State of the Discussion

i haven't followed your posts on gay marriage closely so sorry if you've laid this all out before. But would you support doing away with government-sanctioned marriage altogether? Replace with "civil unions" that are the legal equivalent, except broadened to include every type of human relationship--so if me and my bachelor pad roommates want to enter a civil union and get hospital visitation rights, we can do that. Eliminate tax breaks and only allow one designated person to have access to traditional monetary benefits. If necessary, impose certain costs (i.e. a license fee) on the civil union contract to prevent abuse.

basically the idea is to detach the concept of family from outdated notions of gender and genetics.

Freddie:

This is crucial because, as almost anyone will tell you, only America ultimately can broker peace in Palestine. This is because the deep economic, military and diplomatic investment of the United States in Israel gives us the power to deeply influence Israeli policy moving forward.

I think this is absolutely correct.

This is a test comment, by the way, or else I'd go into a bit more depth--though in all honesty, the purpose of this project is to go in to depth in the follow-up posts. So perhaps I wouldn't.

Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3....