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The Goodness of Marriage

Jay Wye Wrote: Feb 11, 2013 7:48 AM
homosexuality is an unhealthy,destructive behavior(medically PROVEN),a mental illness(readily apparent),and NOT good for society,any society(recognized over millennia). it is not to be accommodated,enabled,or encouraged.
Dave64 Wrote: Feb 11, 2013 7:59 AM
Unfortunately for you, Lawrence vs Texas says otherwise. 9 states allow same sex Marriage, with about half having been enacted legislatively or by people's referendum.

The ONLY option you have against homosexuality is in the "Free Market of Ideas", where you have no force of law behind you. No police, prosecutorial, or judicial power to FORCE people to accept your views and end homosexuality.
Anominus Wrote: Feb 11, 2013 7:05 PM
"Unfortunately for you, Lawrence vs Texas says otherwise. 9 states allow same sex Marriage, with about half having been enacted legislatively or by people's referendum."

Actually, Lawrence v Texas only determined that sodomy was not punishable as a crime.

Additionally, I believe only two states, both of which are liberal bastions, have actually voted in favor of homosexual unions - the rest have been imposed by judicial activist or lefty legislature. You, similarly, have no "No police, prosecutorial, or judicial power to FORCE people to accept your views and promote homosexuality."
Tinsldr2 Wrote: Feb 11, 2013 8:45 PM
We live in a Republic and that form of Government is guaranteed to the states

If a legislature votes, that is the people's representatives voting.

Anominus Wrote: Feb 13, 2013 2:04 PM
That still doesn't explain the judicial activism in states where lefty judges have taken it upon themselves to create a "right" to homosodomite "marriage." Additionally, your argument would justify the laws which define marriage as being solely between a man and a woman, yet I have little doubt you would be more than content if a judge declared against those states in favor of the deviants as well.

NOTE: This is the third column in a series of columns related to National Marriage Week, Feb. 7-14, 2013. The second column is available here.

G.K. Chesterton observed in The Superstition of Divorce that “reformers of marriage . . . do not know what it is, or what it is meant to be, or what its supporters suppose it to be . . . .” Marriage opponents, who today seek not to reform but rather redefine marriage, appear to suffer from the problem diagnosed by Chesterton almost a century ago.

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