Marriage ain't what it used to be

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Marriage ain't what it used to be
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Mon, 05-17-2004 - 5:37pm
The first couple to receive marriage liscense confirms what critics described as most likely pattern for gay marriage.

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=28184

"e says the concept of forever is``overrated'' and that he, as a bisexual, and Rogahn, who is gay, have chosen to enjoy an open marriage. ``I think it's possible to love more than one person and have more than one partner, not in the polygamist sense,'' he said.``In our case, it is, we have, an open marriage.''"



Renee

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Registered: 05-10-2004
Tue, 05-18-2004 - 12:31pm
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So let me get this straight. You asked these people if they had been exclusive in their relationship? Why does that question even come up, as in a heterosexual relatioship if someone were to ask that it would be quite offensive. I don't remember sitting around with heterosexual couples and the subject coming up about how loyal and faithful they are to one another. That just seems too odd for words but actually may support whrens point moreso than your own if you think about it.

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Registered: 09-05-2003
Tue, 05-18-2004 - 12:38pm

Actually it sounds like your position is based on your assumption that homosexual & heterosexual relationships are the same.


That is because that is 100% the truth.

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Tue, 05-18-2004 - 12:51pm
Let me get this straight(no pun intended)you have never asked any couple you know how long they have been together/married? Seems to me that is just polite conversation. Why would you find that question odd? Janna never said she asked them how fathful they were just how long they have been together. You appear to be reading much more into her comment.
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 05-18-2004 - 2:01pm

Actually, the topic DID come up because of the fact that there are people who love to perpetuate the rumor that homosexuals are promiscuous sex addicts that don't know the meaning of the word commitment.


When you have 80 people sitting together in a huge room, all waiting to be married, and they begin to talk to each other you'd be amazed at what comes up.

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Registered: 09-05-2003
Tue, 05-18-2004 - 2:10pm

The fact that it DIDN'T happen on your wedding day doesn't negate the circumstances of mine, does it?


Apparently some congratulations are in order.

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Tue, 05-18-2004 - 2:17pm

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Registered: 04-22-2003
Tue, 05-18-2004 - 2:37pm
Heartfelt Congratualtions to you even though belated.

Wish you a very happy married life.

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Registered: 05-10-2004
Tue, 05-18-2004 - 2:38pm
No Janna didn't just say they discussed how long they had been together. It was discussed that they were "exclusive" and he qouted for how many years. That is completely different. You think one would assume they are exclusive aoutmatically if discussion of them being together for 20 years came up but in order for Janna to have used his "personal conversation" with these people as a way to prove what was stated otherwise as homosexuals being "open" to many other partners in their relationships, he brought up these "exclusive" couples. How would he know they were exclusive undoubtedly when in fact he just met them and as you said "was just discussing simply how long they had been together??"
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Tue, 05-18-2004 - 2:46pm
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I am glad you find it so amusing although I thought this subject was a touchy one for you since you are "living" it personally...so if what I had to say shed some happy laughter on it then "You're Welcome"

But one might have to question after all the homosexual couples who are so angered by all the difficulty of marriage and accusations of multiple partners not being the traditional marriage people feel it should be, one would question if those who were open would openly admit to it anyways because that might establish more of a basis for those against same sex marriages's point.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 05-18-2004 - 2:56pm

Uh....janna's a SHE.


I do NOT own a "Y" chromosome, thank you kindly.

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