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Ore. Tribe Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

abcnews.go.com — The Coquille Indian Tribe now not only recognizes legal same-sex unions from state and federal governments, but it will soon be handing out its own marriage licenses not only to heterosexual couples, but to homosexual couples as well.

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  • inactive, on 08/27/2008, -12/+90Great. Now the GOP is going to be sending in diseased blankets again.
  • Hinducow28, on 08/28/2008, -13/+75Oh god, for a second there I thought the article was Orc Tribe Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage.
    (which wouldn't be that far off with the picture)
  • LongBong, on 08/28/2008, -11/+49Great! I'm sick of these Christian ***** telling people what they can and can not do. plus love is awesome.
  • Soave, on 08/28/2008, -20/+57Could've chose some hotter lesbians. :/
  • TheUnionBlood, on 08/28/2008, -5/+36Jesus, people on here are so immature. So what if the couple pictured is unattractive? This is a positive step in the name of equality. Unattractive male/ female couples marry all the time.
  • nateabel, on 08/28/2008, -2/+31Yeah, too bad the United States isn't a theocracy. Nice try, though.
  • pintomp3, on 08/28/2008, -3/+30the religion of love loves to hate.
  • inactive, on 08/28/2008, -2/+24What are atheists telling Christians to do, aside from respecting our ***** human rights?
  • eir574, on 08/28/2008, -2/+24Kelly:

    In all seriousness, how does legalizing gay marriage in any way tell Christians what they can and can't do? You're not required to approve of people's marriages. There are probably plenty of heterosexual marriages you wouldn't approve of, but you probably don't think that atheists are telling Christians what to do when the government allows two heterosexuals to get married on a whim in Las Vegas only to divorce shortly thereafter.

    Having to coexist with people who do things you don't approve of doesn't mean that your rights are being trampled or that anyone's telling you what to do.
  • Hetman, on 08/28/2008, -4/+25Actually this makes perfect sense. Technically reservations are not part of the U.S. Kind of like Washington D.C. That is the reason we are able to have casino's. And it is also sweet because if you are on the reservation you pay no sales tax, or property tax. You do have to have your Indian ID with you though. If not everyone in the surrounding communities would be driving over to buy gas, cigarettes and alcohol to bypass the state taxes. But I do not see why other Tribes do not start this. It would defiantly bring more income to their res.
  • doremon313, on 08/28/2008, -1/+21i've seen uglier straight couple getting married....look amongst yourself, you know who you are
  • inactive, on 08/28/2008, -1/+20Except that concept of marriage existed BEFORE Christianity and, yes, even before the Bible was written. So why do the Christians get to decide who can marry? Clearly, if it were up to you, no one of any other denomination would be allowed to wed.

    Marriage is a legal contract, and Christians should stop claiming it as something they invented and can define however they want. Geez, grow up.

    I would add something about how those homophobic "religious" Christian leaders were OBVIOUSLY protecting the sanctity of their marriage when they cheated on their wives with men, but I feel like that's a low blow.
  • Coffeedemon, on 08/28/2008, -1/+18So I take it school isn't back in for another week?
  • Ramble, on 08/28/2008, -3/+20I don't need a badly written book to tell me about love.
  • Thumper13, on 08/28/2008, -2/+19There's all sorts of crap in the Bible that you don't adhere to in modern society.
    Stop picking and choosing to meet your needs.

    How about you let the non-Bible believers do what they want to.
    Does it really threaten so very much?
  • OneLess, on 08/28/2008, -4/+21Just another step towards a post-gay marriage apocalypse where marriage is no longer sacred and lesbians run around in the streets grabbing straight women's nether-regions. Next you lib-rulz will want to allow inter-racial marriage!
  • kettlehead, on 08/28/2008, -0/+16They're not subject to the governance of any *state*. That's probably what he means...
  • malex, on 08/28/2008, -2/+18Dugg for freedom.
  • skyteria, on 08/28/2008, -1/+16Ya, I think that Taliban said something similar.
  • gbjxc, on 08/28/2008, -2/+17But John McCain was tortured!

    It has to be the right thing to do.
  • Hetman, on 08/28/2008, -1/+14Violence and over crowded prisons. Drug addiction requires treatment and therapy to stop not prison. Non-violent drug offenders are creating an over population in prison. These people need helped not punished. The majority of violence that is cause by drugs is caused by gangs/criminial orginization. They are fighting and killing over the rights to distribute and import drugs into the U.S. Sense we know that demand for drugs will not go down enought to effect its profitabililty the only logical step is to legalize drugs. This would eliminate most gangs/criminal orginizations. Because with out the money generated from drugs they would not exist. All we have to do is look at the historical evidence of prohibition to see that this is true.
  • Sraza, on 08/28/2008, -1/+12@kelly
    Just because a majority of people believe gay marriage is bad doesn't make prohibiting it a good thing to do. There are a lot of examples where the majority was wrong. You have to come up with a more reasoned justification than that.

    Furthermore, if gay marriage harms you then I'm not sure how you get through day to day life. By using the same logic you can justify a whole range of improper actions. Free speech can be harmful to some, should it be banned? How about poverty? Does its perceived harm justify the individual to steal from the rich who has more than enough? I don't think so. You are justifying not allowing two consenting adults to get married because of your religious views, views that the two parties involved may not agree with.You don't see how messed up that is?

    We have a host of bible based justifications for the mistreatment of people. Marriage is no longer one of them. It is no longer a religious institution. If I can go to a court house and get married so can homosexual couples.
  • Chairboy, on 08/28/2008, -1/+12Would you like some sort of feather headdress and a tomahawk or something, maybe?

