Summary

In response to Donald Trump’s re-election, some same-sex couples, like Ben Nelson and Adam Weinberger, are accelerating plans to marry, fearing potential rollbacks of LGBTQ rights.

Concerns stem from the Supreme Court’s 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade and past statements from conservative justices suggesting interest in revisiting the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling that legalized same-sex marriage.

While the Respect for Marriage Act offers federal safeguards, uncertainty persists.

LGBTQ-friendly businesses are stepping up to support couples, but fears of broader restrictions, including on parenting options, remain widespread among the community.

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Show me how much you don’t know about presidential power, or history.

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Yep, that’s on the congress. Which Democrats did not have sufficient control of. Which Republicans/DINOs would have struck down hard if they even tried. But simple minds do love simple solutions for complex problems. Regardless of whether they work or not.

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You’re upset someone called you out on your shit because you want to say whatever you want without consequences? Okay MAGA.

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Gay marriages seem a bit purer to me because you know it’s not about kids. They legit like each other.

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Well, some gay couples do have kids. Some men have ovaries and some women have testicles.

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I’m heterosexual and we were marred for 10 years before we had a kid. My brother has been married to a woman almost 30 years and has never had kids. My uncle has been married to a woman almost 50 years and has never had kids. I have lots of friends who are heterosexual and married and have no kids.

And there are two queer couples I’m friends with that do have kids.

On top of that, I know people with kids who never got married.

Marriage and children are really not related except when it comes to certain legal issues.

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I was thinking more being socially forced to marriage thanks to issues revolving around biological kids which to me “ruins the sanctity” of marriage. Meanwhile gay people don’t have that issue. Like oh no someone got my pregnant if I don’t get marriage my family stone me but my partner is a one night stand that I found out is a serial killer.

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Sure, that happens, but I would suggest that’s the minority of marriages these days. Not being married and having kids is just not the social stigma it used to be. The main reason, like I said, is legal stuff like custody and that really needs to be fixed.

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Just because same sex couples don’t birth kids doesn’t mean we’ll stop trying.

Anything is possible through Jesus.

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I see that more likely with 2 females than 2 males. Unless Arnold Schwarzenegger JR becomes a thing.

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I know multiple same-sex couples that got married explicitly for the purpose of being allowed to adopt.

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Well least it’s not like biological clock is ticking so get pregnant now or else leading to bad choices.

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I feel like this is a good way to get yourself on a target list.

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They’re likely on a list already if that’s the case, but it is standing for what they believe in

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Isn’t going to help when the Republicans and the Republican Supreme Court goes after Obergefell v. Hodges.

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Do these people not realize that the government can just invalidate their marriage and punish them?

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Breaking up marriages is recognized worldwide as an act of genocide, but putting restrictions on who can marry isn’t as universally recognized.

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I’m sure Trump really cares about international law

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He doesn’t care about domestic law. I doubt he would care about laws he personally enacted if they stood in opposition to his in-the-moment wants.

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The world hasn’t cared about genocides since 1945.

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Odd statement. The world has cared a lot more about genocide after 1945.

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The world has never cared about a genocide that happened within a nation’s borders.

Had Hitler not invaded other countries, there wouldn’t have been any consequences more severe than a public condemnation.

Hell, there would have provably been foreign support for genociding Romani people.

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Rwanda and further Yugoslavia are both exceptions to your statement

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They did it to my mom. She and her partner drove to San Francisco on that weekend when they were doing gay marriages in the mid 2000s. That ,marriage was canceled once they straightened iut the laws.

They’re legally wed right here in Arizona now, but I wouldn’t put it past these fucks to try to annul their marriage again.

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I’d personally be afraid I’d be putting myself on a termination list tbh, but others are probably braver than me.

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