ALT Same Sex Relations Poll

[Glen]

Someone asked me to post some questions about these. I suggest they would have been brought up for a vote at one of the earlier general meetings.

[Glen]

I allowed multiple choices on this one as some people might be willing to take one or the other...

[SionEwig]

Who is the Freudian obsessed pervert who keeps asking this stuff?:eek:

[Glen]

Who is the Freudian obsessed pervert who keeps asking this stuff?:eek:

The requesting party requested to remain confidential via PM, and I am going to honor that.

The questions themselves are valid, if not pressing, since we have several people in AH.com who are homosexual or use mind altering substances. Therefore these issues are liable to come up in our community.

I posted this for them now rather than later so I wouldn't forget (which I almost did already).

[pisces74]

I htink someone is using this as a socialogical experiment ;)

[SionEwig]

I htink someone is using this as a socialogical experiment ;)

Oh great, I at least hope that we are part of some ASBs Graduate Thesis, and not an ASB Science Fair exhibit.:D

[Glen]

Oh great, I at least hope that we are part of some ASBs Graduate Thesis, and not an ASB Science Fair exhibit.:D

I just hope we're not part of some ASB Art Project!:eek:

[Ward]

Then we need to ask can a man have more than one wife ?
Also can a women have more than on husban ?
And what about clan marages ?

[Glen]

Then we need to ask can a man have more than one wife ?
Also can a women have more than on husban ?
And what about clan marages ?

If you'd like to bring that one up at a general meeting, feel free to make a poll to get the sense of the community....:eek:

[pisces74]

have to agree with Ward If yes to homosexual marriages then why not polygamy? Generally I'd have no opinion as long as its not on my lawn, however my wife having a wife would help her out signifigantly.

[Glen]

have to agree with Ward If yes to homosexual marriages then why not polygamy? Generally I'd have no opinion as long as its not on my lawn, however my wife having a wife would help her out signifigantly.

Ward is asking me to post a poll regarding that, since my spelling is better. We're working out the format he's recommending now...

[Forum Lurker]

I'd like to strongly urge that we not make marriage per se a governmental function; if all unions of consenting adults are covered by a purely temporal law, and each religion performs ceremonies as its religious tradition permits, then we can actually have separation of church and state.

[Ghost 88]

I'd like to strongly urge that we not make marriage per se a governmental function; if all unions of consenting adults are covered by a purely temporal law, and each religion performs ceremonies as its religious tradition permits, then we can actually have separation of church and state.
Hear hear got my vote

[Doctor What]

I'd like to strongly urge that we not make marriage per se a governmental function; if all unions of consenting adults are covered by a purely temporal law, and each religion performs ceremonies as its religious tradition permits, then we can actually have separation of church and state.
Second that motion--basically-if you and your partner(s) believe yourselves to be married, then let it be so.

[Mayhem]

Second that motion--basically-if you and your partner(s) believe yourselves to be married, then let it be so.
Agreed. It's not like there's anywhere near enough surplus for the economic benefits to kick in. Remember that marriage quite prominently an economics-based societal mechanism; joint property etc.

I should really put aside some time to get into ALT. Dang.

[pisces74]

Agreed. It's not like there's anywhere near enough surplus for the economic benefits to kick in. Remember that marriage quite prominently an economics-based societal mechanism; joint property etc.

I should really put aside some time to get into ALT. Dang.

Well sorry, the dead beaver is off the market, however may I interest you in the burdgoning career field of owning a smokehouse? Its a growth field!

[Flocculencio]

Second that motion--basically-if you and your partner(s) believe yourselves to be married, then let it be so.

Agreed. However I believe that civil authorities should be obliged to register any union be it gay, straight or polyamorous or whatever. What religious authorities do is up to them.

[Doctor What]

Agreed. However I believe that civil authorities should be obliged to register any union be it gay, straight or polyamorous or whatever. What religious authorities do is up to them.

AGAIN with the bureaucracy? :p

Agreement with that.

By the way--good as time as any to mention this--but both Ward and I are ordained ministers of the Universal Life Church in Real Life

http://www.alternatehistory.net/discussion/showthread.php?t=11605

I will leave to you the philosophical dilemma of deciding whether ministers of a church that exists solely on the 21st century internet has legality in 3000 BC ;)

[Flocculencio]

Well I declared myself a Discordian Pope a while back :D

[Hendryk]

I believe that civil authorities should be obliged to register any union be it gay, straight or polyamorous or whatever. What religious authorities do is up to them.
Seconded.
It's civil marriage we're talking about after all. It's essentially asking for a legally valid document saying, in essence, A is married to B and C or whoever. If some people want to also have a religious ceremony, they're free to do so according to their own denominational preferences. But first and foremost, we need to know who has made a commitment to whom, because that implies various responsibilities.

[Glen]

Well, pragmatically speaking, it looks as though we will be having either single sex marriages or unions (not having such as in the common law appears to be in the definite minority).

Overall, I agree that religions can marry or not whoever they see fit. This specifically refers to the rights and responsibilities normally attributed to marriages under the law.