What disturbed me about the Facebook meeting

Re:What disturbed me about the Facebook meeting by lostmsu on Friday May 20, 2016 @04:30PM (#11741237)

So we've just got from 'evil' "votes against same-sex marrige" that Mozilla CEO guy was fired for, to "cosiders tax breaks are for families to (eventually) get children" -> "votes against gay marriages because they don't get children even if though they can", which does not look evil at all.

I could probably summarize opinions of those voted against same-sex marriage in "marriage and any tax benefits coming from it are there to support people who will eventually raise children". I see, that gay people are not happy, because opposite-sex marriages still get some benefits, but some of them do not end up having kids.

In my opinion, to separate the bugs from the meatloafs, we should separate living together and having kids legally. And the first one should be available to any kinds of partners, but should not provide any benefits, and the second should give benefits, and be positively recognized in society as "family".

But allowing gay-marriages is in no way makes lives closer to that.

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Re:What disturbed me about the Facebook meeting by tomlock on Friday May 20, 2016 @04:44PM (#11741353)

But marriage also imparts many other rights not directly related to children, and not all marriages can or will produce children, hetero or otherwise. This has always been true, so arguments relating to children as the reason for marriage are quite tenuous.

Ed: in this case brendan eich either made a mistake with his donation, or is anti gay rights.

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Re:What disturbed me about the Facebook meeting by lostmsu on Friday May 20, 2016 @05:07PM (#11741530)

See discussion below.

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