Posted on 06/26/2013 1:19:52 PM PDT by Abakumov
Choices:
No. Marriage is between a man and a woman. Period.
Yes. It’s a freedom and equality issue. Washington shouldn’t have the power to say what couples can and cannot get married.
Somewhat. The federal government shouldn’t be involved at all. Leave it to the states to decide these things.
It doesn’t matter. Marriage is a dead institution anyway.
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I agree that you’re really pushing this “Rare” site:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:abakumov/index?tab=articles
What’s up with that?
No. Marriage is between a man and a woman. Period.
Marriage is far more than an “agreement,” far more than a contract to sell corn. It is a sacrament (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13295a.htm), a wonderful gift from God, through which one man and one woman become flesh of one flesh. It has a supernatural component, and is unique in human experience. It simply cannot exist between two men or two women, or in any context other than one man and one woman. (2011)
Males getting married and going Hershey Highway are not what I believe is a definition of marriage!The Liberty Tree needs a lot of watering.
No. Marriage is between a man and a woman. Period. 72%
Yes. It’s a freedom and equality issue. Washington shouldn’t have the power to say what couples can and cannot get married. 16%
Somewhat. The federal government shouldn’t be involved at all. Leave it to the states to decide these things. 10%
It doesn’t matter. Marriage is a dead institution anyway. 2%
Yaaaaay!! A poll!! These always make a huge difference and often Supreme Court justices look at them and change their minds about issues! ~sarc
The decision FORCES gay “marriage” upon America! It’s gonna be a Homo Hoedown in San Francisco tonight!
Homosexuality is a sin, not a class of people (Leviticus 18:22).
It is a sin that needs to be repented of and forsaken like all other sins. The Supreme Court blew it big time and caused harm to America, our values, and our way of life.
Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Invite Him into your heart and repent of your sins today - He will come in, forgive you of your sins, make you new on the inside, and help you be the person He has called you to be.
75% disagree with them at the poll.
When you can put two male ends of a garden hose together without tape and get water out of the other end——talk to me then.
“The decision FORCES gay “marriage” upon America!”
It forces sodomite play-pretend marriage on America.
And this is my reply to that:
Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
He said to his friend, “If the British march
By land or sea from the town to-night,
Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch
Of the North Church tower as a signal light, –
One if by land, and two if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm,
For the country folk to be up and to arm.”
Then he said “Good-night!” and with muffled oar
Silently rowed to the Charlestown shore,
Just as the moon rose over the bay,
Where swinging wide at her moorings lay
The Somerset, British man-of-war;
A phantom ship, with each mast and spar
Across the moon like a prison bar,
And a huge black hulk, that was magnified
By its own reflection in the tide.
Meanwhile, his friend through alley and street
Wanders and watches, with eager ears,
Till in the silence around him he hears
The muster of men at the barrack door,
The sound of arms, and the tramp of feet,
And the measured tread of the grenadiers,
Marching down to their boats on the shore.
Then he climbed the tower of the Old North Church,
By the wooden stairs, with stealthy tread,
To the belfry chamber overhead,
And startled the pigeons from their perch
On the sombre rafters, that round him made
Masses and moving shapes of shade, –
By the trembling ladder, steep and tall,
To the highest window in the wall,
Where he paused to listen and look down
A moment on the roofs of the town
And the moonlight flowing over all.
Beneath, in the churchyard, lay the dead,
In their night encampment on the hill,
Wrapped in silence so deep and still
That he could hear, like a sentinel’s tread,
The watchful night-wind, as it went
Creeping along from tent to tent,
And seeming to whisper, “All is well!”
A moment only he feels the spell
Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread
Of the lonely belfry and the dead;
For suddenly all his thoughts are bent
On a shadowy something far away,
Where the river widens to meet the bay, –
A line of black that bends and floats
On the rising tide like a bridge of boats.
Meanwhile, impatient to mount and ride,
Booted and spurred, with a heavy stride
On the opposite shore walked Paul Revere.
Now he patted his horse’s side,
Now he gazed at the landscape far and near,
Then, impetuous, stamped the earth,
And turned and tightened his saddle girth;
But mostly he watched with eager search
The belfry tower of the Old North Church,
As it rose above the graves on the hill,
Lonely and spectral and sombre and still.
And lo! as he looks, on the belfry’s height
A glimmer, and then a gleam of light!
He springs to the saddle, the bridle he turns,
But lingers and gazes, till full on his sight
A second lamp in the belfry burns.
A hurry of hoofs in a village street,
A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark,
And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark
Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet;
That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light,
The fate of a nation was riding that night;
And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight,
Kindled the land into flame with its heat.
