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Oh my. "Sorry for trying to reason". Why am I not surprised. :rolleyes: It's a serious matter of FREEDOM. For everybody. Including you, very personally. If you don't care about that, kindly show some humility and logical consistency, and immediately convert to whatever is the majority religion...

@tenK - The broadness or narrowness is irrelevant. The fact is, it's not zero, and will not ever be zero as long as freedom of religion exists. BTW; I'm not a Catholic. I did grow up in that faith and used to be a member (increasingly more just on paper, though) until my late twenties, which is...

Agreed. I was pretty baffled that eight sex partners was considered perfectly average at 41, male. I would definitely have estimated a good tad higher than that.

Absolutely false, in all cases. In none of these countries are churches/religions banned from performing marriage rites. Thankfully, otherwise these would be very oppressive countries indeed, blatantly disregarding human rights. No, I'm not describing my preferred scenario there, I'm describing...

A state in which all marriages are done in a governmental office simply has no freedom of religion. The rite in the church is getting married - that's its proper name, and a free, secular state has no right to impede on that practice or its naming. Note that no country that would meet your...

Eh... not many people would have seen this SCOTUS ruling coming five years ago, either. I'm not an optimist by any definition of the word, but I think 100 years is certainly too pessimistic. I hope I'll still see it happen in my lifetime, actually. No worries, that's actually very close to my...

Because you simply cannot legally remove the religious meaning of the word. No state can deny that marriage is, e.g., a holy sacrament for Roman Catholics. If you want a clear separation of the words used, it must be the state who gives up use of the word. Everything else would violate freedom...

Glad to see someone else see it that way, too. I've been saying that exact same thing for years, and have repeatedly gotten both "conservatives" and "liberals" going at my throat for it. :rolleyes: IMO, the ideal sitch would be: marriage = purely religious ceremony, and as such under the sole...

Biologically male, age 41... Exactly average (at the 50% mark) if one counts in virtual (phone/cyber) sex partners - which is 8 people, in my case. (It may be interesting that I "racked up" that average number during only one year, which has been a good long while ago now. I guess that was my...

Update on my sitch with R. - we're on talking terms again and trying to reconnect as friends. I still think the topic "relationships" is pretty much through for my life, in general, after this crash and burn (which is why I've kinda fallen inactive on here in the last couple of months... I...

Doing a survival-y job of holding up, trying to adapt to the bitter breakup and apparently permanent and complete end of all contact between R. and me. I guess I'll call a close on the "dating and relationships" chapter on my life. Apperently, this stuff just ain't for me, after all.

Oh dear. Sounds like my "entitlement issues" theory was spot on. *sigh* He's already broken up with her, and you know that her accusations are baseless. So, if I were you, I wouldn't meet her (and, if she mails you again, block her accounts in all media she could contact you over). There is...

Yup, I'm not gonna argue there. That's why I specified "in-universe". If Willow says she's gay, then she's gay... ...but as for the writers making her character say this (out of universe / on a meta-level), in the first place? I agree that bi-erasure is the most likely explanation there. Mixed...

The tropes of Lipstick Lesbian and No Bisexuals are strong in TV land. [warning: tvtropes links. You risk spending the next 24-hours-straight reading interesting stuff with 100 tabs open. #TVtropesWillRuinYourLife ] I've more or less given upon Gray's a few seasons ago... (didn't even know...

In my not so humble personal opinion, it doesn't. I'm pretty rabidly anti-marriage, including for that reason, and would love to see the Big M stripped of all legal context and reduced to just a purely religious ceremony with no secular meaning or benefits (legal rights, taxes, etc.pp.)...

Is poly about sex? Nope. Poly is about love, not sex. However, people who enjoy and desire sex (i.e., the huge majority of folks) are obviously very, very likely to include sex in their poly 'ships. If you remove the sex, do you just have friendship? I object to the use of "just" here. IMO...

Yep, this. To me, this starts to sound a lot like she may have serious entitlement issues that she rationalizes to herself as RA/rejecting hierarchical models. Smells fishy. I'd be wary about her, too.

"Warmer" enough that you can legitimately start hoping to broil a sunny-side up on it, actually. ;)

No, that's not quite it. :) Allow me to simply quote two recent posts of mine from another thread; I'd just be repeating the same points otherwise: Basically, the entity that I refer to with the word "god" is best compared to a scientist observing a petri dish, knowing that fiddling with...

Awwwwh. :) Thank you. It means a lot for me to be seen for the quirky oddball I am and be accepted at the same time.