Active Users:510 Time:06/04/2025 12:06:08 PM
i see -- it's ok to be insulting as long as the "f-bomb" is not used. got it. moondog Send a noteboard - 23/10/2012 10:27:54 PM
Very well then, oh great and all knowing legal scholar, justify why it is ok to discriminate against me because I want to marry a corporation, or my own daughter, or 50 other people...

YOU CAN'T

The argument you make invalisates ANY restrictions upon who can or can not constitute a marraige, but you won't admit it.

You refuse to address, logically, andy of the points I raise, but instead resort to "fuck you"

well, grow up, this conversation is over.


let me start with: polygamy is illegal because when it was being practiced, it was often used to bring underage girls into marriages against their will. polygamy also relied upon sex trafficking, and raised questions about whether the women/girls were being married against their will and therefore subject to statutory rape laws among others. for these and other reasons, the US government made it illegal IN THE 1860s. i'm sure a case could be made for allowing the practice to continue since we supposedly have better enforcement of sex trafficking and statutory rape laws, but the fact is that it would be a much harder case to prove than allowing same-sex couples to enter into marriage since polygamy is by nature not the established method of marriage in this country, but yet couples marrying is.

you cannot legally marry a corporation because a corporation is not a single individual, it is technically a group of individuals. most property laws do not provide for a means of establishing ownership to a single individual in such a collection as a corporation. for this and other reasons, there is no legal framework to determine community property in such a marriage, and therefore no legal path to marriage. i.e. -- if you divorced the corporation, who gets the car, who gets the house, and who gets custody of any children you might have together? how would a corporation provide for a child's well-being in such an arrangement? how would the corporation's assets be divided when the spouse does not technically own any part of the corporation?

if you can settle these questions, you could very well make a legal case for marrying a corporation. in the meantime, all you have are fallacies which are nothing remotely approaching a logical argument no matter how many times you try to say otherwise. we get that you don't like that gays should be able to marry each other if they so desire. the problem is that you can't legally justify your belief so you resort to creating straw-man "logic" and attempt to use that straw-man to prove that the practice should not be allowed. no matter how many times you try to say you're using logic to argue the point, you're still not offering any justification for discriminating against a sizable portion of the population. and this is still a discrimination issue, whether you want to believe it or not.
"The RIAA has shown a certain disregard for the creative people of the industry in their eagerness to protect the revenues of the record companies." -- Frank Zappa

"That's the trouble with political jokes in this country... they get elected!" -- Dave Lippman
Reply to message
2nd Circuit rules in favor of Edith Windsor. DOMA unconstitutional. - 18/10/2012 08:37:12 PM 970 Views
An excellent ruling. Thanks for the post. *NM* - 18/10/2012 08:47:54 PM 270 Views
Oh, and they addressed the First Circuit's argument: - 18/10/2012 08:54:47 PM 753 Views
I always knew that DomA guy was bad news. - 18/10/2012 09:05:13 PM 506 Views
As it should be; the DoMA was always a brazen affront to the Equal Protection Clause - 19/10/2012 12:06:13 AM 749 Views
Not really - 19/10/2012 02:16:04 PM 670 Views
Not quite - 19/10/2012 02:56:56 PM 546 Views
Yes, really, for "any CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED RIGHT." - 19/10/2012 03:12:11 PM 645 Views
joel, please stop - 19/10/2012 05:42:51 PM 606 Views
That's such a stupid, puerile argument. - 19/10/2012 03:47:26 PM 621 Views
Not the best analogy, though I agree with the sentiment. - 19/10/2012 04:10:11 PM 554 Views
Then by the "legal argument" you all propose I should have the "right" to marry a spoon... - 19/10/2012 05:48:32 PM 588 Views
if your spoon or dog is capable of making power of attorney decisions then by all means do so *NM* - 19/10/2012 06:41:43 PM 272 Views
How about I "marry" a corporation then. THAT is how stupid the entire arguement is. *NM* - 19/10/2012 07:25:13 PM 263 Views
provide for us a legal reason why marrying a corporation should be recognized by the US gov't - 19/10/2012 08:09:08 PM 662 Views
The argument above was that there was no jsutification it should not, thus it should be allowed. - 19/10/2012 10:57:16 PM 665 Views
you are only offering your own emotional take on a legal decision there is no logic in your posts - 19/10/2012 11:12:17 PM 569 Views
Wrong. I do not have an emotional stake in this, I am simply using logic. *NM* - 22/10/2012 03:59:08 PM 275 Views
saying you should be able to marry a spoon or corporation is not logical reasoning. try again *NM* - 22/10/2012 06:19:29 PM 257 Views
EXACTLY, and that was the point I was making. Congratualtions for figuring that out. *NM* - 22/10/2012 11:34:46 PM 247 Views
you are obviously using some humpty dumpty definition of "logic" then *NM* - 22/10/2012 11:40:12 PM 259 Views
No, you apparently failed reading comprehension in school. - 23/10/2012 03:08:44 PM 592 Views
#1: fuck you. #2: you are still not using logic - 23/10/2012 05:50:14 PM 556 Views
Ah yes, the fuck you argument... the height of all intelectual persuits... and you call ME emotional - 23/10/2012 06:47:21 PM 626 Views
i see -- it's ok to be insulting as long as the "f-bomb" is not used. got it. - 23/10/2012 10:27:54 PM 705 Views
Another good example of how corporations aren't the same as people. *NM* - 19/10/2012 10:07:32 PM 267 Views
Would you be the bride? Would you wear white? - 20/10/2012 07:58:52 PM 542 Views
You have obviously not read my posts very carefully - 22/10/2012 04:23:22 PM 521 Views
Ah, the "I have Gay Friends" argument. - 22/10/2012 09:33:41 PM 535 Views
It was only a matter of time. - 19/10/2012 02:49:21 PM 596 Views
I do not understand why fundamentalists demand government dictate religion. - 19/10/2012 03:22:54 PM 748 Views
Which is why the entire method of legal attack being mounted is dumb. - 19/10/2012 05:53:12 PM 669 Views
the only ones forcing their beliefs down everyone's throats are people like yourself - 19/10/2012 06:44:57 PM 635 Views
There is no right being denied... - 19/10/2012 07:22:24 PM 602 Views
No? - 19/10/2012 11:34:36 PM 573 Views
Really - 22/10/2012 04:29:38 PM 581 Views
You are making one, huge factual mistake that is screwing up your entire argument: - 20/10/2012 11:00:28 PM 622 Views
Nope I am not - 22/10/2012 04:34:59 PM 558 Views
That is just it: Most US marriage laws are already areligious. - 23/10/2012 05:08:38 PM 571 Views
Yes, the laws are 100% secular... - 23/10/2012 07:01:08 PM 546 Views

Reply to Message