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Posted By Dakota 1 year, 5 months ago in NewsPropeller checks in with the battle over gay marriage in California and talks to user David-NWA about why this story interested him.
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nikkibabe1 year, 5 months ago
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I wonder what drives crazy people to oppose gay & lesbian marriages?
. it will not drive up cost of gas
. it will not increase monthly mortgage payments of anyone
. it will not affect anyone's jobs
. it will not affect food prices
. it will not affect anything
Strange people, strange country.
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DaneL1 year, 5 months ago
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bigurn1 year, 5 months ago
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I don't think labeling people as crazy helps. Some very thoughtful folks have sound intellectual arguments for their opposition to gay marriage.
That having been said, it's a state-level issue and should be resolved according to the voters in each state. I believe it will eventually become commonplace in the U.S.
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david_nwpa1 year, 5 months ago
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From your posts it would seem you want to tell us how to live. How is that any different? Your claim that being gay is not normal and therefore not a normal functioning family unit is disputed by numerous medical, psychiatric, psychological and education agency and professional organizations. Gays and lesbians have perfectly acceptable family units and no one suggest devolving anything. It seems to me that hetero divorce is tending to that matter just fine without any help from gays and lesbians. How does a gay couple getting married devolve anything? You prattle on about that, but never clearly explain how it happens, because you can't. It simply does not happen!
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ZippySpincycle1 year, 5 months ago
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Humorist Brian Unger has pointed out that, considering how much money gets spent on weddings, a national trend toward legalizing gay marriage could help pull us out of recession.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?st...
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SonOfTheMask1 year, 5 months ago
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Packaging the idea of legalizing same-sex marriage as being "progress" towards "marriage equality" is merely marketing mumbo-jumbo. It is really no different than pro-abortionists marketing themselves "pro-choice".
We already had marriage "equality". Adults had the equal opportunity to marry one person of the opposite gender who was not too closely related to them by blood.
There you go, marriage equality.
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david_nwpa1 year, 5 months ago
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What the bigots like SOTM fail to accept is that gays and lesbians do not choose to be gay. Since we do not choose our sexual identities, why should we be forced to conform to your idea of sexual identity. Namely, why should we be forced to forego wedding our partners of choice because of your religious upbringing? As I have laid clear in the article and on this thread, religion is NOT a preclusion to marriage. Atheists wed frequently, but none of their relationships are challenged. Thus far, SOTM et al have not laid out one rational reason about how gay marriage or marriage equality is faulty. Furthermore, none of them explained why it should not be implemented.
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willottica1 year, 5 months ago
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I followed your links. I replied... it's a bunch of scare tactics about the government trying to make children gay. No, the government is trying to educate children about homosexuality so that they don't grow up to be as bigoted as you are.
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SonOfTheMask1 year, 4 months ago
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DavidNWPA, stop being a jerk. I am not a bigot. All I did was point out that "marriage equality" is a marketing ploy to further the agenda of same-sex marriage advocates.
I made no comments about religious marriage or that same-sex marriage is "wrong" because some religions say so. And you know for a fact that I've never presented my opposition to same-sex marriage in the context of religion or morality. So kiss my arse.
If you want to see an article that presents a secular, logical argument against same-sex marriage, you're welcome to go back through my story submissions and find the one that I posted here some while back.
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willottica1 year, 5 months ago
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I don't think it's a knee-jerk reaction. Your articles don't show anyone being told how to live. So when you continue to make arguments against someone else finding happiness that would in no way affect your own, that is when one must extrapolate that you are a bigot.
"A bigot is a person who is intolerant of opinions, lifestyles, or identities differing from his or her own"
- definition found in Wikipedia, similar ones almost everywhere.
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david_nwpa1 year, 4 months ago
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SOTM, no need for me to ramble through the briars to some boring old article you submitted. I disputed and sank it then, and I have no intention of re-visiting it. No logical argument exists that explains cogently why gays and lesbians should be denied marrying the partner of their choosing. You have tried repeatedly to present such ideas, and repeatedly been shot down.
I stand by you being a bigot.
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SonOfTheMask1 year, 4 months ago
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And I stand behind calling you a JERK, as well.
The logical argument "against" same-sex marriage does exist and has been employed by the New York Supreme Court among others. Despite your repeated prejudicial comments towards me, that fact stands and has not been shot down at all.
Have a great day, jerk.
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