In Colorado, you have only to file an income tax return as a married couple, and you are legally considered married.

You have only to introduce yourselves as man and wife, live together and you are considered legally common law married.

You have only to receive mail at your residence as Mr. and Mrs. or use the same last name, appearing to be married and you can be considered common law married.

The rules for common law marriage in Colorado are actually stronger and more powerful in court than State sanctioned marriage laws. You do not have to live together for any length of time. It can be one night.

Yes exactly, not what you said before. You don't need a contract to not be married. Also it wouldnt apply to gays as they have to be man and wife and Mr. and Mrs. The law says that specifically.

Man is not an animal and Man shouldn't act like an animal. And, that is also my Opinion.

A contract that you are 'not married' while not necessary, would at least protect you from being divorced and taken for all your property when you are not really common law married.

You are right, it is not necessary.

But as a private investigator, I worked a case where a man let a woman stay in his apartment (sleeping on the couch he claims) for about two weeks. One night she called police and claimed that he was abusing her. They arrested him and took him to jail. While he was in jail, her and her boyfriend ripped off all of his apartment furniture. Nothing was left.

Because she claimed to have been in co-habitation (common law) the police would not even file a report of theft. They told him that he would have to take her to court to get his stuff back. Of course her and her boyfriend had left the state.

Be careful who you offer your couch to, that's all I'm saying.

Still, The issue is equal rights under the new supreme court decision.

(What two consenting adults do in private should not be anyone's concern. If it bothers you, try not to think about it so much.)

Does it hurt?

I don't know, I don't think about it.

losing virginity hurts whatever hole is penetrated

difference is one is kind of a natural hole to penetrate
and one is meant to be an exit

but both take 'getting used' to before they stop hurting,,,

,,,,,lol

real talk

I chose not to 'get used' to sodomy when I Was much younger,,,

The world would be far better off if the busy bodies would stop worrying so much about what other people are doing behind closed doors.
What I do in private, with my boyfriend is no ones business, and if my family and friends support me getting married, then I am not concerned with people that don't approve as I am not marrying them.

I do not need marriage to be happy, my mom always called it "a piece of paper that allows you to do what you've been doing all along."

Good point about people minding their own business, but while you can just throw away any need for marriage, the people suing for the right to marry were people who probably didn't need any such paper, either, until their partners wound up in a hospital, and estranged family kicked the plaintiffs out of the hospitals or funerals, with them having no rights in the matter. In the SCOTUS case, it was the IRS charging hundreds of $thousands in tax on an "inheritance" of the home the lesbian couple shared.

I'm happy that people are fighting for equal treatment because we are all human, we all bleed the same blood, just happen to all like different things. Alot of people need to remember that the founders of america came here to be freed from religious persecution, and yet here they are, repeating that action. The ones that were once persecuted are now persecuting others. America is not a fully christian nation, not everyone believes in the one God, or Jesus or Allah or whatever deity you happen to follow.

Christians, even though they'd never admit it, do not hold the monopoly on marriage, it existed long before christianity came about, and before christianity no one cared who you married as long as you were happy. Whether they admit to it or not, marriage is now a big part of the government, it's not all about the religious aspect anymore.

and for the people that say "God made adam and eve not adam and steve", if we are all God's children then wouldn't he have made both?

When people finally realize that what makes a person happy isn't necessarily their business, the world will start to get better

speaking of 'equal rights' specifically,, do you think it should be based in sexual preferences anymore than it should in gender?

and if not,, (and it could certainly be considered 'unequal' to do so)

why is the government involved in marriage and why don't all adults have the option to join their lives irregardless of what may happen in their bedroom for those 'marital' rights , like medical and insurance etc...

do you think it might be a great idea to allow all persons, under law, to enter LEGAL contracts, called civil unions, which bestow upon the participants all the rights previously defined for 'married' couples?


as I pointed out before, If someone, lets say, has no family and no lover but has a best friend they do everything with,, or a sibling,,,

why shouldn't they have the option to MOVE FORWARD< PURSUE HAPPINESS< and legally join their life to share assets, responsibilities and rights with each other?


would it not be more equal, to redefine what we have called 'marriage' to a more legal term like 'civil union' in which it truly stops being anyones 'business' what anyone else is or isn't doing in their bedroom?

You have a good point.

I personally see nothing wrong with a civil union contract that provides the same benefits as marriage.

Including parental rights towards any children adopted by the couple.


Why not abolish the term "marriage" altogether and do civil unions for everyone?

I think that would be a great idea.

Now we can agree on something.

What a way to introduce yourself :)

has nothing to do with "equal rights".... it's all about money and nothing else...