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whatever said:
Kane1389 said:
whatever said:

"I use the word traditional as ''standard marrige''   in this context between a man and a woman.  Traditional in this sense means the christian (not jewsih) marrige - you know, the religion on which the entire western morals and laws are based on."

This is absolutely false.

Well, gee, when you put up a compelling argument like that, maybe i am wrong...

"I never said anything about civil rights, did I?  I also never mentioned any churches or any religious institutions at all. You are trying to spin this into anther agonazing gay marrige debate. Do you get a boner by attacking church and religion? I was simply stating that  A STATE has a right to defend a traditional marrige and its laws, federal goverment has no say in Utah's laws regarding gay marrige."

This is true right now, but can definitely change.  A supreme court ruling would be required to be followed by the states.

I dont see this happening any time soon. Gay marrige is illegal in more than 30 states, huge majority of the country. Marrige is still responsabilty of state goverment

"You do know that LDS church donated almost 1 billion dollars in over 180 countries around the world, right? How much did your beloved LGBT lobby spend on helping innocent, poor and sick people around the world instead of promoting their agenda?"

Since when is wanting equal rights an agenda.  You do realize how badly gay people have been treated in the past.  Labeled mentally ill and experimented upon to "cure" them.  Many had electroshock, some were lobotomized. Being arrested was common.  They were denied employment and housing.  It was real persecution and oppression, not this fake "war on christmas" crap.

Oh my God, give me a fucking break. There are literally BILLIONS of people out there who have it  A LOT WORSE than gay people in Utah, or anywhere in the West actually. And none of that stuff actually still takes place in US, nor does gay marrige law has anything to do with it, so its a lame strawman, at best. LDS church actually spends most of their money actually helping people and making world better place, whereas the LGBT lobby only gives a fuck about their agenda and hunting down anyone that doesnt abide by their views and beliefs. They'd rather spend their time boyocting Chick- Fil- A and making sure their buisness closes down instead doing actually meaningful in the world.

And the LDS church donating money around the world doesn't excuse what they do to people that leave the church (shunning) or the money they spent trying to deny gay couples equal rights.

They dont see marrige as a right, but tradition, or holy bond between 2 opposite sexes. Regardless, they are still widely known as probably the nicest group of Christians in US, and have done a lot more good in the country than LGBT lobby ever did

"Well, gee, when you put up a compelling argument like that, maybe i am wrong..."

It's not my fault that you are not that educated.

"Oh my God, give me a fucking break. There are literally BILLIONS of people out there who have it  A LOT WORSE than gay people in Utah, or anywhere in the West actually. And none of that stuff actually still takes place in US, nor does gay marrige law has anything to do with it, so its a lame strawman, at best. LDS church actually spends most of their money actually helping people and making world better place, whereas the LGBT lobby only gives a fuck about their agenda and hunting down anyone that doesnt abide by their views and beliefs. They'd rather spend their time boyocting Chick- Fil- A and making sure their buisness closes down instead doing actually meaningful in the world."

Did I say it was happening now?  But we are only talking about 40 years ago when this was happening and it wasn't until 2003 when the supreme court finally put an end to all of these laws that made homosexuality illegal.  And there are many gay youths that commit suicide because of not being accepted by family and friends.  And talk about a strawman, why should I give a fuck about how much the LDS cult gives worldwide to indoctrinate.  LDS and other religions spend far more time and money pushing their agenda than any LGBT lobby.

"They dont see marrige as a right, but tradition, or holy bond between 2 opposite sexes. Regardless, they are still widely known as probably the nicest group of Christians in US, and have done a lot more good in the country than LGBT lobby ever did"

Bullshit they don't see it as a right.  Take it away from them and they would sure change their tune.  Marraige has many legal ramifications that have nothing to do with religious traditions, so that argument is irrelevant anyways.  No one is even talking about taking away any of their "traditions", just don't force them on other people that don't agree with them.

