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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5500 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
crashfrog wrote:
You scored one there, frog. I got ahold of some bad cat food last night and lost my concentration. I don't know what I am politically”maybe a Dinosaurocrat. If I had my way all public school children would wear uniforms, sit up straight, and get two tablespoons of cod liver oil for lunch. Then they would all go home to find their mothers darning socks and making chocolate-chip cookies. And the cartoons on TV would NOT have any gay characters coming out of the closet. By the way - how, exactly, does a libertarian come to the conclusion that he gets veto power over other people's marriages? btw: Did you know that some gays have claimed Christopher Robin as one of their own. Go figure. I don't think A. A. Milne meant that at all. What's this world coming to? The kids are humping each on the dance floor like horny toads, and mothers are telling their daughters to use blow jobs to avoid poregnancy. I guess I'm just behind the times. ”Hoot Mon
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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5500 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
RAZD wrote:
And civil unions are not?
The problem is that "marriage" is not only about sexual relationships - it is about property rights, income tax rates, medical rights, immigration rights, etc etc etc.
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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5500 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
Ringo wrote:
So you're against democracy? The MAJORITY opinion has no bearing on right and wrong. ”Hoot
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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5500 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
Ringo says:
What is UNEQUAL about allowing gays their equal rights to civil unions? You still haven't answered the question: What is equal about telling gay people they are not allowed to marry? Ringo, would you mind explaining to me how a same-sex "marriage" would be consumated. Please tell me where the genitalia go, and I'll tell you something you may not know about biological sex. ”Hoot
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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5500 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
I've NEVER heard of any marriage being annulled because one member refused to have oral or anal sex with the other.
”Hoot Mon
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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5500 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
c-frog wrote:
Such a lot of fluff! This reminds me of those flag-waving Americans who say it is unpatriotic to oppose the war in Iraq. Your argument lacks for philosophical substance. You are the one who is narrow-minded, not me. You wave your flag for civil-rights, and you don't even know how to define them. Let's see some rationality in your argument. And don't tell me that homosexuality and race are somehow equivalent. That's a huge insult to MLK and everything he stood for. Hey, maybe you're a racist. But I don't need to reduce my argument to petty name calling. Get some stuff, for crying out load, and put it in your pop gun. Show me something with a bang in it. You're a bigot and a homophobe, HM. That's what you are...I had thought your brand of bigotry died with Reagan. I guess I was wrong. ”Hoot Mon
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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5500 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
Ringo wrote:
A person is born with a race; he/she has no choice in that matter. Nature rules absolutely. But is a person born to be gay? I don't know. I think it may be a matter of choice. Prove to me it isn't and I'll say you moved a step closer to equalizing race with sexuality. But do you really think there ought to be special laws protecting that choice? People choose to be Masons and body builders and cat owners, too; maybe they need their own special laws. I'll come around to your way of thinking when gay genes are discovered. And then there will be gay-gene therapy to straighten them out. And then we're be back to choice again. If you think there is a difference, why don't you show us the difference instead of just decreeing it? Until you can show a difference between racist bigotry and homophobic bigotry, bigotry is just bigotry. Dan Carroll brought out the Constitution and read us an Ammendment. Nice job, Dan. But where does it say anything about same-sex "marriages"? Where does it say anything about homosexuality? Where does even say anything about sexuality at all? Ringo, Dan, and the rest of you morality cops: Do you honestly believe that the framers of our Constitution or any of the authors of its Ammendments were the least bit concerned about the rights of gay people to get married? If you say yes, then I'm going for the history books. ”Hoot Mon
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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5500 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
Hoot wrote:
They also owned slaves and denied women the vote. Do you honestly believe that the framers of our Constitution or any of the authors of its Ammendments were the least bit concerned about the rights of gay people to get married? Dan, Ringo, please draft me a new Constitution. Let's trash that old one written by those awful bigots. Let's have everybody and their dogs get married. Let's have special laws assuring equal rights for pole sitters and coin collectors. See if you can fit it all in. And while you're at it, add an Ammendment to protect old people from being abused by ridiculous concepts...like the right to same-sex "marriage," and the right to gerrymander political districts, and the right to buy assault weapons at gun shows. I'd also get rid of the anti-sodomy laws, too. I don't mind what those fairies do behind closed doors. I just don't see the need to run it up the flag pole. ”Hoot Mon
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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5500 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
Everything said so far on this thread and others about "gay marriage" are OPINIONS. Nothing else. In a democracy opinion rules if it gains a majority vote. So take a public vote on same-sex "narriage" and see what you get. What could be more democratic than that? But DON'T tell me that a minority opinion has special rights just because it's an opinion. These things are basic, folks. Why are they so difficult for perfectly intelligent people to grasp?
”Hoot
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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5500 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
I wonder why not a single court of law has upheld the rights of gays to get "married." Could it be that they are bigots, too, and go home at night and beat their slaves? Or could it be that the law just does not provide for same-sex "marriages"?
”Hoot Mon
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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5500 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
Chiroptera wrote:
Obviously they're not. Why haven't all the states approved same-sex-marriage rights under their laws? Where is the support for it in the U.S. Congress. Why haven't all the liberal Democrats come out in force for same-sex marriage? Maybe it's not a question of "civil rights" at all. There must be some reason other than bigotry that prevents the gays from marrying each other. It doesn't seem to me like the majority of OPINIONS expreessed here are very popular on the American stage. Why didn't the courts begin to protect the rights of black people until the 1950s, even though the main purpose of the 14th amendment (ratified in the 1860s) was explicitly to protect those rights? I bet the answers are similar. Ringo, a question: Does Canuckistan provide for same-sex marriages under its laws? ”Hoot Mon
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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5500 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
So the United states is a nation of bigots?
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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5500 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
doc wrote:
Jesus Scooter Christ, no!
I think it's undoubtable that the United States has bigots within its population. Which makes it a nation at least partially comprised of bigots. Do you disagree with this?
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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5500 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
Hoot wrote:
jar replied: Everything said so far on this thread and others about "gay marriage" are OPINIONS. Nothing else. In a democracy opinion rules if it gains a majority vote. So take a public vote on same-sex "narriage" and see what you get. What could be more democratic than that? But DON'T tell me that a minority opinion has special rights just because it's an opinion. These things are basic, folks. Why are they so difficult for perfectly intelligent people to grasp? Denying inheritance rights is an opinion? Denying someone the right to donate blood is an opinion? Denying someone access to health care is an opinion? Denying someone access to equal protection under the law is an opinion? ”Hoot
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Fosdick  Suspended Member (Idle past 5500 days) Posts: 1793 From: Upper Slobovia Joined: |
Berberry, may I sincerely ask you a relevant question? In all due resepct, could you tell me if you chose to be gay, or was it deeply embedded in you somehow, over which you had no control? A biologist might ask, Was it in your genes? I would value your answer.
”Hoot Mon
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