DOMA and Prop 8. Both History.

[Hammerskjold]

Comrade, bla bla bla So if I am hanging out with my black friends bla bla bla bla bla bla reactionaries resort to bla bla bla bigotry bla bla bla bigotry

Ok, so 'Comrade', yep got that one...

Analogy to 'my black friends' scenario equals = fill in the blank bigotry...check.

'I'm the Red Knight here to Save Humanity from itself with my word salad and overwhelming intellect', well that's a freebie but I'm not too proud to mark that off.

And... YES!!111 'Reactionary'!

Just need one more for Commie-nist Comedy Bingo. Come on...diuretics...

If 'Revleft.com' is dropped, I'm eligible for a double multiplier bonus!

What was the original topic again?

Oh yes.

kandrathe wrote:

That would mean the many people would be legally treated together as if they were one (incorporated), while also still being free to exercise their individual liberties. We already do this and we call it limited liability partnerships, or corporations. Just think of all those people living in the commune as "The Andersons, Inc." -- There are already models of this in the US, in Amana, or Amish, or other communitarian communes. They are treated as tax-exempt religious incorporation -- non-religious communes would just be the taxable sort.

Yeah. That strikes me as a really bad idea in practice, and fraught with unintended consequences. Really, really bad ones. Things are already messy and complicated when it comes to office\workplace romance\fraternizing (THAT LANGUAGE IS SEXIST AND REACTIONARY!!111).

I'd have a hard time signing a job contract where I may or may not also be wedded into a corporation. I've heard of being married to a job, but this is just ridicilous. Though I reserve the right to change my mind if I am the official photographer\lotion boy of Victoria's Secret Runway Show. (THAT IS SEXIST AND KKKAPITALIZTIC REACTIONARY BORGIA!11)

I have no qualms about polyamorous relationships among consenting adults etc etc. But there is such a thing as practical reality. 4 people? That's certainly not impossible. 400 people? That's when IMO it starts to sound iffy, because most of the time there's usually abuse going on. Does that mean every Amish village is a Jim Jones cult situation? Uh, no. But is every polyamorous community a peaceful idyllic Amish village? Sadly, no.

But, is it marriage, or have we watered it down further?

'Watering' it down is only true if one thinks of 'marriage' is like fine whiskey. People are certainly entitled to that opinion.

Just as I'm entitled to think that 'marriage' is more like punch. One whose original recipe is lost in time, with many variations. Some are very good, some are bluntly speaking, vile. (And no, what I consider vile is not Adam and Steve marriage. But a 'marriage' situation where it is clearly abuse\outright slavery.)

Any claim of 'traditional' is always suspect to me, and IMO should be taken the same way when you hear a Diamond is 'traditional'. (Brought to you by DeBeers. Though I prefer da beers instead. More taste, and less filling.)