Posted on 01/24/2005 6:33:54 AM PST by presidio9
Interesting how in Canada and some other countries free speech rights and religious freedom seem to have been sacrificed where criticism of homosexuals is concerned.
There are gay bars, gay clubs, and gay support groups.
Where's the "straight" bars, clubs, and groups?
Reminds me of Feminists... Men can't have single gender clubs, but women can. Mostly because men don't normally want to join women's clubs, and women always want to join ours.
“All pigs are created equal, except some pigs are more equal than others"
Too bad the writer didn't bother to research his "quote"...it was actually “All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others"
Four legs: Good. Two legs: BAD.
Superb post Presidio9. Absolutely superb. Thanks for finding this.
And there isn't anything we can do about it.
Our Founders beliefs with regards to buggery/sodomy:
http://www.wallbuilders.com/resources/search/detail.php?ResourceID=8
America's first law book, authored by founding jurist Zephaniah Swift, communicated the popular view concerning sodomy:
This crime, tho repugnant to every sentiment of decency and delicacy, is very prevalent in corrupt and debauched countries where the low pleasures of sensuality and luxury have depraved the mind and degraded the appetite below the brutal creation. Our modest ancestors, it seems by the diction of the law, had no idea that a man would commit this crime [anal intercourse with either sex]. . . . [H]ere, by force of common law, [it is] punished with death. . . . [because of] the disgust and horror with which we treat of this abominable crime. 25
John David Michaelis, author of an 1814 four-volume legal work, outlined why homosexuality must be more strenuously addressed and much less tolerated than virtually any other moral vice in society:
If we reflect on the dreadful consequences of sodomy to a state, and on the extent to which this abominable vice may be secretly carried on and spread, we cannot, on the principles of sound policy, consider the punishment as too severe. For if it once begins to prevail, not only will boys be easily corrupted by adults, but also by other boys; nor will it ever cease; more especially as it must thus soon lose all its shamefulness and infamy and become fashionable and the national taste; and then . . . national weakness, for which all remedies are ineffectual, most inevitably follow; not perhaps in the very first generation, but certainly in the course of the third or fourth. . . . To these evils may be added yet another, viz. that the constitutions of those men who submit to this degradation are, if not always, yet very often, totally destroyed, though in a different way from what is the result of whoredom.
Whoever, therefore, wishes to ruin a nation, has only to get this vice introduced; for it is extremely difficult to extirpate it where it has once taken root because it can be propagated with much more secrecy . . . and when we perceive that it has once got a footing in any country, however powerful and flourishing, we may venture as politicians to predict that the foundation of its future decline is laid and that after some hundred years it will no longer be the same . . . powerful country it is at present. 26
being a homosexual does not make you better than anyone else, and that intimidating or silencing those who disagree with you through legislation is wrong.
Problem is, that is entirely their agenda. In the guise of "rights" they make a mockery of justice.
"Homosexuality should not be the equal of traditional heterosexual marriage and families, but its superior."
That's what the NAZI's also said. Core Nazis were homosexuals who disdained normal heteros and women. Prim exhibit: Ernst Röhm. Homosexuality is a very violent lifestyle, even if cushioned in frivolity. It's a disgrace the churches have let it get this far.
What you need is conservative lawyers to put cities like Philly on the spot. Let them know if you are going to infringe on someone's 1st amendment rights, be prepared to pay a big price. 1st Amendment rights apply to all, not just a select few.
BTTT
BTTT
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way to go.
Or 17th century Massachusetts, where blasphemy could get you whipped or dunked or worse--
Or Nazi Germany, where speaking out against the regime carried a death sentence---
Or the French Revolution, where adressing someone as Madame could get you guillitined
Or...
The Left is as sick and as dangerous as these and all other tyrannies.
The gay marriage issue boils down to money. Gay men are the least monogamous group in our society. They are not particularly interested in committing to one partner. However, they have a 42 year life expectancy because of AIDS and a generally unhealthy lifestyle. They are generally affluent, because of a lack of inconvenient expenses such as children. As a result, they end up paying a great deal into Social Security, but relatively few of them collect. If they can get the government to accept them as married, surviving partners can collect benefits until they too succumb to ass cancer.
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