NEWS: Straight White Guy Screwed by Homophobia

CULTURE: Straight White Guy Screwed by Homophobia

I can't help but find this story completely awesome.

I predict that a few more stories like this and the gays'll be getting marriage rights right quick.

Seriously, the guy sounds like a decent sort, and I'm pretty sure that he'll sort something out sooner or later. Big pain in the ass, of course. And the news story is quite good and, I think, clear about the broad range of legal nonsenses involved in "domestic partnership but not Real Marriage" legal complications. Just goes to show that discrimination sucks for everyone, even the people it's supposed to "protect."

Bitch_PhD is doubly amused that this is happening in Orange County, which as y'all may or may not know, is the most reactionary of wealthy SoCal reactionary Republicania.

Lovely

"Completely awesome". Yes, that really sums it up. Thanks for your rich insights.

Figures

I'm all for same sex marriage, but the fact that dude still has to pay alimony is bullshit.

Years ago I read a similar story where the ex-wife married a man. They didn't get 'state' married, just 'church' married so the ex-husband was still on the hook for alimony. He sued, and the judge ruled that the ex-wife and her new husband were in fact married and got the ex-husband out of alimony. I wondered at the time if the ex-wife had married a woman, would the judge have ruled the same way.

She could just give it back.

Gah, that's rotten! (The situation, not the article. Natch.)

I know that, politically speaking, it might be a means to the ends of having gay marriage legally recognized, but I don't know if "awesome" is the right word, aside from that his ex-wife is taking some awesomely uncalled-for advantage of him, which is pretty sad...

not if she's a total cunt, or has some valid reason to want to screw this guy

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also, she ought to be called out bigtime by the gay community. they're fighting for their rights (which i'm completely in favor of) and she's using loopholes in the law to take advantage of her ex-husband. regardless of her motivation for doing so, it's definitely got the potential to give the entire community a bad name in the media and, at the very least, it'll give the other side more ammunition in their obscene war on human rights.

You're assuming she's a decent human being.

Um, given that the article finds this awesome, I think the article sucks.

as downneck said, it's possible the guy has brought retribution upon himself.

"Blame the victim"

Or, more likely, she's just a thieving bitch who wants free money for doing nothing.

Though I completely agree with Downneck that the gay community should call her out on this.

who may very well, in this case, be the ex-wife. or not. none of us knows.

You're absolutely right; we don't know. Which is why this article is so morally weak.

no matter what the situation, she is being an opportunist.

but as a side note- i don't think BitchPHD is saying its awesome that this guy is getting screwed. its totally awesome that this proves that homophobic policy is not just...well..homophobic... but full of holes (and not the fun kind).

Given that the article has nothing to do with which of the two is to blame, but rather with the unforseen impact of discriminatory laws, it's hard to fault it for not assigning one of them to the villain's role.

Again, I agree that we don't know who is to blame. But then what makes this "completely awesome"? There's a lot packed into that, and I'm not remotely okay with it. There's more than a bit of schadenfreude here.

What could he have possibly done to deserve any retribution from an ex. No one deserves any form of retribution from an ex partner ever. Thts what we have law's for and law courts ok. ( If a law has been broken) A broken heart does not give you the right to act out some revenge agenda on your ex spouse. So by your logic if an ex wife or girlfriend of mine hurts me I can hurt her back in someway? I mean she had it comming right? She cheated on me or stole or whatever... it was her fault she bought retribution upon herself.
I wonder if you'll ever admit how sexist that comment actually was, but hey, your female and work here so......

Holy inconsistency, Batman!

Yes Robin... the spectre of incongruity strikes again.

Beautiful!

Way to take the easy shot and avoid the issue.

What I ment was women generally get away with sexist or negative comments about Men and other Women in our society. Should have been more specific.

i think you're kinda taking the "awesome" thing and running very far away from the article with it. the Bitch is actually sympathetic toward the poor guy.

what is awesome is that homophobic policy is backfiring on itself, allowing jerks like her to take advantage of people. what is awesome is that maybe this will bring some change to the fact that we don't in california recognize gay marriage.

and yeah, she sucks.