Posted on 06/29/2003 11:26:04 AM PDT by Polycarp
Are you equating love with sodomy?
Race that one is born with and voluntary unnatural sex acts have nothing in common and anyone with two brain cells knows that.
Actually, now would be a good time.
With you gone we could capture the Senate and House and Presidency by 2/3rds margins, and ram a Capitalist agenda through the Legislature without fear of voter backlash.
Good. About damned time, too.
Disagree.
How many people vote Demon just because they can't stand the Theocrats.
We ditch the Moral Ayatollahs, and we'll control every election on a liberty based, pro-Capitalist agenda.
Dump the theocratic kooks, and I'll vote GOP again.
I'm still trying to figure out what his FR nickname is...
No. (but shouldn't be illegal either).
Sure, if anyone's that dumb they deserve two wives.
Be more specific.
Yes.
Tacky, but yes. If we weren't so wrapped up in sex, fear of it, hiding it, etc... we'd have a lot less problems, IMO.
Only our culture makes sex 'dirty'. If we didn't TEACH that, and ACT like that, then children would think it was "just natural and something that they'd do one day... now where is my toy?"
Lots.
The same legal principle that would allow a state to regulate sodomy among gay couple would enable a state to regulate sodomy among married couples.
Thats a scary bunch of government voyeurism that you support.
A nation and society has a right to defend itself from the destructive impluses of its members. Take two nations that have equal resources in every other way. In one, the laws of Texas apply, go beyond it even, cohabitation is illegal and there is no such thing as 'no-fault' divorce when children are involved. In the other nation, half the population engages in sodomy and prostitution. The other half is cohabiting.
Which nation will be the greater nation 100 years hence? Which people will be happier, freerer, and more prosperous? There is no doubt in my mind that nation whose laws best conform to the actual moral order of the universe will be the nation whose citizens are most blessed.
Sorry, thats wrong. Neither fed/state/local governments were ever granted such a fiat power to decree things or acts to be 'criminal'. Booze prohibition required an amendment, repealed when sanity was restored.
What are you talking about? Booze prohibition required an ammendment because they wanted to make it a FEDERAL law. Each state could proibit it if they wanted. Heck, I still live in a 'dry' county.
Yep, harmful criminal acts are the basis for law. What you believe to be 'sins' are not.
Don't tell me what I can have as my opinion for a basis for law. I have just as much right as you do to decide where the lines should be drawn. Gay men have a life expectancy about 30 years less than heterosexual men. They take antibiotics by the handful to continue the unnatural acts they ingage in without constant infection. This does nothing but make the petri dishes for resistent strains that are a threat to us all. Most sex outside of marriage is exploitative of one or the other. The state has a vested interest in preventing exploitation.
You liberal-tarian types and homo-promos always say that. I have yet to see any reasonable support for that most assuredly false statement.
The same legal principle that would allow a state to regulate sodomy among gay couple would enable a state to regulate sodomy among married couples.
Suits me. The laws against sodomy that were on the books around the time the Constitution was written included opposite sex sodomy too so they didn't mind those laws, and neither would I.
And most states used to have laws doing precisely that. But almost all of them got rid of them, because they came under political attack. Politics is not only the legitimate way to deal with such problems (when the courts are not,) it works.
Buy off the middle voters with pro-liberty social stands, while stealthly pushing through bold economic reform.
Build a new coalition - dumping the zealots, and stealing voters from the Demons who have been afraid to vote GOP for fear of losing 'social' freedoms.
The theocrats aren't going to vote Demon, no matter what. Even if they vote 3rd party, they won't give demons any votes.
And I'll bet that there are LARGE blocks of more or less pro-capitalist Dem voters who would cross lines to vote for the GOP if they ditched these blue noses.
Now might be the time.
When will be a better time?
Would be a good use of political capital. Realign the GOP and make them election proof.
Surely you jest. HIDING sex? In a culture where sex of all varieties is omnipresent?
Some of us don't like lowflow toilets.
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