Blogs Oct 6, 2010 at 7:58 am

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Maybe the real reason conservatives are opposed to same-sex marriage is because people like George Rekers would be forced to make honest men of their luggage lifters.
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This is making me happier and happier my fiancee's Canadian (and I was pretty fucking happy she was Canadian to begin with). I'm going to be in this position a couple of years from now, and watching other people in situations that mirror my own getting screwed out of living in the same country as the person they love is...haunting and a little scary.
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The reason for the feds are just trying to cut down on people getting paid for marriage licenses just to get people into the country. Then again that wouldn't be an issue if we let more people in...
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Gay couples are very fortunate they cannot get married. It removes the pressure to do so as a means of validating an otherwise-fine long term relationship, and removes the possibility of a painful divorce, with it's attendant, archaic WA state divorce law.

In short, you can be happy. Ask straight married couples (not newlyweds, please) what marriage did to their relationship.
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"now everybody's free to do what i want them to do."
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der, screwed up my quote. sorry guys
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@3: Tell us the truth, now: Your mama dropped you on your head when you were a baby, right?
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Cue the bible quotes!
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You know, 5280, I'm glad I clicked on your new avatar for the big picture, because I'd been thinking it was Amanda Lepore...
http://jadedressler.files.wordpress.com/…
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Nope, Canuck - but that is pretty hilarious.
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@9 OMG! Are there men who like that?
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That pic is f'ing scary!
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Seems hard to believe, Vince, but I do know that all of these people who have had multiple plastic surgeries (as someone once said) start to look like that puppet "Madame" after a while (Madonna, Cher, Joan Rivers, Dolly Parton)
http://www.advocate.com/uploadedImages/A…
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@ 4 - That's hardly the point.

Even if you see marriage as a mistake, well, everyone should have the right to make the same stupid mistakes. If they don't, it's called discrimination.
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@3 has a point (except the last sentence).

Granted, it's just an anecdote, but I've met a few people in my day who were U.S. Citizens, originally from a certain other Country that's really big (land wise), and it was common for them to marry people of the opposite gender solely in an effort to get them green cards and a path to citizenship in the States. And they were paid pretty decently for it.

That's why I think comparing international marriages isn't really on point.

However, I do always cringe a little when I hear the argument that because nobody is stopping gays and lesbians from marrying people of the opposite gender, that we are not being discriminated against. How anyone can actually take that argument seriously makes me wonder how many babies Sarah Palin really has had.
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@17 - You can't be serious!

You can call "same sex marriage" anything you like (gay marriage, homosexual marriage, marriage regardless of gender, whatever), the same bigots are going to be against it. What they don't want is for people that they consider inferior to have the same rights as they do.
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Actually, marriages don't need to be consummated under US immigration law. You just need to intend to "share your life together" at the time of marriage, and not get divorced as soon as one spouse gets his/her green card. If you never fucked, but had shared bank accounts, were raising adopted kids, bought a house and lived together, etc, the feds would probably consider your marriage valid (as long as you were opposite genders, of course). Don't get me wrong- US immigration law, thanks to DOMA, discriminates against gay people, and the argument that we have the "right" to marry the opposite gender is bankrupt. But technically, you don't need to submit proof of sex for a green card.

http://stateswithoutnations.blogspot.com…
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Honestly, who has the sham marriages? The divorce rate isn't at 50% plus because of the gays. How many gays do you know who are envious of the sex lives of straights? Um, that would be a big fat ZERO!

Canuck, everytime I see someone like this in person I try to stand back as I imagine the plug popping out and they start flying around the room as they deflate. I don't want to be in the line of fire or get hit by the fallout.
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@20 I know!! I see women like this about once a week where I work, and I just try to maintain eye contact, because it is so distracting looking at the rest of their face. They are rubbery and immobile at the same time, very odd!
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Although @1 beat me to it, I just have to share my own theory that any married man who says same-sex marriage is a "threat to marriage" is really afraid that, once same-sex marriage is legal, the guy he's secretly sleeping with will start pressuring him to divorce his wife.
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@ 22 - The guy already is, just unsuccessfully.
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Yeesh, can you say "twisted"?
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I wish everyone against SSM would just be honest and say "I think gays shouldn't get married because being gay is a disorder/disease and they don't feel real love the same way us heteros do."

