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If you are a parent, please enlighten us with your words of wisdom on raising children.
If you are a child, please enlighten us with what your parents have done that worked on you.
A woman should notify the father as soon as she becomes pregnant. If he does not want to be a father, he can request an abortion within the legal abortion period. The woman must comply or forfeit child support. Plain, simple straight forward.
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They made a movie called **No Country for Old Men** now we need a documentary, **No rights for White Men**
I mean think about it, what rights do white men have?
You hear a lot about minorities rights (like their right quotas or gay mariage or no profiling).
You hear a lot of noise about women's rights (like her right to abortion).
You hear a lot of noise about the rights of handicap people (like reserved parking, reserved seating).
But you don't hear a lot about rights for white men?
Disclaimer: I am not white. But I don't feel like I should be given any special consideration. And I resent any special consideration given to someone else at some else's expence. There's all this talk about what's fair but it seems to me that what is considred fair is really a one way street that benefits anyone at the expense of white males.
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Bio mom's egg was artificially inseminated and implanted in birth mom.
Who has parental rights?
Who gets the kid?
1. Every homeless person I have seen is either a single mom or a vet. Their cardboard sign says so.
2. Every homeless person is very religious. Their cardboard signs say, "God Bless You!"
3. Homeless people don't shave.
4. Homeless people wear dingy clothes.
5. Homeless people are thin.
6. Homeless people are always looking for work. Their cardboard sign says so. They just don't use the classifieds to look for work. They expect you to do that for them and tell them about any job openings.
7. Homeless people have backpacks to carry their worldly belongings.
We have argued the reasons for gay marriage and which tactics should be persued. But we have yet to discuss the flip side. Why is it that there is so much resistance to gay marriage?
Could it be that straight people feel like they are being manipulated or is it that they're all homophobes? They can't all be homophobes. Not in this day and age. They can't all be biggots, not in this day and age.
And yet, if they feel they are being manipulated, which arguments make them feel that way? If they feel manipulated by a particular argument for gay marriage, maybe we can stop using that argument.
For example:
When I hear someone claim that the term marriage is superior to the term civil union, my perception is that that the person believes that other people will not accept civil unions on their own volition and that, therefore, the people's perceptions must be manipulated. One way to manipulate people's perception of a thing is to associate the thing with something people perceive as positive. If you want the reverse response, you associated it with something people perceive as being negative, like Hitler and Nazis.
A concept like gay marriage needs to be able to stand on its own merit. Without any need to associate it with anything. It is its own concept. Unique. People must see it for what it is and accept as such. People must not be forced into viewing it through rose color glasses (or glasses of any color). In other words, the other side shouldn't associate gay marriage with something negative in order to discredit it.
The problem with trying to manipulate people is that people are not stupid. They know when they are being manipulated and they push back. That is what I see happening right now with gay marriage. Which is why I advocate not pursuing that tactic (to both sides).