Please participate:
Please take a couple of minutes and give your opinion… no matter what it is!!!!
Dr. Pam Lannutti ([email protected]) needs your help with her research. Would you please complete a brief anonymous survey about your reaction to the Supreme Court decision on the same-sex marriage case (DOMA case)? If you don’t know much about the case yet, that’s ok, there are details in the survey. Everyone 18 or older is eligible to participate.
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Thanks in advance.
PeakVT
She has an error in the her opening text (second page):
In this decision, the Supreme Court (in a 5-4 decision) ruled that the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was unconstitutional.
It was only section 3 that was ruled unconstitutional.
Svensker
Did Tom’s post disappear or am I hallucinating? Was the song THAT bad?
Comrade Dread
My reaction was that I should probably finally use my theology degree and go get myself ordained by a church and start advertising as a wedding minister for hire, so I can start getting some of that disposable income that everyone says gays have.
Roger Moore
Although it isn’t vital to the survey, I wish they had described the decision a little more accurately. They correctly describe the effect of the decision- the feds will now recognize same sex marriages- but it would have been better if they said that the decision had invalidated part of DOMA rather than saying that it invalidated DOMA.
Chyron HR
Ugh, God, not long-form response fields.
Higgs Boson's Mate
Done. John, if you can, please provide a linky when the researchers publish their results.
piratedan
cracked.com/quick-fixes/a-30-second-guide-to-how-gay-marriage-ruling-affects-you/
floridafrog
No problem,
it was a quick survey even with the long-form response fields
max
Done. Luckily, I could say ‘No effect.’ for lots of long-form comments.
max
[‘So that was quick.’]
Higgs Boson's Mate
@piratedan:
Nice! Except that it didn’t address the known fact that you can get teh ghey from a toilet seat.
Tom levenson
@Svensker: It disappeared. It’ll be back.
Darkrose
Completed and sent link to the spousal unit.
Citizen_X
@piratedan: Hah!
That snippet of Freep comments (“Homo-America”!) makes me want to pop over there, just to drink deeply of all the sweet, sweet tears.
kindness
OK I took the survey. John, you now owe me one gay marriage.
Who is the lucky guy?
LT
Erm – do online surveys have any value whatsoever?
Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)
@LT: No, but what the hell.
Roger Moore
@LT:
Amusement value.
jo6pac
Done
rdldot
ok done. This 57 yo while hetero woman who lives in Texas and is all ‘yeah baby’ over the decision just confused those folks, I bet.
beergoggles
Wow that’s a poorly designed survey… hopefully it’s not Regnerus II,
Dee Loralei
yea, I answered not a bit to a few of the questions about how it was going to affect my life. But I did type “Yippee!” when asked what I thought of it.
A Ghost To Most
Done.
MikeJ
@piratedan: Don’t get political info from Cracked. they say if you’re gay and in Mississippi the ruling will have no effect on you, which is untrue. You could get married elsewhere and the federal government would recognize your marriage even if Mississippi doesn’t.
Original Lee
Done. I was laconic. I hope they appreciate that.
Bobby Thomson
Any “survey” that allows its respondents to select themselves is inherently suspect.
Suffern ACE
I’d take it, but I’m too busy drawing up the ladder, donating to Republicans, and thinking about ways to pollute the aqifier with carcinogenic sludge to bother.
Yatsuno
Today’s ruling is worth it, if only to watch a hack from Heritage argue that federalism is totes most important. Yeah I about died from shock too.
Villago Delenda Est
Done. Dunno how much actual science they can extract from a self-selecting survey, though.
Chris
@Yatsuno:
1) War is Peace.
2) Freedom is Slavery.
3) Ignorance is Strength.
Questions?
Odie Hugh Manatee
Done and done (wife too).
WereBear
Done. Hey, if you get enough, it blends out the issues.
indycat32
If the answer to the “are you currently in a romantic relationship” question is “not sure”, trust me you’re not in a relationship
MikeJ
@indycat32: I think I am but she keeps drawing the drapes.
Jay C
Too bad there was no “gloating over wingnuts’ bitter tears” field, but otherwise a good survey.
@rdldot:
I hear you: by my demographic data, I should probably be a Republican Assemblyman, but so far, I can’t see anything but good about SSM and Dead DOMA….
Yatsuno
@Chris: Waitaminute…we can ask QUESTIONS???
dance around in your bones
Done. My main responses were “Of course it doesn’t affect me (as a hetero) at all, why would anyone think it would?” and “About damn time!”.
Equal rights for all to love and marry if they choose to do so.
I remember back in the 60’s – 70’s there was quite a ‘just a piece of paper’ movement about marriage. Once my husband and I started traveling and once were refused a room in a hotel because we weren’t married (yet); then later when we got pregnant? that piece of paper became muy importante. We figured, ‘what the fuck, why not? ‘ and went down to the county courthouse and got married. It made traveling and having a baby in Amsterdam much easier.
We lasted 40+ years before he died. I wish everyone the chance to make the choice for themselves, regardless of sexual orientation.
Roger Moore
@Yatsuno:
As long as you don’t mind admitting that you’re the kind of person who questions authority.
magurakurin
@Villago Delenda Est:
I saw it as more of a “Torture Lou Dobbs” exercise from back in the day…
Chris
@Yatsuno:
Of course you’re allowed to ask questions. It makes identifying the thought criminals so much easier.
Omnes Omnibus
Done.
gbear
Done. I told her I was still searching for the perfect canine mate.
(not really. I gave nice answers)
JGabriel
Done.
Felinious Wench
@rdldot:
This 40 year old heterosexual white female from Texas just did the same, sister!
Felonius Monk
This 70 yo white hetero geezer says ’bout damn time!
I understand that the good Cardinal Timothy Dolan of NY is having a real sad over today’s rulings. Well, there is very little I can say about this except FUCK YOU, TIMMY!
Desert Rat
@indycat32:
I’m more inclined to believe that Not Sure means that the other person doesn’t view it as a relationship.
Woodrowfan
done
the Conster
Done and done. Proud to be able to do anything that bends the arc of the universe towards justice.
Poicephalus
JC,
this means you will front-page the final results, right?
C
ps Hey Tunch!
Ruckus
@rdldot:
So did this 64 yr old white hetero male.
Ruckus
@Felonius Monk:
Fuck you Timmy, twice.
S. Holland
This 70 year old white idiot woman happily told them ‘we are all equal’….easy, easy
cyntax
1. Overturn DOMA
2. Set aside more money for fabulous destination weddings.
3. Economic stimulus!
Elizabelle
Done.
Said I hoped I would end up buying more wedding gifts.
Still smiling over today’s SC decisions.
Unlike yesterday.
PurpleGirl
Done. Repeatedly answered “no effect” on my life or my relationships. Referenced friends who now should have better lives.
pat
Done. Hetero white old married lady. Answer to last question,
About time!!
p
thank you.
in taking this survey i recognized myself as a 63 yr. old, white, female, PANTHEIST.