Considering they protected the Church from being forced to perform gay marriages against it's will, and I don't recognize any marriage performed outside the Catholic Church anyway, this really doesn't change anything for me.
As far as I'm aware, attempts to force the Catholic Church or any other Church to perform marriages against its will - of divorced people, for instance - have never been successful before, so why would they be successful now?
Nothing is ever successful until it is. I like having the extra protection.
New York Senate approves same-sex marriage
- 25/06/2011 03:47:43 AM
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I'm actually not opposed to this.
- 25/06/2011 03:48:32 PM
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I'm not sure why there was even any need for such explicit protection.
- 25/06/2011 04:04:47 PM
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Meh, you never know.
- 26/06/2011 12:58:37 AM
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so in your only Catholics are really married?
- 26/06/2011 12:04:07 AM
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Church Doctrine.
- 26/06/2011 12:57:39 AM
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That's patently wrong in that Orthodox weddings are explicitly recognized by the Church.
- 26/06/2011 02:42:00 PM
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Yeah okay...
- 26/06/2011 05:16:05 PM
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They are outside of the authority of Rome, and have, on occasion, excommunicated Popes.
- 27/06/2011 05:03:31 PM
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Seems fine to me
- 25/06/2011 05:44:30 PM
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Voting on civil rights constitutes tyranny of the majority, not legitimate democracy.
- 25/06/2011 09:37:28 PM
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Re: Voting on civil rights constitutes tyranny of the majority, not legitimate democracy.
- 26/06/2011 03:11:06 AM
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Good luck telling that to the deeply religious right.
- 26/06/2011 03:20:04 AM
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I am a deeply religious member of the right, and I tell them that all the time *NM*
- 26/06/2011 03:30:14 AM
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After a number of years of gay marriage
- 26/06/2011 06:57:07 AM
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That's more or less true of virtually everything, not a great example
- 26/06/2011 07:09:03 AM
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People shouldn't turn their own religion and/or opinion into law
- 28/06/2011 07:33:48 PM
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I don't recall mentioning religion beyond confirming that I was religious
- 28/06/2011 08:22:51 PM
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I admit I wasn't replying to you directly
- 29/06/2011 07:20:10 AM
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I think you should give this subject a bit more thought
- 29/06/2011 02:16:04 PM
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Believing things without strong supporting evidence is not rational.
- 30/06/2011 12:11:33 AM
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Requiring different degrees of proof for things isn't particularly rational
- 30/06/2011 01:14:44 PM
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I require the same standard of evidence to be confident in anything.
- 30/06/2011 07:43:51 PM
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Re: I require the same standard of evidence to be confident in anything.
- 30/06/2011 08:59:00 PM
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Re: I require the same standard of evidence to be confident in anything.
- 30/06/2011 09:47:30 PM
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No, I used the word irrational to mean that it's not rational.
- 30/06/2011 09:12:19 PM
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Re: Voting on civil rights constitutes tyranny of the majority, not legitimate democracy.
- 26/06/2011 10:38:56 PM
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I think you should give your fellow citizens a bit more trust and respect
- 27/06/2011 05:41:52 PM
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My expectations are guided by psychology and history.
- 28/06/2011 07:08:06 PM
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That's good to know, most of us do that, though we usually just call it common sense and experience
- 28/06/2011 08:55:23 PM
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No, most people don't do that. Reasoning from cognitive biases and anecdotes is much more common.
- 30/06/2011 12:18:40 AM
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Empire State Building was lit up in rainbow colors, looked cool *NM*
- 25/06/2011 08:21:03 PM
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I approved that years ago. They are way behind. Granted, I have no authority over anyone...
- 26/06/2011 12:22:33 AM
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The real issue is going to be when the Supreme Court rules on the full faith and credit clause.
- 26/06/2011 02:43:23 PM
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