#1495 - 02/26/04 05:07 PM
Re: OT: Gay bashing
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Registered: 04/15/99
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It's true that we are lied to. We think America is free, our press is uninterfered with, and some people still think our government doesn't lie to us. What the heck. Why are we in Iraq? It doesn't have a thing to do with stopping terrorism or catching Saddam Hussein. It's owning OIL and the balance of power.
Just watch international news a few times a week to hear the stuff you'll never hear on CNN (heh).
Marriage? The term was set up to mean between a man and a woman. If anything, we should probably remain consistent about our legal vernacular. Make some other term for gay marriage.
I'm not against gay people. I work with several of them, they are people just like us, with feelings, minds, thoughts, some are excellent at what they do and they deserve an equal chance just as anyone else. Personally, I don't necessarily approve of gay sex (I think it's obvious the plumbing wasn't designed to work that way!) but as long as they don't impose their beliefs on me, more power to them. It's America, and people should be free to believe what they want to believe. That is what America is supposedly about.
I am as heterosexual as they get - but hey - we are being lied to and our freedoms are being slowly eradicated and eeked away. Someday the right to be gay may be the only choice anyone has left...
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#1502 - 02/26/04 08:23 PM
Re: OT: Gay bashing
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Registered: 04/15/99
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Loc: Los Angeles, CA, USA
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I'm not completely convinced that treating gay couples differently is "100% indefensible, by any standard." Again, that type of "feel good soundbyte" solution, which doesn't take into account real-world conditions, is based on the idealized notion that the phrase "all people are created equal" MUST be literal. Feel good soundbyte? The real world situation is that several million people in this country are gay. What percentage of discrimination against them is defensible? The line is "all men are created equal," not "equally." That means they have equal rights. You're so naive you think I'm naive, for heaven's sake!
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