Comments on: Breaking: Maryland to Immediately Recognize Gay Marriages Performed Elsewhere

By: guest

guest — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:44:16 +0000

40-43-
Lots of things “change out culture” (in fact, in the realm of family and marriage the big one is divorce among straight people). But just because it changes the culture in some way doesn’t mean you can deny people basic civil rights. Letting black people into all-white schools also changed the culture, particularly in the South, as did allowing women to use the pill. Some thought it changed the culture for good, some for bad, but in the end it’s not a reason to deny someone basic rights. It’s easy for you to pontificate sitting back with your whole panoply of rights that you can take for granted as a straight, privileged person while ignoring hard working families, including children, who suffer legal and economic detriment simply because of whom they (or their parents) are wired to love.

By: guest

guest — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:33:14 +0000

Shit, 44′s onto us.
1) Done (cf. Cheney)
2) In progress – at least they haven’t figured it out exactly yet
3) Terse rephrasing of “gay for pay”

By: guest

guest — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:22:02 +0000

44 FTW!!!

By: guest

guest — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:06:06 +0000

Let’s see married and no rights in The District or full rights and living in MARY-land?

By: jackquil36

jackquil36 — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:55:12 +0000

Who would have thought — Maryland more progressive than NY or NJ!?!?

By: guest

guest — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:21:56 +0000

Silver Spring is g-hetto full of gangbangers and illegals. Real power couples live in Chevy Chase or Potomac, or Georgetown, or they hop over the river to McLean to pay less tax and not live in a dysfunctional state.

By: guest

guest — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:29:54 +0000

One thing I do agree with Elie on: As a Silver Spring resident, it is a very nice community. Bethesda and Potomac are definitely more upscale though.

By: guest

guest — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:01:21 +0000

24 HAS to be a troll, right? By definition, social conservatism is the belief that the government should regulate moral issues (i.e., that the government should be involved in deciding who people are in their private lives). Social liberals believe that it is not the place of the government to make such decisions on behalf of individuals. Hardly the same thing as saying You Must Love Gay People.

By: guest

guest — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:17:43 +0000

40/41/42/43…
Which American culture are you talking about? CA culture? NY culture? TX culture? AK culture? MS culture?
What about…African American culture? Rich white culture? Latin American culture? Chinese American culture? Muslim American culture (I’m referring to the hard-working, friendly Muslims, not the blow-you-up-on-a-plane ones)?

By: guest

guest — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:11:34 +0000

40/41/42/43…
You might be damned, but it probably is not a function of having/not having a stake in American culture.