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xongsmith
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Message 62 of 123 (753695)
03-21-2015 6:01 PM


Just a side bar point: there are no unwanted children in same-sex marriages.

- xongsmith, 5.7d

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Message 80 of 123 (753799)
03-22-2015 1:13 PM
Reply to: Message 78 by NoNukes
03-22-2015 5:35 AM


Re: A Distinction with a Difference
NoNukes writes:
Whether or not the children are wanted is something that sometimes changes over the children's lifetime. Yes, they were wanted at conception, but at birth? Five years later? When the children become awful teenagers? Or serial killers?
I think Cat Sci has a point. The idea that the children of homosexual parents are always wanted was just a sound bite.
Same-sex marriages, with the exception of rape, either have to arrange a surrogate mother or a donor male or go through the bureaucratic complications of adoption. This is not something you would casually get into, no?
It may come off as a soundbite, but it's my soundbite.

- xongsmith, 5.7d

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Message 84 of 123 (753911)
03-23-2015 11:11 AM
Reply to: Message 83 by New Cat's Eye
03-23-2015 9:48 AM


Re: A Distinction with a Difference
Cat's Eye points out:
There are tons of people who have had children before they got into same-sex relationships.
Well, sure, but those weren't children for a same-sex couple.

- xongsmith, 5.7d

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Message 89 of 123 (753945)
03-23-2015 2:29 PM
Reply to: Message 85 by New Cat's Eye
03-23-2015 11:22 AM


Re: A Distinction with a Difference
Cat's Eye persists:
quote:
there are no unwanted children in same-sex marriages.
That's just not true, why are you trying to stand by it?
Okay, it's my soundbite and you know what I meant. If you wish, I could rephrase it something like this:
Once married, a same-sex marriage is almost never, compared to heterosexual marriages, going to have an unwanted child
Jeezo. If you still don't know the little pointette I was going for, then your avatar name just might be aptly chosen.
But never mind this. It's too small an issue, a skid mark on the road, if you will. All is forgiven.

- xongsmith, 5.7d

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Message 103 of 123 (754240)
03-25-2015 12:27 PM
Reply to: Message 102 by New Cat's Eye
03-25-2015 11:47 AM


Re: A Distinction with a Difference
I very rarely post anything in the Coffee House seriously.
Maybe EvC Coffee House should have an emoticon for "seriously".

- xongsmith, 5.7d

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Message 110 of 123 (754351)
03-26-2015 1:12 AM
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03-25-2015 8:49 PM


Re: A Distinction with a Difference

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Message 112 of 123 (754384)
03-26-2015 10:42 AM
Reply to: Message 111 by New Cat's Eye
03-26-2015 9:44 AM


Re: A Distinction with a Difference
Cat's Eye writes:
Yeah, I didn't think that you were actually joking.
There are other ways of not being serious than by joking. I was not joking, just trying to illicit a chuckle. You are the one who has made a mountain out of a grain of sand.
Back in Message 89 I was ready to drop this:
But never mind this. It's too small an issue, a skid mark on the road, if you will. All is forgiven.
All is still forgiven. This is the Coffee House, man - an occasional stray bullet might hit the ceiling cat.

- xongsmith, 5.7d

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