He has left the village and mounted the steep,
And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep,
Is the Mystic, meeting the ocean tides;
And under the alders that skirt its edge,
Now soft on the sand, now loud on the ledge,
Is heard the tramp of his steed as he rides.
It was twelve by the village clock
When he crossed the bridge into Medford town.
He heard the crowing of the cock,
And the barking of the farmer’s dog,
And felt the damp of the river fog,
That rises after the sun goes down.
It was one by the village clock,
When he galloped into Lexington.
He saw the gilded weathercock
Swim in the moonlight as he passed,
And the meeting-house windows, black and bare,
Gaze at him with a spectral glare,
As if they already stood aghast
At the bloody work they would look upon.
It was two by the village clock,
When he came to the bridge in Concord town.
He heard the bleating of the flock,
And the twitter of birds among the trees,
And felt the breath of the morning breeze
Blowing over the meadow brown.
And one was safe and asleep in his bed
Who at the bridge would be first to fall,
Who that day would be lying dead,
Pierced by a British musket ball.
You know the rest. In the books you have read
How the British Regulars fired and fled, –
How the farmers gave them ball for ball,
From behind each fence and farmyard wall,
Chasing the redcoats down the lane,
Then crossing the fields to emerge again
Under the trees at the turn of the road,
And only pausing to fire and load.
So through the night rode Paul Revere;
And so through the night went his cry of alarm
To every Middlesex village and farm, –
A cry of defiance, and not of fear,
A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door,
And a word that shall echo for evermore!
For, borne on the night-wind of the Past,
Through all our history, to the last,
In the hour of darkness and peril and need,
The people will waken and listen to hear
The hurrying hoof-beats of that steed,
And the midnight message of Paul Revere.
Paul Revere’s Ride
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Well, the fake polls seem to have worked wonders.
Actually when he got to Medfrod he stopped for a beer.
Yep, for 6,000 plus years, marriage is the union between a man and a woman. My bottom is not a sexual organ.
Revere was a traitor, an English spy, caught then and later betrayed the Revolution.
Fitting he would appear in this thread.
No. Marriage is between a man and a woman. Period. 73.85%
Yes. It’s a freedom and equality issue. Washington shouldn’t have the power to say what couples can and cannot get married. 16.97%
Somewhat. The federal government shouldn’t be involved at all. Leave it to the states to decide these things. 7.34%
It doesn’t matter. Marriage is a dead institution anyway. 1.83%
When you lose control of the language, you lose control of the argument, and eventually, any chance of participating in the ongoing dialogue.
“Marriage” has always had a very specific meaning, despite some other experimental variations (polygyny, polyandry, group marriages, even bestiality), but it always comes back to the same thing - one man and one woman, heterosexual, with strong safeguards for the bearing and rearing of children, who are expected to repeat the cycle in their turn. This is apart from any religious significance, and has always existed for the same purpose, the propagation of the civilization and the species.
This perversion of the meaning, by allowing homosexual unions, is so very wrong on so many levels, beginning with the bearing of young. Two persons of the same gender CANNOT naturally reproduce, without at some point going to a third party, which nullifies the meaning of “commitment”.
Civilization has always relied upon the home as the agency for transmitting the values to the next generation. Without a home atmosphere that is supportive of the greater aims held by the larger society, civilization breaks down, and anarchy soon reigns.
Even with adoption, the homosexual couple cannot be relied upon to project the values of the community to the young entrusted to their care, and the child grows up with no firm belief in ANY verities, essentially being turned upon the world as some sort of feral creature. Now some may term this to be “homophobia”, but it is no more judgmental than to declare certain individuals as being incapable of the arts of parenting because of certain sociopathic tendencies or deficiencies.
Conformity may be regarded as a great evil by many, but the lack of conformity is even more wicked in terms of the damage it does to the very foundations of any society.
There is a range somewhere between these poles for the exercise of something called “critical thinking”, but that requires a much higher order of intellectual development than many people are willing to exert, therefore they NEED the categorical imperatives in their lives.
No. Marriage is between a man and a woman. Period. 73.3%
Yes. It’s a freedom and equality issue. Washington shouldn’t have the power to say what couples can and cannot get married. 17.19%
Somewhat. The federal government shouldn’t be involved at all. Leave it to the states to decide these things. 7.69%
It doesn’t matter. Marriage is a dead institution anyway. 1.81%
At 4:53 pm,
Thank you for voting!
No. Marriage is between a man and a woman. Period. 72.73%
Yes. It’s a freedom and equality issue. Washington shouldn’t have the power to say what couples can and cannot get married. 17.39%
Somewhat. The federal government shouldn’t be involved at all. Leave it to the states to decide these things. 7.51%
It doesn’t matter. Marriage is a dead institution anyway. 2%
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