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Redefining Marriage: Proponents of same-sex marriage insist they’re “on the right side of history.”
The National Review ^ | February 19, 2014 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 02/23/2014 11:44:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet
What say you?

Doesn't matter what I think, it matters what God says. I think he is against it, at least that is what the Bible says.

21 posted on 02/24/2014 2:19:18 AM PST by verga
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To: freerepublicchat
People don't marry each other. The government marries them. There is no loss of freedom involved.

Catholics view marriage as a sacrament and a covenant. The couple performs the sacrament for each other. The priest presides to insure that they have the proper matter (Man and a woman) and follow the proper form (exchange of vows).

22 posted on 02/24/2014 2:24:24 AM PST by verga
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

In time, proponents of same sex marriage will publicly be portrayed as sewer dwelling filth.


23 posted on 02/24/2014 2:28:46 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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To: fwdude

Well put!


24 posted on 02/24/2014 2:42:20 AM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What the hell do they care? Actually?

The agenda has been to SMASH THE PATRIARCHY, SMASH MONOGAMY, and establish antiestablishmentarianism (end the rule of law, upend the church, wrong is right, down is up).

They aren’t concerned about history or moving forward. They seek to overturn the applecart and fulfill their own carnal desires.

Same sex divorce and the adopted children of such self-centered relationships are never discussed.

As they said in the 60s, “LA LA LA LA LA LA ,live for today...”


25 posted on 02/24/2014 2:47:45 AM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: JennysCool

I’m not sure about the divorce lawyer angle. Gays are a pretty small portion of the population, and altho common sense says that they may divorse at a higher rate than the rest of the population (the novelty will wear off), they, cognizant of the financial downsides of marriage (marriage penalty, increased under Obamacare) will marry at a lower rate than the rest of the population.


26 posted on 02/24/2014 2:48:48 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Various forms of socialism (national socialism, soviet socialism, etc.) were also on the “right side of history” and that terrible error lasted nearly a century. Being on the right side of history doesn’t mean something is a good idea.


27 posted on 02/24/2014 3:05:25 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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Redefining Marriage: Proponents of same-sex marriage insist they’re “on the right side of history.”

I'd say they were on the back side of history

28 posted on 02/24/2014 3:40:33 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: JennysCool

I’ve been saying the same thing since the push began.


29 posted on 02/24/2014 3:43:12 AM PST by CrazyIvan (Obama phones= Bread and circuits.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Ponder this:

The media keeps referring to that NBA guy as “the only openly gay player”. Does that mean there are dozens of closeted gays in the league?


30 posted on 02/24/2014 4:06:50 AM PST by sodpoodle (Life is prickly - carry tweezers.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; P-Marlowe; Salvation; NYer; Dr. Brian Kopp

What say I? Heterosexual marriage is the testimony of history except for the last decade or so. Unnatural marriage is, then, flawed in the eyes of history. In fact, unnatural marriage is rejected STILL in a majority of this current world. So, not only is it flawed historically, but it is flawed NOW.

What will come of it?

It will make our children’s culture far more dangerous.

It is time for Christians to first be tied in the bonds of Holy Matrimony in their churches, and afterwards to go to the justice of the peace for a license. It is time for natural marriage Christian Churches to AGREE on a document of Holy Matrimony, which can only be issued by one of the churches in the agreement.

Why Matrimony? Because the root word is MOTHER. It is the holy estate designed as a protective environment for mothering. Unnatural marriage can NEVER be that.


31 posted on 02/24/2014 4:15:24 AM PST by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: gleeaikin

In spite of what one reads about the homo emperors of Rome, and in spite of the existence of homosexuality, it was always considered a vice in ancient Rome.


32 posted on 02/24/2014 4:20:50 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

only people that have never studied history would make such a claim.


33 posted on 02/24/2014 4:22:01 AM PST by Pietro
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Caligula was “on the right side of history” too.Morality,decency and common sense might be another matter.
34 posted on 02/24/2014 4:22:04 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Stalin Blamed The Kulaks,Obama Blames The Tea Party)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Marriage is the legal protection provided to a biological relationship, in which a pair of people of opposite sex form a bond in order to produce children. The relationship is a biological imperative, evolved to guarantee the propagation of one’s genetic heritage.

No judge can change this biological reality.

Homosexuals simply cannot form pair-bonds. Most of them do not even have long-term relationships. They are suffering from a pathology, and the best we can do for them is attempt to find effective treatment—not pretend that they are normal by allowing them to meaninglessly sign the documents that legally protect pair-bonded couples.


35 posted on 02/24/2014 4:24:55 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

God’s way or man’s way. I’ll go with the former.


36 posted on 02/24/2014 4:39:24 AM PST by FES0844
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To: All

I’d say this: I think one of these fascist judges are going to end up annoying the wrong well armed American at some point.


37 posted on 02/24/2014 4:47:09 AM PST by escapefromboston (manny ortez: mvp)
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To: a fool in paradise
a fool in paradise has said it well.

The radicals of the 60s march to upset a society that they disagreed with has taken the shape of turning what is good bad. Same sex marriage is the latest idea to push western culture and Christian values out of the US.

38 posted on 02/24/2014 4:54:17 AM PST by Machfour
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

First thought: the winners write the history books, which is why this fight cannot be abandoned.

Second thought: like so many other cliches (’affordable health care’), this one has been taken up by the leftist masses because they love its self-righteous tone.


39 posted on 02/24/2014 5:05:09 AM PST by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The End)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“on the right side of history.”

Wrong side of biology.

40 posted on 02/24/2014 5:07:39 AM PST by SamuraiScot
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