Continue to believe The Truth without consulting reality, you bloviating douche.

Little sparkie speaking to himself in the mirror again. You’re the bloviator in chief here, little sparkie. Only your little groupie sockpuppet puts out more volume of bullshit than you.

I’ve already posted on this but I’ll say it again. People that gather together for the prime purpose to excite their genitals with group masturbation do not qualify for the solemn rite of matrimony.

And if DocDave says so, by gosh, so it is. It doesn’t matter how stupid the words are coming out of his mouth, he believes it after all, and that’s the most important thing.

Let alone what the definition is. Remember Rob is not “conservative light”, he is an atheist, like myself. If there is no god, there is no reason to oppose Homosexuality. Its that simple. Because this is a country where we are free to practice what ever religious beliefs we choose, the gov. should have no say in what the definition of a religious institution should be.

End of story. That doesn’t mean we have to comprise our views on abortion, war, torture, taxes, or anything of that nature. It just means we would be consistent with our own views for once.

But please, keep hanging on to the McCain’s of the world… because that obviously has been working for the GOP.

Now, I guess my question for you is, because Rob is an Atheist, does that invalidate his marriage? Does his vows count less because he is a heathen to all you religious types?

A barber and a minister were walking down the street. The barber complained about why God allowed this and that to happen and how that proved He was either unconcerned or didn’t exist. Just then the minister saw a man across the street that had long, dirty and wild hair and he said to the barber, “Being a barber, how can you let that man walk around looking like that?” The barber protested, “It’s not my fault, if he would come to me I would wash it, cut it and make it look really great!” “Exactly,” the minister replied, “if men would come to God, He would clean up their lives and care for them. But, they need to come to Him by their own choice. Just as you would not force that man into your shop, God is a gentleman and would never force anyone to come to Him.”

Bad things happen because we human beings cannot restrain ourselves from sin and very few go to God for His Help, for His plan for their lives. Those people (terrorists) on those planes on 9/11 served a false and murderous man-made god and following him rather than Almighty God, they decided to murder for their god. Those people on those planes and elsewhere that died that day who were Christian, instantly entered into life everlasting with Jesus, knowing perfect peace and joy forever. Those without Christ had many opportunities to find Him and His salvation before that fateful day, but they chose against Him.

I cannot answer every possible false charge against God, but it is important to realize we sinful human beings in rejecting Him set the stage for the evil that comes our way and it is all our doing, not God’s. He would love to meet our needs and our heart’s desires, if we would just choose to come to Him, He wants to pour out His love in our lives; but the very best Christian still rebels against God and we live in a world of rebellion against Him. We sow the seeds of sin and reap the consequences of our own decisions and then blame God for our sufferings. Hardly fair of us!

Example, a man smokes two packs of cigarettes a day for 40 years, then gets lung cancer and then he blames God for the lung cancer. He did it to himself, he made that choice and yet he dares blame God!

No man will enter into Perdition’s Flames because God sent them there or wanted them to go there, every one will have made that freewill choice in this life by rejecting His free Salvation in Jesus. You are pardoned by Jesus death, burial and resurrection; but a pardon is not a pardon unless it is accepted by the guity party.

The bottom line of the issue (though a book could easily be written about the intellectual argument against gay marriage), is that males and females are fundamentally different, whether you’re talking hormonally, psychologically, or physiologically. Those differences are profound enough to warrant that unions between one man and one woman should receive unique status.

I will be the first one to sign on the dotted line for ensuring the rights of gays to enter into civil unions or common law relationships whereupon their rights to power of attorney, inheritance directives, end of life issues, etc., are proscribed. But if laws are written that equate gay marriage with heterosexual marriage, then it will become illegal to differentiate between the two in legal cases (a tautology, I know, but it’s important enough to hammer home). The problem arises when groups, such as adoption agencies, will be prohibited from taking homo/hetero status of a relationship into account when making placement decisions, or other decisions relevant to their operation. Take the example of Catholic Children’s Charities, which DID place children with homosexual adoptive parents, but simply gave priority to heterosexual couples. When Massachusetts legalized gay marriage, CCC had the choice to either quit the adoption business altogether, or stop accounting for homo/hetero status in their applications.

There are many other areas where distinctions between homo/hetero couples make sense, but there are also many where it doesn’t make sense at all (see above examples for starters), but this comment is long enough as it is.

If you think that males and females are fundamentally the same, then gay marriage makes sense, and I can respect the intellectual honesty of your position, even if I thoroughly disagree with your premise and its logical conclusion. But if you agree that they’re fundamentally different, then you may want to reconsider the logic you apply to that premise, and the resultant conclusion.