timalkin

Do I come off as religious? I'm conservative, sure, but not overly religious. My viewpoints have nothing to do with religion. That's a strange assumption that a lot of liberals make, probably from watching too much TV. I don't assume that all liberals go around handing out other people's money to vagrants and criminals, throw red paint on fur coats, or wish that communists would take over the American government. Your broad brush may be too broad sometimes.

I don't think incest, bigamy, bestiality, or pedophilia should ever be legally recognized as marriage in this country. If gays can marry, why wouldn't these other minority groups try to gain the same thing in the future? I'd love to hear a logical argument that discredits this idea. Incest, bigamy, bestiality, and pedophilia are illegal now, so you would think they could never result in marriage because they are illegal. But homosexual behavior used to be illegal and is still on the books in some places.

I don't care what other countries do with their citizens. I don't live in other countries. Personally I'd love to import some ideas from the Middle East, like cutting off the hand of a thief. The problem is that we in the West have certain values and constituitional rights that don't allow such things.
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Who says that children and animals can't give consent? What is consent? Who determines what consent is? Are you relying on the opinions of a bunch of senior citizens dressed in black (judges) who hand down these opinions? If that's the case, change the senior citizens and the opinions can change.

Maybe one day some combination of senior citizens will say that children and animals CAN give consent. I mean, there were plenty of guys fucking kids in the ancient world right? This was socially acceptable behavior and those civilizations did OK, so why can't we go back to the good ole days of kid fucking?

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