no one is suggesting that the gov't will force the church to do anything, unless you're reading things into what i'm saying. I feel that marriage is a religious institution and that marriage should be reserved for heterosexual people, i'm not apologizing for that. I also feel that it's a shame that homosexuals can't form a legal contract to get the benefits. which is why i proposed an alternative instead of pissing and moaning about how supposed rights are being violated...sorry i'm fired up with work
But what if, say, the Unitarian Church decided that marriage WASN'T just for heterosexual people? That they would be happy to perform wedding ceremonies for gay couples? I think it's a pretty safe bet that's exactly what they do think, by the way. Where's their freedom of religion?
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
damn homos. stealing our rights. stealing our women/men.... dressing and dancing better than us. time to put them in their place....
on a serious note... this argument is rather purile.
I could handle the dressing and the dancing, it's the gardening that pisses me off. No matter how hard I work, my yard is always going to look comparatively like shit as long as that guy is living next door :mad:
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." ~ MLK, 1963
But what if, say, the Unitarian Church decided that marriage WASN'T just for heterosexual people? That they would be happy to perform wedding ceremonies for gay couples? I think it's a pretty safe bet that's exactly what they do think, by the way. Where's their freedom of religion?
i agree, they prob would. Their freedom ends where i say it ends...didn't that memo get out?
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But what if, say, the Unitarian Church decided that marriage WASN'T just for heterosexual people? That they would be happy to perform wedding ceremonies for gay couples? I think it's a pretty safe bet that's exactly what they do think, by the way. Where's their freedom of religion?
how about gay marriage being a legal right that can be fulfilled in churches that decide what they want to do about it? and it would be a given at the courthouse. that way a unitarian church could perform them if they wanted and the baptist church didn't have to if they didn't want to. i think that if marriage is to be so tied to the government then there should be equal rights. although i'd rather marriage not be tied to the government at all.
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cross the river to the eastside
i think someone on this thread said "marraige" is a religious concept... well it is also a lawful concept. if churches/other places of worship do not want to conduct homosexul marraiges they dont have to, but it is not right for the govt to say such marraiges should be illegal. you guys are supposed to have a sepperation of church and state...
while we guys are pretty much rooted in the church of england at least the labour govt passed the civil partnership bill. i would loved to ahve seen it be called a marraige but take the victories you cann i guess....
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this is not *always* true. lesbians ask me for style advice.
cross the river to the eastside
i agree, they prob would. Their freedom ends where i say it ends...didn't that memo get out?
how about gay marriage being a legal right that can be fulfilled in churches that decide what they want to do about it? and it would be a given at the courthouse. that way a unitarian church could perform them if they wanted and the baptist church didn't have to if they didn't want to. i think that if marriage is to be so tied to the government then there should be equal rights. although i'd rather marriage not be tied to the government at all.
cross the river to the eastside
while we guys are pretty much rooted in the church of england at least the labour govt passed the civil partnership bill. i would loved to ahve seen it be called a marraige but take the victories you cann i guess....
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not to mention that gay men are better kissers
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really? damn... :( us hetrosexuals just can't win can we?! lol
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yeah. that one is true.
cross the river to the eastside
Lame.
that's with 10 percent districts reporting as of now.
I'm sorry, what?
Let's see if i can figure this out on my own...
With ten percent of the districts reporting, the vote to keep marriage straight is passing, but that still leaves another ninety percent left unsaid?
that's because Virginia = Lameland (the reason that i got outta there)
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hey maybe next week we can work on colors, you seem to have math and fractions down.
Yea yea yea
how so? what do they do? im always interested in improving technique.
well for one thing none of the gay guys that have kissed me made me feel like he was trying to eat my face
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