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Article #117Re: The Case for Gay Marriage - The Nation
From: Greg Parkinson
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 1996 00:00
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In article <3bjzxAwZqIuG090yn@io.com>, eighner@io.com wrote: > The lovely and talented Todd Andrews <tandrews@deltanet.com> wrote: > >Of course, moral reasons are not the same things as religious reasons. > No, they are not. But you cannot justfy homophobia on moral > grounds without invoking religious reasons. There is no > logical justification for homophobia and the only way it can > exist is when it is propped up with religious dogma. > You cannot make the connection between murder or robbery or > any other social ill and the possibility that same-sex > couples will marry. It doesn't exist outside of the religious > imaginations of true believers. > The best you can say is "Well, it is wrong in itself." But > the only support you can offer for that statement is "Jesus > tells me it is wrong." He can't even say that, because Jesus was completely silent on this subject. ----------------------------------------------------- Greg Parkinson glp@cinenet.net -----------------------------------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10be61,754ce52e7af178f X-Google-Attributes: gid10be61,public X-Google-Thread: 108be9,754ce52e7af178f X-Google-Attributes: gid108be9,public X-Google-Thread: 10bb69,754ce52e7af178f X-Google-Attributes: gid10bb69,public X-Google-Thread: 1073ca,754ce52e7af178f X-Google-Attributes: gid1073ca,public X-Google-Thread: 1026d8,754ce52e7af178f X-Google-Attributes: gid1026d8,public X-Google-Thread: f744b,754ce52e7af178f X-Google-Attributes: gidf744b,public X-Google-Thread: 12ce57,754ce52e7af178f X-Google-Attributes: gid12ce57,public X-Google-Thread: f49ec,754ce52e7af178f X-Google-Attributes: gidf49ec,public From: glp@cinenet.net (Greg Parkinson) Subject: Re: The Case for Gay Marriage - The Nation Date: 1996/06/24 Message-ID: <glp-2406960657490001@ppp66.cinenet.net> X-Deja-AN: 161842257 references: <Pine.GSO.3.93.960613093431.647B-100000@spot.Colorado.EDU> <jgauvin.434.010E0E7B@symbios.com> <31c17fc1.44899013@news.cyberramp.net> <jgauvin.438.006D8992@symbios.com> <31C1AA86.58A322A8@csn.net> <jgauvin.439.004FC25E@symbios.com> <4q57st$ljm@cactus.verinet.com> <31CE1E68.48DC@deltanet.com> <3bjzxAwZqIuG090yn@io.com> organization: Cinenet Communications,Internet Access,Los Angeles;310-301-4500 newsgroups: cu.motss,co.politics,boulder.general,co.general,soc.motss,co.politics.amend2.discuss,alt.politics.homosexuality,alt.homosexual