Editing Talk:1431: Marriage

Okay, that was the hardest explanation I've attempted so far. [[User:Cheeselover724|Cheeselover724]] ([[User talk:Cheeselover724|talk]]) 04:42, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
:Graphs tend to be hard.  On that note, the transcript was tricky and probably needs work. [[User:Athang|Athang]] ([[User talk:Athang|talk]]) 05:14, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
:: Hope you don't mind, I just about completely rewrote the transcript, attempting to indicate the structure of each line and the visual effect I thought was intended -- [[User:Brettpeirce|Brettpeirce]] ([[User talk:Brettpeirce|talk]]) 11:41, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
:looksclike Gallup has a nice page up right now that happens to include gay marriage and interracial marriage one below the other. Probably good to use these in the explanation?  
http://www.gallup.com/poll/117328/marriage.aspx [[User:Sean timmons|Sean timmons]] ([[User talk:Sean timmons|talk]]) 21:05, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

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Thank you for your efforts.  This of course raises questions about what's next.  Let's hope we can question sincerely and this does not become a troll.

How about adoption of children by single persons (authorized in France, where else) ?  By same-sex couples (authorized in France because the same law applies to marriage and adoption) ?  Can anyone (even Randall) gather data and produce a graph ?

Adoption normally gives a home with proper parents to a child that lack them by accident.

Notice that every human person living or dead has exactly one mother and one father because of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamete Gamete] mechanism (even if one or even both parents are sometimes unknown or the person is raised by other people). [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/UN_Convention_on_the_Rights_of_the_Child#Article_7 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child] article 7 mentions "The child (...) immediately after birth (...) shall have the right (...) to know and be cared for by his or her parents."

In the US one can buy a child specifically produced to be adopted. Depending on the situation, children are produced using [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrogacy gestational surrogacy] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_reproductive_technology Assisted reproductive technology].

In theory this has nothing to do with sexual orientation of the buyers.  In practice fertile couples just have babies naturally.  So the only people who buy babies are very rich people who want babies with specific features (keyword "screening"), infertile couples and people that may be technically fertile but whose situation is not a traditional couple (they may be single or same-sex couple).  I know in my town two gay men that bought two children in the US.

Those children are produced to be deprived of one of their parents. That violates [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/UN_Convention_on_the_Rights_of_the_Child#Article_7 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child], right ? Is that a progress ? How to solve that ?

Let's try to remain close to this XKCD graph and the question: what's next and what to think of it ? Open to your constructive questions and comments.
--[[User:MGitsfullofsheep|MGitsfullofsheep]] ([[User talk:MGitsfullofsheep|talk]]) 11:44, 8 October 2014 (UTC)


:So you're saying that adoption (from gay or straight couples) violates the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child? That all sperm donation should be banned? [[User:Diszy|Diszy]] ([[User talk:Diszy|talk]]) 12:17, 8 October 2014 (UTC) Also, the US has not ratified the UNCRC so this discussion is moot. You can't hold them to the rules if they blatantly declare that they don't follow them.[[User:Diszy|Diszy]] ([[User talk:Diszy|talk]]) 12:25, 8 October 2014 (UTC)


::Thank you for your reply Diszy.

::> So you're saying that adoption (from gay or straight couples) violates the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child?

::No, I'm not saying that.  The case of babies produced and sold, even after many debates, seems somehow wrong in a way that has nothing to do with sexual orientation of parents.
::When a child has no suitable genetic parents (they are dead or abusing) I understand that adoption is clearly compatible with UNCRC article 7.
:When a child is produced to be deprived of one parent, I find it debatable.  Or maybe we can save the logic by considering that the genetic parent "resigns" their responsibility, which falls back to the previous case.

::> That all sperm donation should be banned?

::I'm not discussing if it should be banned, but you raise an interesting point.

::Technically, a spem donor is a genetic parent that "resigns" (can anyone find a better word) their responsibility as parent since they are not planning to honor it (some do, afterwards).  Does it violate UNCRC article 7 ? My understanding is: things are blurred by the "as far as possible" wording.

