Eagle Scouts Returning Awards

[DeacInVermont]

This is the part that is confusing me

He's saying that the government uses "marriage" as a condition for receiving benefits, or as a label for some other purpose. That worked pretty well until lately. Since marriage is a religious institution, government would be better off using some other qualifier than "marriage" since it isn't government's place to define "marriage".

In other words, leave marriage to religions and let government create/define a secular form of partnership to further it's policies. At least, that's how I'm interpreting his comments.

 

[DeaconSlim2.0]

He's saying that the government uses "marriage" as a condition for receiving benefits, or as a label for some other purpose. That worked pretty well until lately. Since marriage is a religious institution, government would be better off using some other qualifier than "marriage" since it isn't government's place to define "marriage".

In other words, leave marriage to religions and let government create/define a secular form of partnership to further it's policies. At least, that's how I'm interpreting his comments.

That's actually how I think things should be done....make all state recognized unions as "civil unions" or partnerships or whatever you want to call it for all government purposes and let "marriage" be for religion/church/etc

 

[dartsndeacs]

That's actually how I think things should be done....make all state recognized unions as "civil unions" or partnerships or whatever you want to call it for all government purposes and let "marriage" be for religion/church/etc

Whats stopping people from getting a roommate of a dude in college or unemployed, claiming they're in a civil union, and saving an exhorbiant amount of money in taxes. Things get quite tricky when we have very significant financial encouragement to get in a civil union, and then we broaden the base of civil unions.

 

[DeaconSlim2.0]

Whats stopping people from getting a roommate of a dude in college or unemployed, claiming they're in a civil union, and saving an exhorbiant amount of money in taxes. Things get quite tricky when we have very significant financial encouragement to get in a civil union, and then we broaden the base of civil unions.

Same thing stopping guy/girl friends getting married?....

 

[IamThunderbolt]

Whats stopping people from getting a roommate of a dude in college or unemployed, claiming they're in a civil union, and saving an exhorbiant amount of money in taxes. Things get quite tricky when we have very significant financial encouragement to get in a civil union, and then we broaden the base of civil unions.

That would make an awesome movie. Maybe they could be bros who are police officers, park rangers, or firefighters or something. Then they could meet a hot girl who walks around half naked for half of the movie because "who cares, they're gay?" and hilarity would ensue.

 

[dartsndeacs]

Same thing stopping guy/girl friends getting married?....

girls actually generally care about being married though from societal pressures and would be less inclined to have a fake one.

 

[421Deac]

also i quit boy scouts after one meeting because it was a bunch of dorks. like hello apparently.

Yes, let's definitely avoid vilifying entire groups of people.

 

[dartsndeacs]

1. I was breastfed until I could eat solid foods.

2. Your grasp on Psychology is HORRENDOUS.

3. I have a BS in Biology. Your understanding of testosterone and its role in the body is even worse than your grasp of psychology.

4. My wife can't cycle yet because she had a baby 11 days ago.

A terrible poster doesn't understand humor, sarcasm and responds to obvious jokes with serious responses.

Edited to say I can't honestly believe anyone would ever be stupid enough to think this was a serious psychological or biological evaluation. I just can't stop laughing.

I'm fairly sure I have to retire from trolling and that this post will now be your legacy.

 

[TexasDeac10]

This is your idea of a joke?

Lol calm down bro

 

[dartsndeacs]

This is your idea of a joke?

Your retort to the idea that you were producing estrogen causing you to be on a period was that you had a minor in biology and thats not what's occurring.

#noshitsherlock

 

[dartsndeacs]

However, if you look back through my posts you'll see that I'm willing to offer my experiences with general contracting, biology, medical science, law, electronics, computers, cooking and a whole host of other skills I have gained over the years.

Aim for entertaining, amusing, or if both are not in your well rounded skillset, pleasant to be around. We have google for the rest.

 

[dartsndeacs]

Sage advice.

Don't be afraid to poke fun of yourself every now and then as well. Hardly any of us know eachother, you can save the tough guy act for when you see a guy on the street with a fedora and want to prove how much more of a man you are by making a derogatory comment.

 

[DeaconSlim2.0]

This is essentially what I've been arguing for the whole time, I just hesitate to use the "civil union" language because it has a secondary meaning already attached to it.



Fraud laws are designed to prevent that exact thing. Check that shit out bro, because straight "couples" get in trouble when they alter their marital status to avoid higher taxes.

Understandable...

My thing is, if the government proves time after time to be unwilling to do something like this, then the only recourse is to let all couples obtain a "marriage"

 

[bojanglefunk]

Whelp knight has had his annual complete meltdown.

Not sure if I find this or the "my brother is a fighter pilot" thread more entertaining.

 

[Milhouse]

the only thing worse than someone who takes himself seriously is someone who takes himself seriously on a message board

 

[tsywake]

That would make an awesome movie. Maybe they could be bros who are police officers, park rangers, or firefighters or something. Then they could meet a hot girl who walks around half naked for half of the movie because "who cares, they're gay?" and hilarity would ensue.

 

[bmoneydeac]

pssss...i think that was the joke.

 

[tsywake]

pssss...i think that was the joke.

I know, I just love that picture. Its sentimental to me, it was the movie my wife and went to see on our first date.

 

[DeaconBrews]

My post wasn't meant to be read with any malice, more like disbelief. Like, "damn, you went to an enormous amount of effort to produce something that was a 1/10 on the humor scale."

like that 50 shades of rjkarl thing

 

[deacphan]

Holmes,

Your trolling game needs a ton of work. No more than 24 hours before you made this post you gave me posrep in another thread specifically for doing exactly what you said.






You and I have been posting here forever. You've been here longer than I have. Your posts are awesome because they are never longer than necessary. You've seen me joke about ELC fucking anything that walks and making jabs at myself and others regarding the good old college days. Everyone has things in their life that are important to them - my Eagle Badge and the related experiences are one of the most important things in my life, probably top 10.


Bojangle, if this is your idea of a meltdown, then you're either misreading the tone of my posts or live in a very cute and cuddly world.




My post wasn't meant to be read with any malice, more like disbelief. Like, "damn, you went to an enormous amount of effort to produce something that was a 1/10 on the humor scale."

lol... defs raped by scout master.