I have just read this entire thread. All 11 pages of it. When I first saw the thread, I said, "LOOK AWAY COSMO, LOOK AWAY". I even stayed away from the forum so I was not tempted to get embroiled in this. But enough is more than enough.
Jay, Tibear, Canadian Observer ... What the hell is wrong with you people???? We are discussing same sex marriage. We are not discussing pedophilia, incest, polygamy, bestiality ... why do you homophobic freak shows always bring these issues up?? What is wrong with your thinking? Why are you so obsessed with these issues? How do you rationalize bringing them into this conversation? I don't want to sleep with (or marry) my dog, my sister, my brother, my neighbour's 6 year old or any combination thereof. To bring these issues into it is absolutely insulting to my relationship with the woman I am marrying this spring.
Ya, I'm a dyke. So what. Why does that threaten you so much? Your strident and nonsensical attacks, particularly on the Rev, are asinine and irrelevant. Your straw man arguments about unrelated issues serve only to sensationalize your point of view.
I am an unrelenting supporter of free choice. Do with your life as you wish. If it makes you happy and it does not infringe on the rights of children or animals, I'll even support it. You want to marry your brother? Fill your boots. What do I care? You want to privately believe I am an irredeemable sinner because I am marrying another woman, well that's fine too. Just keep your pie hole shut about it. I don't want to hear your bigotry even though I support your right to feel however you want.
This whole "sanctity of marriage" is a load. More than half of all marriages end in divorce so keep your holier-than-thou rhetoric off my marriage. And yes, you three, it is a marriage in every sense of the word except the fact that there doesn’t happen to be a penis in the house. We are building a life together, making all the same pledges and promises any male/female marriage contains and, if anything, have a deeper sense of commitment for having to have fought for the right to legally share a life. It means my money grubbing family won’t be able to come in and take everything away from my spouse should something happen to me. It means we can make legal decisions for one another should there be misfortune. It means I get the same break on my taxes you do.
Why is it you are so damn focused on the whole sexual aspect of things? That’s what it really comes down to, isn’t it? That we sleep together. I have never encountered a group so sex-obsessed as the conservative right. I just don’t get why they are so concerned about what I do with what is in my pants. There are so many bigger issues to consider in our country.
Enuff said. I’m off to plan my wedding. And no, you are not invited. :violent3:
