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To: Steelfish

They just don’t get it do they? They couldn’t get gay marriage so now they want to get rid of marriage as we know it. That is not as much an idea as seemingly a desire to be defeated even by greater numbers at the polls.


3 posted on 03/24/2009 10:24:55 PM PDT by Maelstorm (This country was not founded with the battle cry "Give me liberty or give me a government check!")
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To: Maelstorm

It is staggeringly unbelievable that a state Supreme Court justice will suggest how to circumvent a peoples’ proposition! Not a peep of outrage from the MSM!


4 posted on 03/24/2009 10:29:54 PM PDT by Steelfish
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To: Maelstorm

If cessation of government definition/regulation/licensing of marriage will “end marriage as you know it”, your concept of marriage is pretty pathetic. The sorts of marriages that make a positive contribution to society aren’t the ones that rely on government approval to endure and thrive.


11 posted on 03/24/2009 10:39:33 PM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Maelstorm

marriage should be defined by religion, not the govt. I know at least the Jewish wedding contract, the ketubah, has real meat to it.


13 posted on 03/24/2009 10:54:31 PM PDT by ari-freedom ( Hail to the Dork!)
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To: Maelstorm

correct.

they don’t understand that if homo’s got married legally then all kinds of marriages can be legal.

The fact is that the majority do not want homo’s to get married and the more they try and force us to accept them the norm the people are getting pissed off with them.

If it is their private business as they say it is then stop telling us about your perverted sexual tendencies, stop with the freak shows and stop segregating yourselves.


47 posted on 03/25/2009 9:34:22 AM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: Maelstorm
The goal of liberalism is to destroy all institutions to which the citizenry might maintain loyalty, other than the state. Liberals war with private property because they don't want people to be independent of the state. They war with tradition because they can't tolerate any idea that preceded the state. They war with God because they can't allow a power to exist that's higher than the state. They war with the family because they can't allow any loyalty beyond the state.

The goal of the same-sex “marriage” movement is to destroy a traditional institution that links people organically to their ancestors and to their future offspring. When the state recognizes marriage, and specifically the traditional understanding of marriage, it is a sign of deference by the state to some higher value. The left can't tolerate that. The state, in their view, is to be submitted to, not to submit. So they insist on empowering the state to change the institution of marriage into something that is non-traditional. This means the state becomes master and tells us what our institutions are going to be, rather than the other way around. If they can't do that, then they'll simply discard the entire institution.

62 posted on 03/25/2009 10:32:36 AM PDT by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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