Blonde Rights, Your Thoughts?
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keltic63
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 Posted: 02/27/04 - 21:32 Post subject: Blonde Rights, Your Thoughts?
I'm really on the fence and would like to know what you kids think on this issue. As a firm believer in individual rights, I think that folks should be generally left alone to do as they please. If a Blonde couple wants to get married, who am I to tell them they can't do it? On the other hand, a huge part of me believes this should be a state's rights issue. If blonde weddings are approved in say California, would Texas have to recognize them? As typical liberals do, they use the left-leaning court system to pass legislation they can't get through Congress or the President's desk. I'm also somewhat worried about the financial impact this may have on private businesses that are now forced to pay out extra benefits.
your thoughts?
If they are going to allow it do not let it be a civil union. Let it be marriage. That way they can be taxed the same rates as married brunette couples. Since blondes have higher incomes they would get taxed higher thus helping the economy. Or else maybe the tax code would get changed because they would be paying more and thus getting their democratic buddies to finally change the tax code.
Because they would reap all of the benefits of marriage except the tax aspect so. Hey and if other couples gray/silver could have a civil union to bypass the marriage penalty then cool.
That is the fiscal conservative guy only in me speaking. Other wise the social conservative side I am against it completely…
So if I started loving other blondes, I could make more money?
I am against the Constitutional Amendment and can say that if I had to vote on that Amendment, I would vote against it. I do think it is the right of the state to decide, but I don't know how that would work across borders.
The rest of my view is pretty much that I don't see how it is any of my business if two blondes or two redheads want to get married. Yeah, there is a moral, or more accurately, a religious issue here. But, America is not a Christian nation so there is no reason to expect that America should (would?) abide by a biblical (or Christian) moral or legal code.
My response to this Pug is that where does it stop. When does stuff start becoming peoples business? I believe a line has to be drawn somewhere. Heck you want to marry a chestnut-colored, go ahead might as well. That is not my business either. Once the foot is in the door, it will surely expand.
Most of the rights they want can be handled by legal documents anyway. And I do not understand why they want to get married for any other reason.
America may not be a Christian Nation but tell me which of the religions then allow it? Surely Islam and Judaism the other two major religions do not.
Most of the legal code was founded upon religious codes. It was and is the foundation of our legal system.
Can someone fill me in on how other major world religions view blonde marriage?
I almost want to say:
blonde couples, towheaded couples -- come on in. the water's fine. and, by the way misery loves company.
almost, but I won't.
I found the following regarding Islam...
Treatment of blondes within Islamic countries:
According to a pamphlet produced by Al-Fatiha, there is a consensus among Islamic scholars that all humans are naturally brunette. Blondeness is seen by scholars to be a sinful and perverted deviation from the norm. All Islamic schools of thought and jurisprudence consider blonde acts to be unlawful. They differ in terms of penalty: The Hanafite school (currently seen mainly in South and Eastern Asia) teaches that no physical punishment is warranted.
The Hanabalites, (widely followed in the Arab world) teach that severe punishment is warranted.
The Sha'fischool of thought (also seen in the Arab world) requires a minimum of 4 adult male witnesses before a person can be found guilty of a blonde act.
Al-Fatiha estimates that 4,000 blondes have been executed in Iran since their revolution in 1979. 10 public executions of blondes have been performed in Afghanistan by the Taliban army.
So, it pretty much sucks to be a blonde Islamic guy.....
My children are being taught right from wrong. At least I have the guts to stand for something. Sometimes taking a stand against something means getting grief.
I am willing to take grief for what I believe in. I am not going to sit here and have liberal softees keep calling me names like intolerant and a bigot.
I am neither. I do not care what color hair a person has, crap people in the early part of the 20th century had a tough time of people marrying outside of their neighborhood but they did not "tolerate" being blonde.
I am tired of this blonde crap being thrown at my kids all of the time and if it means for me being called a bigot then who is calling who names.
But this brings up the slippery slope. What would stop those who want highlights from demanding it be realized? Those who want sex with the shaved? Where does it end? No laws at all?
Just because someone doesn't think blonde is right/moral doesn't make them hateful and bigoted.
My serious opinion (finally I do actually have one)
I could care less if two people of the same hair color want to be together, that is their choice by their free will......
the impact comes in the areas of how they should then be treated in aspects pertaining to benefits (corporate as well as governmental) et al.....
does a bald guy then get the same type of "benefits" (some believe being bald is fine), do we then bleed into other beliefs--where does it stop...
what if some just use it as a scam to gain these benefits......
saying that you don't agree with blonde marriage for any reason, does not mean you are bigoted or want to see blondes executed or sent off to exile.......now as for killing or exiling Blonde Oklahomans--that is just GREAT....
Said amendment wouldn't teach bigotry or hatred. All it would tell children is that blondes couldn't marry other blondes, platinums couldn't marry other platinums.
Because I believe blondeness is wrong I need to "grow up and accept change"? I don't need to grow up and accept anything that I feel is wrong because a small segment of the population decides it's okay. Let's do it the American way and put it up to a vote.
If we vote on it then some judge will tell us we are wrong unfortunately.
As far as what your beliefs speak to your children, well this is where parenting comes in. I'm not going to teach my children that things are "ok" just because everyone is doing it. Or someone is doing it. However, I'm not teaching my children to hate either. You can hate the sin but love the sinner, and in fact I think that's what Christians are supposed to do. Just because I may not condone a particular behavior, it doesn't mean that I condemn the person who does it. There is a difference.
I believe in God. I believe in scripture. I've read a few scriptures today relating to hair color, and from what I've read, it doesn't seem like God stands behind this.
