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The Conservative Case for Gay Marriage
Newsweek ^ | January 09, 2010 | Ted Olsen

Posted on 08/19/2010 6:18:04 AM PDT by throwback

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To: Arrowhead1952

Nice lightning!

Johnnyc(r)ap also desired to be an internet martyr, he got his wish!

Kind of like the bear enthusiast who wanted to wind up in bear poop. He got his wish, too.


221 posted on 08/19/2010 11:05:48 AM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: subaru

Blackmail/bribery. Can’t think of anything else that would cause such change of mind from being rational to irrational. Of course I have no idea.


222 posted on 08/19/2010 11:06:47 AM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: stephenjohnbanker

I agree. I should have responded with that in my first post.


223 posted on 08/19/2010 11:07:36 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (UniTea! It's not Rs vs Ds you dimwits. It's Cs vs Ls. Cut the crap & lets build for success.)
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To: DeahLee; 185JHP; AFA-Michigan; Abathar; Agitate; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; Antoninus; Aquinasfan; ..
Also, why would I even have to worry about supporting something that should be none of the courts business anyway? Separation of church and state! Remember that? MARRIAGE is a religious thing, not a legal one, if they want to be legally hitched, that’s fine, but they had better stay out of the church. Also, I think this should apply to people who are not religious, don’t marry using a bible and a church if you don’t believe in the entities behind them. Civil partnerships for anyone who has no religious connections.

I see that you signed up TODAY just so you could push a militant homosexual agenda. I'm not sure if this is your first time or if you are a veteran retread, but I'm fairly certain your stay here will be short.

Be sure to tell the DUmmies that we still oppose sodomy.

224 posted on 08/19/2010 11:07:56 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: subaru

Thank you for that input. People change. Not always for the better.


225 posted on 08/19/2010 11:08:37 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: Arrowhead1952

Signup date today, that was her sole comment last I checked; coming to give johnny some backup.


226 posted on 08/19/2010 11:08:48 AM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: little jeremiah

What makes you think the troll is a she? Deah is probably some deviant’s sodomite name.


227 posted on 08/19/2010 11:10:47 AM PDT by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: AlexW

I agree with you. This is sickening. The need to be invited to coktail parties/get lucrative book deals/be in with the worst poeple — seems to be a powerful lure for many conservatives to sell out.

I find him to be more disgusting than the liberals who one expects to be doing this.


228 posted on 08/19/2010 11:13:51 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: DJ MacWoW

cool links...saved the proposed seal pic, very telling of our founding indeed...


229 posted on 08/19/2010 11:14:38 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: DJ MacWoW

You have got to be kidding me. That is the sickest sh$t I’ve ever seen. Why are they not arrested? no wonder the commercial fisherman beat the sh*t out of them down in Key West.


230 posted on 08/19/2010 11:15:45 AM PDT by mojitojoe (When crisis becomes opportunity, crisis becomes the goal.)
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To: little jeremiah

Check you FReepmail in a few.


231 posted on 08/19/2010 11:16:10 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Remember in November. Clean the house on Nov. 2. / Progressive is a PC word for liberal democrat.)
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To: longtermmemmory

THANK YOU — everyone of FR needs to read this — it’s the core of the ematter of why the gov’t can’t get out of the marriage business.


232 posted on 08/19/2010 11:16:15 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: Gilbo_3

The whole site is cool. Some poor women stepped on Jeffersons foot during Sunday services in the House of Reps. She must have been mortified!


233 posted on 08/19/2010 11:17:23 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: mojitojoe

Yup. I got through all of 3 pics and closed it.


234 posted on 08/19/2010 11:18:07 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
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To: wagglebee

You are right, as soon as I typed “she” I figured it should really be s/he/it.


235 posted on 08/19/2010 11:18:17 AM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: DJ MacWoW

You brough in hate crime laws, not me ... and I am not arguing for anyones agenda ...

Prop 8 defined “marriage” as a union between a man and a woman only. Marriage, legally today, confers special priveleges upon those married which are denied to others. I contend that these priviledges should not exist in the first place!

Marriage is a promise made before God. It should remain that.

The founders refused to place anyone religion before another - the even went so far as to explicitly forbid the government from doing it! They did NOT say that these restrictions applied only to Christianity, although they could have if they had been so inclined. Many other religions were well known at the time, and, unless I missed something in the Constitution - none of them were excluded from protection. That the founders *prefered* the Judeo-Christian tradition and based almost ALL of our founding principles upon them is a well known fact. They apparently also accepted the premise of Free Will.

Your final quotes are interesting in that the prove that the early government was not indisposed to encouraging religious practices and even provided penalties for the disruption of them! Would that our government today encouraged church going and punished those that would disturb anothers observation of thier religion. But I must note that the government “recommended” these things - they did not require them ...


236 posted on 08/19/2010 11:19:25 AM PDT by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: An.American.Expatriate
It truely amazes ME that we still have people, in this day and age, who think that everyone else must follow THIER religious dogma! This country was founded on a principle that EVERYONE was free to believe in, and live according to THIER OWN religious beliefs - not YOURS. IIRC - acceptance of the Christian God requires a voluntary choice to follow Him, not some worldly government that forces people to live according to His laws - but not believing in them! Can you provide ANY legitimate LEGAL argument for your position?

I know there is greater cause than 'we the people' for which WHY we are the greatest most blessed nation in all of recorded history. IT is NOT my dogma, all one need do is spend a bit of time reviewing the literal historical record wherein any 'self' governing society that turn their back on the 'manual' survived for any length of time...

It is a pagan god that has no morals or authority that usurps authority never given but taken through deception that attempts to produce Nirvana here on earth.

You are correct the Creator is not going to force anyone to LOVE, HONOR, and OBEY His commands during this flesh journey.... That is and will always be the GOD given freedom of each and every individual... Judgment day though there will be no lusting flesh it will all be with full knowledge as to how each and every one of us make an informed decision.

237 posted on 08/19/2010 11:19:29 AM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: DoughtyOne; stephenjohnbanker
theres a slight difference between alc/drugs and homos...

some folks can dabble with alc/drugs and be still be responsible, while keeping their choice from the society as a whole...

homos, on the other hand, are 'all in' from the gitgo and the 'hole' of society is put at risk by their agenda which is dependent on recruiting the fresh meat...

238 posted on 08/19/2010 11:20:27 AM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force.Like fire,a dangerous servant & master. George Washington)
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To: DeahLee

yea they’re really going to stay out and not tell churches to marry them.

Look at MA and you’ll see how they used their so called marriage as a step to further their agenda.
Even going after Catholic charities and making them give kids to them which is against their religious beliefs .

If you have no problem with homosexual sham marriages then you are supporting their agenda.


239 posted on 08/19/2010 11:21:46 AM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: Anima Mundi

GOOD ARGUMEMNT. THANK YOU.


240 posted on 08/19/2010 11:22:08 AM PDT by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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