I'd like to know how 2 people of the same sex getting hitched makes my marriage any less valid or sacred. If I win an award, let's say, the Nobel Peace Prize, for caring for the orphaned children of Bolivia for 50 years of my life, I'd take pride in having acheived an award that others, such as Mother
I don't think it is necessarily reciprocal, though, to say that because a certain percentage of pedophiles behave homosexually, that the same percent of homosexuals are pedophiles. I have no idea why people would choose to pick kids of the same sex to abuse, but I am not willing to lay the blame for it on homosexuality. It wouldn
Show me where you got your stats, please, because those numbers seem skewed. Are you trying to suggest that most homosexuals are child abusers? Because that's what that sentence seems to imply.I'd really like to see where you got your numbers from. The only places I've seen this statistic quoted onlin
...as was the 'family structure' issue. How many people do you know that are divorced? How many people do you know that are single parents, ie have a child but are not married to or residing with the parent of that child? On the street where I live there are 2 divorced parents and 2 single parents....and I live in white bread
Time to make divorce and unwed parents illegal as well, then.....no basic family structure there, either, is there? People should have the right to divorce. Unworkable marriages are bad for children, too. I do think we should reconsider "no-fault" divorce though, like in California, where divorce rate
Nope, but we can say that it's not going to decrease it. I don't think you can even say that. But we'll see. Someone needs to measure the fertility rate in Massachusetts every year for the next 50 years (assuming they don't amend their constitution as well).
Let's say we all decide to allow for gay marriages, would you go out the next day and start "being gay"? Of course not. It will happen over the long term. We're talking about changes in society, which you can't think about in terms of days, months, or even years. The damage will be done over decades and
Does that line aggrivate anyone else? I'm not sure that I need to be educated, and I think "what it is about" is pretty clear on a ballot, isn't it? I think what he is talking about is the beliefs of most progressives that the purpose of the ammendment is not just about protecting marriage but about "ga
And I still haven't seen any concrete examples of HOW society would be harmed by treating all people as equals. It's not about treating people as equals. Homosexuals should be treated with equal respect and rights. But I believe society has a responsibility to protect people susceptible to dangerous b
that's what social security is, too.
I am upset because if this amendmant is passed, then it is the first one which takes rights away. No, it's not. Ammendment XVIII took a right away. ...wait, nevermind... Technically speaking Ammendment XXII also took away a right. I personally don't think a definition of marriage in th
The final votes are now in. Looks like it won with over 70% of the vote. Pretty amazing. I expected it to be closer.
not intended as such, but i guess its in a similar vein. a friend sent it in an mail with a bunch of other "hand painting" photos.
I don't think it's an issue of just not wanting to support abortion. It's an issue of not wanting to support forced abortion. There's a disagreement as to whether this UN program assists that, or simply doesn't take a hard enough stand against it (My guess would be the latter is the real issue.) It won't be the first time the UN claimed to have a humanitarian program free of flaws when the ground truth is that oppresive regimes are duping them (
Article from our St. Louis newspaper. Check out Brian Diehl's quote, it's pretty funny. Gay marriage ban gets voter OK By Matt Franck Of the Post-Dispatch 08/03/2004 Missouri voters gave resounding approval to an amendment to the state constitution banning gay marriage, putting the nation on notice that similar proposed bans in o
Gay issue in the news
Did he apply for Dept. Agriculture loans?
Everyone must be left to live his/her life as he/she wishes as long as it doesnt harm the society,right ? What many Christians are arguing is that it does harm society, particularly if the governmnent allows same-sex couples to be married.
, the bible speaks of homosexuality being a sin, but it also says that eating shellfish is forbidden. Shellfish definitely bad. Stay away, lest you be damned.
The condemnation isn't of the act of homosexuality, it is of the legitimization of the act, the denial that it is sin, the refusal to repent. What you do personally is between you and God. What you legitimize and promote is of great concern to the community as a whole. People will always sin, no one should ever condemn you for th
I'm not a Bush hater, but this is too damn funny to pass up. It landed in my inbox today. Author unknown: While suturing a laceration on the hand of a 70-year-old Texas rancher (whose hand had caught in a gate while working cattle), a doctor and the oldman were talking about George W. Bush being in the White House. The old Texan said, "Well, ya k
nope. never seen that, and i don't have showtime.
Is it more about what they do in their bedroom or more about equality when it comes to relationships, superannuation, rights as an individual, discrimination in the workplace People who are gay have every right to engage in homosexual relationships, participate in government superannuation (called Soc
I had a Christian try to tell me yesterday that Christianity was a way of life - not a religion... It is indeed a way of life. It's also a religion, but I think he or she was just trying to make a point. If you don't see Christianity as a way of life, you don't understand Christianity.
God bless the irish.
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