From: Grrrrrl Power
Date: Friday, December 11, 1998 11:30 PM
I cannot believe they actually impeached clinton.
You're never going to get him removed. He's already lame duck. And do we really think That Gore is completely ready to take over? All we have to do is look at Ford's term of office.....
From: emma
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 05:44 PM
found a topic for my argumentative essay: gay marriages. comments?
From: cicero
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 07:33 PM
Well, that one will certainly start a few. I'm for legalizing gay marriages. I wasn't always. But a friend of mine had just started a relationship when he was diagnosed with a brain tumor. The guy didn't cut and run on my friend: he stayed with him until the bitter end. I don't know whether they would have ever been interested in being married (although there are gay married couples in Springfield), but there should have been some way for them to acknowledge their relationship, and gotten my friend's companion some survivors' benefits for the year he took out of his life to care for my friend.
From: emma (maglauk@hotmail.com)
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 08:59 PM
good call, joe. all of my classmates turned up their noses when i decided on this topic
and when i asked what was wrong, they laughed. thought i was joking or something. but i
think the topic is a good one to research.
From: sarah (blackdove@netscape.net)
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 1999 10:46 PM
Personally, I never thought that gays getting married just for the partner's benefits was
a large enough concern for anyone to forbid it. I think it's ridiculous to say that
heterosexuals can get married and gays can't, when the ratio of occurance of 'financial
convience' marriages is probably about the same with both groups.
From: emma
Date: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 03:01 PM
i think that he was just suggesting one aspect. myself, i'm not too keen on the idea of
marriage, probably won't get there. but i respect that people who WANT to get married
should be able to. that means anyone. well, except for first cousins. and maybe second
cousins.
From: virtual_god
Date: Wednesday, January 27, 1999 05:20 PM
i think anyone should be able to, any exceptions would be discriminatatory.
From: tylerium
Date: Thursday, January 28, 1999 09:12 AM
ok, so mags got me thinking about gay marriages the other day and i asked my history
teacher what he thought. he went off on how he says no because to him it destroys the
whole sanctity of marriage, that if they are allowed to marry then it makes his vows less
valid, it corrupts the entire institution of marriage. that when he got married he was not
only committing to his wife, but to society as a whole. and if gays marry it would make
that institution less valid. ok, that made me really mad because i have no problem with
gay marriage, course i'm not married, but i see absolutely no reason why they shouldn't be
able to. marriage to me is the union of two people, society can go to hell as long as two
people want to spend the rest of their lives together. or at least some of their lives
together. he says the entire point of marriage is procriation, i of course argued that you
don't have to be married to procriate, and some married couples can't. does that make
their marriage any less valid? i don't know, i suppose he kind of got me mad.
From: Das_Biest
Date: Thursday, January 28, 1999 09:57 AM
I am against gay "marriage" simply because marriage, by definition, is a
male-female thing. I am all for what they do in France, where gay couples basically have
the same benefits that a married heterosexual couple has.