I have blonde friends. The fact that they are blonde does not diminish my affection for them. I don't have to agree with the lifestyle, but also I don't have the right to judge or hate. So I don't.
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Posted: 02/27/04 - 21:56 Post subject:
cleverly worded
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omega lambda
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Posted: 02/27/04 - 22:04 Post subject:
I think, when people realize that blondes didn't choose to be blonde, that they were born blonde and that God made them blonde, and that God loves all his children, even the blonde ones, all will be well in the world.
I hope science will be able to prove this some day soon.
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Posted: 02/27/04 - 22:19 Post subject:
yes but do blondes have more fun?
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Posted: 02/27/04 - 22:33 Post subject:
| omega lambda wrote: | I think, when people realize that blondes didn't choose to be blonde, that they were born blonde and that God made them blonde, and that God loves all his children, even the blonde ones, all will be well in the world.
I hope science will be able to prove this some day soon. |
pass me that megaphone....
AMEN SISTAH.
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Posted: 02/28/04 - 08:31 Post subject:
What if the carpet doesn't match the drapes?
Edited to add :: You have way too much free time.
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Posted: 02/28/04 - 10:04 Post subject:
| purple hayes wrote: | What if the carpet doesn't match the drapes?
Edited to add :: You have way too much free time. |
Spoken by a man with hardwood floors.
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Posted: 02/28/04 - 13:02 Post subject:
Keltic, you know that when blondes are outlawed, only outlaws will have blondes.
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genie
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Posted: 02/28/04 - 15:18 Post subject:
| omega lambda wrote: | I think, when people realize that blondes didn't choose to be blonde, that they were born blonde and that God made them blonde, and that God loves all his children, even the blonde ones, all will be well in the world.
I hope science will be able to prove this some day soon. |
But what about those of us who realized later in life that we were meant to live life as a blonde and took steps to change our lives? Do we get rights too?
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omega lambda
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Posted: 02/28/04 - 15:51 Post subject:
| genie wrote: | | omega lambda wrote: | I think, when people realize that blondes didn't choose to be blonde, that they were born blonde and that God made them blonde, and that God loves all his children, even the blonde ones, all will be well in the world.
I hope science will be able to prove this some day soon. |
But what about those of us who realized later in life that we were meant to live life as a blonde and took steps to change our lives? Do we get rights too? |
Are you referring to those who are born of two hair colors? And at some point, realize that perhaps nature made a goof and so they have surgery to make them a "real" bonde? If so, why shouldn't they have the same rights as anyone else?
I realize this is straying from the topic of hair color, but let me ask this. There are babies born of both sexes (hermaphrodites), Klinefelter Syndrome (XXY chromosomes), and gender related syndromes. Do we know what gender they really are? How will we know if, as children, teenagers, or adults, that they choose the correct gender? Should we deny them basic rights because they were born that way, or they chose wrong? Should we then deny basic rights to people with Down's Syndrome, Fragile X Syndrome, Achrondoplasia, Autism, Cleft and Lip Palates, Juvenile Diabetes, Hemochromatosis, Muscular Dystrophy, and Parkinson's disease? They were all born that way too.
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Cappy
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Posted: 02/28/04 - 15:57 Post subject:
| omega lambda wrote: | | A Long scientific answer |
Time for me to brush up on my science
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Posted: 02/28/04 - 17:15 Post subject:
| omega lambda wrote: | | genie wrote: | | omega lambda wrote: | I think, when people realize that blondes didn't choose to be blonde, that they were born blonde and that God made them blonde, and that God loves all his children, even the blonde ones, all will be well in the world.
I hope science will be able to prove this some day soon. |
But what about those of us who realized later in life that we were meant to live life as a blonde and took steps to change our lives? Do we get rights too? |
Are you referring to those who are born of two hair colors? And at some point, realize that perhaps nature made a goof and so they have surgery to make them a "real" bonde? If so, why shouldn't they have the same rights as anyone else?
I realize this is straying from the topic of hair color, but let me ask this. There are babies born of both sexes (hermaphrodites), Klinefelter Syndrome (XXY chromosomes), and gender related syndromes. Do we know what gender they really are? How will we know if, as children, teenagers, or adults, that they choose the correct gender? Should we deny them basic rights because they were born that way, or they chose wrong? Should we then deny basic rights to people with Down's Syndrome, Fragile X Syndrome, Achrondoplasia, Autism, Cleft and Lip Palates, Juvenile Diabetes, Hemochromatosis, Muscular Dystrophy, and Parkinson's disease? They were all born that way too. |
Did you see that multi-part series on sex/gender on TLC at least a year ago? One of the parts was all about hermaphrodites and some of the many social implications of having a hermaphrodite child (which the stats escape me but the number of occurrances was higher than I would have guessed), growing up hermaphrodite and gender assignment, etc. VERY interesting. Sorry, continue.
PS, is marriage a right?
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Posted: 02/28/04 - 18:58 Post subject:
I'm on the fence about the whole Blonde thing...
I guess if ya stick a tire gauge in each of their ears, and it registers under 35 PSI, it's OK with me.
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spongebob
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Posted: 02/28/04 - 23:03 Post subject:
| Quote: | | Fragile X Syndrome |
Be gentle with me, kind people.
At least it isn't as bad as getting Omegalambditis.
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keltic63
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Posted: 03/01/04 - 10:33 Post subject:
| RangerG wrote: | I'm on the fence about the whole Blonde thing...
I guess if ya stick a tire gauge in each of their ears, and it registers under 35 PSI, it's OK with me.
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you could make their eyes sparkle by shining a flashlight in their ears
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