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To: Gomez

---"I disagree with the government getting involved with what people should and shouldn't do," Dalrymple said. "Stay out of the bedrooms." ---

This has got to be one of the most trite, bogus, and disingenuous sayings that comes up every time gay marriage is discussed.

The choice of the people to grant legal status and recognition only to traditional marriage is in no way an intrusion into the bedroom. Such laws in no way tell two men that they can't do whatever they want to do in their own bedroom. They simply say that society does not have to grant to such behavior the same status it accords to the marriage of a man and woman.

Its a snappy little soundbite, and it plays to libertarian feelings we all have, but that doesn't change the fact that it is completely bogus.


71 posted on 08/08/2005 7:42:15 AM PDT by Aetius
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To: Aetius

Very well said.


76 posted on 08/08/2005 8:30:54 AM PDT by little jeremiah (A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom. P. Henry)
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