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France Trades Free Speech for a Genderless Society

rfinney Wrote: Jan 05, 2013 2:01 PM

Why not just pass a law stating that sex between two men (or two women, as the case may be) shall result in the production of children? Despite all the poetry and flowery love songs concerned with the random passing around of STDs and inconvenient pregnencies, the purpose and basic function of the sex act is to reproduce. That being the case, why not just pass a law declaring that the sex act between members of the same sex shall result in progeny? An un-nature-al sex act then would become as nature-al as peas (which reproduce through male and female pea parts, mind; until, that is, such time as the passing of the proposed legislation), and all controversy and wrangling would cease, there being no longer any grounds for contention.

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Carl469 Wrote: Jan 05, 2013 6:18 PM

I can't imagine more dangerous and totalitarian nonsense. Go back to the Dark Ages.

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David3036 Wrote: Jan 05, 2013 2:05 PM

And if at first you don't succeed, try, try again.

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France Trades Free Speech for a Genderless Society

When a society’s laws recognizing marriage as the union of one man and one woman are changed to honor the unions of same-sex couples, it’s not just the law that changes—it’s also the society itself that changes. A top-down metamorphosis begins in which every aspect of public law changes to match the new definition of marriage.

Today, this is playing out in France with great clarity.

There, Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem is pressing Twitter to help control the speech of the people by censoring messages that run counter to the position of the French government.

In particular, Belkacem wants Twitter to...

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