It pains me to hear that this is hurting your daughter(s). I work with children in the "Behavioral Health" world. I have seen so many young children with severe identity crisis issues and parents that try to control it. These babies need someone to help and protect them... not judge and control them. So thank your daughter for doing what she is doing because we need more people in this world like her to help children with ANY issue ♡♡♡

Agreed. My wife and I have been together almost 25 years. Back when we 1st met, yes, I'd agree that it was rare for same sex couples to stay together. Then I met a couple of ladies who had spent over 50 years of their life together!!! It was very inspiring and they are amazing ladies ♡ I used to believe that marriage was just a formality with a piece of printed proof and that as long as we were happy, we didn't need that. It took me 13 years to agree to marriage, but i knew she was my forever person, so I caved. Lol
Terra is only the 2nd female relationship I've been in and the men I used to date always changed after about a year or 2. She has always loved me and I know she always will because we change together, not for a one sided happiness.
My point? Every same sex marriage I know about, are still happily together ♡ whereas a lot of straight marriages end in divorce. BUT I MUST SAY that any relationship, gay or not, that has been together most of their lives, are so beautiful and I respect and honor every couple out there like this. You are the ones that keep the dream alive and I thank you. ♡ Hugz.

Ty. God bless

If this is an inappropriate topic for this site, then why is there a place on this site to talk about it. This originally started on the LGBTQ+ group but since your "mighty hero" is being a D-bag, it was appropriately brought into the politics world. Everyone has their rights to an opinion and I apologize for offending you, but respectfully, if you don't like the topic, move on to one you do like instead of Trump-ing us on our legit worries.
If certain topics should not be discussed, in your opinion, maybe there should be a group named TABOO because whether you like it or not, every discussion brought up, regardless of topic, will have another discussion about the opposite feeling. Maybe people need to talk about things that others wont. Maybe not, but that's human nature! Please don't make people feel like their words are wrong or don't matter because you feel differently. ITS JUST AN OPENLY DISCUSSED OPINION.
Drop the mic...

There is, my friend. This topic originally started in that group ;)

Unfortunately, that board isn’t private (that is, invitation-only). So anyone on AQ can see all posts on that board and then add their own posts. 😔

Idk if I should apologize to everyone for creating the heated opinions, or thank everyone for for their opinions on the matter.
Just know that you are all loved by me and T (mostly. Lol) and send you big virtual bear hugs. I just love this community and hope we are loved back.
I'll end this with one of my favorite quotes by Maya Angelou...
People will forget what you said and people will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel ♡

Agree. Maybe they all have headaches.

I was not aware there was such a thing. Good to know ;) It's not unfortunate, though. It is what it is and maybe it needed to be put out in the open for discussion. Idk... I do know that I'm the only one that's been in that group in years so I'm actually talking to myself. Lol. Nothing new.
I respect every opinion, regardless. But when it becomes a personal stabbing war, that becomes a whole different ball game.
I apologize for creating such a mess 😮‍💨

Cathartic, no?

I think it's all the posts about Uranus ;)

This started out with someone claiming that President Trump was, going to interfere somehow in gay marriages.

Where is the proof of that. I don’t see it , and neither do the gay people I associate with.
Yes he has stop a certain segment of the population from joining the military, from using tax payers dollars to get sex changes .
But as far as we can see , a gay married couple’s rights have not been infringed upon.
If you are gay, and your rights have been infringed upon upon, please, let us know.

And someone talked about how wonderfully happy gay marriages are.
The highest percentage of divorce is among the lesbian married community

I’ve scheduled event #5254 for Dec. 13 in Dallas. Hope to meet lots of Texas boxers aka people I can talk to about boxing, who don’t look at me like they should maybe catch me with a butterfly net. 😆

So, what, we shouldn't let them marry? What possible bearing does that statement have on this conversation other than to demean that segment of the population? Heterosexual couples have a higher divorce rate that gay male couples. So maybe we should only let gay males marry.

They are looking for another token "religious right" person to replace the morally faded flower that is Kim Davis for another run at the stacked "Supreme" Court to go after gay marriage, for one thing. All of these entitled attacks on civil rights are allowable because the permission & encouragement come from the top. They have been empowered and often mandated to act on behalf of their bigotry. We have a women who refused to perform the duties of her office while pulling a substantial paycheck b/c of her religious beliefs bigotry, and if this doesn't get you twisted, imagine me as an atheist refusing to legally register your religious weddings because your nonsense personally offended my deeply held skepticism at your intelligence bigotry because your views were delusional and imaginary. Try that on for size. It's not (necessarily) true, but it rankles, no? I could certainly make the argument. How much support would that pull?

Pretty sure I said I have absolutely no problem with gay marriage. Again the conversation started with someone claiming claiming , President Trump, the best American President since George Washington himself, ( in my opinion), was infringing on gays right to marry. Do you have anything worth while on this topic?

If you follow a board, wouldn't you expect new messages to show up?

I will mention that if you start interacting with an ignored board by posting messages to it (for example), it's going to assume that you are interested in it, in replies to your posts and "unignore" for you.

