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Hetero Today In Traditional Marriage
Posted by Dan Savage on Wed, May 20, 2009 at 8:32 AM
UK:
A bride and groom murdered a man the morning after their wedding night, a court heard today .Wendy Shobrook, 39, had walked out on Barry Johnson, 40, halfway through their reception because she did not think he was paying her enough attention, Plymouth crown court was told. Next morning, Johnson found his bride at the flat of her former boyfriend, George Auchterlonie, 45. She let Johnson in and he used an oar that was hanging on the wall as a decoration to batter Auchterlonie to death, it is alleged.
Husband and wife fled together, leaving Auchterlonie dying in a pool of blood. He is thought to have lived for several hours, but his body was only found by a neighbour three days later.
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Counterpoint: Jeffrey Dahmer. See, I can take individual homosexuals and make a stupid argument, too.
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fingers, toes, arms, eyes, etc. Though I'm getting married in MA this summer anyway so they can go suck it if they don't overturn it.
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The last statement:
"He (the prosecutor) said Shobrook had set Auchterlonie up for the beating, enabling Johnson to attack him by letting him into the flat."
Coupled with:
"(The bride) had walked out on (the groom), halfway through their reception because she did not think he was paying her enough attention."
Makes me wonder if her setting up a former lover was part of her 'attention seeking behavior'. She thinks her new groom isn't paying her enough attention, so she goes to the flat of her ex (and probably played the 'look what you're missing' card), and when the groom comes over the next morning (interesting that he knew where to find her), she lets him in (and may have prompted or encouraged the beating as a way for her groom to prove her love for her), and he proceeds to fatally wound the victim.
Just how it reads between the lines to me.
Also bearing in mind that these event took place after a marriage that took place "at short notice (in the) register('s) office with three friends as witnesses, and gone on to celebrate at three pubs in the city
Perhaps not the most thought through coupling.
"He (the prosecutor) said Shobrook had set Auchterlonie up for the beating, enabling Johnson to attack him by letting him into the flat."
Coupled with:
"(The bride) had walked out on (the groom), halfway through their reception because she did not think he was paying her enough attention."
Makes me wonder if her setting up a former lover was part of her 'attention seeking behavior'. She thinks her new groom isn't paying her enough attention, so she goes to the flat of her ex (and probably played the 'look what you're missing' card), and when the groom comes over the next morning (interesting that he knew where to find her), she lets him in (and may have prompted or encouraged the beating as a way for her groom to prove her love for her), and he proceeds to fatally wound the victim.
Just how it reads between the lines to me.
Also bearing in mind that these event took place after a marriage that took place "at short notice (in the) register('s) office with three friends as witnesses, and gone on to celebrate at three pubs in the city
Perhaps not the most thought through coupling.
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@3 - I get it and it's a stupid point.
Gay marriage should be legal because it is the right thing to do. Not because there are crazy straight people who get married.
Gay marriage should be legal because it is the right thing to do. Not because there are crazy straight people who get married.
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8, While I agree with you that gay marriage is the right thing to do, you still don't get it. Nobody is saying that gay people should be allowed because crazy straight people are getting married.
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@8 the point is that if 'traditional' marriage advocates are going to hold its sacredness up, they'd have to do a lot better than just banning gays from marriage. They'd have to take full control of the institution over from the state, and then either not allow fuck-ups like this or take full responsibility. As in, the clergy that presided over this one gets fired for making such a mockery of the sacred institution of marriage. Otherwise they hold no moral authority at all to say how to define marriage.
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yeah, this whole thing just screams "attention whore" to me. I'm guessing the bride, feeling not enough attention was being paid, decided to do something that couldn't be ignored.
She should be tried for murder.
She should be tried for murder.
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@8: The (public) fundie message is the gays and the gays alone somehow undermine/endanger the sacred, immutable, and perfect institution of marriage. If the gays ever get their hands on marriage, they'll totally ruin it for everybody.
The point of TITM is that 'opposite marriage' is neither as awesome nor as fragile as the fundies make it out to be, and more importantly, the existing problems with marriage have nothing to do with the gays.
The point of TITM is that 'opposite marriage' is neither as awesome nor as fragile as the fundies make it out to be, and more importantly, the existing problems with marriage have nothing to do with the gays.
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@11,
What makes you think she won't be? Accomplices to murder are typically held to the same standard as the actual murderer.
What makes you think she won't be? Accomplices to murder are typically held to the same standard as the actual murderer.
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