Interactive: You are elected POTUS. What is your agenda for America?

[afleitch]

- Nationwide ban on heterosexual marriage because they've f-cked it up beyond all recognition.
- Free condoms inside candy wrappers
- Massive public works programme including the erection of homoerotic statues.
- Construct a mega rocket to the moon containing a few hundred thousand cats and some radiation.
- Establish a super intellieant Lunar cat outpost
- Solve the water crisis in the midwest and Pacific coast by creating the Utah reservoir
- Have China recall the debt in the form of any size able city of their choosing.
- Resign and rise into the sky in a jetpack

[afleitch]

-Constitutional Amendment affirming rights of states to ban Gay Marriage

I still don't understand your dislike of gays.

I support civil unions as an alternative. I have no hostility towards gays whatsoever.

You must have a little if you don't believe they should be able to get married and actively seek to impose that view on states where the voters or the legislature have decided to enact equal marriage.

The fact I have a husband is worthy of an amendment to annul it. Yet that fact that one in three marriages end in divorce, the average length of a marriage is seven years, people marry, two, three, four, five, six times doesn't merit your attention. It's okay to allow someone to marry and divorce as many times as they want to but won't allow gays and lesbians who have been together for years or decades to marry just once?

Or the fact that people marry for money, for inheritance, under duress, under force, marry after a few drinks at Vegas or marry several times to get new magazine picture deals.

But no; can't have gays marrying. I mean, in my joke post I was being semi serious. Straights have screwed marriage royally; it's cheap and easy and accessible. Business deals have more worth (and longevity) than a lot of marriages. Why shouldn't gays be allowed to take a stab at saving the damn institution?

[afleitch]

-Constitutional Amendment affirming rights of states to ban Gay Marriage

I still don't understand your dislike of gays.

I support civil unions as an alternative. I have no hostility towards gays whatsoever.

You must have a little if you don't believe they should be able to get married and actively seek to impose that view on states where the voters or the legislature have decided to enact equal marriage.

The fact I have a husband is worthy of an amendment to annul it. Yet that fact that one in three marriages end in divorce, the average length of a marriage is seven years, people marry, two, three, four, five, six times doesn't merit your attention. It's okay to allow someone to marry and divorce as many times as they want to but won't allow gays and lesbians who have been together for years or decades to marry just once?

Or the fact that people marry for money, for inheritance, under duress, under force, marry after a few drinks at Vegas or marry several times to get new magazine picture deals.

But no; can't have gays marrying. I mean, in my joke post I was being semi serious. Straights have screwed marriage royally; it's cheap and easy and accessible. Business deals have more worth (and longevity) than a lot of marriages. Why shouldn't gays be allowed to take a stab at saving the damn institution?

The present day problems with hetero marriages are not corrected by expanding access to marriage. Realistically, we need marriage reform that goes beyond gay rights.

Excellent post. Sigged.

Why? There is nothing substantive about it. If you open marriage up to same sex couples, then you are doing no detriment to marriage at all. In not doing so, but allowing any old marriage to take place as long as it's between a man and a woman demonstrates that you are more concerned over the gender of the participants rather than the validity of the relationship. That undermines marriage.

[afleitch]

-Constitutional Amendment banning Gay Marriage nationwide

Wtf?

Yeah, did a gay guy kill your cousin or something? You seem good on the other issues, yet you're incomprehensibly reactionary on that.

but it's ok for the other guy to ban heterosexual marriage? A lot of these ideas are crazy but it's still good to exchange ideas.

You  probably should go back and read my whole post again if you think there was any seriousness to it.