Here Is Something We All Can Agree On.

Common Sense America ^ | 8-4-2003 | F. R Wilcox

[onedoug]

Why Judaism Rejected Homosexuality

[Az Joe]

Yeah, gay marraige would be bad, but having more than ONE wife! Horrifying!

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I think the belief that children need two parents, one of each sex, is the common denominator of all religions, and enforces the standard of only honoring heterosexual marriages.

[ThePythonicCow]

You left out the world's sixth major religion - secularism.

For them, marriage is a matter of secular convenience.

Well ... perhaps I should have said anti-religion.

[DoughtyOne]

Worldwide, of the more than 3,000,000,000 total adherents of the five great religions, 99.9% are in bodies that affirm the classical definition of marriage. To believe that all these people are wrong and the 2% of the U.S. population that considers themselves to be homosexual are right, boggles the mind of any rational person.

I agree with your post.  I do caution people to be very careful about adopting the above logic though.  There are times when the majority will clearly be wrong.  The word Democrat comes to mind.  The majority of them couldn't buy a clue with the contents of the U.S. Mint.

[nevergiveup]

There are times when the majority will clearly be wrong.

How true. While I fully agree with marriage = (one man + one woman), reading this article brought to mind the old saying:

"Each crap and die. 10 billion flys can't be wrong."

[FReepaholic]

I think the government should stay out of our private lives.

If one's religion allows a man to marry multiple wives or a woman to marry multiple husbands, why should GOVERNMENT interfere if all parties are CONSENTING?

If two men or two women want to marry...so be it. If it's wrong in the sight of GOD, then they'll pay that price on Judgement Day, will they not?

Why should we get our panties in a wad about it? God will handle it.

By the way, why should we have to have a GOVERNMENT LICENSE to MARRY anyway??

[rmlew]

As far as I know, Islam allows Polygamy.

[glorgau]

Why Judaism Rejected Homosexuality

After reading the article, you can see why the pervert Nazis hated the Jews. They subconciously hated the moral strictures implied by the Jewish existance.

[Farnham]

As far as I know, Islam allows Polygamy.

I believe you are correct. Up to 4 wives if you can afford to support them properly.

When I was in my twenties, I thought polygamy was a cool idea. After 30 years of marraige, I think it's an idea we should encourage amoung our enemies.(Strike that. Suicide bomber doesn't seem like such a stupid occupation if you have 4 wives at home.)

[Twinkie]

A whole lot of it is this - if everyone chooses the "gay"
lifestyle as "gays" appear to wish - pretty soon the human
race will die out as God does not surely wish.

[rmlew]

Actually it is for the men without wives.
If one man has 4, 3 men are left with the hope of 72 Virgins/Raisins.

[onedoug]

Conveying ethical monotheism to the world is a tremendous charge and challenge. Thus, the Chosen People.

[HughSeries]

Interesting article you linked, from a Catholic website, especially interesting considering the following excerpt:

Unless the sex drive is appropriately harnessed (not squelched — which leads to its own destructive consequences) . . .

I will refrain from any further comment.

[Mike Darancette]

Support the sancity of marriage - IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN.

[fr_freak]

If one's religion allows a man to marry multiple wives or a woman to marry multiple husbands, why should GOVERNMENT interfere if all parties are CONSENTING?
...
By the way, why should we have to have a GOVERNMENT LICENSE to MARRY anyway??

Actually, I don't think that there is really anything stopping you from marrying 4 women at a time here or, for that matter, from two men getting married. All you have to do is find somebody, such as a clergyman, who will perform the ceremony and you can consider yourself married. It's just that the government won't recognize you as being married. The government only gets involved at all when people go to the government to get the marriage "blessed" by getting a license. Skip that part and you'll have no problem, right? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Allowing, as a society, the government to recognize freak marriages, though, is an entirely different matter. That would be a tacit endorsement of that kind of relationship. A community must be able to set its own standards of morality, or else it ceases to be a community and becomes just a collection of people living in the same geographic area. The government exists only to enforce those standards. It is one thing to say that the government shouldn't interfere if people are engaging in behavior that is contrary to the values of the community (as long as its's not explicitly illegal), but it is quite another to say that the government should endorse such behavior.

[coffmg]

Nice try!

I am so tired of the lie about Mormans 'LDS' church gave up Poligamy so that they could become a state.

That lie is o
always around. Being a 'Morman' for over 35 years I would like to be able to put a stop to the 'Statehood' lie.
I leaders stopped the practice to get possesion of the Temples, and other sites that had been confiscated by the Congress of the United states.

We had all of our assets grabbed. Even the money we set aside to help the converts for other nations to get to Zion.

The Lord told the Prophet of the time that the posession of the most sacred buildings was more inportant than the Plural marriages.

GLCNSLC

[RaceBannon]

Take my Wife! Please!