sorry i meant left. I did not think a skrull could do that many imitations. Perhaps its a super adaptiod .
Earlier this month at Dragon Con, Brian Parsley and his longtime partner George Lewis recreated the cover of Astonishing X-Men #51, where Northstar gets married to his partner Kyle Lindau in front of pretty much all of Marvel's mutants. He had help, obviously, from friends and countless cosplayers, making this one of the most staggeringly impressive feats of nerdery I have ever seen (and one of the sweetest [and likely the only one to ever involve Northstar]). The only difference? Northstar actually did get married, but Dragon Con was held in Atlanta, and Georgia has banned same-sex marriage. Parsley and Lewis have said they would definitely have made the ceremony official if they could have. Which got me thinking. Technically, fictional mutants have more rights than real gay people. Sigh. (Via Robot 6)
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Heterosexual Christians who show shameless disregard via frivolous divorce,adultery,and fornication are a greater threat to the sacred institution of marriage than same-sex couples.
Have been attending Dragon Con for several years and it is a blast. The con is spread between five hotels in walking distance of each other. There is non-stop activity from Thursday night till Monday afternoon. Fan run cons are always more fun.
I didn't know who Chris Kluwe was till I read this and now he is my hero. It was fun to watch him drill Burns a new one.
If you have a problem with this and like X-Men, you're missing the point of the X-Men.
Don't even try it. That argument is one of those hail marys that tries to compare homosexuality to pedophilia, and you're going to lose that battle every time. This is about the the legal union of two consenting adults that wish to share the same legal rights that straight unions have. The age of consent is something that differs from country to country, province to province and state to state if you want to go there. Mankind has to take a stand on what age is right for consent, and you won't find anyone sane arguing against it, since holy texts don't seem to have a stand on it. An age of consent helps protect the rights of children from being abused. Whose rights does banning gay marriage protect?
That made me smile. It was cute how one of the partners was obviously very embarrassed.
Remember, marriage didn't start with Christianity. Pagans married too. The Saxons had marriage as well but the dowry was reversed; the pagan man had to pay the father for his daughter. There have always been homosexuals in human history but there has almost never been any kind of marriage between them because marriage was never about love. It was a necessity to secure the genetics of future children.
There are plenty of things are a social construct that modern humans follow. One of them is the legal age of consent; would it be right to lower that because it's a "social construct"?
at least they got to even if gay marriage is not legal there they got to be married . plus they also showed how cool xmen fans they are by recreating north star and kyles wedding. if nothing else hopefully soon george and brian can recreate their vows and it will be considered a legal in that state marriage as it should be
"its like calling baseball "football"." Or like calling football soccer. Oh wait. Even if your definition of marriage can be considered valid by any means, which it can't, definitions change all the time. They aren't set in stone.
I can't decide which is better, the entire wedding, or that the cosplayers include Groot, Mini-Mate Captain America, a Deadpool Punisher, and Starfox. And that's just from the first image.
Fuck Georgia. Congrats to the happy couple and here hoping they get Official in just as much style. But seriously...Fuck Georgia.
Guessing your definition of "marriage" comes from the bible but I do not think that word means what you think it means. Let Betty Bowers school ya a bit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFkeKKszXTw
I'm a practicing Lutheran. It is a part of my religion that marriage is *not* a sacrament, but rather something decided by the state. Are you going to infringe on my religion by saying that your religion gets to define what marriage is? ... This has actually managed to top the Utena/Anthy wedding Rob posted a few years back as the greatest gay nerd wedding ever... it truly is a shame they couldn't make it legal.
yep, "every right to live together" but these other 1,138 rights that married folks get are also kinda important http://www.marriageequality.org/1-138-federal-rights
A geek says, "Very cool, and did you see the two bad ass Moon Knight cos players in the sixth row". Trolls see this and want to go off about gay marriage. Geeks > Trolls.
I wasn't staring, but uh, you can't help NOT noticing once you recognize the costume! Btw, if I WAS staring, so what? Have you been reading any of the other threads in this article?
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." This is about equal rights under the law, not your religion-based prejudices.
"...And knowing is half the battle!" We have been thusly schooled, thank you sir. I learned something today! :D
I once said that Lindau was the luckiest man on Earth, but really, the man in this video is the luckiest person on Earth because tonight he actually gets... /puts on sunglasses The Fist of the Northstar! Yeah!
Ugh... Re-posting for clarity. :( 1) Homosexuality *is* natural. There has been legitimate research for decades: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/465/is-there-such-a-thing-as-a-gay-animal 2) Gay people aren't impotent. If a gay man and a gay woman were the last two people on Earth, the race *could* be repopulated. If two men or two women were the last two people on Earth, it wouldn't matter, even if they were straight. 3) Society has evolved, and language changes with it. When language changes, by definition, *definitions* change. For the same reason that "ain't" and "ginormous" are in the dictionary, definitions will change and be added to reflect how we've changed. Look at how the definition of "computer" or "phone" has evolved in only 30 years.
