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They are doing the same in here in 2017.

EDIT: Obama's reach is indeed vast and far-reaching.

Vortex wrote:how many countries allow gay marriage now?

EDIT: 18 countries. And Spain was the third one, wow o_o

10th here.

Vurn wrote:i can't believe being straight in the united state is now illegal. good job america. thanks obama

Good thing I'm not straight.

I'm happy with the decision, but my personal stance on marriage is, I don't see a point to it. I don't believe you need marriage to define love between two people. I was talking to my grandparents who have been together for 40 years, and have never married. As my grandma put it, their relationship has just never gone down the road of marriage, they both feel they don't need a piece of paper to define their love.

I don't know, I'm one of those gay guys who doesn't stick his nose into politics. Like I say to people, I don't like the gay ones who sit there and boycott companies just because they have an anti-gay stance. This is America. If I have the right to be gay, and express myself, I think someone else has the right to be anti-gay and express themselves. But then what I don't tolerate are the anti-gays who incite hatred, ignorance and violence, such as yourself, Vurn.

Maybe if your country and other countries focused on their own problems, without sticking your polish nose into our problems, we would get along better. Just a thought

Gem, he was being sarcastic. I know this for a fact.

Anteroinen wrote:Gem, he was being sarcastic. I know this for a fact.

Yeah!

ENIHCAMBUS wrote:

Anteroinen wrote:Gem, he was being sarcastic. I know this for a fact.

Yeah!

Sarcastic or not, it appeared as if it was a reaction to today's decision - really can't blame Anonymous for that, because sometimes people are being serious and sometimes they aren't!

EDIT: Obama's reach is indeed vast and far-reaching.

Even though the Supreme Court decided on it, not Obama.

That is really weird to me, by the way. Why is the court deciding on a law?

Anteroinen wrote:That is really weird to me, by the way. Why is the court deciding on a law?

Checks and Balances laid out when this country evolved over time! Each part of the government can decide, repeal and block each other when they see something is wrong or right. Basically, it's fail-safe system designed so no-one bit of the government is unconstitutional over the other.

We abide by the constitution, not by religion, and not purely by law description. We all have rights in this country, and they all hark back to the constitution with it's amendments. I highly recommend googling and reading up on our government on Wikipedia, if you haven't done so.

EDIT: Also, the separation of church and state come into play with this matter as well!

I see. Laws work quite differently here then. Here the courts cannot affect the laws they are given to my knowledge, rather by design. Your system and relationship to your constitution is really interesting though. Like, I've seen Americans recite amendments from their constitution. I assure you that most Finnish people have no idea what their constitution says (though I've read some of it myself, most of it is just about the parliament, so I ended up not reading all that).