And if people ARE constantly stealing guns, won't that make schools are larger target of all sorts of theft? Or teachers or whoever it is they decide to arm?

Hahaha this made me laugh. Perfect place for a mean girls reference.

I guess this isn't a case of "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."

THANK YOU! This is what I don't get either. You don't compensate your employees in grocery store gift cards (that can't be used in the pharmacy section) and direct deposits to their landlords/banks so why do you, as an employer, think you have the right to decide where the money/benefits you pay them to do your…

They're also the same people who said that education debt was good debt. Good for who, exactly? And the same people who berate millennials for being lazy. I could go on, but I don't want to start crying. Good luck to you!

I'm not disagreeing on most of your comment, but it is simply not true that "he has no input on the creation of new policy." Oftentimes, religious leaders ARE involved in creating policy, an example would be U.S. congressional reps meeting with the American Catholic bishops right before the Affordable Care Act went up…

Marriage (as you said in a different post I saw) has an emotional component to it. That is why many gay rights proponents will not (and in my opinion, should not) settle for civil unions. No one is saying the institution of marriage isn't flawed. Few commenters on Jezebel are against gay marriage, and I am for it. I…

I totally agree with everything you said. You summed it up perfectly.

I'm really sorry you had to go through all of that and are still dealing with it. This is a great example of why talking about finances is important (it could help someone to know this before you get married), but credit score alone tells you very little. Its also an example of how fucked up credit is. Should…

Totally agree with this. People should be open and talk about their finances before they consider marriage, but credit score alone shouldn't be the determining factor, in my opinion. It's one thing to have a bad credit score, it's another to not work towards improving your score. I get why some of the people in this…

I understand from reading many of your comments that you are trying to look out for the people who fell through the cracks. I think that is really admirable, and I also think that many people who are commenting don't even necessarily disagree with you. No comment that I have read thus far seems to be about asking for…

I think (based on your responses to other commenters) this is smart. Everyone should go into marriage with eyes wide open, especially about money, which is often rated as the #1 issue that leads to divorce. There are a lot of different ways to have debt, and many different kinds, and just like everything else in a…

Yeah same about beer and wine. I don't think liquor is a necessity, but if you are planning to serve alcohol, you should pay for it.

You still covered a decent amount of the alcohol bill. People on this thread seem to have varying ideas of what open bar means, but as long as you're covering a decent amount (which it sounds like you did), I think that is totally acceptable. To me a cash bar is that you drink only what you pay for, and that really…

I actually think Heineken and Yellowtail are acceptable. I don't think the bar has to include liquor if the bride and groom can't afford that. I'm also not against dry weddings if that's all someone can afford, but just like someone wouldn't throw a wedding and expect everyone to buy their own dinner, drinks should be…

Not if you have a big family and live in a city. Then that is still really fucking cheap (says the girl planning her big family wedding in a city right now).

Totally agree. I think cash bars are tacky only because they force guests to pay for the party. I'm always fine with a dry wedding.

I think this is a perfectly acceptable reason to have a dry wedding. My cousin had one after she converted and became a Baptist, and our side of the family (Catholic) are big drinkers. People danced a little less than normal, but she and her husband don't drink, so they didn't want everyone else drunk. It was still a…

This depends entirely on your venue and geography. If your venue lets you BYOB that is a huge savings, but many/most don't, and then geography comes in. For my wedding, we're looking at 5k on drinks. We're ready to shell out, but everyone can't get a 1k bar tab, even with only 80 guests. I'm still against a full cash…

It's not that "the truth makes me uncomfortable," it's that I don't think it is anyone's business who you sleep with/love and why you do it. I don't think any person's rights should be attached to who they want to or do have sex with. So if its science or if its choice, I don't care. I think it is irrelevant, and…