Comments on: New Jersey Same Sex Couple…Is a Foursome http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2006/10/30/new-jersey-same-sex-coupleis-a-foursome/ Conservative group weblog that publishes daily commentary on political events and topics affecting Canada, the United States and the world. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:41:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Allan http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2006/10/30/new-jersey-same-sex-coupleis-a-foursome/comment-page-1/#comment-145675 Allan Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:34:38 +0000 http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2006/10/30/new-jersey-same-sex-coupleis-a-foursome/#comment-145675 What will they think of next. I didn't know same sex couples could get married in the U.S. Or did they get married here in Toronto. What will they think of next. I
didn’t know same sex couples
could get married in the U.S.
Or did they get married here in
Toronto.

]]> By: CIVITATENSIS » Blog Archive » Two of Each Pair, or a Quartet of the Other http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2006/10/30/new-jersey-same-sex-coupleis-a-foursome/comment-page-1/#comment-145599 CIVITATENSIS » Blog Archive » Two of Each Pair, or a Quartet of the Other Tue, 31 Oct 2006 01:51:36 +0000 http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2006/10/30/new-jersey-same-sex-coupleis-a-foursome/#comment-145599 [...] h/t: Tom [...] [...] h/t: Tom [...]

]]> By: George Freeman http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2006/10/30/new-jersey-same-sex-coupleis-a-foursome/comment-page-1/#comment-145583 George Freeman Tue, 31 Oct 2006 00:43:24 +0000 http://www.thepolitic.com/archives/2006/10/30/new-jersey-same-sex-coupleis-a-foursome/#comment-145583 Well, all appearances of well-functioning family life aside, they aren't technically polygamous and they are at liberty to live as such in a free society. Although, I'd be interested to know how they "concieve" their children---do they spend money for that too---and to see how the children of this family turn out. Maybe such curiousity only reinforces giving otherwise uninteresting people media attention, and treating their children like they are right out of a circus tent. That being said, complaining about unequal treatment to married couples is ludicrous. They can hardly expect equal treatment when they don't have equivalent relations. Also, it's dangerous for judges to be lamenting: "they understood “the social indignities and economic difficulties” gay couples have faced." Empathy is nice, but all niceties aside, so what? Courts should arbitrate existing law, not pull new law out of thin air, departing the world of facts for fanciful rationalisations. Well, all appearances of well-functioning family life aside, they aren’t technically polygamous and they are at liberty to live as such in a free society. Although, I’d be interested to know how they “concieve” their children—do they spend money for that too—and to see how the children of this family turn out. Maybe such curiousity only reinforces giving otherwise uninteresting people media attention, and treating their children like they are right out of a circus tent.

That being said, complaining about unequal treatment to married couples is ludicrous. They can hardly expect equal treatment when they don’t have equivalent relations.

Also, it’s dangerous for judges to be lamenting: “they understood “the social indignities and economic difficulties” gay couples have faced.” Empathy is nice, but all niceties aside, so what? Courts should arbitrate existing law, not pull new law out of thin air, departing the world of facts for fanciful rationalisations.

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