I’m Off!
October 24th, 2008 by Evil BeetI’m peace-ing out early today, kids. I have two of my awesome and amazing friends from LA in town, and I’m so excited to show them around my adopted hometown of Seattle.
I don’t want you guys to get bored in my absence, so here are some statements whose veracity you seem to enjoy debating:
1) Barack Obama is a shoe-in for this election at this point.
2) Anyone who thinks gay people shouldn’t be allowed to enter into same-sex marriages is actively practicing hatred.
3) It is in Raven-Symone’s best interest to lose weight.
4) Kate Gosselin is a bad person.
5) Miley Cyrus is excessively sexual.
Go.
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@ Dino
I know what you are trying to say but now I’m confused. Religious marriage is an institution that wants to be recognized by the state as man and wife. It no longer can be recognized as that institution if marriage is defined as “between two consenting adults” aka lets pretend that’s now civil unions. It would be a marriage in the religious sphere and a civil union in the civil sphere–so it’s not being recognized by the state. It’s leading a double life. lol. Ok I will stop. You make it seem so simple.
No, I don’t mean to imply I think it’s simple. Not at all!
I can see from even reading this one message board just how complex an issue it is. I absolutely thing homosexuals should have the same rights as I do under law. And I see that certain religious people think that marriage should be between a man and a woman. And I really think church and state should be separate, especially in situations like this. The church is free to keep marriage as between a man and a woman, but the state has a responsibility to provide the same rights to gay couples as straight couples.
I complete agree with you Dino.
The problem is that I don’t believe that any church (or any one church) should own the word “Marriage”. Personally, I don’t care if my husband and I are joined in “marriage” or a “civil union”, but there are people who care very much. And some of those people are gay.
whatever, I dont know what is going on!
I guess I should have specified, I meant most of the “so-called liberals” that frequent this site and support homosexuality. I did not mean ALL liberals. That would presumptuous. And never in my post did I say that I think the government should have a right to control who we can marry, I simply said that I think homosexuality is wrong. However, I do not think that the government has the right to punish me for thinking that. If I want to believe that homosexuality is wrong, that’s my right. If I want to calmly and rationally discuss that opinion with other people, that is also my right. Now if I were to host a hate rally, the government can go ahead and punish me. But, I’m not, I just want to have the right to my own opinion.
@ imustsay
you know people who want to marry donkeys? that explains a lot.
grant…. do you just think being gay is “wrong”? or do you hate gay people?
Grant, are you implying that by permitting gay marriage, the government would somehow be punishing you? Because I’m not sure what other laws there are that would punish you for thinking homosexuality is wrong, unless you are speaking about anti-discrimination laws or hate crime laws.
JK, I know my gay friends feel the same way about the word marriage, because any other word implies they are less than. But I think baby steps need to be taken because the opposition still feels so strongly about this. I think it’s the most important thing right now to make sure there are equal relationship rights among straight and gay couples first.
@ just me –
“…the only thing I am curious of is if “Eyes of Green†realizes that her avatar says “I am greater then youâ€. Not sure if she’s trying to be original or had a major spelling error that makes it seem that way. Course, she could simply be totally narcissistic, and that would answer it all”
It’s actually something I found amusing…and yes, I do realize what it is, thanks! I don’t know how there could be a spelling error, it’s 2 letters and a ‘greater than’ sign. and I’m only totally narcissistic when I’m having a good hair day. :)