1) Homosexuality *is* natural. There has been legitimate research for decades:http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/465/is-there-such-a-thing-as-a-gay-animal2) Gay people aren't impotent. If a gay man and a gay woman were the last two people on Earth, the race *could* be repopulated. If two men or two women were the last two people on Earth, it wouldn't matter, even if they were straight.3) Society has evolved, and language changes with it. When language changes, by definition, *definitions* change. For the same reason that "ain't" and "ginormous" are in the dictionary, definitions will change and be added to reflect how we've changed. Look at how the definition of "computer" or "phone" has evolved in only 30 years.
As a gay nerd I have to say it's nice to see so much support from my geeky brethren. Also nice to see that Hulkling and Wiccan were in the front row of this.
Dragon*Con makes SDCC look like a little bitch, I hear. Having never been to the latter, I got to say the former seems like the statement is true.
Yes because we need this place to remain vanilla, and removed from real-world issues... stay in a safe cocoon and ignore anything that might remotely offend someone. I just hope this thread doesn't become similar to that underarm hair woman and result in Rob being forced by the corporation to apologize.
No need to apologize--certainly not to me, anywayXD I just hate the notion of OUR side being the ones who resort to name-calling and irrationality. We have reason and enlightenment in our corner--that's all we need: The other side will crumble under the weight of it's own dislogic.
neither, it was an economic arrangement. A man sold his daughter to her husband. Religion, at least Christianity, didn't get involved until the Council of Trent.
You don't mean the super skrull, do you? I thought he or she was off a bit more on the left side of the video... (left as you're viewing it, not the left from the people in the video's perspective). I thought it was just an out-of-shape ordinary she-hulk at the bottom right.
I think this site needs to institue a separation of nerd news and controversial political discussion. ;)
I thought about that after I made my post and realized my comment was a bit of a knee-jerk reaction, as he didn't say anything obnoxious or aggressive, but the mindset of that belief just sets me off as I feel very strongly on the issue. Regardless, TR hardly seems the place for the kind of debate he was stirring up. A lot of folks come here to escape politics (as much as that is possible) and I get kind of irked when this sort of debate shows up. Normally I stop reading and move on to something more interesting, but I just felt like saying something today. Unfortunately, it was a bit over the top, sorry, Scooter.
Read some Andrew Sullivan. Legalizing gay marriage would strengthen marriage and monogamy and good old family values. Remember, Massachusetts has the lowest divorce rate in the country.
Actually it is not an invention of religion. That's a common misconception. It predates religion. Marriage was originally an economic arrangement whereby a man sold his daughter to her husband. That's why women have a dowry (sweeten the deal) and why virginity was prized(nobody wants "used" goods). The early Christian church thought it was worldly and wanted nothing whatsoever to do with it. Celibacy was prized, but marriage was considered acceptable if you simply MUST have sex. The church did not get involved until the Council of Trent, and at that point, long after the relgion started, they decided to create a ceremony and call it a sacrament. This is well documented if you look up the Council of Trent. "Make only people who have been authorized by the state able to join people together. " That is already the case. That's why the officiant says "By the power vested in me, by the state of ____ I know pronounce you..." You are not required to have a church ceremony, and even if a church were to marry you, you still need to file paperwork with the state or it's not legal. You can even get certified online as a pastor, and even make up your own title and it's totally legal, one of my friends did it for my wedding.
Define "most black people". Corretta Scott King believed gays deserved equality, and said her late husband, the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. would agree. Julian Bond of the NAACP sees the parallel. You do what you want, but I'll defer to Civil Rights Leaders on this one. THIS gay man is not promiscuous. And what of that? If you look at the attendance at swinger conventions, the number of straight couples committing "adultery" is more than the highest estimate of gay people. Straight people have little room to point fingers on that. The simple fact is that if you actually talked to gay people, you'd learn something. Why do we want marriage? For the same reasons straight people do. For legal security, to celebrate and solidify an already successful relationship.
what the hell is that green thing on the bottom right, looks like the hulk crossed with thor crossed with wolverine crossed with thing cross with captain america crossed with iron man. my god they even have a citizen V
So wait, gays can't raise a family? I know quite a few families that would offer evidence to the contrary. Marriage is between a man and a woman because the church has defined it that way and there are far too many people that allow the church to be their conscience instead of thinking for themselves. The fact of the matter is that a man and a woman who are married enjoy rights that gays cannot have and that seems pretty tacitly unfair. Want to call it a civil union? Fine. Save marriage for the church but equality is equality. I find it sort of uplifting that my sons who are eight are going to grow up and look back and thing that it's so odd that gays were once denied these rights. It's going to look as stupid as Jim Crow does now.