You should go talk to anyone that has left the LDS church to find out how "nice" they are.  It's a cult, you leave and you are shunned, even by your immediate family.


thats odd, I'm LDS and have 3 members of my immediate family that have either left the religion all together or don't practice it anymore.  Pretty sure we don't shun them at all.  I see them on pretty much a weekly basis and have  a better relationship with them then I would say most people have with their family members.

Here is a little tip, the extreme stories you read on the internet are not representative of reality.  



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gergroy said:
whatever said:
Kane1389 said:
whatever said:

"I use the word traditional as ''standard marrige''   in this context between a man and a woman.  Traditional in this sense means the christian (not jewsih) marrige - you know, the religion on which the entire western morals and laws are based on."

This is absolutely false.

Well, gee, when you put up a compelling argument like that, maybe i am wrong...

"I never said anything about civil rights, did I?  I also never mentioned any churches or any religious institutions at all. You are trying to spin this into anther agonazing gay marrige debate. Do you get a boner by attacking church and religion? I was simply stating that  A STATE has a right to defend a traditional marrige and its laws, federal goverment has no say in Utah's laws regarding gay marrige."

This is true right now, but can definitely change.  A supreme court ruling would be required to be followed by the states.

I dont see this happening any time soon. Gay marrige is illegal in more than 30 states, huge majority of the country. Marrige is still responsabilty of state goverment

"You do know that LDS church donated almost 1 billion dollars in over 180 countries around the world, right? How much did your beloved LGBT lobby spend on helping innocent, poor and sick people around the world instead of promoting their agenda?"

Since when is wanting equal rights an agenda.  You do realize how badly gay people have been treated in the past.  Labeled mentally ill and experimented upon to "cure" them.  Many had electroshock, some were lobotomized. Being arrested was common.  They were denied employment and housing.  It was real persecution and oppression, not this fake "war on christmas" crap.

Oh my God, give me a fucking break. There are literally BILLIONS of people out there who have it  A LOT WORSE than gay people in Utah, or anywhere in the West actually. And none of that stuff actually still takes place in US, nor does gay marrige law has anything to do with it, so its a lame strawman, at best. LDS church actually spends most of their money actually helping people and making world better place, whereas the LGBT lobby only gives a fuck about their agenda and hunting down anyone that doesnt abide by their views and beliefs. They'd rather spend their time boyocting Chick- Fil- A and making sure their buisness closes down instead doing actually meaningful in the world.

And the LDS church donating money around the world doesn't excuse what they do to people that leave the church (shunning) or the money they spent trying to deny gay couples equal rights.

They dont see marrige as a right, but tradition, or holy bond between 2 opposite sexes. Regardless, they are still widely known as probably the nicest group of Christians in US, and have done a lot more good in the country than LGBT lobby ever did

"Well, gee, when you put up a compelling argument like that, maybe i am wrong..."

It's not my fault that you are not that educated.

"Oh my God, give me a fucking break. There are literally BILLIONS of people out there who have it  A LOT WORSE than gay people in Utah, or anywhere in the West actually. And none of that stuff actually still takes place in US, nor does gay marrige law has anything to do with it, so its a lame strawman, at best. LDS church actually spends most of their money actually helping people and making world better place, whereas the LGBT lobby only gives a fuck about their agenda and hunting down anyone that doesnt abide by their views and beliefs. They'd rather spend their time boyocting Chick- Fil- A and making sure their buisness closes down instead doing actually meaningful in the world."

Did I say it was happening now?  But we are only talking about 40 years ago when this was happening and it wasn't until 2003 when the supreme court finally put an end to all of these laws that made homosexuality illegal.  And there are many gay youths that commit suicide because of not being accepted by family and friends.  And talk about a strawman, why should I give a fuck about how much the LDS cult gives worldwide to indoctrinate.  LDS and other religions spend far more time and money pushing their agenda than any LGBT lobby.

