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“'Marriage,' Blankenhorn has written, 'is a gift that society bestows on its children.'” Very cleverly put, yet very badly wrong. It is difficult to know where to begin a critique of this guy's thinking, since so many will accept his major premise without considering that it is flat wrong.
1 posted on 01/30/2013 8:15:01 AM PST by Belteshazzar
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One more point. Kathleen Parker is billed as a “conservative.” I suppose that is so if, by conservative, you mean less gratuitously, radically progressive than others.


2 posted on 01/30/2013 8:17:07 AM PST by Belteshazzar (We are not justified by our works but by faith - De Jacob et vita beata 2 +Ambrose of Milan)
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Now how exactly offering marriage to ~1.5% of the population (homosexuals are roughly 3% of the population overall, and saying even half of those ever have an interest in marriage is generous) is supposed to save in institution for the other 98.5% seems rather dubious.

It’s amusing that the Left would have become so attached to marriage now since they spent to many decades trying to kill it.


3 posted on 01/30/2013 8:18:12 AM PST by drbuzzard (All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others.)
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Same-sex marriage can help save the institution

That's like saying assisted suicide can help cure cancer.

4 posted on 01/30/2013 8:22:07 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: Belteshazzar

The polygamists are now beating the same drums the homosexuals did.

You know those Muslim polygamists; they’re really good at beating things. Wives (plural).


5 posted on 01/30/2013 8:23:21 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Of the government, by the government, and for the government.)
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“Same-sex marriage can help save the institution”

Because it has lasted so long without it?


6 posted on 01/30/2013 8:30:14 AM PST by edcoil (Manage your own lawsuit: www.jurisdictionary.com?refercode=KK0012)
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Gay “marriage” is a mockery of a sacrament that most religions (Christian and non-Christian) consider holy.

I considered it to be equivalent to conducting baptisms with dog excrement instead of water.

Marriage is an institution only to the view of the State. The State has implemented civil unions to satisfy the needs of the non-religious and homosexuals to throw a party and and so that homosexuals can pretend their arrangement has legitimacy.

But it is not marriage, and calling it marriage only destroys marriage.


7 posted on 01/30/2013 8:33:48 AM PST by kidd
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To: Belteshazzar

No same sex marriage, no illegals, no drugs, no abortion, no communism.


10 posted on 01/30/2013 8:38:14 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Belteshazzar

“We had to kill the children to save them.” —Janet “Butch” Reno, US Attorney General


11 posted on 01/30/2013 8:50:50 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (TYRANNY: When the people fear the politicians. LIBERTY: When the politicians fear the people.)
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Blankenhorn’s personal transformation has resulted in a welcome shift in the public debate. How clever of him to recognize that his allies in strengthening marriage are the very people who for so long have been excluded.

Kathleen is an idiot, and a fake conservative. She looks and sounds like one on occasion in order to fool some of the people some of the time.

The only thing that will strengthen marriage are young men and women trained in virtue and dedicating their marriage to God.

Two homos or two lesbos cannot pretend enough to accomplish those requirements.

12 posted on 01/30/2013 9:07:08 AM PST by Slyfox (The key to Marxism is medicine - Vladimir Lenin)
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Same-sex marriage can help save the institutionWell. yesss, and shooting a man in the head will save him from dying of a heart attack.
21 posted on 01/30/2013 10:15:49 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
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What next, she’ll support consanguinity in order to “strengthen families?”


23 posted on 01/30/2013 10:24:35 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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Blankenhorn was mercilessly demonized by homo-nazis for testifying for the defense of Prop 8 until he could take no more. He has a lot of “penance” to do before the perverts will be placated, though.

No wonder most all of the scheduled trial witnesses dropped out. Who wants to deal with the homo-mafia?


24 posted on 01/30/2013 3:04:53 PM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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These people want more Jerry Sanduskys for Boy Scout leaders...


25 posted on 01/30/2013 5:57:58 PM PST by Sir Francis Dashwood ("Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???")
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To: Belteshazzar

Barf Alert?


29 posted on 02/03/2013 9:52:01 AM PST by DBeers (†)
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