Marriage really is a social contract between people and accepted by society as conveying certain benefits and rules. This is why same sex marriage is so important. This article shows another way that the laws give a benefit to straight people that is denied to gay people when there is no same sex marriage right. Now I am glad that Ukraine is ready and wants same sex marriage rights and will do that after the war. But you know that the anti gay factions will fight it hard. Right now the way around this issue is to let the people in the military (or even the general public) designate / assign several people that can claim their bodies regardless of relationship. It is a shame that a fake marriage has to be created to simply make sure that your body gets a proper burial. The anti-same sex marriage people like to claim that same sex marriage degrades the idea of marriage, but forcing people into a fake marriage simply to have the same rights that straight people do also degrades the ideals of marriage. Ron and I made our commitment to each other on Oct 12th 1990. We were sure we were the ones we wanted to spend our entire lives with. And we have with our love growing stronger every day. But we were always denied the legal benefits of marriage that even people getting married for a short time got. In 2014 I was no longer able to work and because my health insurance was through our employer, I no longer had medical coverage. I couldn’t be covered under Ron’s insurance because the company we both had worked for only allowed married people to be covered under a worker’s medical insurance. In January 2015 when same sex marriage became legal in Florida we were the first same sex couple in our county to get married. That allowed me to be on Ron’s insurance. The marriage did not change our love nor our time together, but it opened up over 1,100 legal benefits to us. That is why the right to marriage matters. Hugs
A Ukraine soldier ( Getty Images)
A woman in Ukraine has said she plans to marry her gay soldier friend so someone can “claim him if he dies” while fighting in the war.
In the latest horrifying news from the war in Ukraine, Kyiv resident Leda Kosmachevskaya told the i newspaper that since same-sex marriage is illegal in the country, her friend would not have anybody to “retrieve his body or bury him” if he were to die at war.
The friend, who remained anonymous, has a partner, but due to the law, the army does not recognize his boyfriend as next of kin.
“His great fear was that nobody would be able to retrieve his body or bury him,” Kosmachevskaya, 33, told the i.
“He could be buried as an unknown person, or considered missing.”
Kosmachevskaya explained she had known the friend since childhood, but that the call asking her to marry him came completely out of the blue.
She spoke to her own partner, and accepted after hearing her soldier friend had been told he would be deployed to a dangerous area on the front line.
Two men sitting on a bunk bed in an LGBTQ+ shelter in Ukraine. (Provided)
Kosmachevskaya explained that the pair discussed his wishes, including organ donation and burial details, but hopefully, he will return safely from the war and they will get a divorce.
“I would be happy not to get into this arrangement,” she told the newspaper. “But this is the only way to help my friend.”
In July, a petition calling for the legalization of marriage equality in Ukraine gained more than 28,000 signatures, passing the 25,000 threshold required for it to be considered by the president.
In August, Zelensky formally responded, noting that the constitution could not be changed during war time or in a state of emergency.
According to Reuters, in an official decree, he said: “I asked prime minister [Denys] Shmyhal to address the issue raised in the electronic petition and to inform me of relevant decisions.”
LGBTQ+ rights activists have asked for civil partnerships to be considered in the meantime, as in cases such as Kosmachevskaya’s, the bodies of LGBTQ+ soldiers cannot be collected by partners unless they are married.
She added to the i: “I hope this situation will help to resolve this issue [of same-sex marriage].
“I know there are many other people who are afraid to talk about this and keep silent because of negative comments.”
In a 2019 survey, 69 per cent of Ukrainians asked said “no” to the question: “Should society accept homosexuality?”
Ron came to me in desperate shape in 2017 — he was politically dead, losing in a landslide to a very good Agriculture Commissioner, Adam Putnam, who was loaded up with cash and great poll numbers.
Ron had low approval, bad polls, and no money, but he said that if I would Endorse him, he could win. I didn’t know Adam so I said, ‘Let’s give it a shot, Ron.’ When I Endorsed him, it was as though, to use a bad term, a nuclear weapon went off.
