Quite right too ! …..and while we’re at it lets get rid of all those other “Special Interest” California groups that want to ban circumcision and turn America into a copy of France.
And after that we can start in on the American Nazi Party (=Stormfront)
How about it ,Folks?
It would have been a lot better if it were not factually and logically flawed. Is he really dumb enough to believe that married people cannot have separate property in California? Is he really arguing that infertile people should not be allowed to get married? I don’t read Sowell often, but, if this is typical of his work, he’s even worse than most right-wingers. Pathetic.
I live in L.A. and we have enough flakies to populate the entire U.S.A. Since this is the Season of Goodwill why don’t some of you generous open hearted souls offer to take them in???.
Does this quote still make you believe Mr. Sowell is “brilliant”? Because actually this quote makes him a “bigoted fucking asshole”.
“What the activists really want is the stamp of acceptance on homosexuality, as a means of spreading that lifestyle, which has become a death style in the era of AIDS.
They have already succeeded to a remarkable degree in our public schools, where so-called “AIDS education” or other pious titles are put on programs that promote homosexuality. In some cases, gay activists actually come to the schools, not only to promote homosexuality as an idea but even to pass out the addresses of local gay hangouts to the kids.”
Sowell: “Marriage is a restriction. If my wife buys an automobile with her own money, under California marriage laws I automatically own half of it, whether or not my name is on the title. Whether that law is good, bad, or indifferent, it is a limitation of our freedom to arrange such things as we ourselves might choose. This is just one of many decisions that marriage laws take out of our hands.”
This demonstrates the “sanctity” of marriage? I was married almost 30 years and my wife and I raised four kids together. Just about the last thing I worried about was how car titles would be affected by marriage laws. What I was worried about was my marriage and my kids.
Marriage is not all about love and kisses. Of course “marriage is a restriction”. Marriage is a commitment, and commitments entail restrictions. When you promise to “love and honor”, you affirming about how you will live your life — to put the other person on an equal footing, and to never stop — and agreeing to limit your more selfish impulses, for example, to get screwed silly on a business trip just because you can get away with it.
But seeing marriage primarily in terms of “restrictions”? What a dark view of marriage. What a selfish, childish view of marriage.
Quite right too ! …..and while we’re at it lets get rid of all those other “Special Interest” California groups that want to ban circumcision and turn America into a copy of France.
And after that we can start in on the American Nazi Party (=Stormfront)
How about it ,Folks?
It would have been a lot better if it were not factually and logically flawed. Is he really dumb enough to believe that married people cannot have separate property in California? Is he really arguing that infertile people should not be allowed to get married? I don’t read Sowell often, but, if this is typical of his work, he’s even worse than most right-wingers. Pathetic.
I live in L.A. and we have enough flakies to populate the entire U.S.A. Since this is the Season of Goodwill why don’t some of you generous open hearted souls offer to take them in???.
Matt—
Does this quote still make you believe Mr. Sowell is “brilliant”? Because actually this quote makes him a “bigoted fucking asshole”.
“What the activists really want is the stamp of acceptance on homosexuality, as a means of spreading that lifestyle, which has become a death style in the era of AIDS.
They have already succeeded to a remarkable degree in our public schools, where so-called “AIDS education” or other pious titles are put on programs that promote homosexuality. In some cases, gay activists actually come to the schools, not only to promote homosexuality as an idea but even to pass out the addresses of local gay hangouts to the kids.”
Sowell: “Marriage is a restriction. If my wife buys an automobile with her own money, under California marriage laws I automatically own half of it, whether or not my name is on the title. Whether that law is good, bad, or indifferent, it is a limitation of our freedom to arrange such things as we ourselves might choose. This is just one of many decisions that marriage laws take out of our hands.”
This demonstrates the “sanctity” of marriage? I was married almost 30 years and my wife and I raised four kids together. Just about the last thing I worried about was how car titles would be affected by marriage laws. What I was worried about was my marriage and my kids.
Marriage is not all about love and kisses. Of course “marriage is a restriction”. Marriage is a commitment, and commitments entail restrictions. When you promise to “love and honor”, you affirming about how you will live your life — to put the other person on an equal footing, and to never stop — and agreeing to limit your more selfish impulses, for example, to get screwed silly on a business trip just because you can get away with it.
But seeing marriage primarily in terms of “restrictions”? What a dark view of marriage. What a selfish, childish view of marriage.