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kweerwolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-21-06 09:17 PM
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Boy George slams gay marriage sham
Former CULTURE CLUB star BOY GEORGE has ridiculed same-sex 'weddings', insisting marriage is an outdated institution that has no place in modern or gay culture.

The KARMA CHAMELEON hitmaker was amazed by SIR ELTON JOHN and DAVID FURNISH's decision to have a civil ceremony on 21 December last year (05) - the first day British laws permitted the unions.

And he predicts many gay 'marriages' are destined for the divorce courts.

He says, "Gay unions, what is that all about? I haven't been invited to any ceremonies and I wouldn't go anyway. The idea that gay people have to mimic what obviously doesn't work for straight people anymore, I think is a bit tragic.

http://www.contactmusic.com/new/xmlfeed.nsf/mndwebpages/boy%20george%20slams%20gay%20marriage%20sham_20_02_2006

Hmmmm ... I wonder why Boy doesn't get invited to any gay weddings?
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FreeState Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-21-06 09:31 PM
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1. Boy George is a joke
he has no idea what others want or need. He often opens his mouth when he knows nothing - which is a shame - I love his voice just not his thoughts:)
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davidinalameda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-21-06 09:45 PM
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2. he doesn't get invited because the hosts
are probably afraid that the police will show up to arrest the little druggie

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mitchtv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-21-06 11:16 PM
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5. Hahahaha
No one invited her!She's too modern
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-21-06 09:50 PM
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3. "you're gonna miss me blind" - not if you don't go away nt
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-21-06 10:05 PM
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4. to be very honest part of me agrees with him
which is not to say that i dont think we should have the right to get married ..

but some people like the radical queer identity...i see his point... though i think gay people should have the right to decide whether to go the radical queer route or the married-in-suburbia route...


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mitchtv Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-21-06 11:19 PM
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6. some of us do both
When the time came to settle down, I jumped at the oportunity. that was in 77
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 08:31 AM
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7. women owning their bodies and legally extending gay folk
Edited on Wed Feb-22-06 08:32 AM by xchrom
the same rights and privileges of straight folk are both extremely radical paradigms.

one can still live the radical queer life -- but changing society to see gay folk as equal in all things is huge step towards liberating straight folk as well as gay.
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La Lioness Priyanka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 02:07 PM
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13. again to re-iterate i really want us to have equal rights
i just happen to understand where he is coming from.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 07:51 PM
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15. i just think b.g. has a misunderstanding what a
radical paradigm acutally is.
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GodlessBiker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 12:35 PM
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8. Marriage works for many, straight and gay.
Just because marriage doesn't work for all straight people doesn't mean it should be denied to gay people.
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 12:52 PM
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9. he's partially right
as an institution it's a little ridiculous to conceive that "marriage" in its rigid traditional form is the "foundation" of a successful society or should continue to be thought of that way when what we mean is that contractual animal husbandry is the foundation of a successful society.

But we are a sentimental people and we like ceremony and process and those things reinforce commitment between two adults, so as a social tradition for cementing unions, the process of marriage, from engagement to death is very important, however it evolves.

It's also important legally, because in this country the accident of blood kinship overrides any other form of social bond, except marriage. That means that without a legal definition that grants "kinship", everyone who is not married or blood bond is considered a legal stranger and taxed and treated accordingly.

Boy George, you might take a civics lesson in your spare time to re-connect to reality on the street.

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Siyahamba Donating Member (890 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 01:06 PM
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10. If you don't like them, don't have them.
But don't stand in the way of others who want to.
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cboy4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 01:49 PM
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11. Reckless, reckless.
Don't people like Boy George realize that making negative comments about gay marriage only provides right wing fundamentalist christian extremists like Bush, Robertson and the Traditional Family Coalition ( :puke: ) even more easy ammo to argue that gay people should not be allowed to marry or enter into a domestic partnership??? :wtf:

I can just hear Bush and other right wing wackos now: "...even Boy George predicts many gay marriages are destined for the divorce court, so why should we allow gays to marry???!!!! Besides I have more important things to do like invade another sovereign country."

You know, Boy George has every right to speak his feelings, but he should be more sensitive and think about the potential consequences.

Maybe I'm misinterpreting this, but I feel we have enough trouble as it is fighting for basic civil rights.




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ronnykmarshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 02:01 PM
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12. Blow me Miss George.
Miss Thang needs to worry more about keeping her nose out of the coke and before she sticks it in other people's relationships.
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foreigncorrespondent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 05:46 PM
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14. Well he doesn't speak for me!
And when I marry Sapph, I am not mimicking anything straights do. What I am doing is committing my life and love to only her.
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TaleWgnDg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-23-06 04:00 AM
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16. Well. Maybe -- just maybe -- "Boy George" hasn't absorbed the
bald-faced fact that marriage is about rights. Rights in law. Rights that are denied to GLBTs. "Boy George" may be dancing to another tune, since he apparently accepts second-class citizenship. It makes for news though, correct? It got his name in the newspaper, correct? How sad.
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terrya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Feb-23-06 10:33 AM
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17. Well, I suppose for an embittered queen like Boy George...
who apparently isn't in a relationship. Or, if he is, doesn't care about partnership benefits and the benefits that come from marriage/civil unions...fine, whatever.

But there are scores of us who do care about these things. And about not being treated as second-class citizens.

Opinion noted, Boy. And now we'll be fighting for our rights. Go away.
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