The road to gay marriage

Jewish World Review ^ | 8/8/03 | Marianne M. Jennings

[Zavien Doombringer]

Welcome to FreeRepublic, we hope you enjoy your stay!

[Constitution Day]

Stand down, fellow VK!
Jewish World Review is a conservative site.

The above essay ends:
'This piece will bring condemnation, hate mail, and the usual threats to my employer. But years from now, as we assess the degradation same-sex marriage will bring to society, I shall be able to say, "I tried."'

[chance33_98]

How do you know if someone's gay...

[grobdriver]

Not to be outdone by our fair-weather friends to the North, the White House Press Corps' hammered Mr. Bush on our Puritanical aversion.

The left is filled with followers. They whine that the US should be more like Europe, more like Canada, more like "the world".
True Americans (true-to-our-history) understand that America is a leader, not a follower. And if those we try to lead choose to leave the path we blaze and walk over a cliff, that is their right.

[Zavien Doombringer]

wasn't preparing for a Zot...merely said Hi, I read the article and saw what is was worth....The name looks very close to the Troll names we have been zotting today...

[fml]

---How do you know if someone's gay...---

They decide to have sex with their own gender.

[4mycountry]

I don't see anything wrong with the post....

Stand down.

[4mycountry]

Oh...

Zav, you need a wider vocabulary! Your regular "hi"s sound just like the "hi"s you use when you're about to ZOT a troll!

[chance33_98]

They tell you. The question is, why?

[Zavien Doombringer]

I am standing down...no Capacitors charging here...

[RockandRollResurrection]

As if that princess Margaret wouldn't and doesn't use these same tactics herself. Yes, it's called learning to play political hardball. If you didn't want the gays emulating your political behavior you should have kept it a secret. The same people whining and moaning about "Too much gay in the media" are the same ones who do ENTIRE PROGRAMS about it EVERYNIGHT! Rush, O'Reilly, etc.... they are all obsessed with it, yet continue to insist it is "insignificant". As far as gay marriage, we have a representative democracy that is supposed to ensure protection from the tyranny of the majority! Just because 60% of people polled think something is "icky" because of some fairy tale they read doesn't mean it is a basis for law.

It's as ridiculous as the people whinging about loss of civil rights due to the post-9/11 crackdown. I mean, how exactly will it affect you? Give me one example. I'm still waiting. And don't give me some rambling BS about "It affects me and every American because the very moral fibre of this great nation blah blah blah..." Concrete examples only, please.

[fml]

Oh yeah, good point. Except for our 3 kids, no one would even know I had a sex life (or care)

[rhema]

[last two paragraphs of Jennings' column] Marriage is a sacred union between a man and a woman, only. Even at its worst, marriage remains the best means for insuring society's continuation and success. Look what divorce hath wrought for our children. Homosexual unions last, on average, one year. God help the children of these passing unions.

This piece will bring condemnation, hate mail, and the usual threats to my employer. But years from now, as we assess the degradation same-sex marriage will bring to society, I shall be able to say, "I tried."

The question is, will it bring even a scintilla of reasoned rebuttal from anyone who disagrees with its premises? These days, colloquy between gays and straights seems inevitably to be reduced to instant epithets if the latter have a single question or objection -- no matter how circumspectly raised and how amply supported by science, statistics, or Scripture -- about the lifestyles and legislative intentions of the former.

Welcome to FreeRepublic, Zender500.

[Zavien Doombringer]

Hmmm, I should change my line...When I spot a Troll, I say,"welcome to freerepublic, we hope you enjoyed your stay"...

I wasn't emplying Troll, but I summoned the Kitties to the thread because of the name, which resembles remarkably the Troll names we have been hitting today.

[rhema]

Hmmm, I should change my line...When I spot a Troll, I say,"welcome to freerepublic, we hope you enjoyed your stay"...

I'm guessing that anyone whose first post is an article by the fearless Marianne M. Jennings (whose columns I've frequently posted) doesn't fit the Troll profile at all! But thanks for maintaining constant vigilance.

[VRWCmember]

I mean, how exactly will it affect you? Give me one example. I'm still waiting.

How about this one then: The AIDS "epidemic", brought to you courtesy of the homosexual community, is consuming a disproportionate amount of medical research dollars diverting funds from other diseases that affect far more people and cost more lives. The increased health care costs both for AIDS and for the many other illnesses that occur more often in the homosexual community than in the general population are borne by all of us through higher insurance premiums. So yes, the behavioral choices of homosexuals -- and the consequences of those choices -- do in fact affect others.

[LiteKeeper]

INTSUM

[randog]

How do you know if someone's gay...

I'd give you the punch line to a very crude joke, but I'd most assuredly be banned from FR afterwards...;^)

[RockandRollResurrection]

Maybe there would be reasoned response if the article were written well enough to merit it. Using words like "hath"? Please. That's not even correct anymore. And the dramatic ending where she magically predicts the future. Wow. If I were her I would submit this to the school newspaper ASAP! The staff advisor probably needs to edit/correct it heavilly before it could be worthy of the "Gerber High Gazette".