...and why stop at marriage and personal body parts? "Constitution? We don't need no stinking constitution - I'm a czar!!"
Of course - we should check context to be sure this is exactly what he said.
And we should attempt to ascertain if this is what he said whether it's what he really meant.
And if he meant it, we should attempt to ascertain if he knew what he was talking about.
And if he knew what he was talking about, we should attempt to ascertain what his true intent was.
And we should check the source - perhaps they're fundamentally biased.
And if they are fundamentally biased, should we believe what they wrote?
And if...
And if...
And if...
...you seem to be saying the above are all bad things, is that what you believe?
tulc(likes to have quotes in context)
__________________ So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls,
why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
The main doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are enemies of God.
-Andrew White
We've all been conditioned to think of love as the heart-pounding,
breathless passion of the young -- not the complex feelings shared by two
time-ravaged people who spend afternoons holding hands, as a defense against
loneliness, disease and death.
-Kate Zernike
More fine legal analysis from WND, the promoter of the Orly Taitz scam.
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No peace among the nations without peace among the religions.
No peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.
No dialogue among the religions without investigation of the foundation of the religions. ~Hans Küng
Sun's opinion is a good one I think. Leave marriage up to the church. Let the government offer some sort of credit or what not for any unit that takes on the raising of children. And let individuals do the legal work of obtaining durable power of attorneys etc to secure their legal rights as they pertain to their unions. Makes sense and it gets us out of this highly unproductive conversation about gay marriage so we can focus on other issues.