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Feb. 28th, 2004 06:39 pmRAW was like ( OMG Fangirl Shrieking )
No real ears were hurt in the process of this squeaking since I was in a crowded area and decided it wouldn't be politic to shriek.
And since it's a requirement of having a Livejournal, here is my tuppenny worth on the whole gay marriage thing.
To paraphrase Bill Hicks, anyone batshit crazy enough to want to get married ought to be allowed to. (The original quote was about gays in the military, so I thought it was pretty aposite.)
Probably slightly to glib but you know what I'm like. I know nothing about the whole love and romance thing but what I do know about is finances and death duties and it strikes me as somewhat unfair that the widow/widower in a gay couple who have been together for years gets nothing automatically and has to pay an insane amount of death duties on anything, while someone like say Anna Nicole Smith can be married for a month (or however long it was) and get all her husband's money without too many difficulties - not that I would ever suggest that her marriage wasn't a love match on both sides ;)
Basically when someone you love dies you've got way too much on your plate anyway without having to deal with trying to find somewhere to live because the house goes to the nearest blood relative because he or she didn't leave a will or a legal widow/widower. It's not a matter of love or religion but a matter of social conscience.
PS: On a questioning note, I thought the President couldn't change the Constitution without it going through your houses of parliament, am I wrong?
On to LOTR stuff ( Fellowship of the Ring: Chapter 4 - 'A Short Cut To Mushrooms' )
And on an RL note, the presentation I thought was for Monday week is actually this Monday but I sat down and finished it in an evening and a day so go team me. And it gives me an excuse to go to the Dry Dock (a pub, shaped like a boat) because I have to get down to the uni anyway to print stuff off.
No real ears were hurt in the process of this squeaking since I was in a crowded area and decided it wouldn't be politic to shriek.
And since it's a requirement of having a Livejournal, here is my tuppenny worth on the whole gay marriage thing.
To paraphrase Bill Hicks, anyone batshit crazy enough to want to get married ought to be allowed to. (The original quote was about gays in the military, so I thought it was pretty aposite.)
Probably slightly to glib but you know what I'm like. I know nothing about the whole love and romance thing but what I do know about is finances and death duties and it strikes me as somewhat unfair that the widow/widower in a gay couple who have been together for years gets nothing automatically and has to pay an insane amount of death duties on anything, while someone like say Anna Nicole Smith can be married for a month (or however long it was) and get all her husband's money without too many difficulties - not that I would ever suggest that her marriage wasn't a love match on both sides ;)
Basically when someone you love dies you've got way too much on your plate anyway without having to deal with trying to find somewhere to live because the house goes to the nearest blood relative because he or she didn't leave a will or a legal widow/widower. It's not a matter of love or religion but a matter of social conscience.
PS: On a questioning note, I thought the President couldn't change the Constitution without it going through your houses of parliament, am I wrong?
On to LOTR stuff ( Fellowship of the Ring: Chapter 4 - 'A Short Cut To Mushrooms' )
And on an RL note, the presentation I thought was for Monday week is actually this Monday but I sat down and finished it in an evening and a day so go team me. And it gives me an excuse to go to the Dry Dock (a pub, shaped like a boat) because I have to get down to the uni anyway to print stuff off.
