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Originally posted by 888LetsRoll
I just think Gays have been in the closet for thousands of years... Just keep it there, in the closet..
[edit on 29-5-2008 by 888LetsRoll]
The lives of many historical figures including Socrates, Alexander the Great, Lord Byron, Edward II, Hadrian, Julius Caesar, Michelangelo, Donatello, Leonardo DaVinci, and Christopher Marlowe included or were centered upon love and sexual relationships with people of their own sex. Terms such as gay or bisexual have been often applied to them. Some, such as Michel Foucault, regard this as risking the anachronistic introduction of a contemporary construction of sexuality foreign to their times[14] , a view that is increasingly challenged.[15]
A common thread of constructionist argument is that no one in antiquity or the Middle Ages experienced homosexuality as an exclusive, permanent, or defining mode of sexuality. John Boswell has criticized this argument by citing ancient Greek writings by Plato,[16] which he says indicate knowledge of exclusive homosexuality.
Originally posted by 888LetsRoll
I dont see the point to them getting married...
Marrage is a household for raising children in a wholesome environment.
Main Entry: whole·some Listen to the pronunciation of wholesome
Pronunciation: \ˈhōl-səm\
Function: adjective
Date: 13th century
1: promoting health or well-being of mind or spirit
2: promoting health of body
3 a: sound in body, mind, or morals b: having the simple health or vigor of normal domesticity
4 a: based on well-grounded fear : prudent b: safe
For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye."
...She and her colleagues studied data from a broad national survey of adolescent health. They found that the children of same-sex couples performed just as well in school as their peers, and were no more or less likely to have started dating or experimenting with sex....
Dr. Patterson says it was the quality of the parent-child relationship, and not the parents' gender, that affected the teenagers' development. I'm Bob Hirshon for AAAS, the Science Society...
Originally posted by Chongun
okay look,
Have you ever seen/heard/read of Animals, that follow their instinct,
have sexual urges for their same sex type?
Joan Roughgarden thinks Charles Darwin made a terrible mistake. Not about natural selection—she's no bible-toting creationist—but about his other great theory of evolution: sexual selection. According to Roughgarden, sexual selection can't explain the homosexuality that's been documented in over 450 different vertebrate species. This means that same-sex sexuality—long disparaged as a quirk of human culture—is a normal, and probably necessary, fact of life.
The reason my partener and I got "garried" (swat i call it) wasn't to show our love for eachother,I don't need a bit of paper for that. It was so our relationship was recognised by the law. Incase the worse happens,the remaining one of us won't get stuck with a huuge inheretance tax bill. We didn't give up our names or anything hetro like that.
Originally posted by 888LetsRoll
I dont see the point to them getting married...
Marrage is a household for raising children in a wholesome environment.
If you can show me a Man that can have a baby - I will change my Views on Marriage... Tax benefit is help grow the population... whats so special about one dude giving up his last name for the other dudes last name..
it seems they want the fruit and the framework for raising children in which it was built. I just think Gays have been in the closet for thousands of years... Just keep it there, in the closet.. now I do support domestic partner rights. healthcare, death benefits etc... but not the same status as a Household to raise children. call it something else and the same benefits of husband and wife without the Kissing in public crap.
[edit on 29-5-2008 by 888LetsRoll]
Originally posted by Acidtastic
The reason my partener and I got "garried" (swat i call it).