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How My View on Gay Marriage Changed
New York Times ^ | June 22, 2012 | By DAVID BLANKENHORN

Posted on 06/22/2012 5:33:17 PM PDT by scottjewell

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To: Calusa

“This really scares me. What will become of us in education who don’t buckle under. I suppose we’ll lose our jobs to make an example.”

I know. I agree, it is scary. They are all marching in lockstep toward this liberal utopia, and watch out if you do not agree with them.


41 posted on 06/22/2012 7:28:37 PM PDT by scottjewell (homosexual agenda,)
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To: scottjewell

Under the usual colossal pressure brought to bear by the queers, he’s now trying to ride the fence.

Ultimately you need a full-on “this is how the Creator ordained things” faith to keep that camel from nosing all the way into the tent. You need more than half thought out platitudes like “a gift to its children” because the homos will of course say well we’re trying to be a gift to children too in the way that adoptive couples are.


42 posted on 06/22/2012 7:31:45 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Let me ABOs run loose Lou!)
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To: scottjewell

He is wrong about the equal dignity of homosexual love.

First and biblically, there is no oneness attained. Not only is the physical a reflection of the spiritual, but a living new soul is produced proving that oneness was realized.

Second, there is no great dignity in narcissism, over-the-top self love. There is a very real sameness between self and the object of desire in same sex relationships. One is essentially entertaining oneself.


43 posted on 06/22/2012 7:36:51 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Whenever I read about a high-profile "conservative" who lives and works in New York City, I always wonder if he's just a latent homosexual waiting for the right opportunity to come out of the closet.

I swear, that place is a breeding ground for stunted misfits.

44 posted on 06/22/2012 7:40:44 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: scottjewell

Is David Blakenhorn, Mitt Romney’s pseudonym?


45 posted on 06/22/2012 7:46:14 PM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness)
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To: scottjewell
Yeah, I thought about that. The late Senator Patrick Moynihan (Democrat-New York), called it “Defining Deviancy Down”. Oh how far the Democrat Party has sunk.

The next question you ask them, so you would have no problem if your Father married your Sister, right? Depending on their answer, that is the point where they need to be Committed for Observation.

Rush always talks about the Absurd. We have gone way beyond Absurd. Absurd is Mainstream.

46 posted on 06/22/2012 7:50:53 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The only good Zombie is a dead Zombie, oh wait...)
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To: SoConPubbie

“...they are cowards of the lowest order!”

Seconded!

Hearing no discussion, all favor say “AYE”!


47 posted on 06/22/2012 7:56:03 PM PDT by castlebrew (Gun control means hitting where you're aiming!)
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To: olezip

“There is no dignity in sexual perversion.”

There it is - a simple 7-word response, that leaves no doubt in the hearer’s mind. or it could be phrased as a question:

“Where is the dignity in sexual perversion”?

to put the pervsion-proponent on the defensive, and force them to explain their position.


48 posted on 06/22/2012 7:59:59 PM PDT by castlebrew (Gun control means hitting where you're aiming!)
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To: scottjewell

Countries and nation die form within. America is rotting to the core.


49 posted on 06/22/2012 8:02:04 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: scottjewell

So now I want to hear this wimp’s thoughts on polygamy.


50 posted on 06/22/2012 8:13:41 PM PDT by Yardstick
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To: scottjewell
Satan, in trying to imitate God, takes what God has created and perverts it.

1. God, NOT government, created marriage & ordinated it.
Satan tries to change what God created and perverts it. Gay marriage is a perversion of God's blessed union; marriage. God called homosexuality detestable and an abomination.

2. God created sex to be a holy union between man and wife.
Satan has perverted sex, especially in the last 40 years or so, in many ways; by making people believe sex outside of marriage is normal, porn, divorce, pediphiles, .....

3.God created the family
Satan tries to destroy the family by pushing gay adoption (with romney’s help) divorce...

