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FernBell Donating Member (233 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-16-06 02:51 AM
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Morford: Gay Marriage Is Still Evil?
Because the funny thing is, despite all the frantic state bans, no one can really say why. Which reminds me, I still have yet to hear it.

Despite all the right-wing puling, all the Bible-humping and the anti-gay marriage campaigning in all those states that just banned it and how everyone in the nation has apparently been deeply contemplating what hot gay sex must really be like because, oh my God, it sure has been in the news a lot lately (thanks, Pastor Ted!), I still, as of this writing, to this very day, I still have yet to hear a single coherent and comprehensive explanation from the nation's homophobes as to what, exactly, is so wrong about gay love.

Oh, make no mistake, I've heard the theories. I have plenty of hissing, puerile, "fag"-laden hate mail. I've heard the half-baked notions regarding "debauched" morality, the necessity of procreation, the pseudoscientific studies claiming kids are in danger of being "recruited," the quivery references to bitterly homophobic interpretations of biblical passages that somehow "prove" that gay love is immoral, unethical, dangerous. It's all just a bit cute, in a grossly ignorant sort of way.

And yet, one by one, each and every one of these silly ideas has been rather effortlessly disproved, blown to spiritual or intellectual smithereens, discredited to death and/or laughed into oblivion much the way a true scientist shoots wine through his nose at the mention of creationism.

And so still I wait for a real answer.


http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/morford/
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Kiouni Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-16-06 03:15 AM
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1. yep, everyone has an opinion on
what you should and shouldn't do with your downstairs. I think thats the minimalist approach.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-16-06 03:51 AM
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2. "And so still I wait for a real answer. "
Don't hold your breath. You aren't going to get one.
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caseycoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-16-06 06:44 AM
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3. As a straight person..
the only evil I see in regard to gay marriage is the discrimination against it.
You're going to be a long time waiting for a 'real reason'
:grr:
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-16-06 11:17 AM
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4. Love Mark.
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