Basing some of your claims on the Bible--does that include the Gospels that have come to light recently? That Mary Magdalene was not the "woman at the well", but instead a wealthy woman who chose to follow Jesus? One of the Popes circa 900 A.D. decided that women might get ideas from a woman having both money and freedom so he identified her as a prostitute.

One of the things that caused the schism between the RC church and the Orthodox Church was which books to leave out in the first place.

There have been enough idiocies done in the name of religion.

Marriages continue without sex. If you care only about sexual gratification and not about your partner as a person, it isn't a marriage regardless of gender. I know that the "In sickness, in health" clause in our vows has certainly gotten a workout. I've undergone 11 surgeries during our almost 35 years of marriage, and that doesn't count nerve blocks on my lower spine or broken bones. We are friends--a vital component to any relationship.

When someone keeps proclaiming that something isn't "moral", or is against "Christian morality" repeatedly, all that comes through is that it just isn't something you will ever agree with.

So, is it more moral if they just "shack up"? Perhaps that isn't good enough and some same-gender couples want to have their relationship witnessed and blessed by God. To be "given" the right to make a life-long commitment legal by allowing them to be married if they have a church or religion willing to permit them to finalize their relationship.

I commend couples who want to be married and become spouses in a religious ceremony. I think that a civil union is better than nothing but not the same as a marriage.

After presenting the same arguments over and over, it's obvious that your mind will not change. It should be obvious that if your presentations were going to change anyone else's minds, they would have long ago done so.

I just see no reason to deny total strangers the right to be married because some "Christians" are violently opposed to it.

Jun 6, 2012 -- 8:06PM, mainecaptain wrote:

Jun 6, 2012 -- 7:52PM, karbie wrote:

I just see no reason to deny total strangers the right to be married because some "Christians" are violently opposed to it.

Thank you Karbie. Great post. Not just that part.

Now there's an analogy that I can sink my teeth into

Peace

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Thank you Thetwofish, :))

Jun 6, 2012 -- 6:38PM, mytmouse57 wrote:

"Marriage equality" is an essentially empty buzz term. Just rhetoric to throw around.....

Thanks for your opinion. Got any rational arguments? I keep asking and you refuse to provide any. Why?

The bit about being having a homosexual attraction, but acting on it is a "choice" has some possibilities.

It works if you substitute being attracted toa heterosexual, but acting on that attraction is a choice

Or being tempted by looking at food, but giving in to that temptation and eating it is a choice.

However, it still doesn't top my favorite, attributed to an anonymous Cavalier in answer to being questioned on why he did not see that Oliver Cromwell and his Puritans were the only correct religion. "I guess that God just predestined me not to be a good Puritan."