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• Clyburn seeks 'national policy' legalizing same-sex marriages

  Mon May 14, 2012
  • Do you every think that perhaps God allows homosexuality as a test for your tolerance?

• First Thoughts: A day of contradictions

  Tue May 15, 2012
  • Does anyone seriously think that if bin Ladin was killed on Bush's watch, that you'd be able to remove the smirk from President Bush with anything less than a sledgehammer?

• Clyburn seeks 'national policy' legalizing same-sex marriages

  Mon May 14, 2012
  • If that was indeed the case, then the Supreme Court was wrong in ruling that a ban on interracial marriages was unconstitutional.

• Marriage issue adds to Supreme Court election stakes

  Thu May 10, 2012
  • This may be discussed elsewhere on this board, but I think a stronger case against the defense of marriage acts (both federal and state) can be made not through the equal protection clause, but through the "full faith and credit clause" which effectively says that contracts in one state have to be …

• In-flight VoIP call gets Delta Air Lines passenger escorted off plane

  Thu May 10, 2012
  • Actually, I think any jerk who is so self-important that his phone call can't wait a few hours should be arrested--not just on the plane but in restaurants, buses, subways, and any other public place where your discussion just might annoy at least one other person.

• Bernanke: Even worthy borrowers can't get mortgages

  Thu May 10, 2012
  • Let's not forget the fact that banks were able to sell off the mortgages of the risky lenders to other banks through investing. This made foreclosures due to nonpayment someone else's problem, and thus why not allow for higher and higher levels of risk?

• Romney apologizes for 'dumb things' during school years

  Thu May 10, 2012
  • I'm of two minds on this. On the one hand, we all do stupid stuff when we're teenagers, when we're still trying to grow up. I'm not certain it's fair to judge Romney on the basis of what happened 30 years ago.

• Obama who? Gay marriage foes seek to extend gains

  Thu May 10, 2012
  • If you want to start talking about sex as for procreation only, then you had better start proclaiming that no form of sex that doesn't lead to procreation should be allowed.

• First Thoughts: Obama's careful line on same-sex marriage

  Thu May 10, 2012
  • If you really want to protect traditional marriage, why not stop with preventing gays from getting married? Pass a law making it a federal crime to commit adultery. I'd love to see someone in the House propose such a bill and get it at least to a vote.