Posted on 08/14/2010 4:09:18 AM PDT by GonzoII
That isn’t semantics, that is equal application of the law, period. This has nothing to do with Biblical rules, this is a legal definition of a contract. This same contractual definition crosses all cultural and religious lines. This same contractual definition applies in Atheist, Communist China, Buddhist/Shinto Japan, in most Shamanistic cultures in the Amazon and Africa, Muslim Morocco, etc, etc.
The funny thing is I came to see it this way from a gay friend. I have many, many gay friends (probably more than most freepers) and most don’t see this as discrimination against them. (albeit, most are libertarian leaning). In a recent conversation, most were disgusted with the activists types and the ‘straight’ liberals putting words in their mouth about this. A very close friend of the family is a famous ‘Bon Vivant’ homosexual in Dallas who has been with his partner for over 30 years and they are extremely vocal against gay marriage. They do want civil unions but they have come out many times in the Dallas Morning News against changing these basic definitions in society. (..and don’t even get me started as to what they think about all the ‘drama queens’ in California.)
Yes, the sick part was when he started espousing the need for elevated rights, special rights, protected status etc.
Which is what this is all really about.
It isn’t about opressing them, it’s about elevating them to a protected class and the rest of us to second class citizenry.
Good post.
I got enough on my plate to take care of without being a busy body.
Now as a chaste single woman I would care if some younger attractive males came buzzing around and tempted me.
I could fall off into a cavern of sins.
Then I would be very concerned. LOL
I have no problem with bigamy, either. If you’re dumb enough not to have learned your lesson from marrying your first wife, and go ahead and marry a second or third, then you deserve that living hell.
It’s not my business.
Control the borders, keep the courts, post office and highways in proper working order, mint the money, float a navy, and kick enemy ass from time to time - I don’t need the government to do much more than that.
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All of that. And to stop the church from preaching against the sin of homosexuality. They don’t want to be told they are in sin. They want to force everyone to “approve” of their hedonism.
Here is another way to look at this if you are so compassionate.
Why do you want Big Brother to keep lists of who is gay?
Amen!
If I weren’t already older than dirt, I might just come a buzzin’.
I have never followed any pundit. They get paid to be conservative. I’m conservative because I know it works.
Now that we have the pro-gay-marriage trolls all together..
mind standing right there by that big red “X” for a moment?
Government enforced approval.
Enforced approval via law.
We aren’t influenced by the “movers and shakers” or the elites. Pundits want to keep their jobs. We want to keep America. You and I have a very different motivation than the pundits do.
I have no problem with the FReepers who disagree with me because I support Prop 8 and the courts overturning an election....my problem is with people like Beck, Coulter, and Rush...who have spent a lifetime pitching to conservatives....yet are not really conservative....and have dumped conservatism based on what (I believe) people at MS Fox News and the GOP have told them to do
That should read...”I support Prop 8 and do not support the courts overturning an election”....I need to proofread better
They are all nothing but hacks for the GOP. If you think otherwise you are only fooling yourselves.
Just ask why none of them have covered the Birth cert issue in any meaningful manner.
That goes for all conservative talking bobbleheads.
When all is said and done we can only depend on “We the People”.
That's how the left does it. By government force.
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master." George Washington
Typo virus, I’m in thread.
Typos will increase while I’m here.
It’s almost a scientifically proven fact.
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