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To: puroresu

So you didn’t follow the link. That’s a shame. Facts are contained within. Facts are good.

Just a thought for you: How hard would it have been to find someone in, say, 1948, who’d claim, “until the total loss of our common sense in recent years, marriage has never been between people of different races.” Not very hard, I bet. In fact, as I mentioned earlier in the thread, 90% of people opposed interracial marriage at that point, according to the poll data. If left to a vote, interracial couples who wanted to marry would have been out of luck.


498 posted on 05/16/2008 9:16:29 AM PDT by TraditionalistMommy
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To: TraditionalistMommy
So you didn’t follow the link. That’s a shame. Facts are contained within. Facts are good.

I followed the link and found zilch to back up your implication that same-sex "marriage" has any kind of historical basis in Western civilization. Unless you count Greek pedophilia (not marriage, and pretty sick) and a couple of insane, power mad Roman emperors who "married" their boyfriends, which was in violation of the law and universally ridiculed, you're just plain out of luck. Some leftists have tried to argue that various "brotherhood bonds" throughout history, where men vowed friendship or comradeship, were "same-sex 'marriages'", but of course they weren't.

Just a thought for you: How hard would it have been to find someone in, say, 1948, who’d claim, “until the total loss of our common sense in recent years, marriage has never been between people of different races.” Not very hard, I bet. In fact, as I mentioned earlier in the thread, 90% of people opposed interracial marriage at that point, according to the poll data. If left to a vote, interracial couples who wanted to marry would have been out of luck.

You might want to try using logic instead of appealing to non-analogous situations. Attitudes toward interracial marriages have varied throughout Western history. People of different races can mate and produce offspring. Individual races can also form nations and societies that are distinct from those of other races. This sometimes creates a conflict where some people say "race shouldn't matter" while others say "yes, race does matter, those other races create different cultures than our own".

That's a normal debate that might occur in any society. But homosexuals cannot create a nation or reproduce among themselves. Therefore, the idea of same-sex "marriage" is ludicrous. It's as ludicrous as human-animal "marriage" or human-inanimate object "marriage".

503 posted on 05/16/2008 9:35:11 AM PDT by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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