Recent content by Daamien

Good video, what's with the dance music at the end?!

He's a jerk, but maybe they have an open relationship? Who knows these days.

Other: It's up to him and his constituents. I don't care considering he didn't break the law. He does have extremely poor judgement for his actions and lying. However, I would have never voted for him to begin with. I believe his party will strongly pressure him to step down.

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I'm not promoting an agenda or a collectivist mindset. I thought the comparison was interesting to share and clearly it has sparked a great deal of discussion. I don't believe in labels such as gay marriage and straight marriage. Anyone should be able to marry whomever they want and such a...

Money is fungible and any government benefit given exclusively to one group comes at a cost to those who are not able to partake in that benefit. Therefore, states which offer benefits for marriage yet limit recognition of marriages are practicing discrimination. You can get benefits from the...

The thing is you are acting as if Option 1 is mutually exclusive to Option 4 (other). Civil unions would be pointless in a system that doesn't have any tax benefits for a union. Therefore, why not recognize them (they are voluntary contracts) in the meantime while working to remove the tax...

Why does marriage need to be sexual or for that matter exclusively heterosexual? It's not as if a woman can't biologically conceive and give birth to a child out of wedlock. Therefore, marriage is simply a social construct whose definition is open to different interpretations and change as...

Why does it have to be public? There are plenty historical and even current examples of secret marriage or eloping. See, your definition isn't the same as mine in that case, so it just as easily may not be the same regarding it being a heterosexual union or even a sexual union. Therefore...

I suppose I should have just left Option 1 as "Marriage is a religious issue". But the situation is slightly more nuanced than that. It's unacceptable for states to give tax breaks on the basis of whether a relationship is heterosexual regardless of whether they are involved in marriage...

You are right, but not dealing with the current system of tax and inheritance laws. States have existing income and inheritance tax laws that favor unions between heterosexual partners, those same unions should be extended to any consenting adults. In this case, state law does have the need to...

Those contracts are legally enforced by state courts. Therefore, it does require state involvement to some degree to recognize the relationship. Civil unions are a form of voluntary contract after all.

Although we would likely all agree neither issue should involve federal government, it is odd that more states allow you to marry your first cousin than marry someone of the same sex. What are your thoughts? Article from death+taxes

Can I find a happy medium? Hah

Beautiful video. I'm sadly one of those millions of people who awkwardly rides the subway avoiding interaction with my fellow inhabitants of New York. I will now try not to lose my sense of humanity in the rushing sea of faces.