[GCFL-discuss] Lousy Cooks

[Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List]

Kateinmo, I honestly don't know what to tell you. But the degration of
society scares me. I'm too much of my grandfather's generation it feels like
far too often.
~Lance
On 7/23/08, Discussion of the Good, Clean Funnies List <
gcfl-discuss at gcfl.net> wrote:
>
>   Jeanene & Lance,
>
> "Did you just want to type "partners" and "same-sex "marriage"" to raise my
> blood pressure?  The word partner now has a connotation of homosexuality or
> shacking up -- nothing so pure as husband and wife teammates.  Same-sex?
> Barf.  "Marriage"?  What a crock... and a travesty of the word and
> concept."
>
>
>
> "I'd agree with you Jeanene, I hate the term partner. It drives me nuts.
> It's like they don't want you to know whom they support or that they're
> supporting the gay life style by calling themselves partners so the others
> can hide within that setting. Whatever. Not my lifestyle and I'm quite proud
> of that."
>
>
>
> Okay, you both hate the term "partner". My husband (male) and I (female)
> lived together for 15 years. We considered ourselves married, but we could
> not marry (until last year) or I would have lost my health insurance as the
> former spouse of a retired federal employee. I am uninsurable by any other
> health insurance company due to several medical conditions.
>
>
>
> We called ourselves partners because that is exactly what we were; partners
> in a serious, for the rest of our lives, relationship and deeply in love
> with each other.
>
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>
> What term would you have had us use?
>
>
>
> kateinmo
>
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