As abhorent as they are, I actually have more . . . "respect" for the people who come out and say this without hiding behind a bunch of bullshit about the sanctity of traditional marriage and the children and "oh god society will suffer eternally" etc. At least be honest about who you are, even if that person is a bigot.
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@ 25 - I totally agree. An honest bigot is still a bigot, but at least he's honest. It cuts down the BS tremendously.
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My experience as the American spouse of a green card applicant (and of several others I know in the same position) is that if you have the rather mundane paper trail of a shared life together (shared lease/mortgage, joint bank account, joint tax returns) no one is going to ask you about your sex life.

(Your mileage may vary, and please don't take this as a defense of US immigration law, which is fucking psychotic.)
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What I don't understand is why Georges Fauré was so keen to stay in America in the first place. It's not like he was from Sudan!
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I hate that style of YouTube video.

At least if they did their own voice acting it wouldn't be so bad. Is there something appealing about the poor quality synthesized voice?
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@ 29 - In this instance, it does illustrate very well how bigots are just robotically repeating the nonsense they've been taught.
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@29: If I want to hear that, I'll watch Arby 'n' the Chief.
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Forky, the program automatically creates mouth movement to match the text I type into the voice synthesizer. I did try to record audio tracks to match the timing of the synthesized voice -- that way I could get natural speech matching the mouth action -- but it was such a frustrating nightmare of synchronization that I canned it. And I'm not much of an actor, anyway.

Also, I'm just making these in the office I've got set up in my spare bedroom. I do these in my spare time, and I don't have the resources to pull in a crew of actors or the free hours to complete extensive post-production work.
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32, It's fine. The content is what matters here, not some nit picky complaints about production. Good work.
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@ 32, 33 - And the content is brilliant. I just loved the one about women having their prostate checked. Can't get any more absurd than that.
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Ok, I've mentioned this before and I still haven't gotten a satisfactory answer: Why isn't it gender descrimination to ban same-sex marriage?

I could marry Allison Stokke (http://www.flickr.com/photos/metalirium/…).

My sister can not marry Allison Stokke.

Clearly, my sister is being denied a fundamental right. Everyone deserves an equal shot at Allison Stokke.
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@35: your sister cannot marry Allison Stokke because you are already married to her. That's bigamy, and incest-by-association. By contrast, a woman marrying Allison Stokke (assuming you aren't already married to her) seems extra-wholesome.

Now I want to marry her, myself.
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I remember a sitcom called I Married Dora about a man who marries his foreign maid so that she can stay in the country.

Of course, they have to appear before an immigration official who asks them about when/how often they have sex.

Dora says: that's very personal! When was the last time yoooouuu had sex with your wife?

The fed gets flustered and responds, "I don't have to have sex with my wife; I'm an American!"
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Great little video!!

@35 - I like that reasoning! ( : =
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10. When I was trying to get a green card for my foreign spouse, his lawyer asked us about our sleeping arrangements because he wanted to make sure we were legit before he would take our case. He also thought immigration would ask us explicit questions about sex and what we looked like naked and such (when we were in separate interviews). However, in none of the three interviews did anyone ask me about sex; and my husband said they didn't ask him either. Which was a relief because I would have gotten a little indignant and possibly blown the interview. Maybe the lawyer was just a perve.
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It's a myth!
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I reckon if a sham marriage was pulled up on its apparent lack of sex, the couple could just claim to be asexual. There's a national association of asexuals, right? They would definitely back you up if you said you had a healthy non-sexual marriage.
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Wonderful video! I've seen several with the same characters and voices posted here at SLOG -- does anyone know who is behind them? Looks like the guy(s)/girl(s) in question deserve at least a tip of my hat.
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Thanks ankylosaur. You can see this video and others I've made at my blog, http://wakingupnow.com

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