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Originally Posted by Superbelt
Alan, I assume you will be signing my petition to restrict all impotent, menopausal, and naturally, surgically and chemically sterile people from getting married. Right?
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You start it, ill sign it in a second. Those couples shouldn't be subsidized any more than gay couples.
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Why do you protect that word so? 'Marriage' has been redefined repeatedly through history to fit to the cultures wants and needs.
Marriage as you know it, and want to limit it to has only been around for about 5 centuries.
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If you are basing a redefinion on what people want, it's been clear through numerous polls and ballot initiatives that the people DON'T want gay marriage.
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Originally Posted by skier
Just because you're uncomfortable with the idea (read: scared), does not mean it is wrong. Homosexuals deserve to be accorded the same rights and freedoms the rest of us do. Love is not bound by gender, color, or ideals. There is no reason a homosexual man can't love and care for another man, like a heterosexual man would care for a woman. I see now why you can't accept gay marriage. It would mean that a gay man's marriage would be just as valid and special as yours. You would be the same. Equal.
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Just because you think it's the best thing since sliced bread doesn't make it right, either. And homosexuals HAVE the same rights and freedoms as the rest
of the population. Show one example where they don't. And what does love have to do with marriage? If gays are so shallow that they can only express love with government endorsement, maybe they should reexamine the culture.
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Being homosexual is not a choice, and you can't assume it is just because you can't see it on the outside, like the color of your skin. Black people couldn't "come out of the closet", because they had no way to hide their skin colour to avoid prejudice. They couldn't pretend to themselves they weren't black.
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Again, where is the evidence it isn't partially a choice? It has nothing do do with seeing it on the outside. If i'm born deaf, I can't go years pretending to hear. And also, you can't just look at someone and say for certain if they are deaf.