Gay Marriage Now Legal Across The US

So churches aren't discriminating against people if they refuse to marry them but businesses are if they abstain from baking a cake? You readily display a desire to make religious people pay for their beliefs and you expect everyone to just take your word that you'll stop your charge before you get to the doors of a church.

You're naked bud, you have no clothes on.

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I'm so mad, I'm gonna run a few tollbooths on the way home tonight.

So churches aren't discriminating against people if they refuse to marry them but businesses are if they abstain from baking a cake? You readily display a desire to make religious people pay for their beliefs and you expect everyone to just take your word that you'll stop your charge before you get to the doors of a church.

You're naked bud, you have no clothes on.

Not to page 9 yet this is like Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.

Churches are indisputably protected. No one is interested in forcing these places to marry anyone. The end.

Yes, but I fail to see what that has to do with the discussion at hand ;)

And the odds of you being able to cite where are slim to none.

Nope, but it's going to happen. Just wait.

They aren't protected anymore than the concept of marriage is

The Church of the Later Day Saints.

Part of why they stopped speaking against gay marriage.

I'm trying really hard to form an opinion on this as people are going nuts over this on Facebook. All cheering like it's good news. Very few freaking out on the internet, except for Scott Walker, lol.

They aren't protected anymore than the concept of marriage is, you're just wrong. I bet we see movement against them within 2 months.

I'm trying really hard to form an opinion on this as people are going nuts over this on Facebook. All cheering like it's good news. Very few freaking out on the internet, except for Scott Walker, lol.

But me, I'm like:

And here's the thing: There are probably a lot of you who don't get why there's such a knee-jerk revulsion toward polygamy in the modern world. After all, if anyone can marry whom they choose, what's wrong with a bunch of women choosing to marry the same dude, or vice-versa? The problem is that, in the real world, it hasn't worked out that way. You'll notice you never hear about one woman marrying four guys -- in polygamist cultures it's all about males collecting lots of wives, usually in a way that gives the females very little say in the matter.

Traditionally, there is also a lot of overlap on the Venn diagram between "sister-wives" and "child brides." The leader of my old church married two of his nieces when they were just 16, as well as a third 16-year-old girl from another family. Then there was my sister's brother-in-law, who was accused of molesting his daughter. He admitted to it and was excommunicated ... then welcomed back a week later. At least two other men were accused and convicted of molesting their children. One guy had four daughters, every one of them a victim -- he spent years in prison despite his wife's defense of him.

5 Things I Learned as a Mormon Polygamist Wife

Wont change much when it comes to churches and priests who wont comply for religious reasons

Anyone else find it funny that some of the people that argue against gay marriage and keeping it as "traditional marraige" are some of the same people that argue that marriage is a trap for men lais out by some sort of feminist agenda or whatever?

Anyone else find it funny that some of the people that argue against gay marriage and keeping it as "traditional marraige" are some of the same people that argue that marriage is a trap for men lais out by some sort of feminist agenda or whatever?

Anyone else find it funny that some of the people that argue against gay marriage and keeping it as "traditional marraige" are some of the same people that argue that marriage is a trap for men lais out by some sort of feminist agenda or whatever?

5 Things I Learned as a Mormon Polygamist Wife

Fundamentalist Mormon. Big difference.

First off, I just want to say this is a historic day for human rights. Congratulations to all the couples who are allowed to prove their love for each other by marriage! I've always been a supporter.

Yes, of course they'll be people who disapprove of this decision (as there are people who disapprove of every decision made), but in recent years there's been an increase in support for marriage equality.

But this also raises more issues. Now that marriage is equal, will they get the same "marriage rights" as straight couples? Not just the right to marry, but the right to put each other on their health insurance/life insurance etc., the right to speak for them in the event their partner is unable to speak for themselves, the right to file taxes together, etc?


Actually it's quite easy for someone to become ordained (my cousin did it in a few days) in order to marry people. You don't HAVE to get married at a church, get a marriage license, find an open-minded ordained minister, two witnesses and find a beautiful spot and exchange vows. There ya go! All done!