I’m sure that we are as better off for your having visited us as everyone else in your life is for your gracious and generous input.

I have no idea why anyone at all — never mind Christians who are supposed to represent the love of God — would want to stop two adults who love each other from making a commitment to continue that love and to join together to form a family unit. It’s just counterintuitive and hypocritical and myopic.

It’s because they don’t care about love as much as they care about protecting their figurative ‘country club’ from being ‘diminished’ by letting ‘undesirables’ join.

Sad.

and as you said….’counterintuitive and hypocritical and myopic’.

I recently had someone become very upset with me for raising the question of with Iowa’s redefinition of mariage and raising the question of poligamy. Apparently the gay individidual didn’t appreicate the comment being compared to people he considered filthy and degenerate /shrug sometimes open mindedness only applies to you and isn’t something you’d extend towards others.

More just to stir the pot I find I also find I have some very different views on the Gay Lesbian and /salute to the brave transgenders who have the courage of thier convictions. From the I respect that fact that you are a woman and are attracted to women and that if you are a man and are attracted to men. You know who you are and what you want and I’m ok with that. I do however find my self less sympathetic to the women who like women and then seek to become men without having the courage to go all the way. I mean by that those who do thier very best to appear as men/women when they are not rightly or wrongly I judge those individuals as people who have not chosen to admire and desire those of the same sex but those who are so deeply unhappy with themselves that they wish they were different. While I’m sure to catch the flames for this from those who proclaim they are happy with who they are I ask the simple question if you are happy with who you are and the choices you make why do you seek so desperately to appear as other than you are.

Great, now they’ll complain that we’re redefining “family.” Of course they’ll say the definition of family “has always been:” A father, a mother, and as many kids as possible.

This whole thing about Christians trying to force their values on everyone else through legislation is entirely unChristian. Christianity is worthless if it is not voluntary. If evangelicalism wants to use politics to coerce everyone else into living “righteously” then how is that any different than the Spanish Inquisition, etc, except in degree?

Of course, many Christians keep saying that they don’t sin because they fear hell, so maybe for them legislation is the only way they can see to keep us heathen under control. That’s a fucked up view of life and morality if you ask me. I guess they can’t understand the concept of being “good for goodness sake” (which is quite ironic if you ask me).