"They dont see marrige as a right, but tradition, or holy bond between 2 opposite sexes. Regardless, they are still widely known as probably the nicest group of Christians in US, and have done a lot more good in the country than LGBT lobby ever did"

Bullshit they don't see it as a right.  Take it away from them and they would sure change their tune.  Marraige has many legal ramifications that have nothing to do with religious traditions, so that argument is irrelevant anyways.  No one is even talking about taking away any of their "traditions", just don't force them on other people that don't agree with them.

You should go talk to anyone that has left the LDS church to find out how "nice" they are.  It's a cult, you leave and you are shunned, even by your immediate family.


thats odd, I'm LDS and have 3 members of my immediate family that have either left the religion all together or don't practice it anymore.  Pretty sure we don't shun them at all.  I see them on pretty much a weekly basis and have  a better relationship with them then I would say most people have with their family members.

Here is a little tip, the extreme stories you read on the internet are not representative of reality.  

LDS spent millions on prop 8 in california. Simple as that, they lobby against gay rights and out spend LGBT community 10-1.



gergroy said:


thats odd, I'm LDS and have 3 members of my immediate family that have either left the religion all together or don't practice it anymore.  Pretty sure we don't shun them at all.  I see them on pretty much a weekly basis and have  a better relationship with them then I would say most people have with their family members.

Here is a little tip, the extreme stories you read on the internet are not representative of reality.  

So because you don't practice it, it doesn't happen at all?  That's not reality either.



whatever said:
Kasz216 said:

Fascinating.

It seems like what ironically "doomed" conservatives in this case was that they passed a law specifically making it illegal when previously there just wasn't a legal standard for it.


Which is pretty funny really.

Had their not been a specific law specifically banning something that couldn't of happened in the first place it probably would of never went to court.

This is partially true.  While some laws have existed for a long time, a lot of the state laws and state constitutional amendments against gay marraige were pushed through after the Massachusetts supreme court decision to allow it based on the Massachusetts constitution.  So a lot of states decided they had better get something into their constitutions so a similar court decision didn't happen in their state.

Actualy DOMA the 'Discrimation of Marriage Act' as I refer to it was singed in 1996, long before Massachusetts had same sex marriage.   It was in part also ruled as a direct violation of the US Constution this summer by the US Supreme Court.



 

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whatever said:
gergroy said:


thats odd, I'm LDS and have 3 members of my immediate family that have either left the religion all together or don't practice it anymore.  Pretty sure we don't shun them at all.  I see them on pretty much a weekly basis and have  a better relationship with them then I would say most people have with their family members.

Here is a little tip, the extreme stories you read on the internet are not representative of reality.  

So because you don't practice it, it doesn't happen at all?  That's not reality either.


Im sure it happens, but its isnt some common thing like you are implying.  Im sure it happens in pretty much every religion to be honest.  



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DJEVOLVE said:
gergroy said:

thats odd, I'm LDS and have 3 members of my immediate family that have either left the religion all together or don't practice it anymore.  Pretty sure we don't shun them at all.  I see them on pretty much a weekly basis and have  a better relationship with them then I would say most people have with their family members.

Here is a little tip, the extreme stories you read on the internet are not representative of reality.  

LDS spent millions on prop 8 in california. Simple as that, they lobby against gay rights and out spend LGBT community 10-1.

Not sure what that has to do with my post...



Kane1389 said:
Zappykins said:
Kane1389 said:
Zappykins said:
Kane1389 said:

 

Ok, So you couldn't answer my quetions. 

Because you are trying to corner me into another bullcrap gay marrige moral debate, where you'd  just repeat how much of a vile person while constantly shiting on Christianity (and religion in general), whle using the word bigot 50 times per sentence. Been there, done that

But I'll will answer yours:  Because it is a complete and deceptive lie.  It is not suported by Biblical teachings, it's only made up by people against civil rights as some attempt to spin that other people have their families recogized is somehow an attack on them.   (I points out lying is a sin.)

Marrie between a man and a woman is not supported by the Bible?

As far at the LGBT lobies spending monies, do you think people should not be allowed to defend themselves when disturbed people try to control others and go after eleminating and removing their rights?  What should women do if someone wanted to remove their right to vote, work or own property?  Just sit there?

