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rickford66

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9. play the wingnut game

Reply to Tab (Original post)

Sun Mar 31, 2013, 06:56 PM

Mar 2013

I've suggested this before. Liberals/gays should propose laws in all 50 states where people applying for marriage licenses MUST pass a fertility test. If they fail, they can never get married. Also add an amendment where if no children are produced within 3 years, who live pass one year, the marriage is annulled and all tax breaks received by that marriage must be repaid with interest. Stupid? Of course. But isn't that what the rethuglicans do all the time?

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What's this new crap about marriage being for procreation? [View all] Tab Mar 2013 OP

It's called "grasping at straws" because all your other Warpy Mar 2013 #1

+1 LiberalLoner Mar 2013 #3

That's not to say certain conservatives don't dump their wives after child-bearing age Tab Mar 2013 #7

I suppose at one point it might have been about having children gollygee Mar 2013 #2

Hey, I got my nuts clipped 18 years ago, but it is still fun to practice. talkingmime Mar 2013 #4

+1 Blue_Tires Mar 2013 #19

it's hardly new . . . that argument has been around for years DrDan Mar 2013 #5

Stupid argument .... Trajan Mar 2013 #6

When I asked the procreation question to someone on Twitter justiceischeap Mar 2013 #8

play the wingnut game rickford66 Mar 2013 #9

Gotta mask all their hate somehow, so lame excuse time again. blkmusclmachine Mar 2013 #10

As much as I loathe her for even existing and spewing her incessant shit, Ruby the Liberal Mar 2013 #11

They really didn't fuck up. The 1%, who got a lot of mileage out of Teh Gay eridani Mar 2013 #15

This message was self-deleted by its author Iggo Mar 2013 #12

I think it might be about controlling others, to restrict freedoms we have. Thinkingabout Mar 2013 #13

Actually, it was rearely about "love" until recently... TreasonousBastard Mar 2013 #14

As far as the government is concerned, marriage is nothing more than a piece of paper Major Nikon Mar 2013 #16

Marriage for the early Church was worldly, not a desirable attribute for spiritual growth. MissMarple Mar 2013 #17

No marriage for anyone over 50 then. n/t cherokeeprogressive Mar 2013 #18

That would leave out first cousins in about 9 states. LiberalFighter Apr 2013 #23

That isn't what they are arguing. duffyduff Mar 2013 #20

It is such a weak and tortured argument. morningfog Mar 2013 #21

I shut down an anti-gay religious extremist who tried this argument on me once magellan Mar 2013 #22

Hehehe. Good one. freshwest Apr 2013 #24

I was surprised I even had to point out the flaw in his thinking magellan Apr 2013 #25

I was re-reading The Age Of Reason by my fave, Thomas Paine. The introduction says: freshwest Apr 2013 #26

Love it magellan Apr 2013 #27

The only people threatening the marriage of others are the bigots gtar100 Apr 2013 #28

I'm straight and married and I have no intention of procreating davidpdx Apr 2013 #29

Yeah, get divorced Tab Apr 2013 #30