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Posted: Mar 28, 2013

I am so tired of the gay rights discussion. So many people are focused on social issues and totally disregarding the biggest problem that concerns all Americans...the economy. Let them get married so we can start talking about important things!!!

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I support a return to traditional marriage - Fanatical Hypocommie

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Marriage used to be between a man and a 13-year-old girl sold by her parents for livestock and then sampled on her wedding night by her new husband's liege lord. Fox News is right. It's a slippery slope. First we started letting protestants and pagans get married, then other races, now gays? We've gone too far. What pairs of consenting adults will we let get married next?

Kidding aside, politicians use things like gay marriage to distract everyone from the fact that they've got no clue how to fix the economy in any meaningful way without upsetting every major lobby out there and losing their campaign donations. How do you fix health care without fixing health insurance or hospitals? How do you fix gun violence without fixing the way gun stores do business or gun owners handle them? It would be like if your doctor didn't cure you because your being sick makes him more money... wait...

Admittedly, even if politicians weren't soulless automatons controlled by money, they still wouldn't be able to do anything. If they keep the status quo, everyone will hate them for not fixing the problem. If they change things, people will hate them for changing things. The American people demand that their government cut spending without effecting services, and raise taxes on the poor, the rich and the middle class while lowering taxes on all three.

The American people need to calm down and grow up, and our politicians need to... how does one develop a conscience? Mine was just there when I got here, so I've got no clue how to make one.

such a smart and interesting post! - priceless commie

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You made my day. I hope that doesn't sound too much like Clint Eastwood. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) :)

Thanks - Fanatical Hypocommie

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Eastwood's such a character. Crazy as a fox (not crazy as a Fox News fox, that's in a range all of its own), but he speaks his mind and I respect him for that. Plus, he taught that empty chair a thing or two. And let's face it, if he hadn't, the chair might have defeated Romney.

Personal fix: Turn off the TV. For me it's gun control. - The issues're clear, the philosophies

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well represented, and much overlap in areas where we can reach agreement, such as the extremely strong support for background checks. So, check backgrounds, ban the worst of the crowd-whackers, and move on.

But, OP, gotta tell ya, I'm also awfully tired of people who know nothing about economics hammering eternally about an issue that has no end. Raising the volume does not somehow negate ignorance, a sincere opinion is not just as good as an informed one, and no opinion at all is far better than a clueless one. Just wish our fine leaders in Congress realized that.

It's just another distraction, so we won't know we're - circling the drain.

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nm

Totally agree with OP - SM

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Just smoke and mirrors trying to distract us. Who cares if gay people marry each other? I care much more about the state of the nation's economy and lack of growth, among other things. I also agree with the poster who said turn off the TV. After several days of abstinence, I turned on the news to see what was going on. After much flipping trying to find something informative, all I saw was one thing after another about gay marriage. I finally turned it off because I was doing nothing but wasting time and was getting irritated at seeing my tax money wasted by our representatives spending time discussing something of so little consequence to the big picture. Thanks for posting. I'm glad to know I'm not alone.

You're not alone - I'm with you too. - sm

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Marriage is between 2 people. I don't care who they are. John & Mary getting married to each other does not affect my left. Neither does Margaret and Janet or Reggie and Barry or any other couple who wants to get married. Most thinking people of this country do not care who gets married, certainly not the father of 4 who just lost his job and he does not know what he is going to do, or the couple who are losing their home, or the people who are losing their jobs due to Obamadontcare, and the list goes on and on. Like you said it's just smoke and mirrors to distract the country from what is really going on. Sure blast us with pics and TV shows and news headlines of gay people getting married when in the background when everyone is too busy watching the un-reality shows they sign in laws that take away the rights of people to own guns, vote themselves in raises, give themselves permission to read peoples emails and now start looking at your banking account.

And yet they still have their followers who cry tears of joy when they see two couples getting married, and that's just the way they want it to be.

People need to wake up. Who cares if John and Bob are getting married. That doesn't affect our lives. What they are doing with our tax money, the unnecessary wars they keep starting and continuing, the dismantling of the constitution. THOSE are the issues that affect ALL Americans. Not watching Mary and Alice get married.

I don't know how old you are, but in my waning years here, I'm excited as heck - to see this finally happening...

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within my lifetime (hopefully). The same as with the presidency, it's something I really didn't expect to actually see come to fruition before I mosey on. I was around back when the ERA was picking up steam, and after that dying, as well as other movements... Well, years and years of social stagnation can make one start to lose hope.

I cry watching a lot of the gay marriage proposal and wedding videos and pics; it just still gets to me. I agree, let's get on with it, but I'm not "tired" of the movement and discussion around that, just the slowness of some of the progress.

Beautiful post. - nm.

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My sentiments exactly! I also feel that the... - sm

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government should get out of the "marriage" business and unite all couples in a civil union for legal purposes. (Remember going to city hall and having a "civil ceremony"?) Leave "marriage" to the various religous institutions and spiritual groups.

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