If you really want to ignore a board, you actually need to ignore it.

-- Ryan

As far as the percentage goes, like I stated. Someone said something about all the gay marriages they are aware of( not a quote) are happy endeavors. Well I was just pointing out the reality of marriages as a whole

Sorry if reality doesn’t please you

What would he have to do to make you rational? Marry a mail-order bride who was an illegal immigrant? Have a laughable comb-over? Commit a felony? Rape someone? Send troops to our cities? Hang out with Epstein? Have sex with a trafficked minor? Throw the country into economic decline? Triple the deficit? Instigate misinformation at every level of his responsibilities? Mock the disabled publicly? Declare bankruptcy multiple times? Sleep with a hooker and then use campaign funds to bribe her to silence? Hire your entire, unqualified family and allow them to make millions of dollars using their position? Leave vital government services so understaffed they jeopardize public safety? Gut public health initiatives that protect air, water, food, medicine and nutrition? Starve children, the disabled, & their caretakers? Cheat on all his wives? Accept foreign money in return for political favor? Illegally deport citizens? Appoint unqualified candidates to every single government agency? Allow billionaires to dictate policy because they contributed to his campaign fund? Instigate an insurrection and attempted coup? Pardon traitors? Claim the election was rigged? Demanding that states gerrymander to force the elections of ONLY Republicans so he maintains political control? Use government judicial system to punish anyone who disagrees with him? Order people under him to violate the law, then fire them when they refuse? Redraw weather maps because he misspoke on meteorological facts and then double down by using a Sharpie to redraw a weather projection because he's never wrong? Waste time in court using government resources to target his enemies? Be almost as inarticulate as he is incontinent?

What??? First, Both sides try to stack the Supreme Court, It’s what politicians do. But don’t you think to say they are doing it to go after gay marriages. I don’t think gay marriage is that high on anyone’s agenda,,, I think must people don’t really care who you marry.

You can just stop at "I don't think." It would be easier.

Lmao. I guess, if he had a son that was making money from china, or any other country and he’s a known drug addict yeah. That might. Or if he was getting some sexual relief in the white house, gets caught, denies it , then has to admit it. Yeah that might do it. Or maybe if his wife and the sitting president put together a dossier , that was completely fabricated, and lies. Yeah that might do it.

Don’t you realize that there is just as much smear stuff on both sides

We could have this fun all day long just going back and forth on which side is worse.
Would you agree that most politicians are crooked, have done some wrong shit? I would
I’ll also say. That I’m not the perfect saint. And I’m not the most intelligent letterboxer out there. But I think it’s safe to say, this is just what politicians want. They want us arguing with each other. Can we agree on that?

And again, This conversation started with someone claiming there has been an infringement on gay marriage.
Where? Show
Me. Because I don’t see it

You sincerely believe the tax issue is the only reason why the current administration and Pete 'cosplay' Hegseth want to drum out good people who wish to protect our country?

The costs are a rounding error in the overall military budget ($833 billion for 2025). Department of Defense Department(of WAR) estimated transgender health accounted for less that 1% of the Healthcare line in the budget.

Many transgendered troops sought zero trans related support. Why were those troops shown the door?

Do you believe any member of our community who can qualify be allowed to proudly serve their country?

Will they be releasing the cougars as well?

Ducking,

LB

Again. This conversation started with was about how President Trump is infringing on gay marriage. So you have anything to add on that topic?

George Washington was a slaveholder at the early age of eleven. At the time of his death, the Mount Vernon population consisted of 317 enslaved people. Just FYI.

But that aside... yes, a lot of politicians make bad choices. So rather than bashing each other's representatives, as you suggest, why don't you tell us the great things Trump has done.

The discussion did what they often do, here or on any social site….it warped away from the original question/subject into in this case, a general discussion about Trump and politics in general. Well, maybe more specifically Trump. Lol But his actions and policies are on a lot of people’s minds, so that’s no surprise.

That’s why admin moved it to the Political discussion board. It’s not the first time a thread got moved and it won’t be the last.

In the past, lots of prople here have posted something and it resulted in a very long and often very heated discussion. Some then got moved to the ……what is that?….dead lemurs board…..because it just became a pointless merry go round of back and forth.

So I don’t think there’s any need to apologize.

Sorry my mistake. Someone posted disparaging comments regarding trans folk on this very thread that you have pointed out was for gay marriage commentary only. Have you contacted them as well? Perhaps you can let me know who went off the topic?
I think they want to issue statements without receiving any responses to some of the things they post.

That was a weird typo.

As mentioned, if there are questions, please send me AQ Mail.

We are not charging beyond shipping. If someone wants to send us a couple of dollars for processing and time - cool, but we are not asking for payment for material beyond shipping. Webfoot is not asking for payment, and we are uncomfortable to accept payment for those items as well.

Just a reminder, the items are soot covered and some of that might always be there.

I contacted PI Joe earlier during a lunch break at work that I was going to reply to the message with this on the board at some point, so this is more of just a reiteration in case others had questions.