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Re: The Case for Gay Marriage - The Nation

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From: Ward Stewart
Date: Sat, 06 Jul 1996 00:00
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feste@mindspring.com (John Simpson) wrote:

>On Sun, 30 Jun 1996 12:15:51 -0400, zmn96 <zmn96@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>>The question that 
>>has to be asked is.... What would happen to human kind if same sex 
>>marrriage were deemed o.k.? Some fail to realize that you would have no 
>>way of producing off spring for future life.

>	Some people cannot distinguish between "deemed okay" and "mandatory."  
>	No one is proposing legislation that would tell YOU whom you can marry and
>have children with.  You can't possibly believe that legalizing gay marriage
>would stop children being born, unless you think that everyone is secretly
>homosexual, just itching for an excuse not to have to marry partners of the
>opposite sex.

>Peace,
> 
>John Simpson

The above is a particularly egregious howler -- how can this pitiful
boob  imagine that if I were to marry George here in Hawaii he would
suddenly be struck sterile?  It is beyond all reason save that of the
reason illuminated by witless hatred.

ward
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From: wstewart@hi.net (Ward Stewart)
Subject: Re: The Case for Gay Marriage - The Nation
Date: 1996/07/06
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