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What Is a Mother to Do? Questions for Same-Sex Marriage Advocates
The Public Discourse ^ | June 17th, 2013 | Deborah Savage

Posted on 06/16/2013 7:09:34 PM PDT by rhema

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1 posted on 06/16/2013 7:09:35 PM PDT by rhema
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It’s sin, therefore it’s wrong. So is shacking up. Kids WANT their parents to teach them right from wrong.


2 posted on 06/16/2013 7:15:29 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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If you’re a believer, tell them what God Almighty says about it. If you’re not, make up whatever floats your boat. One lie is just as good as another.


3 posted on 06/16/2013 7:22:24 PM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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To: rhema

The final paragraph in the article:

For when you ask my daughter to accept that a man may marry another man, that a woman may marry another woman, you are asking her to suspend her capacity to judge the world around her and judge it truly. You are requiring her to declare that 2 + 2 = 5 as an act of victory over her natural inclination toward the true and the good. You are trying to trap her in a world where nothing is as it seems.


4 posted on 06/16/2013 7:25:14 PM PDT by rwa265
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Tell them the gummint is wrong that two guys and two girls anad a girl and a chicken and a guy and a goldfish cannot be married.., it takes one human with a wienie and one human without a wienie to be married


5 posted on 06/16/2013 7:29:40 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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Just tell her this is a fine example of what happens when people think they are smarter than the world around them, so smart they can change nature with a mere decree.

It is also an object lesson in that just because something is legal, it isn't necessarily right.

Fine spot to segue into how The Almighty makes the rules, and human attempts to rewrite them are not only folly, but have a tendency to end very badly for those who think themselves smarter than their Creator.

6 posted on 06/16/2013 7:30:11 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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oh AND you marry for life, not serial monogamy


7 posted on 06/16/2013 7:30:48 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: rhema
Too nuanced I'm afraid for the SSM crowd.

Plus, she leaves no room for the fact that (reality not withstanding), peoples feelings are hurt when they don't get what they want...

8 posted on 06/16/2013 7:39:37 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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You don't believe in pulling punches, eh dude?

You're totally right, though.

9 posted on 06/16/2013 7:39:51 PM PDT by stormhill (Guns Save Lives!)
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Marriage is the legal device we use to protect a biological relationship that predates language. Humans happen to be a species whose biology pushes us towards mating for life.

Changing legal terminology so that any two people can be called “married”, regardless of whether they have a biologically determined relationship does not change our biology.

Marriage is, and will always be, the bond between a mated pair of humans. Mates can only be one male and one female.


10 posted on 06/16/2013 7:41:19 PM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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the reason men marry women is to be connected to their children


11 posted on 06/16/2013 7:46:16 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: rhema

since when would you ever discuss this topic with a ten year old???


12 posted on 06/16/2013 7:47:39 PM PDT by Nifster
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Agree. My question is: which word are you going to redefine next? Which word, which has meant the same for centuries, will fall by the wayside next? (ok, so two questions)


13 posted on 06/16/2013 7:53:00 PM PDT by originalbuckeye (Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy)
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The ones pushing the hardest to install the agenda of the Father of Lies are the ones who scoff the fiercest at his very existence. This judge who declared by fiat that girls of any age must have access to the “Plan B” contraceptive pill is a prime example. They will all get the chance to meet him in person, later, including all these the godless advocates busy redefining God’s creation.


14 posted on 06/16/2013 8:03:07 PM PDT by Combat_Liberalism
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since when would you ever discuss this topic with a ten year old???

You would need to discuss it if in the course of visiting one of our numerous lake park playgrounds here in Mn, you are faced with the question: "daddy, why does that boy call both of those men, 'dad'"?

15 posted on 06/16/2013 8:03:17 PM PDT by jonno (Having an opinion is not the same as having the answer...)
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Marriage is the legal device we use to protect a biological relationship that predates language. Humans happen to be a species whose biology pushes us towards mating for life.

Changing legal terminology so that any two people can be called “married”, regardless of whether they have a biologically determined relationship does not change our biology.

Marriage is, and will always be, the bond between a mated pair of humans. Mates can only be one male and one female.

16 posted on 06/16/2013 8:03:47 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Idiocracy is a documentary.)
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To: originalbuckeye

Well, it seems to me that the definition of “parent” is being attacked, as well. Didn’t some judge recently declare that a child’s parents were two women, or some other biologically ludicrous thing like that?


17 posted on 06/16/2013 8:11:56 PM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: yldstrk

I’m laughing so hard that I’m actually coughing uncontrollably.

(Of course,the cigarettes I smoked earlier might have something to do with it.)


18 posted on 06/16/2013 8:39:38 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Causing trouble since 1976)
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:)


19 posted on 06/16/2013 8:47:42 PM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: exDemMom

Yes. I believe parents are now listed as Parent 1 and Parent 2. The same with the new marriage licenses......spouse 1 and spouse 2. Really detrimental to our culture. What am I saying.....WHAT CULTURE?


20 posted on 06/16/2013 9:12:47 PM PDT by originalbuckeye (Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy)
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