Comments on: Financial Rescue for Rhode Island

By: Nancy Green

Nancy Green — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:32:17 +0000

Don’t they already have a legal relationship? Family is recognized. If Jim was in the hospital his sister would be able to visit him as family. If he had no one else to make decisions for him, she would have legal standing as his sister.
Marriage is a legal relationship that lets two unrelated adults who are not already married to someone else become spouses. They have the rights and responsiblities of family to one another.
It seems unfair to deny that right to same sex couples, especially when their opponents are lusting to marry their sisters. But there is a biblical precedent for that, actually. we might not want to take the bible literally, especially Leviticus, or we’re all in trouble.

By: ME

ME — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:44:49 +0000

Jim and Traveling Man,

You can marry your respective sisters in Arkansas!

By: Traveling man

Traveling man — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:35:51 +0000

Nancy, Why would you dismiss Jim’s right to marry his sister. They’re in love and it sure sounds as if Jim values marriage, and would appreciate the benefit of being able to marry his sister legally.

By: Nancy Green

Nancy Green — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:53:44 +0000

Jim, you’re using the ‘absurd’ argument, which is not an argument at all. I can’t marry my computer, even though he’s named ‘HAL’.
I value marriage, and appreciate the benefit of being able to marry legally. Why would I deny a committed couple the right to marry on the same basis because they are a same-sex couple? It’s a legal contract. It’s a civil right.
I speak as one whose marriage would have been invalid in some states before ‘Loving v Virginia’. And Mildred Loving supported marriage equality.

By: jim

jim — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:31:54 +0000

Are there any states that will allow me to marry my sister?

We are in love and feel RI, may not have been our best

choice.