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Marriage ammendment

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Johnv

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Didn't Texas already have marriage legislation? Here in Calif, marriage is defined by statute as being between one male, and one female. I thought that was already the case in TX.
 
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quidam65

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TX already had legislation. However, if one remembers MA their Supreme Court ruled that the state Constitution contained a "right" to gay marriage. What TX is doing is amending its state Constitution to prevent a future state Supreme Court from finding a similar "right".
 
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El_Guero

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I am not certain of what you are asking.

Texas has voted in an ammendment to our constitution that clarified traditional marriage as between one man and one woman.

"Marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman. "
 
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James_Newman

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Well, one thing is for sure. We texans may put up with nudie-bars and liquor stores and murdering babies, but we won't stand for dudes marrying other dudes!
 
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gb93433

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Doesn't Texas have casinos?

75-80% for the amendment is not a very wide
majority. That means 20 -30 percent are on the other side.
 
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carpro

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Originally posted by El_Guero:
News 5 just reported that the Marriage Ammendment will pass in Texas . . .

I thank God!
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You never really doubted it , did you?

I think the margin was the only thing in doubt and ,Man, it was huge!
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go2church

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It will be challenged in the Supreme Court under the full faith and credit clause of the constitution. I guess gay Texans are going to have to move to Maine now.
 
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El_Guero

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Originally posted by James_Newman:
Well, one thing is for sure. We texans may put up with nudie-bars and liquor stores and murdering babies, but we won't stand for dudes marrying other dudes!
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James

Which nudie bar do you recommend . . . ;)

I just couldn't resist the really cheap shot!

How are you guys doing?

Wayne
 
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El_Guero

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Having extensively researched the homosexual lifestyle, Reisman and other experts have reached some disturbing conclusions. Contrary to the popular view that there is little crossover between homosexuality and pedophilia, she says homosexuals are anxious to recruit young boys -- a practice that is becoming easier thanks to sex education and "diversity programs" in schools that teach children to consider homosexuality as both acceptable and normal.
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LINK: web page

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[ November 10, 2005, 08:59 AM: Message edited by: LadyEagle ]
 
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James_Newman

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Originally posted by El_Guero:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by James_Newman:
Well, one thing is for sure. We texans may put up with nudie-bars and liquor stores and murdering babies, but we won't stand for dudes marrying other dudes!
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James

Which nudie bar do you recommend . . . ;)

I just couldn't resist the really cheap shot!

How are you guys doing?

Wayne </font>[/QUOTE]We just about have our building finished, and the Lord may be about to give us a way to pay for it, too
How have you been brother?
 
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Daisy

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Judith Reisman is the founder of the modern anti-Kinsey movement....A sixty-nine-year-old independent researcher with a Ph.D. in communications and a former songwriter for Captain Kangaroo, Reisman is the president of the Institute for Media Education and the lead author of “Kinsey, Sex and Fraud” and “Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences.”

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To a reader of Reisman’s scholarly papers, it sometimes appears that there is little for which she does not hold Kinsey responsible. In her research on gays, for instance, she has written that the “recruitment techniques” of homosexuals rival those of the Marine Corps. The Kinsey paradigm, she holds, created the moral framework that makes such recruitment possible. Reisman also endorses a book called “The Pink Swastika,” which challenges the “myths” that gays were victimized in Nazi Germany. The Nazi Party and the Holocaust itself, she writes, were largely the creation of “the German homosexual movement.” Thanks to Alfred Kinsey, she warns, the American homosexual movement is poised to repeat those crimes. “Idealistic ‘gay youth’ groups are being formed and staffed in classrooms nationwide by recruiters too similar to those who formed the original ‘Hitler youth.’ ”

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But it is not simply Kinsey’s neutrality toward such people that upsets Reisman. She claims that Kinsey actively solicited pedophiles to molest children and report back to him. In fact, she said, “there is absolutely no reason to believe that Kinsey himself was not involved in the sexual abuse of these children.” (None of Kinsey’s four biographers have turned up any evidence that he was.) Reisman also believes that Kinsey died not from heart failure but from what she calls “brutal, repetitive self-abuse.”

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Source: New Yorker Issue of 2004-12-06: Talk of the Town: The Culture Wars: Why Know by Josh Radosh (linkie)
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She sounds a bit unreliable.


Your other link is confusing because the statistics cited conflict and contradict one another. There is nothing given to base a preference for one study over another. None of the actual studies are provided or are linked to. At any rate, according to the stats given there, heterosexual predators far outnumber homosexual and girls are way more likely to be abused and assaulted than boys.

What has marriage between homosexuals got to do with preying on children? Pedophilia is totally illegal whether the perpetrator is married or not.
 
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fossilman

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This ammendment will no doubt end up before the courts since the wording was so terribly drafted that it actually outlaws ALL marriage in the state of Texas.

SECTION 3. This proposed constitutional amendment shall be submitted to the voters at an election to be held November 8, 2005. The ballot shall be printed to permit voting for or against the proposition: "The constitutional amendment providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage."

Bold and italics added by me.

Any legal status idendical or similar to marriage, would include, as far as I can tell, any marriage. Whatcha think?????

Of course I am no lawyer, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once.
 
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