So match hate with hate?
So go after the term Marraige at all costs, even if it means head to head combat with religion for even more future decades? That's going to take a long time.This is essentially the anti-gay marriage version of "separate but equal"
This stuff still goes on? Sorry to hear that. Maybe some of our do-nothing Government will do something about this... and soon. One would think in modern America some common sense would come into play with these issues and it wouldn't require an act of Congress or the President to fix it....The MAIN thing being denied are things like the right to visit their spouse in the hospital, legal protection of the spouses' interests in each other's estates, parental rights, etc.
About my "Executive Order" angle, Here's an interesting fact:
THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION THAT FREED U.S. SLAVES WAS AN EXECUTIVE ORDER!! It was never passed by Congress.
You would think if Abraham Lincoln could free millions of slaves, and Barack Obama could grant a form of amnesty to 800,000 people by using Executive Orders,[[ http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/15/politi...ion/index.html )The Emancipation Proclamation is an executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War using his war powers. It was not a law passed by Congress. It proclaimed the freedom of slaves in the ten states then in rebellion, thus applying to 3.1 million of the 4 million slaves in the U.S. at that time. The Proclamation immediately freed 50,000 slaves, with nearly all the rest [[of the 3.1 million) freed as Union armies advanced.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_Proclamation
then granting equal rights to same-sex couples though an Executive Order should be a no-brainer.
Maybe I'm crazy, but I think it can be done. And I'd like to see it done before Obama is out of office, because if Romney wins, there's no way he's going to do it.
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