Marriage Amendment, My Ass!

Cycloptichorn wrote:

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The "anything goes" attitude of you and Cycle goes against many principles created by the founding fathers of this great society that we helped build.

You are 100% incorrect about this. Our Constitution was specifically designed and crafted to preserve individual freedoms from Governmental control.

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So if "anything goes" is the excepted norn, then Polygamy should be accepted, etc...

Sure. I don't have a problem with polygamy at all.

Cycloptichorn

Then you should have a ball with incest. How about marrying your Dog for medical benefits (for the Doggie that is).

Anything goes...right?

Cycloptichorn wrote:

woiyo wrote:

Phoenix32890 wrote:

I had just been cutting back my crepe myrtle tree in 90 plus weather, and I was feeling a bit pooped. I didn't like how I was feeling so I slapped on my blood pressure cuff.

I had not hit the start button, when my phone rang. It was some organization touting a petition that would put a "Marriage Amendment" before the Florida voters. In short, the amendment would define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Apparently, they needed 21,000 more votes to get the amendment on the ballot.

I wanted to scream at the person at the other end of the phone. Problem is, the "person" was a robot. I was so mad that I could spit.

My blood pressure was fine, but my pulse was up the roof.

Just how do we stop these jokers from attempting to deprive every committed couple the right to be legally joined?

http://www.florida4marriage.org/

Looks like they got more petitions since they made the recording. Ugh!

Who should decide the social makeup of our society?

Each individual has the right to do so for themselves, within the boundaries of negatively affecting others.

Cycloptichorn

You did not answer the question. Why would I expect you would?

Wanna try again?

ehBeth wrote:

Woiyo, I think it's a shame that you've not chosen to follow native traditions. They had/have much in their societies that I respect. Their attitude toward the two-spirited has always impressed me.

Who said I do not follow my "Native traditions"?

And I again dare anyone to explain how two men marrying each other in Hawaii would have any effect on my quality of life here in Texas.

You mean Adam and Eve weren't married?
You mean Cain's wife was begot by incest?

That has been one of the key arguments in the "defense of marriage" movement. That somehow gay people marrying each other devalues "traditional" marriages.....

So, isn't anyone else worried about Phoenix?

Setanta wrote:

So then, as usual, you are just making sh*t up to support a brain-dead, reactionary agenda when you write: I accepted the rules this society has developed over it's 200+ years of existance, all of which have been determined by the people and their elected officials--because until the Defense of Marriage Act was passed during the Clinton administration, no one had an ax to grind on this subject.

What's the matter, Woiyo, did the Reverend Lovejoy play with your wee-wee when you were just a lad? Is that why you hate homosexuals?

Who is Rev Lovejoy? Where does it say I hate homosexuals?

woiyo wrote:

Setanta wrote:

So then, as usual, you are just making sh*t up to support a brain-dead, reactionary agenda when you write: I accepted the rules this society has developed over it's 200+ years of existance, all of which have been determined by the people and their elected officials--because until the Defense of Marriage Act was passed during the Clinton administration, no one had an ax to grind on this subject.

What's the matter, Woiyo, did the Reverend Lovejoy play with your wee-wee when you were just a lad? Is that why you hate homosexuals?

Who is Rev Lovejoy? Where does it say I hate homosexuals?

You don't have to say it. Very few homophobes admit their affliction or that they are latent homosexuals.