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Gay Marriage: Yes or No?

Yes 100 69.93%
 
No 31 21.68%
 
Don't Know 2 1.40%
 
No, but partnerships are fine 10 6.99%
 
Total:143
SciFiBoy on 03 March 2010
axumblade said:
Interesting that 9 people voted no but only 1 person has commented in here that they voted no. :P

On a different note, open call for anyone who wants to be put in the gaymers list on vgchartz. :P If
you are interested, just let me know.

@ bolded - even the one that did just made a baseless assertion and left under scrutiny, tells you all you need to know about the poeple who vote no really doesnt it?



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adriane23 on 03 March 2010
SciFiBoy said:
axumblade said:
Interesting that 9 people voted no but only 1 person has commented in here that they voted no. :P

On a different note, open call for anyone who wants to be put in the gaymers list on vgchartz. :P If
you are interested, just let me know.

@ bolded - even the one that did just made a baseless assertion and left under scrutiny, tells you all you need to know about the poeple who vote no really doesnt it?

lol when you read his first post did it make you think, "what the fuck?" Then he denied what he said MINUTES later. I love the internet.....



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adriane23 on 03 March 2010
SciFiBoy said:
axumblade said:
Interesting that 9 people voted no but only 1 person has commented in here that they voted no. :P

On a different note, open call for anyone who wants to be put in the gaymers list on vgchartz. :P If
you are interested, just let me know.

@ bolded - even the one that did just made a baseless assertion and left under scrutiny, tells you all you need to know about the poeple who vote no really doesnt it?

lol when you read his first post did it make you think, "the fuck?" Then he denied what he said MINUTES later. I love the internet.....



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mrstickball on 03 March 2010
SciFiBoy said:
personally I think that state education is a good thing and that it should be a priority for the government, the government should endevaour to make state education as good as it can, so people get as much as is possible the same standard of education, obviously its never perfect, but if we can get anywhere close I think its good for society, I think its important that its run by the government so its accountable to the public.

Except when government education isn't accountable to good or even decent standards. Such as the case with many thousands of American schools.



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SciFiBoy on 03 March 2010
mrstickball said:
SciFiBoy said:
personally I think that state education is a good thing and that it should be a priority for the government, the government should endevaour to make state education as good as it can, so people get as much as is possible the same standard of education, obviously its never perfect, but if we can get anywhere close I think its good for society, I think its important that its run by the government so its accountable to the public.

Except when government education isn't accountable to good or even decent standards. Such as the case with many thousands of American schools.

then improve the system, dont give up on it



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adriane23 on 03 March 2010
mrstickball said:
SciFiBoy said:
personally I think that state education is a good thing and that it should be a priority for the government, the government should endevaour to make state education as good as it can, so people get as much as is possible the same standard of education, obviously its never perfect, but if we can get anywhere close I think its good for society, I think its important that its run by the government so its accountable to the public.

Except when government education isn't accountable to good or even decent standards. Such as the case with many thousands of American schools.

Property tax and school population are big factors in the disparities between public schools.



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SciFiBoy on 03 March 2010
adriane23 said:
mrstickball said:
SciFiBoy said:
personally I think that state education is a good thing and that it should be a priority for the government, the government should endevaour to make state education as good as it can, so people get as much as is possible the same standard of education, obviously its never perfect, but if we can get anywhere close I think its good for society, I think its important that its run by the government so its accountable to the public.

Except when government education isn't accountable to good or even decent standards. Such as the case with many thousands of American schools.

Property tax and school population are big factors in the disparities between public schools.

build more schools in those areas, shockingly simple solution to the over population problem, and taxes should be progressive otherwise they are pretty pointless, if you need to, raise them to pay for the education system or cut budgets in other less important sectors, lets face it, theyre arent many things more important than education.



CatFangs806 on 03 March 2010
SciFiBoy said:
CatFangs806 said:
SciFiBoy said:
CatFangs806 said:
SciFiBoy said:
CatFangs806 said:
Nope. And also for the OP, why should they get benefits over those of us who are straight. Giving benefits to a certain group of people over something like this is never right. It's discrimination.

er, they wouldnt, they would simply be given the same rights we hetrosexuals currently get?

also, why do you think they shouldnt get the same rights?

I never said they wouldn't have the same rights as us. I was just saying that I don't support anything gay, and certainly not gay marriage. If they want to get married, I can't stop them. I just have religious reasons for saying so, and I know many members on here are athiests, but that's just my stance on the issue.

"why should they get benefits over those of us who are straight"

funny, to me, that is saying you think they wouldnt have the same rights...

I was thinking of more economic benefits that people get over others. People get welfare benefits, but a lot of the people who have it shouldn't as they just use it to be lazy and to leech off the rest of us. I'd be afraid that the government would give gays exceptional benefits, particularly economic ones, over heterosexuals.

you think gay people get prioritised by benefit offices?

based on what?

have you ANY evidence to support that claim?

I said I'd be afraid if they could or did get those benefits. For all I know, they don't. I just know that minority groups or different groups of people sometimes get discounts on their taxes and get other unfair advantages over the rest of us. At least that's what I've heard.



adriane23 on 03 March 2010
SciFiBoy said:
adriane23 said:
mrstickball said:
SciFiBoy said:
personally I think that state education is a good thing and that it should be a priority for the government, the government should endevaour to make state education as good as it can, so people get as much as is possible the same standard of education, obviously its never perfect, but if we can get anywhere close I think its good for society, I think its important that its run by the government so its accountable to the public.

Except when government education isn't accountable to good or even decent standards. Such as the case with many thousands of American schools.

Property tax and school population are big factors in the disparities between public schools.

build more schools in those areas, shockingly simple solution to the over population problem, and taxes should be progressive otherwise they are pretty pointless, if you need to, raise them to pay for the education system or cut budgets in other less important sectors, lets face it, theyre arent many things more important than education.

I agree that education is the most important thing, but raising taxes in dense urban areas that are predominently low to moderate income would cause more problems than it would solve and probably won't help the schools enough to justify a tax increase. Adding more schools would be too expensive which is why they consolidate school districts to keep the teachers (sometimes) and school programs. They could tax the large corporations that have headquarters in densely populated counties.

 

EDIT: Better make sure I'm staying on topic. Yes on Gay Marriage (just don't call it marriage).



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mrstickball on 03 March 2010
SciFiBoy said:
adriane23 said:
mrstickball said:
SciFiBoy said:
personally I think that state education is a good thing and that it should be a priority for the government, the government should endevaour to make state education as good as it can, so people get as much as is possible the same standard of education, obviously its never perfect, but if we can get anywhere close I think its good for society, I think its important that its run by the government so its accountable to the public.

Except when government education isn't accountable to good or even decent standards. Such as the case with many thousands of American schools.

Property tax and school population are big factors in the disparities between public schools.

build more schools in those areas, shockingly simple solution to the over population problem, and taxes should be progressive otherwise they are pretty pointless, if you need to, raise them to pay for the education system or cut budgets in other less important sectors, lets face it, theyre arent many things more important than education.

But most of the failing schools are also having the most money put into them to 'fix' them, despite no improvements in test scores.

Also, I would question if smaller class sizes invariably lead to better education, SciFiBoy. If you did not know, Utah has the worst student to teacher ratio in the US, and has the best test scores. In the case of many of the schools' budgets I just showed you, how in the world is more money going to change things when its painfully obvious that money doesn't help the problem?



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