The Goat Pen

All you are saying is that anyone who doesn't think like YOU is bad. Cite where I said this or retract your statement. This... Gays are living together, and have been, as significant others for a loooong time. Allowing them a marriage certificate has become a Chicken Little moment for many right-wi...

Let me give you all a hypothetical situation that many of you might not be aware of: if you work for an airline you get free flight benefits. Airlines MUST offer this benefit since they don't offer money (without this benefit, no one would work for an airline.) If there is space on the plane, you (...

Me: I don't see why gay marriage can't be legal. You: It will be the end of marriage. Me: Why? You: Don't know, but it erode the very fiber of civilization. (roughly) Me: How? You: Don't know. Just will. Then this..... This is what drives me nuts about this whole same-sex-marriage discussion. You r...

two men werent allowed to marry for the same reason blacks werent allowed to vote. people look down on gays and think they shouldnt have the same right as "normal" people. I disagree TOTALLY . No one ever said one must be "normal" to get married. You act like men who would rathe...

That is all entirely trivialized and gone forever because of the damage this change to the law does on the margins Why? How? Don't know yet. The fact that this change in marriage law may very well have destroyed marriage utterly (in ways that neither you, nor I, nor any of us can fully understand y...

State and Federal law used to sanction slavery and prohibited blacks and women from voting. times change. two same sex couples announced their marriages on the charlotte observer over the weekend. my marriage is no less sanctified than it was last week. more power to them. Auggie, This is my point ...

Clearly life for many a NY conservative took a major turn for the worse friday night now that marriage no longer has any meaning. What did marriage mean before that? A little late to ask that question now, isn't it? Why wasn't this question asked earlier? >I'm just not sure what people have against...

One more comment and I'm done. 5. I am okay with the age being 16 to marry with consent and 18 without consent. Her parents signed off, therefore, I am okay with this. I don't think you are looking at this rationally. Just take a step back and think about what you are saying. Here, let me give you a...

I've got no problem with her marrying. Oh that's right, you're from Alabama, right? :roll: Do you have a daughter AA? 1. Go fuck yourself. 2. Most states allow 16-year-olds to marry with parental consent. None of the players in this non-story are from Alabama. 3. She had parental consent. 4. Whethe...

billy bob bocephus wrote:

the 51 year old is a sexual pervert/deviant....

uh oh, IB is projecting again...

i know the difference between right and wrong

I wonder who is being taken advantage of here - the 16 year old who can use the media attention to parlay a potential career; not to mention have a favorable divorce settlement , if it should come to that - or the 51 year old fool... the 51 year old is a sexual pervert/deviant. Douglas should know ...

i certainly hope that smeee, dora, redbird, and karen stop by and give BBB and AA a verbal spanking for trivializing what I think is basically no different than child molestation i'm guessing that the lovely girl's insidious parents got a fucking check from the groom. i think they pimped their own d...

AlabamAlum wrote:I've got no problem with her marrying.

Oh that's right, you're from Alabama, right?

Do you have a daughter AA?

AlabamAlum wrote:She's 16? No way.

I would agree but the links on that column to her picture as a 15 year old (just one year ago) in that miss-teen Washington pageant speak otherwise.

http://www.misswashingtonusa.com/contes ... &year=2010

:o :shock: :? What the fuck is with the parents? http://www.webpronews.com/losts-doug-hutchison-51-marries-16-year-old-pop-singer-2011-06 http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/pictures/stodden2_616.jpg http://images.ientrymail.com/webpronews/article_pics/stodden4.jpg Her parents did in fact sign o...

IB if you want to know how unc is going to get away with this look at the News and Observers coverage of this mess in their Saturday and Sunday editions. could be worse auggie. you could have a gang of 88 professors at unc convicting their own lacrosse team of a rape that they didn't commit... and ...

fifer, there's no lid to keep on. unc has admitted academic fraud, admitted their asst head coach was a runner for an agent admitted they had numerous players accepting illegal benefits and admitted that at best their head coach had no idea what was going on. they believe they skate on this simply ...

I guarangoddamntee that if somebody came up to you or puter or anybody else and said they'd give you the equivalent of your entire salary with the only stipulation being that you must stop working and simply take the money, you'd do it in a heartbeat. If you deny that, you're either a fucking liar ...

When it comes to measuring the combination of unemployment and inflation, it doesn’t get much more miserable than this. In fact, misery, as measured in the unofficial Misery Index that simply totals the unemployment and inflation rates, is at a 28-year high, reflective of how weak the economic reco...

Sometimes (oftentimes) I have a hard time explaining exactly what I am feeling and why something just doesn't feel right to me. Such is the way I felt about libertarians and why I could never be one (why I had to be Republican, not Libertarian.) I couldn't put into words exactly (precisely) why libe...