"you're not really married," Canada tells foreign gays.

Started by Josephus, January 12, 2012, 10:23:31 AM

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Habbaku

And involved all rather than just the ones on this forum.  :(
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

crazy canuck

People love to compain about lawyers.  Until they actually need one that is.

Neil

Quote from: crazy canuck on January 14, 2012, 09:10:51 AM
People love to compain about lawyers.  Until they actually need one that is.
And your little guild loves to make sure that people need them, don't they?
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

crazy canuck

Quote from: Neil on January 14, 2012, 09:21:06 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on January 14, 2012, 09:10:51 AM
People love to compain about lawyers.  Until they actually need one that is.
And your little guild loves to make sure that people need them, don't they?
Yeah, we have agents who go out to make sure people breach their contracts, lie, cheat and steal and generally act unreasonably so that their victims need the services of a lawyer.  Without our agents doing such things people would always keep their word and act reasonably and then I would have nothing to do.

Neil

Quote from: crazy canuck on January 14, 2012, 10:21:12 AM
Quote from: Neil on January 14, 2012, 09:21:06 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on January 14, 2012, 09:10:51 AM
People love to compain about lawyers.  Until they actually need one that is.
And your little guild loves to make sure that people need them, don't they?
Yeah, we have agents who go out to make sure people breach their contracts, lie, cheat and steal and generally act unreasonably so that their victims need the services of a lawyer.  Without our agents doing such things people would always keep their word and act reasonably and then I would have nothing to do.
Don't you think that's a little much?  Isn't it enough to simply write the laws, interpret the laws and enforce the laws to your own advantage and the detriment of society at every turn?
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

DontSayBanana

Quote from: Neil on January 14, 2012, 10:33:59 AM
Don't you think that's a little much?  Isn't it enough to simply write the laws, interpret the laws and enforce the laws to your own advantage and the detriment of society at every turn?

Why rewrite the laws when you can rewrite the dictionary? Why, Neil, that's positively Orwellian. :P
Experience bij!

Josephus

Quote from: Neil on January 14, 2012, 09:21:06 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on January 14, 2012, 09:10:51 AM
People love to compain about lawyers.  Until they actually need one that is.
And your little guild loves to make sure that people need them, don't they?


they'd be lost without us.
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Josephus

Looks like the government is promising to change the marriage laws to make marriages performed here legal whether or not they're recognized elsewhere.

http://www.thestar.com/news/article/1115215--ottawa-to-change-law-so-same-sex-marriages-are-valid?bn=1
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Barrister

Quote from: Neil on January 14, 2012, 10:33:59 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on January 14, 2012, 10:21:12 AM
Quote from: Neil on January 14, 2012, 09:21:06 AM
Quote from: crazy canuck on January 14, 2012, 09:10:51 AM
People love to compain about lawyers.  Until they actually need one that is.
And your little guild loves to make sure that people need them, don't they?
Yeah, we have agents who go out to make sure people breach their contracts, lie, cheat and steal and generally act unreasonably so that their victims need the services of a lawyer.  Without our agents doing such things people would always keep their word and act reasonably and then I would have nothing to do.
Don't you think that's a little much?  Isn't it enough to simply write the laws, interpret the laws and enforce the laws to your own advantage and the detriment of society at every turn?

Yes - all those laws against assault, theft, and murder - they are all for my personal benefit, and are to the detriment of society. :mellow:
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Razgovory

Well you are the only one here who profits from enforcing them.  Kinda suspicious, ain't it?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

fhdz

Quote from: Martinus on January 12, 2012, 11:57:13 AM
Homosexuality is not something you can "contract". It's not a disease.  :rolleyes:

Some diseases are genetic and thus are not contracted either. :nerd:
and the horse you rode in on