I want it to be legal here.

Talk to upstate.

Not my job.
I'm not complaining right now, I'm single.

Protect Marriage has already filed an appeal as of today. Hold on to your hats, ladies and gentlemen, the resulting ****storm is gonna be baaad.

Gay marriage before nation's largest appeals court | Associated Press | The Times Leader, Wilkes-Barre, PA

Are you a homosexual?

You know what's really funny about that whole "Protect Marriage!" garbage? The Bible actually considers marriage to be the lesser of two evils, for weak christians who can't resist their sexual urges. It was never sacred to begin with.

see http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f2...w/badbible.png

I love who I love.
There isn't much else. Some people call me ***, some call me bi, but I mostly identify with the term pansexual because I don't see gender, just personality.

I was trying to figure out why it wasn't your job to talk to upstate because you were single.

You've got 4 options (I guess 5 now) in America. Get a bus ticket, lady.

Yes. I'm hopeful that eventually the U.S. supreme court will say state laws prohibiting same-sex marriage are unconstitutional. Laws should not discriminate against individuals based on their sex/gender. The fight for legalizing same-sex marriage is, I feel, basically a fight to say that whether I am a "man" or a "woman" should not be a factor in determining whom I may marry. This is a gender issue.

Heh heh...even lowly IOWA, often seen as backward and conservative, allows same-sex marriage, while liberal New York doesn't. It is sad that people haven't managed to legalize same-sex marriage in New York yet, and that the opposition is apparently so strong there.

AwwSugar, The Human Rights Campaign is a great organization to join, I feel, to support same-sex marriage in the U.S....and even single pansexuals can join! ;) I became a member long ago in the 1990s after I heard a talk by HRC member Candace Gingrich, conservative Newt Gingrich's half-sister. HRC does a very good job organizating rallies and working on political and judicial issues, both on a local level and a national level. I bet New York has a very large HRC organization but could always use more support.

I like this description. "Pansexual." I think I am very similar to you, Aww, in this way. I had never heard of this term before: pansexuality. Pansexuality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia But that is exactly how I feel. Thank you! You taught me something new, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE learning something new.

Especially about sex. ;)
(I'm actually kidding about the sex part. I really just like learning new things.)

I wouldn't have guessed that pansexuality means what it does. I kind of expected it to mean one has a thing for this guy/fawn:

http://www.mythinglinks.org/PanPsych...undel~drkd.gif

Aha. **** those four options. I want to get married in NY.

I'm already part of HRC.

And yeah I don't really like being labeled as such. I just like to say I love who I love.

Pansexual?

Urgh what a horrible description.

Makes you sound like you have a fetish for kitchen utensils.

Omnisexual is another way to say it.

Pansexuality, redefined:

"MMMMM...pots and pans! Soooooo nice! Sooooooo sleek! I love you, I love you, I love you, Pot!"

http://cache1.asset-cache.net/xc/200...123AA3B5A18ED0

I'd rather do kitchen utensils than an Omni;

http://imshopping.rediff.com/pixs/pr...ater-BSIII.jpg

Oh, I don't know...that one's kind of a cutie! :love:

GO NEW YORK !!!i

you are so right on point dude.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know, there are only two genders. So is there really any difference between bisexuality and 'pan/omnisexuality'?

There are the intersexed. Google it

Okay, but excluding hermaphrodites (who typically identify themselves as either male or female), people who consider themselves a member of a 'third gender' are still scientifically male or scientifically female.

My guess would be that pansexuals are attracted to a person regardless of their sex, while bisexuals might go through phases of attraction to a certain gender?

We have a few pansexuals/bisexuals I think, maybe they can shed some light on the subject.

I'm pretty sure the difference is that pansexuals are attracted to transexuals, intersex people and transgender. Where I'm just attracted to men and women, someone like IL Duce is attracted to all different types of sex and genders.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/us...egal.html?_r=1

Finally.

Good on him. Whilst I've always remained skeptical about Obama in general, he does seem to pack some nerve and steel amidst all the generic and disinterested "I appeal to all" statements he had always issued.

Isn't this also on the same day as North Carolina banning same-sex marriage? Sometimes I wish public opinion didn't have a say...

I do worry about this.

While I support Obama wholly, in addition to being gay...hence supporting gay marriage wholly...I don't think that was a particularly advantageous political move.

It's been estimated that 1/10 people are LGBT in America. With that, he's looking at potentially gaining 10% of the vote, but many states are wholly against the concept of gay marriage.

If I were Obama, I'd have come out about supporting gay marriage, but not until after the election. While I think that economic issues are more pressing matters, I feel like that one statement could be damning for him. I feel that it is likely in response to Biden's interview in support of gay marriage, but still...I don't see this helping him in the general election.

^ All of those reasons make me respect him more for it. I'd like to think I'd have done the same thing in his position. **** votes, I'm more concerned with human rights.

You bring up some good points, but regardless of what votes he gets, I think it says a lot about Obama's character that he is open about this issue instead of being quiet about it. He'll grow a lot of respect from people.

He's grown a lot of respect from me, but America may not be ready to embrace gay marriage.

Mitt Romney honestly seems like a nice guy, but he'd set us back at least 8-12 years, I feel.

Obama is sincere and trying to help with the worst deficit since the Great Depression, but people have no idea what's going on....they turn to FoxNews for answers, and answers are not to be had there.

It's a horrible place to be. He has at least 75,000 balls to say this during an election year, though.

That's my view.
I get standing for rights and everything. But I need him to win over Romney, and I'm afraid that he's set himself back by saying this.
I feel like either way he had the LGBTQ vote over Romney anyway, so it wasn't reeeally necessary to say that.

Some people are saying he did it to be popular, but I don't think this makes him popular.

Respect alone will help him in the long run. Regardless if Republicans feel he is talking out of his ass, or if he's just trying to get votes. As Sugar said, I don't think he's doing this for popularity, but I do think that some influence of what he said did indeed come from what Biden said about the issue.

To be fair though, Obama was never totally against same sex marriage, he never said he thinks it's wrong or sinful. He was more in between of the issue.