    European high carb diets have wreaked havoc on the native american population, and the 'Tall, skinny, noble savage' stereotype never really reflected the full reality anyhow. Add 400+ years of cross-cultural and racial marriages and reproduction, and some of the genetic traits you might tend to look for become less apparent also.
  • inactive, on 08/29/2008, -0/+10Here, let me show you that what you just said makes NO sense. Why? Guess what! Heterosexual activity can cause health problems TOO. Shall we list? Okay! STDs... ALL of them, with some preventable through use of CONDOMS. (Oops, is that a forbidden word for you? Practice safe sex kids!) Also, Urinary Tract Infections, ruptured body parts (I can point you to the fascinating memoirs of a woman whose vagina literally broke), the loss of will to do any work from having SO MUCH sex... I could go on, but something tells me you probably aren't listening because I'm not standing behind a pulpit with a big, fat, Christian Bible in my hand.
  • oneaye, on 08/28/2008, -13/+23are we forgetting that this is about gay marriage and equality and not about this particular pair of lesbians hotness??
  • Jexie, on 08/28/2008, -3/+12Why are you here then if it's such a *****?....seriously...get the ***** out.
  • Hetman, on 08/28/2008, -0/+9Technically in the sense that Washington D.C. is not a state. It is the district of columbia. It is a part of the U.S. geographically speaking. Like The district of Columbia aka Washington D.C. Native American reservations are given quasi-independent status. While every reservation is part of a state, and residents vote as residents of the state in which they reside and do pay federal taxes, the reservations are exempt from many state and local laws. The ambiguous nature of their status has both created opportunities (such as gambling in states that normally disallow it) and challenges (such as the unwillingness of some companies to open up shop in a territory where they are not certain what laws will apply to them).

  • inactive, on 08/29/2008, -0/+8I think you mean by sexual activity in general.
  • ashfish, on 08/28/2008, -1/+9@kelly, I suggest then you tell the government to deregulate marriage because that is the only way your religious institution is going to get it back the way you want it. As it is, it is a government regulated issue which means that it cannot be discriminatory.
  • ApokalypseNow, on 08/28/2008, -2/+10@makeminemanda
    "...I feel like that's a low blow."
    Well, there was *some* kind of blowing going on if the interviews and affidavits can be believed.
  • eir574, on 08/29/2008, -1/+9@kelly,

    "But that doesn't change the fact that that a homosexual marriage DOES harm me by altering the sanctity of my marriage."

    That's a very sad statement. The strength and meaning of my marriage are not affected by what anyone else does. They come from within. If that's not true for you, then I'd suggest that you've got a problem. Do you really think that the sanctity of your marriage can be altered by what someone else does, or is that just a smoke screen you use in an attempt to define a manner in which you are harmed by gay marriage?
  • FredFredrickson, on 08/28/2008, -0/+7People don't care if you laugh because they are ugly people, they care when you act like they shouldn't be allowed to get married just because they are ugly.
  • jarjarwang, on 08/28/2008, -7/+14The Coquille live in some of the most beautiful land in the entire country. I love the Oregon coast.
  • TruthExposed, on 08/28/2008, -4/+11They will be cashing in on this one.
  • darkmane, on 08/28/2008, -0/+6Actually if they were straight, ugly and had the same last name... no one would comment because no one would notice.
  • malex, on 08/28/2008, -1/+7You must live a very sheltered existence.
  • Thumper13, on 08/28/2008, -0/+5FTA
    "Kitzen and Jeni Branting -- Kitzen legally took Jeni's last name three years ago --"

    Now you've failed.
  • Chairboy, on 08/28/2008, -0/+5It's a different NATION. Do you feel that Canadians or Norwegians get 'special privileges' because they don't fall under US laws?
  • StrangeFamous, on 08/28/2008, -0/+5It would help if half the country wasn't seething with hate towards homosexuals. Take away the bigotry and you'll start seeing a lot more gay weddings in public. It would also help if more states made it legal.
  • Hetman, on 08/28/2008, -3/+8Hey we should legalize gay marriage and end the war on drugs. The Obama thing though is a little out of hand. The problem with the war on drugs is it is causing more problems than it is solving. The issiuie with gay marriage is you are tryin to tell two consenting adults how to behave when they are not harming anyone. You cannot legislate morality.
  • Squidwalk, on 08/29/2008, -0/+5...like having a tired jaw? If you're doing it right, heterosexuals should have that problem too.
  • MaxterICC, on 08/28/2008, -0/+5but also, yes.
  • barfooz, on 08/28/2008, -0/+5One of them took the other's name a few years ago, says the article.
  • Suricou, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4Considering that Hallmark is facing a boycott for daring to sell gay-marriage cards in California, I am not surprised.

    Don't sell your stock yet - the last two times 'pro-family' organisations called for a boycott were McDonalds and Ford, so you can see how effective that stratagy has been.
  • roseap, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4It's interesting, actually... some tribes are starting to move this way, and some are putting bans in place. The Oregonian covered this about a week ago: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/08/c ... FTA: "Many Native American tribes historically accepted same-sex relationships, Gilley says. But after a lesbian couple married under an ambiguous Cherokee law in Oklahoma three years ago, that tribe's council adopted a law banning same-sex marriage. Other tribes across the nation, including the Navajos, the nation's largest tribe, passed similar bans, he says."
  • FyreFiend, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4If you'd read the ***** article you'd see that one of the ladies took the other's last name a couple of years ago.
  • Thumper13, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4Heading there in two hours....couldn't agree more!
  • Sherman901, on 08/28/2008, -3/+7hey man.....

    give peace a chance.

    pot is cool.
  • musheenelves, on 08/28/2008, -0/+4yeah I love Oregon!
  • ZeeZee2k, on 08/28/2008, -1/+4Paint them green and you're all set.
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