🚀 go-pugleaf

Dale Anderson wrote:
> 
> Reif Heck <reif@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> 
> >HOORAH for the Senate!
> >--
> 
> I'll second that!  There is ample precedent in the sanctioning of
> variations in the institution of marriage.  It is completely natural,
> proper, and in character for Americans to make moral judgements about
> which relationships they wish to support and which they do not.  As a
> society, we emphatically choose to not support bigamy nor marriage
> involving a child (though some states get pretty damn close).
> Choosing to not support gay marriages is no different.  BTW, for those
> who take offense with my comparison of gay relationships to marriages
> involving a child and say, in outrage, that pedophilia is a crime
> should not forget that sodomy is still a crime in many states, as
> well.  Just another example of culturally imposed moral judgements.
> Just because it feels good to you doesn't mean that everyone else
> should accept your behavior.
> 
> In traditional marriages, gay relationships, and these other banned
> situations, all of the participants are willing participants, love
> each other and want to be recognized as being in committed
> relationships.  What's the difference?  The difference is that the
> majority of Americans make value judgements about what is morally
> acceptable to them and these other non-traditional marriages are not
> acceptable because it cheapens the value, to them, of their own
> traditional marriage.  IMHO.
> 
> Dale Anderson
> Boulder, Colorado
> dalea@ix.netcom.com

Right on Dale!  Nice write up. Give em hell!
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