-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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but the entire east coast of canada is die hard conservative, dogmatic and closed minded and afraid gay marriage will cause imediate doom,
wie weit, wie weit noch?
fragst mich, wo wir gewesen sind...
du fehlst hier
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Solitude sometimes speaks to you, and you should listen.
"I know a good deal more than a boiled carrot."
"Fire!" "Where?" "Nowhere, I was just illustrating the misuse of free speech."
Let's relight this forum
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-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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"If we allow gay marriage, then people will no longer have children, which will lead to a population decline, and we can't raise them (children) to fight for America against the Terrorists. The terrorists, meanwhile, will continue to have children and raise them to hate America and raise them with the mind to attack america. If we don't continue having children, then they will overwhelm us.
If we legalize gay marriage, then people won't have babies."
Solitude sometimes speaks to you, and you should listen.
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So I finally heard a "reasoned" argument in opposition of same-sex marriage.
The argument is that marriage and procreation are learned behaviors. Thus, by legitimizing gay marriage, we are not teaching children to marry people of the opposite gender and to have children. Thus, this will lead to the end of civilization as we know it because people will stop getting married and having children because gay couples will serve as role-models of alternate lifestyles.
That's deep, dude. Real deep. *beats on bongo drums*
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Let's try this one (again, I'm only playing devil's advocate):
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By legalizing gay marrage you're expanding the definition of marrage to more than it was inteded. Why not go further? What if Lighning and Pounce and I are REALLY in love? Shouldn't the three of us be able to get married? We're all lovely, responsible people. We could raise children better than most families... why not let three people get married? And why stop there? Why not 10? Why can't I marry my dad? Just because YOU don't like it doesn't mean it shouldn't be illegal? We're not going to have children so there's no chance for imbreeding... why won't the state let me marry my dad? What about my dog? Is it POSSIBLE that someone in America loves their pet more than their spouse? Of course!!! WHY shouldn't they be able to divorce that abusive husband and marry that lovable dog?
By allowing two people of the same sex to marry, you're establishing a dangerous prescident (sp?)
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Humans WERE constructed to need a man and a woman to procreate. By whatever God/Nature you believe in you can't argue that fundamental fact. By setting up artificial family systems you ARE going against evolutionary tradition. If heterosexual relationships stopped, we would all die, of course. For millions of evolutionary years our natural selection has solely survived due to heterosexual relationships and reproduction. ANY factor that prevents breeding hurts a species chances for evolutionary survival.
The human body was set up to provide pleasure sensors to promote breeding. Homosexual sex is simply a way of 'cheating' that system which has assured our evolutionary survival.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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Also... an actually decent arguement (though not against gay marrage per se) is the arguement that individual states shouldn't be allowed to decide what marrage is and isn't.
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
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"It will do harm," he said. "It gives people the message that homosexuality is O.K. As people become exposed to homosexuality through the news, through television, through the movies, they become used to it."
-Mike
Certified Mad Doctor and HoP High Priest of Nutella
A buckuht n a hooze! -Valura
Solitude sometimes speaks to you, and you should listen.
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nyc the biblical sense of marriage has nothing to do with legality. The legal aspect is only a few hundred years old.
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They fear loseing souls to satan. Atleast that seems like the nearest and most obvious conclusion.
If I had the same religious beliefs and believed gay marriage would spread homosexuality I to would be opposed to it. Wouldn't you? Or you would just let all those souls rot in hell?
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religious beliefs are just that...religious beliefs.
We live in a country that guarantees freedom of religion according to the bill of rights. While the nation is predominantly Christian, that doesn't mean I have to be....it also doesn't mean everyone is.
People are entitled to their religious beliefs...they are not entitled, however to forcing their beliefs on other people.
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