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More Americans oppose gay 'marriage,' poll finds
Washington Times ^ | 4/2/05 | Jennifer Harper

Posted on 04/02/2005 3:25:02 PM PST by Crackingham

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To: acapesket
"As I always say... Assachusetts.. more ***holes per square mile than ANY state in the Union!"

Sadly. I live there (transplant) and am forced to agree with you. They don't call them Massholes for nothing.

21 posted on 04/03/2005 9:18:58 AM PDT by JoeV1 (Democrat Party-The unlawful and corrupt leading the blind and uneducated)
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To: acapesket
"As I always say... Assachusetts.. more ***holes per square mile than ANY state in the Union!"

Sadly. I live there (transplant) and am forced to agree with you. They don't call them Massholes for nothing.

22 posted on 04/03/2005 9:18:58 AM PDT by JoeV1 (Democrat Party-The unlawful and corrupt leading the blind and uneducated)
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To: JoeV1

Another consideration in the homosexual drive to normalize themselves is this: What if two very good friends of the same sex, one in need of medical benefits, the other having said benefits, want to get married? Must they be required to perform perverted sex acts to be considered married or can two friends get married. Think about it. We have all had very good friends that we loved but never had sex with--can we marry them or not? I don't think this is what the homos have in mind, but who can prove it?


23 posted on 04/03/2005 9:31:39 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Conservatism: doing what is right instead of what is easy)
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To: Crackingham
Hey, 11 states voted it down on November 2nd. This isn't surprising.

My Book, Bradypalooza

24 posted on 04/03/2005 9:34:36 AM PDT by YourAdHere (My Brady Bunch book is now available!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Good point........must be huge......then again, Nov 2004 proved it, too.


25 posted on 04/03/2005 11:02:50 AM PDT by Liz ("There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men." Edmund Burke)
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To: JoeV1

You have my sympathy! I would love to move but my family is here.


26 posted on 04/03/2005 12:23:23 PM PDT by acapesket (never had a vote count in all my years here)
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To: Liz

There are a lot of people who will mouth the PC responses in life. Then when they vote in private on election day, they vote against the PC ism. We have seen this in California in our Props that attempt to strike out against PCism. These Props win by a 60% margin, and then the judges do a Terri manuever on them.


27 posted on 04/04/2005 7:32:48 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (The MSM has been a WMD, Weapon of Mass Disinformation for the Rats for at least 4 decades.)
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To: IronJack; Crackingham

No, you've missed it.

It's called by pollsters the Wilder Factor. When Doug Wilder, a black politician, was running for governor of Virginia, the polls showed him comfortably ahead when he won by a much smaller margin than the polls predicted. That is because white people, when polled, wanted to look "tolerant" and "non-racist" so they told the pollster Wilder when in the privacy of the voting booth they chose otherwise. When people are polled on values and lifestyle questions they often respond a lot more "tolerant" and "open-minded" than they really are so they tend to give politically correct answers.

This poll is people being turned off by the heavy-handedness of the sodomite lobby and feeling free to tell the pollsters what they really, really think, whether it sounds politically correct or not.


29 posted on 04/05/2005 7:33:02 AM PDT by Sam the Sham
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To: Sam the Sham
I suspect there's something to that. I've often felt uncomfortable expressing some of my more ... conservative ... views to a complete stranger, until I realize that they are in fact more sound than the competing ideas. But even wary as I am of political correctness and propaganda, I sometimes succumb. I can imagine many others do as well, which would tend to tilt the values polls to the left.

However, on the subject of homosexuality, I feel pretty confident that the truths expressed in the Bible and held as standard in every civilization on earth for the last 2,000 years are valid.

30 posted on 04/05/2005 2:39:04 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: IronJack; et al

Ditto on the Bible truths IronJack

Some additional food for thought:

If we want to really 'walk the walk' and not just 'talk the talk', then more than resisting the homosexual agenda is needed. When was the last time you heard anyone (even a Church leader) point out that that practices that are improper for homosexuals (in or out of SSM) are also improper for heterosexuals (married or not)?

Sodomy in all its forms can be practiced by heterosexuals too. Are we 'loving the sinner' but 'hating the sin' if we find it acceptable for heterosexuals - albeit married - engage in the same sexual practices?

Which of the following is more correct?
For a man to:
A. Lie with a man as if lying with a woman.
OR
B. Lie with a woman as a man would lie with a man.
OR for a woman to:
C. Lie with a woman as if lying with a man.
OR
D. Lie with a man as a man would lie with a man.

If we hate the same sins when homosexuals practice them but love the same sins when heterosexuals practice them, then we are hypocrites and practicing (PC wording alert!) inequality and being 'tolerant' of sin.

My 2c


31 posted on 04/05/2005 11:02:03 PM PDT by TruthInAction (Practice what we preach)
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To: TruthInAction

You're going to have a hard time selling the notion that heterosexual sodomy is as egregious as its homosexual equivalent, even though qualitatively they are the same act. And frankly, I'm not sure what the various churches' stances are on the former. But you're right; the Bible doesn't make any such fine distinctions, although I'm sure advocates will find weasel room in Scripture to justify the practices.


32 posted on 04/06/2005 4:55:13 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: Crackingham
CT Senate will probably approve gay civil unions today or tomorrow. CT House will most likely follow, and Governor Rell (there's usually an R after her name, but that may simply be because her name starts with R. She can't really be a Republican) will sign the bill into law, depending on how it's worded (which will mean she'll sign the damn thing).
33 posted on 04/06/2005 5:00:01 AM PDT by Koblenz (Holland: a very tolerant country. Until someone shoots you on a public street in broad daylight...)
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