What do they call it when you actually drink enough to get drunk?

I don’t know what they call it. I call it “Tuesday.”

Does this mean that all children born in Texas will legally be bastards?

Fixed that for you.

Seriously. Neither the local affiliate not CNN could track down the parents or the kid? Not even a cursory “the parents refused to speak on camera on advice of counsel?”

Something is VERY rotten in the state of Arkansas.

Given the above, the only way we’re likely to see any progress here is if the courts start to see homosexuality as an immutable trait that’s given strict/intermediate scrutiny under the due process clause of the 14th amendment. If they do that, and if SCOTUS were ever to find that the 14th amendment would ban laws against gay marriage, the state laws would be history as well.

Immutability has never been a criteria required to escape the rational basis test. The quickest example is to realize that sex and religion are both mutable traits that nonetheless get, and deserve, heightened scrutiny. So, we don’t have to wait on the resolution of the nature v. nuture debate to rule same-sex marriage bans unconstitutional.

With pay.

http://www.katv.com/news/stories/1109/679801.html

If you search the seven words, only tits brings up porn. This study shows that the people of Louisville are either foul mouthed, or lack the terminology to find porn online.

Kind of like human males I guess.

If both parties own a house or a car together, how about if they just sign a simple contract stating that if the relationship ends or one goes broke, the home is either sold, one party buys out the other, or some other form joint control is maintained.

With respect to kids, plenty of people have kids out of wedlock and there are laws already on the books dictating visitation rights for both mom and dad. Fathers are required by law to help with the finances of raising their child regardless of marriage. A marriage license has no bearing in these matters and won’t make anyone less of a dead beat or a better parent.

If someone cheats on the other, so what. I’m sorry, but I do not believe that infidility should result in one party getting half the assets of the other by default. If two people can’t agree on that, well then they shouldn’t get married…or have a civil union…or legally combine assets…or whatever. What a marriage license does more often than not is just a create a default scenario, splitting assets 50/50 in case the relationship ends. That isn’t fair and never has been. Every scenario is different.

I’m not sure what kind of evidence can be shown that proves that marriage licenses make divorces cheaper or easier in any way. Licence or no, there will always be a fight over the house, the kids, abd the bank accounts if people aren’t smart enough to get a pre nup. So why even bother with the licensing? I can’t see how not having a lisence will make a breakup any worse or any relationship any more stable.

Wait… what’s a “Unit of alcohol”?

Hmm. 10 ml of pure alcohol. Let me do some quick calculations, here…

Hey! This single 12 oz. can of american beer contains 2 units of alcohol!

I’m binge drinking right now! Shit!

What do they call it when you actually drink enough to get drunk? Super Binge Drinking?

What’s this about a child being tasered? I don’t see anything about that in the X-26 Taser ad.

Or, from the female perspective: Since you’re not married anyway, that asshole can’t get to see your kids!

And this, by the way, is the problem with taking ‘government’ out of marriage in general. Any contract you have with an individual can simply be broken prior to the divorce. What, you gunna have a 50,000 page contract covering every possible contingency?

The generalized ‘marriage’ contract with a arbitrating third party (The Government) allows individuals to get married and share resources with some degree of confidence that they would not have otherwise had.

And since the government doesn’t allow discrimination against people for things like race, gender, or sexual preference, marriages can’t either.

Frankly, both forms of the practice deserve to slip into oblivion. If people want a ceremony to make unenforceable promises to each other, more power to them. But let’s not pretend it’s any kind of contract.

Silly me. I forgot that when you have 50K volts of electricity going through your body there is no chance of you injuring yourself as you spasm uncontrollably or dying from undiagnosed heart conditions.

People in this country have twisted themselves so much on the issue that they can’t admit a simple fact. Cops have become torturers. Tasers are supposed to replace firing your service weapon. 50K of electricity does cause pain and suffering. “Oh it’s just a brief jolt and it’s over”. It’s amazing what (royal) “we” will allow to happen so long as it’s happening to the “other”.

As to all marriage being outlawed — I’d love to see marriage wiped off the books. Especially if I was a lawyer. I don’t think people really have an appreciation for the number of legal documents, contracts, etc. gets rolled up into a marriage license. If you think your life is buried under a mountain of legal papers now, wait until you have to replicate all the functioning aspects of a marriage license with the appropiate legal documents.

I’m sensing a penumbra in Texas. Maybe Gov. Perry can take a hiatus from shoving vaccines down girls’ throats to his own enrichment long enough to get out the red pen and insert a few edits via executive order.

At any rate, whatever. The big issue is the State interfering in contracts. Yaaaaawn.