Comments on: You can’t get married if you have a sex change https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/06/you-can%e2%80%99t-get-married-if-you-have-a-sex-change/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:32:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: D Fenech https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/06/you-can%e2%80%99t-get-married-if-you-have-a-sex-change/#comment-9452 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 16:37:10 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=451#comment-9452 Read what she has to say in all this:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080604/local/i-am-a-woman

]]> By: Peter Muscat https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/06/you-can%e2%80%99t-get-married-if-you-have-a-sex-change/#comment-9451 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:45:49 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=451#comment-9451 Corinne : The wieght my mind can carry much more then a 1000 of your likes. Be assured!Even the tiniest part of my brains are too much for you to carry.

But of course, you are happy judging yourself in from of a shattered mirror!

Just to remind you that “One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.”

And from Japan I bring you a word of advice:”Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things.”

Try!

]]> By: Corinne Vella https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/06/you-can%e2%80%99t-get-married-if-you-have-a-sex-change/#comment-9450 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:39:54 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=451#comment-9450 Peter Muscat: In which case how can your mind bear the weight?

]]> By: Peter Muscat https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/06/you-can%e2%80%99t-get-married-if-you-have-a-sex-change/#comment-9449 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:18:18 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=451#comment-9449 Isn’t it clever to be ‘logical’ through illogical means??!!

However I do read your positive aspects in your negative postings!

NB; The above might be too heavy for weak minds.

]]> By: Zizzu https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/06/you-can%e2%80%99t-get-married-if-you-have-a-sex-change/#comment-9448 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 06:55:36 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=451#comment-9448 @ Caphenni

being gay, as you say, is largely a state of mind. In the vast majority of cases the person has no choice. I mentioned kinks and fetishes because as you may be aware, transexuals, transvestites and intersexuality all play significant roles in the gay debate, yet in popular culture they are classified as “fetishes” – with total disregard for the person having the condition (in the case of intersexuality) or the particular psychological state (transexuals and transvestites).

At the moment I cannot look at the links you suggested, however I will do so as soon as I can.

]]> By: Chris https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/06/you-can%e2%80%99t-get-married-if-you-have-a-sex-change/#comment-9447 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 15:54:27 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=451#comment-9447 Here’s an interesting one.

A Mosta Mayor refuses to conduct givil marriages on moral grounds, a registrar is afraid that marrying a transgender person would ‘allow’ gay mariages through the back door (pun intended),and Greek mayor says stuff all this nonsense, i’m marrying them anyway:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7432949.stm
I know whose side i’m on!

]]> By: Albert Farrugia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/06/you-can%e2%80%99t-get-married-if-you-have-a-sex-change/#comment-9446 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:54:30 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=451#comment-9446 It seems that the argument has drifted towards gay marriages and their legitimacy. Well I believe that this is irrelevant to the original argument. That is, does the State recognise its own documents? If the State deems it Ok to change a persons gender on his/hers birth certificate, why does the same State refuse to acknowledge the consequences of that change? But talking about gay marriages in Malta now is really rendering a disservice to the local gay community who, by means of wise tactics keeping a low profile have won a considerable amount of acceptance which one could only dream of like 10 years ago.

[Moderator – What is the gay community?]

]]> By: Caphenni https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/06/you-can%e2%80%99t-get-married-if-you-have-a-sex-change/#comment-9445 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:34:12 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=451#comment-9445 @Zizzu

Being gay is not just a sexual preference. It is not a kink. It is not a fetish.

Below are some links to a funny and intelligent approach to the debate of gay marriage that I think will stimulate this discussion further:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=110195&title=gay-marriage-ban

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=127075&title=bill-bennet-pt.-2

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=156320&title=mass.-hysteria

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=112394&title=gay-marriage

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=130444&title=gay-marriage-stand-up

]]> By: Zizzu https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/06/you-can%e2%80%99t-get-married-if-you-have-a-sex-change/#comment-9444 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:43:41 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=451#comment-9444 @ moderator

Of course it won’t affect my life – as long as i’m not forced to do it.

I don’t see what you’re getting at.

[Moderator – Of course you won’t. You clearly can’t understand logic.]

]]> By: Zizzu https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2008/06/you-can%e2%80%99t-get-married-if-you-have-a-sex-change/#comment-9443 Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:25:31 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=451#comment-9443 @ Caphenni
You argue that
“Wanting to be married to two lovers, although plausible, and although I have no concerns with it, cannot be put on the save level as gay marriage as an argument against it.”

Why “cannot”? who says it’s not equally valid? Isn’t it just another expression of a sexual preference? Why is a gay marriage OK and a menage-a-trois not? Or is that where you draw your line? (MInd you, bigamy is illegal too)

[Moderator – If a menage-a-trois is your sexual preference, no one is stopping you from having one. But marriage is not an expression of sexuality – it is a legal status, and the law should not recognise sexuality.]

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