Posted on 03/25/2013 2:48:36 PM PDT by Nachum
3/25/13 - On Monday, a debate on CNN over the issues headed to the Supreme Court this week relating to the constitutionality of prohibitions on same-sex marriage and the right of same-sex couples to receive the same federal benefits as straight couples exploded. Heritage Foundation scholar Ryan Anderson got into a heated and tense exchange with CNN anchor Don Lemon after he asserted that there are no laws currently on the books that make gay marriage "illegal." Lemon resented Anderson's assertion, calling it "absurd."
"Just to clarify, the issue here is not legality," Anderson began, "so, in all 50 states, there is nothing illegal about same-sex marriage."
"Hang on," Lemon interjected. "You said same-sex marriage is not -- is not illegal?"
"When something is illegal, it's criminal to engage in that activity," Anderson clarified.
The two engaged in crosstalk before Lemon insisted that, as the anchor of his program, he can interrupt any guest as often as he likes. "It is illegal -- gay people don't have the same rights," Lemon insisted.
"It's not illegal," Anderson countered. "When something is illegal you can go to jail for doing it."
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I think you have a problem!...between your ears.
Stop stalking me!
You keep making post after post, after post, of personal attacks and insults, yet won’t defend your claim that Mitt Romney is a moral man.
You even lie about being “stalked” while we are on the very same thread where I am responding to you, after you posted to me.
To: ansel12
Agree or not with Romney’s religion, he is a moral man, IMO.
That is not very popular in our country anymore.
16 posted on 3/25/2013 3:50:30 PM by lonestar
Why do you call a man who supports abortion, homosexual scout leaders, is a leader in an anti-Christian cult, who supports homosexualizing the military, gun control, is a pathological liar, and who gave America “gay marriage” and who was against the republican pro life party platform, “moral”?
[[was obviously typed in a fit of rage...LOL Calm down my FRiend]]
Lol, sadly I was quite calm- that hsows how terrible my typing is and how lazy I am for not correcting it- I have no life
marriage isn’t just a catholic institution- Jews had practiced it for many years before- My points were that government ripped the act and sanctity of marriageo ut of God’s hands (irregardless of which religion practiced the ceremonies) and bastardized it to being a meaningless business proposal ie: propogating to create new generations of tax payers to support future government
The govenrment was the one not allowing unproductive marriages (It’s true that religiosu institutions didn’;t allow it iether- but the arguments are that ‘God and Christians are hatefuly because ‘they don’t allow gay peopel to marry’ when hte reality is that it was a government issue- a secualr issue- a financial issue- nothign to do with religion- so supporters of gay marriage don’t even have hteir facts right and are directign hteir hatred towards Christiansd hwne hte reality is that the laws agaisnt gay marriage had to do with secular reasons, not religious
As my post indicated, Catholics and marriage control only came along recently, and only in a part of the world, and they only managed to totally impose their law over marriage in their area of control in 1563.
Everybody on earth had marriage long before Christianity.
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