And my point.

 

If you change the definition of what is a marriage by allowing male/male or female/female marriages what legal right would you have to tell 3 people they cannot be married?

 

And if the govt sets a precident that heterosexual unions can include 3 or more people, then they should not descriminate against homosexual people and allow whatever number they decide in both cases.

 

BTW - I'm actually one of the more homophobic people in the world. If I see a gay couple it makes me very uncomfortable, however - I think governmental discrimination is wrong.

But I dont see why if a child has been given up and or taken away from an unloving home, why would it matter where the family love came from, as long as it was someone.

 

And I don't think I am qualified to help you see that.

 

One mother and one father committed to the family and the marriage is the way it works best.

Another thread but do you really believe that we can all create our own individual God and that is way that it is actually is???

 

If so, I guess I would want my individual god to look like Halle Berry.

 

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And I don't think I am qualified to help you see that.

 

One mother and one father committed to the family and the marriage is the way it works best.

 

Show me proof. Show me the proof and I will believe.

And if the govt sets a precident that heterosexual unions can include 3 or more people, then they should not descriminate against homosexual people and allow whatever number they decide in both cases.

 

BTW - I'm actually one of the more homophobic people in the world. If I see a gay couple it makes me very uncomfortable, however - I think governmental discrimination is wrong.

 

Not sure I completely understand your stance.

 

It is wrong to discriminate against homosexual people

but okay to discriminate against 3 people who would want to be married???:confused:

Another thread but do you really believe that we can all create our own individual God and that is way that it is actually is???

If so, I guess I would want my individual god to look like Halle Berry.

 

I believe that people can interpret God to be whatever they want it to be. I dont know if there is a God, but I believe that if there were Gods, or a single God, that they would be above definition;and open to interpretation.

I have enjoyed the discussion but stayed up late to get some work done and you guys are eating gluttonously on my ability to get any work done. I am out.

Plato, in your reference Jesus is telling the disciples and himself to pay their taxes/ so I don't understand your question either. Was Ceasar a Homosexual?

Not sure I completely understand your stance.

 

It is wrong to discriminate against homosexual people

but okay to discriminate against 3 people who would want to be married???:confused:

 

My stance is that currently heterosexual couples (2 people) are allowed some governmental benefits. In my opinion, a homosexual couple (2 people) should be granted those same benefits.

 

At this time the government does not allow polygamy to either heterosexual nor homosexual couples - so there is not a discrimination factor.

Are you saying that right now homosexual couples can enjoy ALL the legal rights WITHOUT it being designated as a civil union? That designation of civil unions or marriages would change nothing for them from what they can legally attain now?

 

No. Perhaps I was confused by your question. There is no "civil union" in Kentucky.

I don't support gay marriage or gay civil unions but I do not support criminalizing homosexuality.

 

If we allow homosexuals to marry, why can I not marry my father? Or my mother? Or my best friend? Tax breaks are given to married couples because they have the potential to create new offspring to continue our nation. I am not sure how I feel about married couples that do not have children, maybe they should not get tax breaks. It would be an interesting debate.

 

Anyone who says that it is a victim less offense I disagree with. I believe that humans are inherently social creatures, and things that we do in privacy of our homes affect society, whether it is homosexual activity, drug use, hardcore pornography addictions, dog fighting, or anything. It at least affects the way that we view ourselves/others which in turn affects how we act towards each other. There are many major philosophers who would agree with me.

Plato, in your reference Jesus is telling the disciples and himself to pay their taxes/ so I don't understand your question either. Was Ceasar a Homosexual?

 

15Then the Pharisees went out and laid plans to trap him in his words. 16They sent their disciples to him along with the Herodians. "Teacher," they said, "we know you are a man of integrity and that you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You aren't swayed by men, because you pay no attention to who they are. 17Tell us then, what is your opinion? Is it right to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"

18But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, "You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me? 19Show me the coin used for paying the tax." They brought him a denarius, 20and he asked them, "Whose portrait is this? And whose inscription?"

 

21"Caesar's," they replied.

Then he said to them, "Give to Caesar what is Caesar's, and to God what is God's."

 

22When they heard this, they were amazed. So they left him and went away.

 

IMO this passage tells us that Jesus isn't too concerned with who gets which tax breaks. That is for the government to decide.

 

It has nothing to do with Caesar being a homosexual... I don't know where that came from.

I was asking you about this verse and the thread topic. Going to bed, God Bless everyone.

That God doesnt have to be the Christian God, it can be a person's personal God. I know my view of God doesn't exactly mesh with a lot of people's, but I do know the government does not get to define what my God would want for me.

 

 

In which case I am going to grab a drifter and sacrifice him to Huitzilopochtli! :banana:

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