• Folstar@lemmus.org
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    I like that if you start at “Sanctity of marriage”, something the radical right clearly does not actually value, and work counterclockwise the terms get increasingly vague and meaningless until they completely phone it in with “Etc”. What values.

    “If robosexual marriage becomes legal, imagine the horrible things that will happen to our children, then imagine we said those things, since we couldn’t think of any. As a mother, those things worry me.” -Futurama

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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      So I like playing the cinnamon rolls game. Every time you see “marriage” instead read “a common law government contract that bestows rights and responsibilities and formalizes systems of inheritance and power of attorney in cases of incapacity, originally managed by churches because religions were the original governments” and the word sanctity loses all meaning by the end of a discussion with a homophobia