DOMA and Prop 8. Both History.

[Jester]

It's cool. It's nice seeing LGBT presence on the forum. I remember back in the day things were vaguely LGBT-tolerant and much less LGBT-positive. I mean, there were people like Doc that would sit around rambling like the insane uncle at the family reunion about being a guerilla civil rights activist living "off the grid" and in next breath opine on the terrible consequences gay sex as if he was trying to get people to quit gay cold turkey. I remember gay rights threads ending complacently with "Well, we're just not ready for that yet" instead of "Even if we don't expect change tomorrow, it's never too early to make people aware." And then there were the blatantly discriminatory arguments that I didn't even want to deal with. It's nice to see times change though.

Your post inspired a little bit of a walk down memory lane. Pete, from 2003:

If a group wished to set up a polyandry, a polygyny, or even a group marriage then as long as all participants do so of their own free will, I see no reason why it should be banned.

I suspect I could win most threads even now, by just copy/pasting from an archive of Pete's posts.

Nowdays the most common criticism you see in threads about ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING is about the evils of capitalism.

Fixed.

-Jester