John Adams

DC Tom is lucky DC Tom doesn't have a gun. He should report himself to himself.

Damnit that's solid stuff.

I'm OK with that because it's the accepted written norm and flags the area for me to ignore.

Now that's insulting.

As I said, I don't read block quotes. But if I did, I might be laughing. Well done.

I can only take one band of lunatics at a time.

You put quote tags around something already quoted. You're getting there though. There's a nice place here called consumer digest where you can try this stuff out an no one will see your posts. Or keep messing it up here and I'm sure we'll all be patient with you.

Rich in Ohio asked him to say that.

And you admit to not only gabbing with the girls but following her advice? Are you sure you're not pro-gay marriage?

I'm a non-believer who loves Christmas time, gets a Christmas tree, makes Christmas time, and plays Silent Night classical guitar style because I like it. Let no one stand in the way of my right to celebrate the birth of Santa.

Don't put words in my mouth.

Don't mess with Jesus.

At least a couple ways to do this. Way 1: (1) Paste the article text you're lifting into the post box. (2) Highlight the text you want to quote. (3) Up above the post box in the formatting bar with the bold, underline, etc., is a little bubble that looks like it could arise from Charlie Brown's mouth. Click on that. This puts two html tags around your quoted section, one is "quote" within square brackets. The other is "/quote" within square brackets. Way 2: (1) Before the text you want to quote, insert "[qu0te]" with an o for the 0. (2) After the text you want to quote, type "[/qu0te]" with an o for the 0. Why is this important? As a both readers and writers know, most people skip the quoted portion of any article, or in this case post. Moreover, the discerning reader gets rather annoyed by font gimmicks like ALL CAPS and boldface type. Thus, the block quote is a nice flag to the reader to "skip me" and not also offensive. As an addendum, your reader will highly appreciate it if you paraphrase anything you block quote. This post brought to you by Arrogant-Posters-R-Us where our business is to throw stones but ignore those thrown back at us. Serving you here at TBD since 1996-7.

What a dumb argument. Who the !@#$ cares about people wearing clothes? By your argument (marriage goes back a gazillion years and is a tradition...an argument that is total bull **** but let's assume for a second it's not), shouldn't we all be walking around naked? It's more recent social mores that made us so prude about the human body. And where nudity is allowed, guess what: Almost everyone wears clothing. Why? It's comfortable. And it's a social norm. Amazingly, the government doesn't need to "set" the norm...it just happens. But I understand. You want your mommyment to take care of you and give you a binky when you get upset.

Bold: Why not? You jump to polygamy incest and walking around buck nekkid but you get to ignore the gaping holes in your justification. Some religions, many quite mainstream, DO call same-sex unions marriage. It's only the state that's holding up use of the word. Two dudes won't be able to marry in some religions. They will be able to in others. This will always be the case. Before long, most states will recognize it.

Don't get drawn into that. Benefits rules can be limited to #s of people or relationships: one spouse and children living in house, etc. I don't give a **** if 10 people get married--but I certainly wouldn't want to pay all their benefits. That's an easy fix. BTW, I am of course against the picture of polygamy that is the norm (forcing children to marry adults). I'm talking here about consenting adults. Who cares? You can't talk to these guys. They like the "motherment" to set legal standards on more rather than fewer issues. Why they care about that 2 men in love want to marry is beyond comprehension. EII wants the government to set lots of societal lines. Sorry, you can no longer jerkoff to porn. Sorry, divorce is no longer allowed. No more cursing. You're too fat to get on the bus. Only 1 beer a day. Fried foods outlawed. Car gets less than 18mpg: Pay the sate $4000. No guns for anyone. Meat is murder. Etc. See: you can take many arguments to extremes EII. Isn't it fun? Frankly, I'd rather side on the less-government side. You and Jim want more nanny-state like most people. Subjugation of the minority to the majority-will is not how this country was founded but it's what you desire. The good news for you is that you're getting it. The bad news for you is that on an issue like gay marriage, it's a lost cause for you. Once old people die and leave office, there's a huge generation of people who will become the majority and they don't give a **** about gay marriage.

Well, it's one answer at least.* *This post may be offensive to people who have the addiction that forces a cheesesteak with fries or pizza or italian hoagie etc. down your throat every day.

Go to a grocery store. Almost every one has a pre-made meal/salad bar section.

Why do you think people don't do this all the time now?

No. The married sibs are whacked. I just don't care how two adults contract into a marriage.

Isn't making arbitrary laws fun? I take it from your response that your concern is two-headed children? So how much further do you take those concerns? Government sterilization starts at IQ <___. Please fill in the blank Mr. Social Engineer.

Way to miss the point. The government's recognition of marriage is important only for the legal agreement that it is. How you and your religion recognize it is quite beside the point of the legal rights that attach under law.

Parents can marry their adult children. See Woody Allen. In any event, your flight to extremes is wonderful and I'll happily play. I don't care if brothers and sisters marry as long as they are fully consenting adults, ie, not some bizzarre cult. Would I want to hang out with two people like that? Ah, no thanks.

Dingbat. Marriage is exactly that: A legal agreement, at the moment not between same sex adults, but generally between two consenting adults. No god in my marriage. Kids in my marriage but that was not its purpose. You're an ass. I say to myself: Stop feeding the troll.

The day gays marry, his wife becomes a man.