4.God created the earth; a place for us to live, work and enjoy, and man in God's image.
Satan perverts God's creation by telling man to worship the created (earth) rather than The Creator God. (greenies) He tells man to believe in evolution; that man is only an animal.

You can go on and on, with the things God created and satan has perverted.

51 posted on 06/22/2012 8:47:39 PM PDT by Linda Frances (Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness)
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For me, the most important is the equal dignity of homosexual love.”

Forgive the description, but where is the dignity of a man humping over another man. It seeems this is the description of male-on-male 'relations'. This is how they define themselves. They do not describe themselves as family people, though they have tried to insinuate that into the debate for misdirection. They call themselves homosexual partners. Straight partners reference themselves as a couple. I have never heard a man and wife say we are heterosexual partners.

52 posted on 06/22/2012 9:00:13 PM PDT by Texas Songwriter (Ia)
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To: scottjewell
For me, the most important is the equal dignity of homosexual love.

Sharing feces is neither dignified nor love.

53 posted on 06/22/2012 10:35:38 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (<a href="http://originalvelvetrevolution.com" title="Velvet Revolution">Velvet Revolution</a>)
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To: scottjewell

“For me, the most important is the equal dignity of homosexual love.”

Allowing gay “marriage” can never accomplish this. Homosexual “love”, by its very nature, is undignified. The entire world could embrace them and tell them they are normal, but at the end of the day, homosexuals’ conscience’s will still bother them, because their “love” is at essence an expression of their own self-loathing.


54 posted on 06/22/2012 10:59:36 PM PDT by Boogieman
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To: scottjewell
He's hardening my stance against ALL homosexual unions. They first wanted civil unions and now marriage. We were too lenient allowing them to have civil unions

I now advocate no homosexual civil unions

55 posted on 06/23/2012 1:17:57 AM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: Cronos

“He’s hardening my stance against ALL homosexual unions. They first wanted civil unions and now marriage. We were too lenient allowing them to have civil unions
I now advocate no homosexual civil unions.”

I agree. I feel the same way. They have become so arrogant and hubristic and I am surprised that this reaction has not been more prevalent the past 5 years as they demand more and more and more rights and special privileges.


56 posted on 06/23/2012 4:41:12 AM PDT by scottjewell (homosexual agenda,)
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To: scottjewell

Can Blankenhorn really believe that once SSM is law, all those people who support it will suddenly join in some sort of an effort to strengthen marriage and stigmatize divorce, cohabitation, out-of-wedlock births, and IVF?

Same-sex marriage will *weaken* the institution of marriage even further and this is not some accident. SSM will not be the start of some sort of a newfound respect for marriage but a final confirmation of the current flimsiness of it. That’s why those who oppose it do so.

Blakenhorn can’t say he thinks marriage is all about affirming the “dignity” of “love” between two people and also support strengthening it as the best way to raise children. He has to choose one or the other. Sadly, he has made his choice.


57 posted on 06/23/2012 2:03:39 PM PDT by feralcat
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To: Cronos

In the 1970s the effort for “gay rights” dealt with matters such as getting laws off the books banning homosexuals from congregating and adding “sexual orientation” to laws against hiring discrimination. Even Ronald Reagan opposed the “Briggs Amendement” in California which would have banned gays from teaching in public schools.

If someone back then had said passing these laws would lead to homosexuality becoming a required part of school courses (http://fxn.ws/nHtwXt), homosexuals being celebrated on TV and movies, and the legalization of marriage between people of the same sex, he would have been derided as a kook and a scare-monger (even by many who opposed gay rights).

Yet it is 30 years later and here we are. The scare-monger would have been right.

People love to deride a “slippery slope” argument as some sort of logical fallacy. But sometimes the slope is more slippery than anyone realizes.


58 posted on 06/23/2012 2:22:34 PM PDT by feralcat
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To: Altura Ct.

You are correct which is why I am hoping once homoesexual marriage is legalized by supreme court, the secession debates can begin.


59 posted on 06/23/2012 7:43:01 PM PDT by scbison
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