Yeah man, queers have it real hard in United States. They cant even vote, work, or have property...oh wait, its just another stupid strawman that LGBT lobby loves to use to make their ''struggle''  similar to segregation and slavery that Blacks had to suffer thru. Its absolutely disgusting. Its no wonder why African American community is usually against LGBT lobby when they try to mix in their history, to make it comparable so that they can promote their agenda

The Morman spend million promotion their own agenda, pretty fancy to call it 'charity.'  Do you realize how many cultures they have wipped out to incorporate into their own?

>If their agenda is helping those in need, feeding the hungry, healing the sick, sheltering the homeless, helping the poor, I say let them promote their agenda. It seems like a much better spending of resources and money than organizing protests against Chick Fill A because their CEO has a different belief than them

They have even converted Ann Frank something like 9 times to try to make her Mormon, thus attempting to erase her Jewish herritage.

 I never implied they were perfect did I?

Also, you don't seem to understand US law.  Federal law, as it was in this case, trumps state law.  A state can not make a law that says women do not have the right to vote - but could have a 'domestic recomendation' because Federal laws guarantee the right of women to vote.

...so why cant queers marry in over 30 states in country? I mean, DOMA is dead, isn't it?




I'm just genuinly courous how you are going to attempt to justify legal discrimation based on gender.  The most vile and powerful lawyers in the country couldn't do it either.  Which is why the expensive largely Mormon sponsored, Prop 8, was ruled unconstutional twice, in Federal court and that ruling put into full effect by the US Supreme Court.  And since that ruling, many more states have added Same Sex Marriage to their laws.


I have not in any way attaked Christanity.  Many if not most Christians and many of the Christian Churches support same sex marriage as a part of their holy sacraments.  Christ personaly never said a single word against it.  So I don't have any idea why you are trying to make stuff up against it or me.


DOMA, which I refer to the Discrimation Of Marriage Act, was acutally ruled in part as a direct violation of the US Consitution this summer.  Perpapse you missed it.  Marriage wither same sex or oppisite sex is federally recogized in the USA.  These old strange gender decimation laws, like the one in Utah, are just taking a while to get cleared off the books. 


Mormons have done far more to hold back civil rights, not just of gays, but also women, people of colour, than any other single religious group.  It's probably while, until fairly recently, it was legal to kill one in Missouri. (Not that I am saying it's a good thing to go killing people, but it was the law.  Sure bet they wanted a 'liberal activist judge' to rule that illegal.)


Your dismissing of their vile attempt to erase and rewrite history regarding Ann Frank for their own agenda is telling. They have also attempted the same with the Founding Fathers, yet it has failed.  Not a single Founding Father of the USA was Mormon.


So, just curious, why do you hate gay people so much?  Has one done something to you?  Might it be a struggle you have?  (Feel free to message me privately if you don't want to say anything publicly.)



 

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Cobretti2 said:
what kind of witchcraft is this? isn't the united states well "united" lol so shouldn't there be one marriage act across the whole country.

You are 100% correct.

DOMA the 'Defense (Discrimination) Of Marriage Act' as Clinton said who signed it, is probably unconstitutional.  As this judges ruled in Utah and Ohio this week, and has several other Federal judges have ruled - including the US Supreme Court as it violates the Full Faith and credit clause of the US Constitution .  And one state - can not make a law that violates the US Constitution.

The US Supreme Court did rule DOMA unconstitutional, but only on part of it that was tried in a case this summer.  The case and ruling did not effect other parts, which is the one state doesn't have to recognize another's state marriage under certain criteria.

The Utah judge even quoted the most conservative Supreme Court Judge Scalia in his ruling of Utah's gay marriage ban as unconstitutional.

But with New Mexico, Utah and Ohio's rulings this week.  It's days seem to be coming to an end.



 

Really not sure I see any point of Consol over PC's since Kinect, Wii and other alternative ways to play have been abandoned. 

