Defense from whom? Is Liberia going to invade Scotland?

Must be the Conservative Conspiracy media that's covered in the international news. I hear about how hard the UK has it because their presence in the EU causes all the poor eastern European people to flock to the UK to steal all the UK jobs, working for peanuts and taking all the money out of the country when they are done.

England must be super-strong. They were claiming that Scotland would collapse economically if they weren't in the EU, just 9 months ago when the Scottish freedom was considered. So Scotland is hanging by a thread, on the edge of collapse. Or at least, so says England.

Who is killing the transgenders?

So, what feeds Lewisville Lake? Does Dallas pull drinking water from Lewisville Lake? Where does the waste from Gainsvile go?

You don't stick to facts, and don't answer direct questions. So I assume more distraction and smoke and mirrors, and no answers or discussion.

Rules like "No Blacks"?

Yes, once you change the millions of laws that assume the current definition of marriage, then it's trivial to change the laws around marriage itself. Arguing about changing marriage first is putting the cart before the horse.

Not quite so trivially, and the current legal implications are quite large. The process around it couldn't handle it. Maybe if the whole thing was changed, but as-is, it would be quite a problem.

Yes. And that has nothing to do with the topic. But thanks for sharing. It's raining here right now. No, that's not relevant to the discussion, but neither were your comments.

In the neo-natal unit, the rules were immediate family only, or others with written permission of the duty nurse, and even then, only breastfeeding mothers are allowed outside hospital visiting hours. In the geriatric unit, the rule was "anyone any time", even relaxing the official hospital visiting hours.

The hospitals set rules, but the rules aren't consistent across departments or duty nurses, and that will open them up to lawsuits, unless they have a simple written policy.

When you are too unconscious to name the person who is authorized, and they are out (at the movies, working, whatever), and it's bad practice to keep all possible papers on you at all times, they would be unable to prove it when they got there.

So a person with a matching last name is presumed family.

I've seen no plan that is remotely practical that would allow pre-identification of those allowed, and even when someone does set the rules, they are unenforceable. Your mother has the right to be in your room if you aren't conscious and ordering her out. Even with an iron-clad living will, family has the right to be involved, just like valid wills are challenged all the time by family and others.

Then you could marry a new person every day, and divorce them every night, right?

In the US, the scandals were almost exclusively ordained priests, not teachers or such. Also, the teachers i church funded schools are required to be members of the church. At least for the schools I know the details of. Thus they were all 100% church funded, ordained, certified, and all that. At least in the US, 100% of the scandal was the church's members abusing children, and the church refusing to expose and correct the behavior, but instead covering up and actually encouraging it.

Jesus hung out with 12 guys. He preached "love" all the time. You honestly think that Hippie Jesus wasn't having sex with John? There's a reason neither married a woman. The wording of nuns, married to Jesus or God, is very similar to what John did, married to Jesus.

Nobody is having sex with Jesus, except John, and Mary in a 3-way. In heaven.

How in any way is anyone suppressing your right to religion?

Considering how the Lutheran church allows openly gay pastors, I assume they would be ones on the list that would. And you don't need a church for a marriage.

George W got in Yale as a legacy because his grades weren't good enough. He was handed benefits based on who his daddy was. That's affirmative action. If AA was abolished, it would still exist, but would be rich white-person only AA, as it was before AA was started. That's the reason it exists today, because the racism that exists benefits whites, so AA tries to balance the opportunities, to achieve some semblance of equality in our biased society.

And every society has also made meat a topic of control.

The primitives did so because they knew that eating pork made you sick. They didn't know what food poisoning was, so they asserted that the meats or animals were mystical.

Sodomy with an infected person is a transmission risk for almost all diseases.

There's nothing "moral" in the reasons. Other than the governments asserted so when declaring it.

There are many good pieces of advice in the many historical and religious books handed down. They stumbled on many things. The Bible says pi is 3, which isn't a bad estimation for someone building a well by hand 3000 years ago. But that doesn't mean that there is a math proof in the Book, or that the Book is wrong because those who wrote it down didn't understand the meaning. Someone noticed the pattern, and put it in the Book. Like the rules on crops, fabrics, and cleanliness.

They weren't fools. They were just ignorant. Now that we have germ theory, we can understand what they were seeing, and how it would look to those without a germ theory, who attributed everything unknown to God. But that doesn't mean they did what they did for intelligent and fully-informed reasons.