Posted on 02/26/2005 11:09:23 AM PST by James Franklin Reed
How does same sex marriage hurt my marriage? The question presupposes that marriage belongs to me in the first place. Marriage is an institution founded by God and exists by common grace for the benefit of all. It belongs to no one but God. It is not my marriage.
The second presupposition is that answering the question of same sex marriage forces us to jump past the most basic argument relating to the legitimacy of homosexual behavior itself.
(Excerpt) Read more at christianlifetools.org ...
Aw now there you go, being a voice of reason! LOL!
Your eyes are fine.
If you read the article, ( which seems to be from a Christian site) it is AGAINST Same-Sex marriage.
BTW, for the rest of you, you have to down-load the article to read it.
Hey Mike!
Do you actually read articles or are you just a hit and run flamer?
Or you can read the HTML version kindly provided by a fellow Freeper above:
http://www.christianexaminer.com/Articles/Articles%20Jun04/Art_Jun04_oped1.html
Here's the deal.
I have seen the trolls post things that are not necessarily stupid just to get us to eat at each other. He has had this posted for nearly half an hour with no replies.
If he really believed it, he would be here defending it, instead of relying on you.
And yes I have read the article. and yes it does seem to be against same sex marriage, but why no replies as yet?
Maybe he has things to do and was going to respond later. You still need to read beyond the title before you assume you know what the article was about.
I have seen the trolls post things that are not necessarily stupid just to get us to eat at each other.
And that is exactly what has occurred, because nobody bothered to read the article.
He has had this posted for nearly half an hour with no replies.
Wow, could it it be BECAUSE HE IS NEW and didn't expect this totally irrational backlash? Right from Post #2 people accused him of being a troll, which they would not have bothered to do had they read the article.
If he really believed it, he would be here defending it, instead of relying on you.
I was new here, once. Were you?
And yes I have read the article. and yes it does seem to be against same sex marriage, but why no replies as yet?
Why should he? From the first reply he's been flamed.
I wish he would have said that, otherwise, its just people making excuses for a person that just signed up 45 minutes ago.
Its really easy to reply and set it all straight, yet he hasn't.
It isnt your place to make excuses for him.
Mike, you're a great guy, but frankly, if *I* had been received the way this person was, I'd be hesitant, too.
If he is doing as you suggest, I really see no way this article could get us to go for one another.
Most of us here on FR are really down on Gay Marriage.
So if he is trying to cause trouble he's picked a REALLY dumb way to do it.
Look who's making excuses.
Again, I was new once. Were you?
certainly....
But as you can tell, we here at FR are doing it already to each other.
With my screen name, I was doubted a lot early on.....
I should remind you that you don't have to sign up to read; you only have to sign up to post. Maybe this is the first thing he felt was worth posting. And frankly, it's not a bad choice.
Again, if people like you had actually READ THE ARTICLE, none of this would have happened. So your paranoid scenarios that he did this just to set people against each other make no sense---because it would depend on the utter inability of Freepers to actually READ. And even DUers give us more credit than that.
In fact, even the excerpt he posted, when read from a Christian context, makes perfect sense. "My marriage does not belong to me, it belongs to God." Well, yes---it was God's to give, and God's to define.
It isn't your place to crucify him either because YOU messed up and didn't bother to read what he posted (the two paragragh excerpt alone clearly was against homosexual marriage). He owes us nothing at this point. Some people don't live their whole lives waiting for a response to their posts; he probably posted it and went out for the afternoon. Maybe... (gasp!) he has a life?
nope....not new at all....
come on man....he could reply back and just blast the crap outta me? That would set things straight. otherwise, its suspcious....
Fine then. You guys ping me when he responds.
Wait, now you're saying he's suspicious because he's not going to stoop to your level and FLAME you?
It isn't his job to set things straight. That would be the job of those who misunderstood him and responded with unreasonable magnitude (hint: that means you). He did nothing wrong.
Well, we are an opinionated bunch.
:-)
There's people on FR I disagree with, and some that I think are just wrong headed. I avoid the flame-wars when they happen.
This place ain't a PATCH on LP or somee other sites for nastiness.
If I have to disagree, I try to do it repsectfully.
Those of us who know you understand the signiifigance of your name, and I am sorry if a few idiots gave you a bad time.
Agreed, I do remember some of the crap you took when you first posted, Mike.
It's ok and its stopped altogether now.
I need to change the name because people keep asking if I am there still but I have finished that deployment....
ok how about if he responds I'm really wrong and if he doesn't then I am just wrong and he is suspicious?
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