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evenkeel

climber
Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 5, 2008 - 01:09pm PT
Did the "be nice to chickens" ballot pass, while the let two adult women get married failed?
Oh man this place we call, america, is great,
great for late-nite comedy.


Mighty Hiker

Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
Nov 5, 2008 - 01:11pm PT
This thread is immediately adjacent to two threads that are on exactly the same topic, that is California's proposition 8. Not to mention several other political threads on the front page. Is this thread really necessary? Could you not just add to the discussion on one of the existing threads?
Scared Silly

Trad climber
UT
Nov 5, 2008 - 01:12pm PT
Come to Utah, the land equal opportunity between man and beast.










There are no laws against bestiality in OOOtah!!!!
Mungeclimber

Trad climber
sorry, just posting out loud.
Nov 5, 2008 - 01:15pm PT
Ewe got to be kidding?

I loves me some animals.

evenkeel

climber
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 5, 2008 - 01:22pm PT
no beastiality laws in alaska either. In sweden a few years ago they tried to ban beastiality, but beastiaility won out.
Now what about those gay roosters? Seems to be a paradox if ya ask me....
evenkeel

climber
Topic Author's Reply - Nov 5, 2008 - 01:41pm PT
Though I'm happily married, when I look around at other married folks, if that is what the relgious folks call heavenly bliss,
I'd take hell any day.

The whole dictionary thing is always so cute. The federal and most state consitutions do not anywhere say that a woman can hold public office, yet folks now seem okay with this.

-"Words, man all ya got is words."

Jim E

climber
Nov 5, 2008 - 01:49pm PT
"It's the use of a what to them is a special religious word.........marriage.

So is 'divorce' a special religious word, too? It must be since roughly half of all those that get 'marriaged' get 'divorcied'.


Scared Silly

Trad climber
UT
Nov 5, 2008 - 02:28pm PT
Now about those gay roosters ...

An old farmer decided that it was time to get a new rooster for his hens. The current rooster was still doing an okay job, but he was getting on in years so the farmer figured that getting a new rooster couldn't hurt anything. So, he gets a young rooster and lets it loose in the barn yard.

The old rooster sees the young one strutting around and he gets a little worried. "So, they're trying to replace me," thinks the old rooster, "I've got to do something about this!" He walks up to the new bird and says, "So, you're the new guy in town. I bet you really think you're hot stuff, don't you? I'm not exactly ready for the chopping block yet. I bet I'm still the better bird and to prove it, I challenge you to a race around that hen house over there. We'll run around it ten times and whoever finishes first, gets to have all the hens for himself."

Well, the cocky young rooster was a proud sort and he definitely thought that he was more than a match for the old guy, so he said, "okay, you're on. And since I know that I'm so great, I'll even give you a head start of half a lap. I'll still win easily."

So, the two roosters go over to the hen house to start the racae and all the hens gather around to watch. The race begins and all the hens start cheering the roosters on.

After the first lap, the old roster is still maintaining his lead. After the second lap, the old guy's lead has slipped a little but he's still hanging in there. Unfortunately, the old rooster's lead continued to slip each time around and by the fifth lap he just barely led the young rooster.

By then, the farmer has heard all the commotion. He ran into the house, got his shotgun, and ran out to the barn yard, figuring a fox or something was after his chickens. When he got there, he saw the two roosters running around the hen house with the old rooster still slightly in the lead. He immediately took his shotgun, aimed, fired, and blew the young rooster away. He walked away slowly saying to himself...."Damn! That's the third gay rooster I've bought this month!"
Largo

Sport climber
Venice, Ca
Nov 5, 2008 - 03:53pm PT
An interesting scare tactic they ran (in tv ads) here in Cali. is a supposed mother talking about the possibility that gay "marriages" would be discussed in her 3rd grade son's classroom should gay marriages get sanctified by law. The implication is that homosexualit is somehow contageous, and might rub off on the unassuming should he or she draw too close. I wonder if there is any empirical evidence that this is true, in any way, ever.

Guess the question comes down to: can someone's sexual preference actually be swayed, given just the right stimulus?
Seems a bit unlikely, no?

JL
Jim E

climber
Nov 5, 2008 - 04:44pm PT
The 3rd grade son would get the right stimulus if he were an alter boy.
salad

climber
Escondido
Nov 5, 2008 - 04:47pm PT
what do you get when you cross a rooster and peanut butter?















a c*#k sticks to the roof of your mouth
GDavis

Trad climber
Nov 5, 2008 - 05:40pm PT
"An interesting scare tactic they ran (in tv ads) here in Cali. is a supposed mother talking about the possibility that gay "marriages" would be discussed in her 3rd grade son's classroom should gay marriages get sanctified by law"


This really happened in Massachusetts. A 2nd grade teacher told a story about 2 kings that had a homosexual relationship. Parents were upset that they weren't aware of this when their kids came home and had, as you can imagine, all sorts of questions. A judge ruled that, as Marriage was the same for same sex as man-woman, schools could use it as a teaching aid to their disgression and (the big kicker) could do so without consent of parents or pre-notification.

I have a 5 year old nephew, and he's almost the same age as the kids in those class. Pardon my opinion on things, but that is way too young to explain the intricacies of human sexuality. Maybe middle school or high school might be appropriate, and I believe that at least at the college level, it should be(and is) part of a normal study in human social science. What I don't like, at all, are children used as pawns in this twisted game of "lets see what we can get away with now."

Many of you disagree and would love to have children taught at a very young age that homosexuality is a option they should start thinking about. The world is a weird place, ain't it?
the Fet

Knackered climber
A bivy sack in the secret campground
Nov 5, 2008 - 05:53pm PT
Yeah we need to keep the idea of gay marriage out of the spotlight so kids don't hear about it. So maybe starting the most advertised, talked about proposition ever and dragging their kids out on the street to hold signs "Yes on 8" wasn't the best idea??

It sucks that 8 passed, but 48% of people still voted that discrimination is anti-American, that's pretty good.
the Fet

Knackered climber
A bivy sack in the secret campground
Nov 5, 2008 - 05:55pm PT
A screen capture from the 203 - "Chickenlover" episode of South Park.
Fat Dad

Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
Nov 5, 2008 - 05:57pm PT
Fattrad wrote: "Look, I spent hours last night with fervent Yes on 8 people. Almost all of them believe that gay people deserve the same rights that as marrieds, they object to the use of the word "marriage"."

All those yes on 8 were just hung up on semantics, not on gay unions?

Yeah, sure...
Tahoe climber

Trad climber
a dark-green forester out west
Nov 5, 2008 - 09:24pm PT
I've seen the tactics by Yes on 8 folks, too.

Whatever the issue, I disapprove of trying to trick people into voting irrationally by throwing the word "children" into the issue - whatever the issue.

I voted no.

And GDavis, no offense, but the one and only way to raise decent, well-adjusted children is to teach them to think for themselves, not shelter them from hearing anything you consider wrong.

And God forbid that kids hear about equality. *shudder*

Better they learn about procedural discrimination, and about passing it on to the next generation because of completely irrational and illogical fear of "becoming gay," too.

Also, the latest stats I've read put the failure rate - religious or otherwise - of "marriage" now at 60%.

I'm not gay, and I don't care if homosexual couples get married or not - last night I voted NO to continue not caring. It's not my business, nor is it that of the government's.
I voted for equality. Fair is fair.

Finally, the answer to whether the government should care or not is: "F#ck you. It's none of your business. F#ck off."

That's my 2 cents.

TC
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