Aren't we a bit off topic? Marriage was originally a means of forming strategic alliances between kinship groups. The concept of legitamacy of birth, ---> you bastard,<---
You're technically correct, I am a bastard, but I'm a bastard because I never knew my father. He left shortly after getting my teen-aged mother pregnant. I am not technically a bastard however solely based on the fact that my opinion differs from yours. That's an increddibly immature tact to take and I had expected more from you based on the few diolouges we'd had. On top of that you clearly didn't read my posts very well. It appears that you just skimmed my posts and let your biases and biggotry form your opinion of me. While i believe both Jim and Klinton understodd what I was saying yet dissagreed (respectfully I might add) you clearly didn't understand and are lashing out from a purely emotional stance. I wouldn't have thought someone so familiar with cognitive dissonence would be so suseptable to it's grasp.
Quote: As for the Song of Soloman, if I want to read sexy middle eastern fairie tales I'll stick with 1001 Nights.
I brought up SoS for the sole purpouse of pointing out that teh idea of romantic love predates your claims. Frankly I believe romance in inherant in the human phychi.
Quote: The core of the argument you make against gay marriage relies on Magical Thinking.
Throwing cliches at me proves nothing. I didn't know though that a wiccan would be so apposed to magic or as I see it spirituality.
Quote: You believe that there is some intrensic superiority of straight marriages over gay marriages and somehow (magic?) gay marriages reduce the value of str8 unions.
This is a good example of you attributing an opinion to me that can be found nowhere in my post. I wonder why you would be so quick to challenge a proposition I never made?
Quote: I think everyone agrees that procreation is not the only reason for str8 marriages so that leaves property, rights of inheritance as well as romantic love as the basis of marriage.
right and if you had read past your biase you would see that i think all these things should be afforded homosexuals as well as heterosexuals. You're arguing with your biggotry here, not with me.
Quote: In what way does this differ between gay and str8 couples?
In that way there is no difference. I'm currious how many converts to your position you've made by calling swing voters bastards. Or do you care? Perhaps those who dissagree with you are inferior to you and not worth converting, who knows. I don't and I don't care. There's too much hate in this world for me to lose sleep over someone who can't see through thier hate for those who think differently from them. But hey hating people is sure alot easier than trying to understand them, so good luck with that and don't let the bastards get you down. I know I won't.
Putting the "fun" back in Fundamentalist Christian Dogma.
" I know God exists because WBAM told me so. " - theory9
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