Years later, they were the exact words that Adam Putnam used in describing Ron’s Endorsement. He said, ‘I went from having it made, with no competition, to immediately getting absolutely clobbered after your Endorsement.’
I then got Ron by the ‘Star’ of the Democrat Party, Andrew Gillum (who was later revealed to be a ‘Crack Head’), by having two massive Rallies with tens of thousands of people at each one. I also fixed his campaign, which had completely fallen apart.
I was all in for Ron, and he beat Gillum, but after the Race, when votes were being stolen by the corrupt Election process in Broward County, and Ron was going down ten thousand votes a day, along with now-Senator Rick Scott, I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended, just prior to them running out of the votes necessary to win. I stopped his Election from being stolen.
And now, Ron DeSanctimonious is playing games! The Fake News asks him if he’s going to run if President Trump runs, and he says, “I’m only focused on the Governor’s race, I’m not looking into the future.” Well, in terms of loyalty and class, that’s really not the right answer.
Am I losing my mind? Is this not a gigantic deal? He's either casually admitting to using federal agents to interfere in a state election or lying about it for some equally inexplicable reason, right? Am I reading this wrong or is this a five-alarmer for the DOJ?
You're not nuts at all, but I think the odds are pretty strongly that it's a lie. OR he tried to do this and was stopped from doing it. But definitely DEMANDS some immediate further inquiry.
Like, how does the DOJ not follow up on this? Even if it's the likely scenario — him just making stuff up — where was the grain of truth here? Did he TRY this and somebody told him they did it and just shooed him back to the TV? Where is he getting this from?
He’s not leaving his MAGA base and his MAGA base aren’t leaving him, but they may end up burning down the GOP on the way out….and taking their votes with them. Meaning, fracturing the conservative vote and giving the Democrats a big gift.
He’s terrified DeSantis will replace him as the GOP darling, and he has every reason to be. Expect him to downgrade him as often as possible. Trump knows now he’s on his way out.
To be very clear if this article doesn’t make it clear to you, the right is not interested in “protecting” children, they don’t really think that talking about LGBTQ+ sexualizes children, they don’t mind sexualizing children, but they are demanding to indoctrinate the kids, all kids, into believing that only heterosexual orientation / sexuality exists and teaching hating the gays / trans. That is what this entire “don’t say gay” thing is about! About spreading hate and making kids think that only heterosexual ways exist, that only opposite sex marriage is real, only way to date is boy / girl, that all families must be mommy / daddy. it is total indoctrination to make the 1950s come alive again. Plus they want to stoke hatred against the gay and trans people including kids at school. They want the bullying and they want the gay / trans kids picked on and made to be scared and in fear for being who they are. But as this guy who is big in the anti-LGBTQ+ movement says, it is great to take kids to Hooters to see what he calls the great view, in other words to see big breasts / titties. He wants to have boys reading sex magazines showing nude women. He seems to think that people have a choice about their sexual attraction / orientation and wants to make sure all the kids choose straight which he thinks is the correct choice. WTF! Do you see how this entire protect the kids / don’t sexualize kids and let them be children, is a cover for what they really want, they hate gays and want them punished and erased from society. That is the point over don’t let teachers talk about or defend kids from same sex families and forbidding pride stickers / flags and removing all LGBTQ+ materials from libraries. It is about the idea that if kids don’t see or hear that being gay is normal and same sex families are normal then the kids will be straight or pretend to be so they can fit in and have families. Plus for some reason this guy thinks all straight people are republicans and all gay people are democrats. Hugs
“If more members of Gen Z had been brought to Hooters as children, I can GUARANTEE we would have had a red wave last night.”
MAGA author Nick Adams – who was complaining about drag queens and teachers discussing LGBTQ people earlier this year as part of the larger groomer panic – is now advocating parents take minor children to Hooters.
“If more members of Gen Z had been brought to Hooters as children, I can GUARANTEE we would have had a red wave last night,” Adams – né Nicholas Adamopoulos – tweeted earlier this week about the restaurant chain known for its young female waitresses who don’t wear much clothing.
