Stephanie Salter: Gays a threat to institution of marriage? Get real

The Tribune-Star ^ | June 11, 2006 | Stephanie Salter

[sure_fine]

isn't it nice how the young brainwashed can decide for the majority of the world population

[sure_fine]

anyone that has access to a muslim forum should post this story to it

[originalbuckeye]

At this point, she is probably a Methodist. I no longer recognize my church anymore.

[Dialup Llama]

If you look at what marriage originally was, it meant that if you convinced a woman to go into your tent, cave or hut, then you were bound to her and took care of your children etc... The entire concept of marriage only makes sense if you are referring to a man and a woman. Two guys aren't bonded just because they were messing around with each other.

Gay marriage is nonsensical because two men cannot have sex. Human reproduction doesn't match up male to male. Gays can simulate sex and can simulate marriage. But to say they can marry is like saying 2 + 2 = 5. It still equals 4 even if the state says its 5.

It really has nothing to do with Judeo-Christian morality or the church or societal conventions. Marriage was established long before those things existed. It can't be redefined just because someone doesn't like the biological basis of it.

[MACVSOG68]

Gay marriage is nonsensical because two men cannot have sex. Human reproduction doesn't match up male to male. Gays can simulate sex and can simulate marriage.

So Clinton was right? It really wasn't sex....

[OpusatFR]

It's called "Incrementalism."

Creeping totalitarianism telling all that unless homosexuality is accepted and applauded in the public, private and religious square in all its forms and permutations, nothing less will do.

[dcnd9]

Steph....

Bottom line: Engaging in same sex is "abnormal" sexual behavior! Why not help them overcome the abnormal attraction rather than succumb to the abnormal behavior of same sex -- just as we do for all other abnormal sexual attractions and their chosen behaviors?

Opposition to the gay agenda is NOT hatred of gays. It is loving them enough to tell them the truth and to help them overcome the "abnormal" sexual attraction they've been burdened with -- Christ calls them to do just that!

[Dialup Llama]

So Clinton was right? It really wasn't sex....

It wasn't sex, but its called a perversion which is even more prohibited. There used to be laws against it (yes even for married couples).

Its a standard Clintonian approach to rhetoric which is to say something that is true in a literal, narrow sense while causing others to be mislead as to the full truth.

[WOSG]

"You know, the act we need to perfect so we can seriously deal on the global stage with real political, economic, security and environmental threats to our well-being?"

The family is a foundation of our society and thus essential to the real political and economic security of our nation... without the family, we are but 20 years from barbarism.

Now, we can discuss intelligently whether or not redefining maarriage, which has been one man and one woman throughout western civilization's rise, will negatively impact this institution, but to call this important debate a 'distraction' is pure bunk. The US Senate, whose usual business is pandering to special interests, has many lesser issues to deal with, but few issues of more importance.

[WOSG]

ROTB, good point. Our western laws on divorce, that until recently were fairly strict against divorce and remarriage, were built on that scriptural passage.

Jesus had the same concept of marriage that all of civilization had until the gay agenda folks came along: Marriage is between man and woman.

[MACVSOG68]

It wasn't sex, but its called a perversion which is even more prohibited.

Don't tell the 90 to 95 percent of married couples who engage in such non-sex.

There used to be laws against it (yes even for married couples).

Yeah, darn those pesky old privacy and equal protection rights.

[WOSG]

She certainly has mastered the art of the non sequitor.

Apparently, because she knew some gay friends in College (who didn't?), anyone who opposes overturning the definition of marriage that western civilization used for millenia is a hateful bigot.

yeah, right.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

A fetish fantasy world?

Yes... Homosexuals are incapable of producing offspring with other homosexuals.

Marriage is simply part of their fetish, their lurid fantasy world of self-destruction.

Many will seek ceremonious sanctification and esoteric absolution in some type of marriage rite, but that still fails to give them a connection to the eternal in both a religious and temporal, procreant sense - - the union does not produce offspring.

Dissatisfaction with inevitable mortality only feeds the impoverishment of the ego further. Homosexuals really hate human life; their whole desire is rooted in the destruction of it...

[Dialup Llama]

Don't tell the 90 to 95 percent of married couples who engage in such non-sex.

If you really think about what's going on, its undignified for the woman to do that. The man's role is to care for the woman and make her feel secure. Not to indulge his ego. Its something that younger chicks do but more mature women tend to move away from it.

[org.whodat]

When is the last time you heard anybody cite “gay Americans” as the reason their marriage busted up?

Arriannia, what ever her name is,Huffinton and what ever his name was.

[GOPJ]

Next time you hear a liberal ranting against evangelical Christians, write down what they say, then read it back and substitute the word "Jew" for Christian. I did that with a friend and she was shocked to hear how much she sounded like a bigot. It was the first time she knew how her words would come across to a conservative.

[hosepipe]

[ Stephanie Salter: Gays a threat to institution of marriage? Get real ]

Marriage is about children not sex.. being gay is about sex not children, unless children are sexual points of interest..

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

So Clinton was right? It really wasn't sex....

It was equivocation... Clinton was a master equivocator... masturbating into the bathroom sink of the Oval Office (according to Monica Lewinsky).

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

No. 1: I have no “beastiality agenda.” I am a lifelong intraspeciessexual, born and raised in Indiana, who developed my advocacy for beastial rights here in the heartland. The first bestial person I knew I met in high school through the 4H Club.

No wonder the socialist government in Spain is wanting to grant human rights for apes...

[Bernard]

The author is correct in one area; we all need to work through this issue logically and thoughtfully. And that means, before a controlling legal authority can legalize homosexual marriage, it must legalize sodomy.

The alternative is to provide a profiling tool to the morality police.

All politicians in favor of that, raise your hand.