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That the US is going to conform its domestic family laws using the EU as legal precendent? That religions will lose their exemptions to worship as they may? And that if any such effort is made to do so, that Jews, Catholics, Christians, and Muslims would not all unite to fight any such government intervention? That the referencing of CCUSA is totally misleading because CCUSA is a partially publicly funded organization that receives over a million dollars a year from the state of Mass?
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That's all you got? You completely missed the main point.
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I am waiting for you to drop another "fag" bomb on the group this morning. I am sure your dad would be proud.
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What does this have to do with same-sex marriage? And why would a religious club at a university want to ban gays from membership? This is a mindset that we are supposed to rally around? Argh.
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I don't get it either.
In general, I found the appeals to "history" or "the ages" vague, unconvincing, and probably inaccurate (from a historian's point of view) E.g.: Quote:
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Allowing gay marriage and putting less social stigma on gay hookups in general, ironically, might DECREASE the number of gays in the future.
That is, we might have less gays marrying the opposite sex, either supressing their urge to have sex with the same sex, or getting some on the down-low. Gays marrying the opposite sex have children. And pass on their genes. So, if you wanted to "eradicate" gays through eugenics, you would support gay marriage. Someone please pass this onto the church. If gays are eradicated through this, then the church won't ever have to explain to Sister Smith why her son Jimmy ended up gay, beyond the sort of statement we frequently hear from Mormons: Sister Smith raised a son who made the choice to be gay. Boy there are so many ironies in all of this. Is the church going to put out a news release explaining how the practice of polygamy destroys the family? Don't lose faith, my friends. Inmates do from time to time run the asylum, but there reign isn't permanent. |
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As much as SU's appeal to Mussolini was over the top, the desire to turn control of one's decisions over to another, "to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us" (Foucault, 1983, p. xiii) is fascist. It is also, I think, Oedipal.
All of a sudden, homosexuality's relationship to the Oedipal makes sense.
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Someone needs to tell them that brevity is the soul of wit. I'm always struck by how their public statements are about five times too long.
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It wasn't very well written or reasoned, and it was much too long. Plus, I agree with Lebowski, the last point on political freedom rang with a loud atonal clang.
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