If more members of Gen Z had been brought to Hooters as children, I can GUARANTEE we would have had a red wave last night.
Adams is the Australian author of several volumes of far-right pulp including The Most DANGEROUS President in History (about President Joe Biden), Trump and Churchill: Defenders of Western Civilization, and Retaking America: Crushing Political Correctness. He claims to be Donald Trump’s favorite author.
He calls himself an “alpha male” in his Twitter handle and his account is often mistaken for a parody of the far right, but his fans know that he’s on their side.
Yesterday’s was only one of many of his tweets advocating taking minors to Hooters.
“I am sick and tired of beta males and feminists trying to guilt alpha males out of eating at Hooters,” he wrote earlier this week. “There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with eating at Hooters on a weekly basis, EVEN with the family and kids.”
I am sick and tired of beta males and feminists trying to guilt alpha males out of eating at Hooters.
There is absolutely NOTHING wrong with eating at Hooters on a weekly basis, EVEN with the family and kids.
“99% of the people who pass judgment about Hooters and parents who take their children to Hooters have never actually been to a Hooters,” he wrote yesterday.
“People who demonize parents who take their kids to Hooters are pathetic,” he also tweeted yesterday. “I feel sorry for their children.”
People who demonize parents who take their kids to Hooters are pathetic.
Adams really loves Hooters and it appears to be more of a lifestyle choice for him than a restaurant with chicken wings. In a video this week, he called it a “family restaurant”
“Hooters is fantastic,” he shouted at his camera, wearing an untucked short-sleeve shirt while standing in front of a framed picture of himself. “The view is good, the food is good, the drinks are good.”
“Alpha males have a history replete with visits to Hooters,” he claimed. Hooters opened in 1983. “If you haven’t been to Hooters, it makes it all that bit more difficult for you to claim alpha male status.”
While Adams advocates taking children to the sexually-charged environment at Hooters, he doesn’t think that teachers should be mentioning LGBTQ people to students in school, lest kids learn that there are different kinds of families. In April – at the height of groomer panic where conservatives were complaining about books like And Tango Makes Three (about a penguin with two penguin-dads) being available in schools – Adams decried kindergarten teachers who he claimed wanted to “discuss sexuality” in school and called them child molesters.
“Any adult that needs to discuss sexuality with a kindergartner is a predator, not a teacher,” he wrote.
Any adult that needs to discuss sexuality with a kindergartner is a predator, not a teacher.
— Nick Adams (Alpha Male) (@NickAdamsinUSA) April 15, 2022
In July, he said that only a “bad parent” would allow their kids to see a drag queen.
If you are okay with your young child being exposed to sex toys and drag queens, you're a bad parent.
— Nick Adams (Alpha Male) (@NickAdamsinUSA) July 23, 2022
That same month, he appeared to advocate giving pornography to underage boys, even though federal law prohibits the distribution of pornography to minors.
— Nick Adams (Alpha Male) (@NickAdamsinUSA) July 14, 2022
Trans YouTuber Natalie Wynn pithily summed up Adams’ latest tweets: “Heterosexuals openly admit they have to groom children to perpetuate their lifestyle.”
Heterosexuals openly admit they have to groom children to perpetuate their lifestyle pic.twitter.com/2diIPde4Qg
Yet the maga gang thugs using terroristic threats and violence to keep men in wigs from reading to kids is not a problem at all to these people. If you want to read some wild stuff, follow the links to read what is on Gab. Hugs
Democracy is when unmarried childless whores of Babylon select your leaders so they can continue to slaughter their children. Unmarried women are a civilizational threat.
Conservatives love this line about how women “civilize” men. The reality is the exact opposite. A supermajority of unmarried women would kill a child in the womb without a second thought.
Just let that marinate for a moment. Dems are the party of Moloch worshippers. Their religious services include baby murder and baptism by clot shot.
Booger-eating white nationalist Nick Fuentes admits issues like abortion, marriage equality, and feminism are popular. As a result, he says to make everyone else believe what he believes, the U.S. must become a “dictatorship.”
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