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Post by Thorngrub on Nov 10, 2006 11:05:31 GMT -5
< excellent post, rit !
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Post by sisyphus on Nov 10, 2006 11:39:21 GMT -5
true 'dat, rit.
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Post by maarts on Nov 11, 2006 4:29:34 GMT -5
So what's exactly the 'new beginning'? Same discussion, same posters, nothing that could be discussed on other boards?
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Post by shin on Nov 11, 2006 12:04:54 GMT -5
It's about America, maarts.
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Post by rockysigman on Nov 12, 2006 17:20:57 GMT -5
So Feingold is out already.
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Post by Galactus on Nov 12, 2006 18:37:13 GMT -5
...but Biden's adds his name to the list of guys who won't win...
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Post by kmc on Nov 14, 2006 13:09:28 GMT -5
November 14, 2006
South Africa Parliament Approves Gay Marriages
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 11:42 a.m. ET
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) -- The South African parliament on Tuesday approved new legislation recognizing gay marriages -- a first for a continent where homosexuality is largely taboo.
The National Assembly passed the Civil Union Bill, worked out after months of heated public discussion, by a majority of 230 to 41 votes despite criticism from both traditionalists and gay activists and warnings that it might be unconsitutional. There were three abstentions.
The bill provides for the ''voluntary union of two persons, which is solemnized and registered by either a marriage or civil union.'' It does not specify whether they are heterosexual or homosexual partnerships.
But it also says marriage officers need not perform a ceremony between same-sex couples if doing so would conflict with his or her ''conscience, religion and belief.''
''When we attained our democracy, we sought to distinguish ourselves from an unjust painful past, by declaring that never again shall it be that any South African will be discriminated against on the basis of color, creed culture and sex,'' Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula told the National Assembly.
The bill had been expected to pass given the overwhelming majority of the ruling African National Congress, despite unease among rank and file lawmakers. It now has to go to the National Council of Provinces, which is expected to be a formality, before being signed into law by President Thabo Mbeki.
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Post by kmc on Nov 14, 2006 13:09:48 GMT -5
Even fucking South Africa is doing this now. We are so behind the curve here...
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Post by rockysigman on Nov 14, 2006 13:37:14 GMT -5
That's pretty sad when South Africa is more progressive.
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Post by kmc on Nov 14, 2006 14:55:02 GMT -5
I know.
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Post by kmc on Nov 14, 2006 14:56:35 GMT -5
Current Events - Nintendo Wii comes out on Sunday. Thank you.
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Post by rockysigman on Nov 14, 2006 15:00:03 GMT -5
You're going to take a break from writing comic books to play video games?
Current event: I got a new apartment. Moving at the end of the month. Bitches.
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Post by kmc on Nov 14, 2006 15:35:23 GMT -5
I am gonna be playing video games about writing comics.
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Post by shin on Nov 14, 2006 19:39:11 GMT -5
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Post by kmc on Nov 14, 2006 19:58:43 GMT -5
why do you hate America, shin?
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