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What about your distorted opinion Royon?
What about your bias remarks Royon?  If you could have your view... why can't I have mine?

posted by zephyr on August 4, 2003 at 8:05 PM | link to this | reply

Alas, for bigotry

If you truly wish to advance the cause of keeping gay people from equality (and it would appear you do) then i would suggest that you divorce (you know, like most heterosexual couples do) your policy advocacy from your religion.  The entire course of your post highlighted the extent to which you feel homosexuality is contrary to you religious beliefs (and sadly those of many many other closse minded individuals.)  What is more disturbing than your open embracement of flaming bigotry is your open embracement of theocracy. 

Religious bases for governmental action have brought us the Crusades, The Inquisition, myriad witchcraft trials, Sept. 11, and the closing of the free mind at the base of a flaming stake.  History shows us beyond credible doubt that the inevitable results of religious intermingling with government are atrocitous discrimination and horrible inustice.  I am not willing to watch my nation go down that road, and if you have any real compassion for those around you or foresight you would temper your support for enshrining your religion into law.

As for the substantive content of your position, absent the means you propose to achieve it, i must only say that you have followed the tired steps of many who have come before you.  Time and again we have feared groups of people because they are different, though they pose no threat to us.  And time and again, that fear has manifested itself into viscious, hateful and repressive action that dampens the human spirit and darkens our world.  Your mentality towards gays bears little distinction from those held towards black, natives, Jews, gypsies, and virtually every other opressed group through history.  When will you purveyors of intolerance learn that other people finding happiness and being allowed the full dignity of being human in no way threatens your way of life?  Gay marriage will only allow gay people to find more permanent happiness.  It will do nothing to lessen the strength and importance of heterosexual marriage for yourselves.

And if I may point out, the fact that so many gays have forged long, monogamous, and meaningful relationships despite the refusal of the law to recognize them casts doubt upon the general import of the idea of marriage itself.  If they can live successfully and decently without your little piece of paper, then what does that say about the institution?

posted by Royon on August 3, 2003 at 12:56 AM | link to this | reply

Cool mightyholywarrior...
Ok family... that's great indeed

posted by zephyr on August 1, 2003 at 12:20 PM | link to this | reply

I've Got Your Back, Z., My Cuz. Great Post.

posted by Feenix on August 1, 2003 at 12:09 PM | link to this | reply

I hear that mightyholywarrior!

Loud and Clear Coz...

posted by zephyr on August 1, 2003 at 12:01 PM | link to this | reply

NickAlexander, Can You Back Up All That Rhetoric And Patronizing Big Talk? I

hope so, because I have just added you to MY LIST.

posted by Feenix on August 1, 2003 at 11:52 AM | link to this | reply

George Bush and The Pope are great Shepherds NickAlexander!
Thank God for them still NickAlexander...

posted by zephyr on August 1, 2003 at 11:32 AM | link to this | reply

Who appointed you God?

And who appointed George W. Bush as His prophet?  Now we must worship this Bush God who drops holy bombs for oil, lies to his people every day, welcomes the Enron/Halliburton/Bechtel/Exxon/Citibank money changers not only into the Temple, but to the altar, dogmatizing their greed and venality into state religion. While we worship this Golden Calf,  however, let us burn faggots at the stake to feel the warmth of self-righteousness, while a dottering Pope nods in sanctimouious approval, forgetting his own fairy priests and his last year's muffled homilies against pre-emptive war, now united in ecumenical smugness with true belivers and corporate vampires everywhere. And you all rise predictably to the call. Honestly, guys, I'm not gay, but I can spot the suppressed gayness seeping through your homophobia from a mile away. Deal with it, and get a life  --- and if you really are conservatives, which I doubt, try to envision, if you can, a government that stays out of people's personal lives.

posted by NickAlexander on August 1, 2003 at 11:13 AM | link to this | reply