Top 50 'most fun' game list coming soon!

 

Tell me a funny joke!

DJEVOLVE said:
ninetailschris said:
Same state that legalized having multiple wifes. May as well kill marriage as it's meaningless now.S

Nope it's still just 2 concenting adults. However People love to use the slippery slope argument. It's rubish. 


http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/slippery-slope.html

"The Slippery Slope is a fallacy in which a person asserts that some event must inevitably follow from another without any argument for the inevitability of the event in question. In most cases, there are a series of steps or gradations between one event and the one in question and no reason is given as to why the intervening steps or gradations will simply be bypassed. "

When calling someone out on a fallacy you should at least know the fallacy. You quoted one sentence where later I go into detail how it is the product of a failed moral system. Ironically when calling someone out on a fallacy you committed the quote-mining fallacy. If you respond to me, at least attack what I'm actually arguing. Which in summary was basically my second sentence in this response. My argument isn't gay-marriage is going to destroy marriage it is subjective moral system in where you re-define anything and everything based on nothing more than personal feelings guided by no foundation in morality. Gay marriage is the effect not cause of the problem.



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Zappykins said:
Kane1389 said:
Zappykins said:
Kane1389 said:
Zappykins said:
Kane1389 said:

 

Ok, So you couldn't answer my quetions. 

Because you are trying to corner me into another bullcrap gay marrige moral debate, where you'd  just repeat how much of a vile person while constantly shiting on Christianity (and religion in general), whle using the word bigot 50 times per sentence. Been there, done that

But I'll will answer yours:  Because it is a complete and deceptive lie.  It is not suported by Biblical teachings, it's only made up by people against civil rights as some attempt to spin that other people have their families recogized is somehow an attack on them.   (I points out lying is a sin.)

Marrie between a man and a woman is not supported by the Bible?

As far at the LGBT lobies spending monies, do you think people should not be allowed to defend themselves when disturbed people try to control others and go after eleminating and removing their rights?  What should women do if someone wanted to remove their right to vote, work or own property?  Just sit there?

Yeah man, queers have it real hard in United States. They cant even vote, work, or have property...oh wait, its just another stupid strawman that LGBT lobby loves to use to make their ''struggle''  similar to segregation and slavery that Blacks had to suffer thru. Its absolutely disgusting. Its no wonder why African American community is usually against LGBT lobby when they try to mix in their history, to make it comparable so that they can promote their agenda

The Morman spend million promotion their own agenda, pretty fancy to call it 'charity.'  Do you realize how many cultures they have wipped out to incorporate into their own?

>If their agenda is helping those in need, feeding the hungry, healing the sick, sheltering the homeless, helping the poor, I say let them promote their agenda. It seems like a much better spending of resources and money than organizing protests against Chick Fill A because their CEO has a different belief than them

They have even converted Ann Frank something like 9 times to try to make her Mormon, thus attempting to erase her Jewish herritage.

 I never implied they were perfect did I?

Also, you don't seem to understand US law.  Federal law, as it was in this case, trumps state law.  A state can not make a law that says women do not have the right to vote - but could have a 'domestic recomendation' because Federal laws guarantee the right of women to vote.

...so why cant queers marry in over 30 states in country? I mean, DOMA is dead, isn't it?



 

I have not in any way attaked Christanity.  Many if not most Christians and many of the Christian Churches support same sex marriage as a part of their holy sacraments.  Christ personaly never said a single word against it. 

I'm just going to respond to this because I need to correct you on this.

"

1 Corinthians 6:9 


Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,"

 

 

In case you may not be aware Corinthians is in the New Testament and not Old.

The rest of the argument in the quote that needs to be corrected is that it's basically bandwagon fallacy. Because Christians think x even though it contradicts y passage in bible, doesn't mean x is ok. If we thought that than killing would be ok because x Christians agree.
Thirdly you say many if not most christian church's agree with same-sex marriage. Do you have source for that?
(merge double post if mod is watching)


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