miss_s_b: A Comment on @CiceroBlog

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miss_s_b) wrote,
@ 2012-03-27 06:55 pm UTC

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A Comment on @CiceroBlog

... since they ~~appear to have turned off the comments option~~ only have Disqus comments and I don't see them as an option because of my anti-tracking-software-blocker.

The relevant post is here. My immediate reactions are as follows:

While I totally agree with you that one shouldn't be sent to jail for tweeting offensive crap, no matter how offensive it is, I think you REALLY drop the ball on the other half of your post

Calling someone a bigot does not in any way shape or form equate to a 56 day jail sentence.

Calling someone a bigot does not restrict their freedom of speech either. I got called a bigot myself yesterday, for saying that those advocating prayer as a method for healing cancer should have to adhere to the same rules as everyone else. My freedom of speech has not been infringed one jot.

The science on parenting seems to show that it doesn't matter what gender a child's parents are, or if they are biological parents, or even how many of them there are, but how much money they have. Parents with money tend to produce far "better" children, who have better life chances and live longer, whether they are gay, straight, single, couples or poly, than traditional married couples with no cash. The reason traditional married couples correlate with "better" children is that it's only the rich folks that tend to bother getting married these days. Chris Dillow has collated a lot of research on this point if you want to find out more.

Nobody wants to force churches to hold equal marriages if they don't want to, but it would be quite nice if all the religions who are in favour of equal marriage (reform judaism, quakers, etc.) could be allowed to marry non-het couples if they want to. Whilst I agree with you that it would be illiberal to force religions who don't want to have equal marriage to have it - which is why nobody sane is pushing for that - surely it would be equally illiberal to force religions who WANT to have equal marriage to not have it just because some religions don't want to?

Your posts are normally a lot better thought out than this, and I'm fairly sure you normally allow comments too. Are you feeling OK?

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ginasketch
2012-03-27 07:35 pm UTC (link)

Must...not...lose...temp...OH FUCKIT

What a bunch of navel-gazing, hand-wringing CRAP.

Where is even getting this information from? I mean, other than his ass.

There are serious issues at the heart of the debate, not least the fact that marriage is not merely a legal and moral commitment of individuals to each other, but also to any children they may produce.Naturally this asks a lot of questions of gay relationships- or indeed hetero but infertile relationships

Wow. Just wow. So only MARRIED people have children. And marriage is only for making Teh Baybeez. And infertile people should feel inadequate because they can't produce children.

the religious have a point of view which is sincerely held: stay faithfully together if at all possible, no matter what- even if, perhaps, the majority disagree with it.

Yeah isn't it funny that most of the longest lasting couples I know are gay. I've seen far more straight relationships fail.

To attack the religious because they disagree with you - particularly to dismiss their positions as mere bigotry- is unfair, and may be dangerous.

AHAHAHAHA. This is just like the time someone I know got offended by the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I laughed then too.

For myself, having been friends for years with a couple that were amongst the very first to register a civil partnership, which I found very difficult to distinguish from a wedding, I do not oppose gay marriage

"HEY, I HAVE GAY FRIENDS SO I'M ALLOWED TO SAY THIS"

Forcing churches against their will to offer gay marriages is in any event- I believe- deeply illiberal. The tyranny of the majority over a minority is still tyranny.

Because the church has never forced anyone to do anything against their will and gotten away with it...OH WAIT

By all means ensure legal equality for gay and straight relationships, but also accept that there are inevitable differences among all relationships and that these should be respected.

Oh, the irony. I'm so sick of this bullshit, and I'm THROUGH being polite to people who say stupid things. Hell, I was over it years ago.

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	no subject miss_s_b 2012-03-27 07:39 pm UTC (link)
	I haven't reached snapping point yet, but I can feel it getting closer. One day somebody is going to say something this ridiculous and I'm just going to go kaboom. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

	no subject ginasketch 2012-03-27 07:40 pm UTC (link)
	Going kaboom is my only way of coping with this crap anymore. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

	no subject miss_s_b 2012-03-27 07:59 pm UTC (link)
	I'm watching Scott and Bailey and falling deeply in love with the take-no-shit bosslady. This helps. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject ginasketch 2012-03-27 08:03 pm UTC (link)
	On a related subject, I may have to get back into Bones. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject miss_s_b 2012-03-27 08:14 pm UTC (link)
	Boooooooooooooooooones! It's back on in the US soon after Emily Deschaniel's maternity leave. I dunno how soon it'll be on Sky Living after that. The episode with Freddie Kruegar and the episode with the power cut and the episode with Bunsen Jude the Science Dude are my favourites. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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