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I've read some stories the last months about countries that have legalized gay marriage, but want to undo those laws.
Hopefully this will never happen, but when new governments are elected, anything can happen. I'm Dutch, I always thought we were very liberated, but even in Holland we have a small Christian political party in our government now, that wants to grant special rights to a few ordained ministers that allows them to refuse to marry gay couples. Usually things like that are just a first step.
Anybody knows what happens to couples that are already married, when such laws would be changed? When legalized marriages become illegal again? Do they remain married, or does all of a sudden their legal marriage contract fall apart?
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What happens to them would be unpleasant, to say the least.
But undoing those laws may be more difficult than the godbots might like to think. My country provides a good example:
The Conservative government of Stephen Harper, shortly after its election in 2006, debated a bill which would have repealed the federal law permitting gay marriages. It failed to pass not only because the Tories happen to be a minority government and none of the opposition parties would join them on this issue, but also because all the parliamentarians knew that even though married gay couples may number only a few hundred, that's enough to tie up the courts for years (decades?) with lawsuits under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms -- lawsuits which they would almost certainly win. Therefore, passing the law would have been simply a waste of effort. Prime Minister Harper only let it come to the floor so he could tell his right-wingers "Well, we tried and it didn't work. Time to move on, we've got a country to ruin -- I mean, to run."
The latest polls (including this one from the Pew Research Center, see link) show that young people who have grown up with the gay rights movement are much less inclined toward anti-gay bigotry than their parents' generation, and much MUCH less so inclined than their grandparents' generation:
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=273
Good news, huh? If the younger crowd is so greatly improved, then I'm positively glad to be edging toward old-fogeyism myself; this means I can step out of the way and turn the world over to them with no worries. Well, almost no worries.
What happens to them would be unpleasant, to say the least.
But undoing those laws may be more difficult than the godbots might like to think. My country provides a good example:
The Conservative government of Stephen Harper, shortly after its election in 2006, debated a bill which would have repealed the federal law permitting gay marriages. It failed to pass not only because the Tories happen to be a minority government and none of the opposition parties would join them on this issue, but also because all the parliamentarians knew that even though married gay couples may number only a few hundred, that's enough to tie up the courts for years (decades?) with lawsuits under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms -- lawsuits which they would almost certainly win. Therefore, passing the law would have been simply a waste of effort. Prime Minister Harper only let it come to the floor so he could tell his right-wingers "Well, we tried and it didn't work. Time to move on, we've got a country to ruin -- I mean, to run."
The latest polls (including this one from the Pew Research Center, see link) show that young people who have grown up with the gay rights movement are much less inclined toward anti-gay bigotry than their parents' generation, and much MUCH less so inclined than their grandparents' generation:
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=273
Good news, huh? If the younger crowd is so greatly improved, then I'm positively glad to be edging toward old-fogeyism myself; this means I can step out of the way and turn the world over to them with no worries. Well, almost no worries.
How many gays do you think will support Obama in the next election?
Katana172
Just wondering how many gays will be supporting Obama in the next election, especially considering he is against gay marriage, and also after this?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090608/ap_on_go_su_co/us_supreme_court_gays_military
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His position on gay marriage has not changed and this latest case was in the Supreme Court. The President is not on the Supreme Court (just in case you aren't clear on that).
Gay marriage will be legal within my lifetime. And when that time comes I'm going to be out a lot of cash for wedding gifts...and I can't wait!
His position on gay marriage has not changed and this latest case was in the Supreme Court. The President is not on the Supreme Court (just in case you aren't clear on that).
Gay marriage will be legal within my lifetime. And when that time comes I'm going to be out a lot of cash for wedding gifts...and I can't wait!
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