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To: Westbrook
I mean, give me a really good LOGICAL reason not to allow these things if you’re going to promote same sex marriage?

Here's a logical reason: sticking it to the traditionalists, who happen to make up a large part of the resistance to the socialist overhaul. Staging a fake struggle for "equal rights" (keep repeating that phrase until nobody questions it) to demonize and discredit your opponents in the gullible eyes of the public; casting them as "enemies of progress," the likes of which opposed equality for blacks and women, and who, if not forcefully suppressed, will endanger YOUR rights. Otherwise, as I see it, the only logical stances to take on the legal definition of marriage are to leave it be, preserving its original intent--to define and reinforce family structure as prescribed by nature and ancient tradition--or stop trying to legally define marriage altogether and let individuals, churches and other private entities decide what a legitimate family looks like. I tend to favor the latter. If one man, one woman is the natural and/or divine order of things, it will prevail without artificial measures like legal marriage licenses. But the left isn't interested in the logical means to a free society. They're interested in the logical means to their own dominance.
17 posted on 05/10/2012 2:01:22 AM PDT by Méabh
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To: Méabh

> let individuals, churches and other private entities
> decide what a legitimate family looks like. I tend to
> favor the latter.

The problem with this is that the meddling busybodies will use government to force those who do NOT recognize such unions as legitimate, to do so.

If you’re an insurance company, you will be forced to insure behaviors with known health issues without being allowed to charge more for such policyholders.

If you are a church or parochial school, you will be forced to refrain from teaching that such behaviors are sin.

If you own an apartment building, you will be forced to rent to such couples or groups even if it offends you or the rest of your tenants.

Allowing such “marriages” does NOT create a freer society. On the contrary, it limits even more of your freedoms. The freedom of association. The freedom to hire and fire, buy or sell, based on your character judgements.

And, of course, your freedom of speech will be greatly compromised. If you see a couple or group expressing sexual intimacy in public, and you express any displeasure with it, you will be cited as a criminal.


33 posted on 05/10/2012 8:03:54 AM PDT by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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