing. Instead, often it is harming them."
The book has sparked a political backlash against her publisher, the University of Minnesota Press.
The speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives condemned the book and called for the university to halt its publication. Instead, the university press last week ordered a second printing of 10,000 copies after media attention helped drive Ms. Levine's book as high as No. 26 on the Amazon.com best-seller list.
But researchers and activists say the book is only the most recent in a series of academic arguments for "consensual" sex involving children:
? In 2000, the Institute for Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco published an article, "Sexual Rights of Children," saying there is "considerable evidence" that there is no "inherent harm in sexual expression in childhood."
? San Francisco State University professor Gilbert Herdt, co-author of the 1996 book "Children of Horizons: How Gay and Lesbian Teens Are Leading a New Way Out of the Closet," said in an interview with the Dutch pedophilia journal Paidika that "the category 'child' is a rhetorical device for inflaming what is really an irrational set of attitudes" against sex with children.
? John Money, professor emeritus of psychology at Johns Hopkins University, gave an interview to Paidika about "genuinely, totally mutual" sex between boys and men. In the introduction to a Dutch professor's 1987 book called, "Boys on their Contacts with Men: A Study of Sexually Expressed Friendships," Mr. Money wrote that opponents of pedophilia are motivated by "self-imposed, moralistic ignorance."
? Harris Mirkin, a professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, published a 1999 article in the Journal of Homosexuality complaining that boys who have sex with men "are never considered willing participants, even if they are hustlers." He has also written that "children are the last bastion of the old sexual morality."
? A 1998 "meta-analytic" study in an American Psychological Association (APA) journal argued, among other things, that "value-neutral" language such as "adult-child sex" should be used to describe child molestation if it was a "willing encounter."
Radio host Laura Schlessinger led a campaign against that study by Temple University psychology professor Bruce Rind and two other academics. Congress eventually voted unanimously to condemn the Rind study ? which has already been used as evidence to defend accused child molesters in at least three court cases.
Ms. Levine's book favorably cites the Rind study and, in a telephone interview, she defended the study as "methodologically meticulous." But Baltimore psychologist Joy Silberg, whose clinical practice involves treating child-abuse victims, says the study is "horribly flawed."
"I can't call it science," she said.
One co-author of the 1998 study was Robert Bauserman, now employed by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. As early as 1989, Mr. Bauserman had written about "man-boy sexual relationships" in Paidika. He also co-authored a 1993 article with Mr. Rind about "adult-nonadult sex."
Academic defenses of sex between adults and children are not new. Indiana University professor Alfred Kinsey claimed in his famous 1948 and 1952 reports on human sexuality that "children are sexual from birth" and included charts of "data" gathered by pedophiles about the children they molested.
As early as 1977, author Judith A. Reisman says she learned of the existence of an "international academic pedophile movement" influenced by Kinsey's teachings.
Ms. Silberg, the Baltimore psychologist, agrees that the "whole academic movement" to legitimize sex with children "is growing."
Many academics defended the 1998 Rind study, saying its authors were victims of a "McCarthyesque witch hunt," and a number of groups, including the American Library Association, issued a statement saying they "strongly support" the University of Minnesota Press for its "courageous" decision to publish the Levine book.
Such reactions show that "the efforts of people who would like to legitimize relationships between adults and children are actually being successful," Ms. Silberg said.
Critics say that pro-pedophilia activism cannot be dismissed as an irrelevant fringe movement, because it has real-life consequences.
One connection between advocacy and action was revealed last week when court documents showed that a Catholic priest accused of repeatedly raping a boy was present at the founding of the North American Man-Boy Love Association (.).
At a 1979 conference in Boston, documents show that the Rev. Paul Shanley claimed that a child had been "helped by a boy-lover" who had sex with him.
Intellectual defenses of pedophila are "a huge concern" because they can function as "a green light" to would-be child molesters, says Claire Reeves, president and founder of Mothers Against Sexual Abuse (MASA).
"Adults who might have a propensity to hurt a child might say, 'See, it's not harmful, these people are Ph.D.s, they must know,'" Mrs. Reeves said, adding that she began warning about the pedophilia movement in 1995.
"I started saying seven years ago that there was a movement to make pedophilia an alternative lifestyle, and my colleagues looked at me like I was crazy," said Mrs. Reeves, who founded MASA after discovering that a relative had been sexually abused. "Here we are seven years later and that is exactly what's happening."


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PostPosted: Sat May 03, 2008 5:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

good job, Sharon. You've managed to keep Fred busy and he's leaving the rest of us alone. Big Hug
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