[TheAngryClam]

to clarify before someone overzealously bans me without realizing that I'm for real, and I've been on FR for a nice long time...

Goldwater himself argued for more tolerance of gay people. Marriages are, at their most basic, stripped of religion level, contracts.

What justification do you have for stripping people of their free will to join a contract? Free will is one of the foundations of all western, republican (small R) freedoms. So I ask a very basic question: why ought we to restrict this very basic and very precious freedom? Is there a justification?

[SolomonSemperFi]

I am a Conservative Evangelical Christian....then....a Republican.

Excluding what the bible says......the Gay Lifestyle taken to its extreme....eradicates humanity......Hello?

[GVnana]

Marriages are, at their most basic, stripped of religion level, contracts.

au contrare! Marriages originated as a covenant between a man and a woman. Renaming something doesn't change it.

What justification do you have for stripping people of their free will to join a contract?

No one has stripped you of the right to contract.

Free will is one of the foundations of all western, republican (small R) freedoms. So I ask a very basic question: why ought we to restrict this very basic and very precious freedom? Is there a justification?

I thought you were talking contracts? How is free will violated?

[sneakypete]

What justification do you have for stripping people of their free will to join a contract?

They don't need justification,they are bible-thumpers.

Free will is one of the foundations of all western, republican (small R) freedoms. So I ask a very basic question: why ought we to restrict this very basic and very precious freedom? Is there a justification?

Basically,you are dealing with people who DREAM of living in a theocracy,where the gooberment is ran by religious leaders who dictate to everyone what they must think and how they must live.Or more correctly,how everybody ELSE must live. Add to that their natural(?) hatred for homosexuals,and you have issues that fire them up.

In short,they don't WANT "Free Will" because it scares hell out of them,and if they don't want it for themselves, they sure as hell don't want YOU to enjoy it. Misery,fear, and ignorance enjoy company.