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MrPedantic  +  142494 Wed, 28 Sep 05 07:52 AM
 Radrook wrote:

Obviously some people think it's correct and others don't.
Those who think it is correct are offended when others say it is not correct.
Those who say it is incorrect are offended by those who say it is correct.
Because it generates immediate offense the subject is not amenable to calm rational discussion.
In order to discuss it calmly you need to not identify with either group but simply look at the subject dispassionately and examine it under the pure light of logic. This my friends is humanly impossible because humans are not guided predominantly by logic but by emotion. reasoning is used simply to justify the emotions and the behavior which those emotions generate.
In short, this thread can only degenerate into an endless: "Is so! Is not! Is so! Is not! Is so! Is not! Is so! Is not!" leading nowhere.

Thank you for that, Rad. We are duly chastened...

MrP

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PreacherBoy  +  148637 Mon, 17 Oct 05 05:32 AM
i have raised animals all my life.  mostly livestock.  now i mainly concentrate in sheep.  i have never seen homosexual animals before.  maybe you should tell me what kind of animals you have.  and you might be right.  that would be animal behavior, not human.  its not natural.  based on the bible and the destruction of sodom.
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Avatars  +  149206 Tue, 18 Oct 05 08:16 PM
hello Deepa
Homosexual marriages is something odd and unnatural.  As there should be an opposite sex which is natural (intimate of male and female) I afraid of such kind of  people who are Homosexual.
what do u think?
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Anonymous, 4 yr 20 days ago
i think its fine
MrPedantic  +  149978 Thu, 20 Oct 05 11:14 PM

 Anonymous wrote:
i think its fine

Succinct.

Clive Woodward  +  150052 Fri, 21 Oct 05 02:16 AM
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Insider  +  150151 Fri, 21 Oct 05 09:33 AM

Very hot topic in fact. I my country, homosexuality and its common recognition by a society is of quite recent issues and carries a lot of noise around itself. People are very outrages of gays and lesbians, which i dont welcome very often.

I am pretty neutral on this question. It is just a realisation of human right on freedom of choice. Whether homosexual marriages are against the nature's law depends on each peorson's concept of marraige again. For sure, biologically it is bare fact that no way out. But in terms of values and principles, it is normal as acceptible. I even know one trainer from France. He was a male living with his male partner and bringing up their adopted son together. A big question here, how the child's moral will allow him to digest all that as soon as he gets old enough to think everything over by himself.

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Me

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Mehlukla, 4 yr 18 days ago

 Anonymous wrote:
i think its fine

 

Me too.

Lazarus  +  150817 Sun, 23 Oct 05 03:40 PM
 Mehlukla wrote:

 Anonymous wrote:
i think its fine

 

Me too.



I have to wonder if those who oppose homosexual marriage have ever been friends with a gay person, or ever had a gay person as a family member (or, I suppose, are any gay themselves?).  Perspectives have a way of shifting when you put a familiar face on the issue. 
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