::> Also, the US has not ratified the UNCRC so this discussion is moot. 

::[http://www.wordreference.com/definition/moot moot - ] "of little or no practical value or meaning;
::interesting only from the point of view of theory:"

::Thank you for this piece of information. So this can't be used to demonstrate that US legal system is inconsistent.

::> You can't hold them to the rules if they blatantly declare that they don't follow them.

::I didn't know that. 

::Again I'm not discussing good and bad or whatever, rather logical consistency. This is a math-geek-language discussion place, isn't it ?

::There's one way countries who have ratified the UNCRC could claim it's okay.
::They could claim that the "parents" in article 7 are not genetic parents but the persons who are willing to raise the child.  Though that's another possible way to make a consistent logical model, I'm pretty sure that's not what the UN had in mind when they wrote this.  

::Thank you again for your feedback.

::--[[User:MGitsfullofsheep|MGitsfullofsheep]] ([[User talk:MGitsfullofsheep|talk]]) 15:04, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

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It's interesting to think about the differences between interracial marriage versus gay marriage.  In the latter situation an entire class of people aren't able to obtain the only type of marriage that would likely appeal to them, whereas I think interracial marriages are more "fungible" (definitely not the right word) in that a person who engages in an interracial marriage may not have a strong preference for interracial marriages over intraracial marriages. So in banning interracial marriage, they impacted specific individuals, but there wasn't a well-defined class of interracial marriage pursuers who were denied the right to marry. I think this is relevant because in the case of gay-marriage, most people in the wronged class (people who want gay marriages), and many people outside of the wronged class, all support the right.  With interracial marriage on the other hand, I would be curious to see if it was mostly whites that opposed interracial marriage, or if large percentages of whites, blacks, and other minorities also disapproved of interracial marriage.

[[Special:Contributions/173.245.54.194|173.245.54.194]] 15:21, 8 October 2014 (UTC)XkdcPoster

So legalization of inter-racial marriage preceded (by quite some time) the general acceptance of it.  While acceptance of same-sex marriage is preceding it's legalization.  An interesting switch in how the country operates.  A consequence of the rise of groups like the "conservative" Tea Party folks and the increased radicalization of the right?  Where once we had politicians who did the right thing despite its not being popular, now delay doing the right thing because they are far more interested in "leading by following" than in actual leading?  [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.117|199.27.128.117]] 15:45, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
:Some say radicalization, some say marginalization.  Perhaps both are right.[[User:Seebert|Seebert]] ([[User talk:Seebert|talk]]) 17:48, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
::Yeah, both are right in that one eventually leads to the other.  Folks who get too radical (in either direction) get marginalized.  But it's a self-inflicted marginalization and an appropriate one. [[Special:Contributions/199.27.128.117|199.27.128.117]] 16:45, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
:::Likewise, prolonged exclusion of a group of people may cause them to become radical. [[User:Spur|Spur]] ([[User talk:Spur|talk]]) 02:54, 10 October 2014 (UTC)

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Although I agree with Randall's point in this comic, he is cheating a little bit. The poll questions are slightly different: "do you '''approve of''' interracial marriage?" vs "do you think same-sex marriage '''should be legal'''?" People who "disapprove" of something, but grudgingly acknowledge that it should be allowed, are miscounted. - [[User:Frankie|Frankie]] ([[User talk:Frankie|talk]]) 18:22, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

p.s. OTOH, hypothetically if SCOTUS reversed ''Loving'' and allowed interracial bans again, a lot of those disapprovers would probably turn back into active opponents. IOW, they accept it as law mainly because they know they can't change it. - [[User:Frankie|Frankie]] ([[User talk:Frankie|talk]]) 18:26, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

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I approve of interracial marriage, but not same-sex marriage. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.34.16|172.69.34.16]] 18:27, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
:That's nice of you. But can we presume you're otherwise happy with congress (of all kinds)? [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.225|172.70.85.225]] 21:34, 3 April 2023 (UTC)