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Serious question for those against gay marriage. | by Snate | 2009-04-15 12:37:15 |
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I think that most of these people | by MatthewDBA | 2009-04-15 12:53:06 |
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I'm not so sure on A and I hope you're wrong on C | by Snate | 2009-04-15 12:59:50 |
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Why would they abstain from voting | by MatthewDBA | 2009-04-15 13:02:24 |
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because it doesn't affect them? (n/t) | by vdp | 2009-04-15 13:04:49 |
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Except that in their belief, | by MatthewDBA | 2009-04-15 13:10:26 |
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What about the multitudes who don't take Jesus as | by voxwoman | 2009-04-15 13:39:58 |
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Why stop at two? (n/t) | by toysbfun | 2009-04-15 13:43:40 |
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"I prefer three, but it's hard enough finding one" | by voxwoman | 2009-04-15 13:48:54 |
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I see the issue as | by toysbfun | 2009-04-15 14:05:50 |
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But it hasn't gone unchanged for centuries. | by Arachnid | 2009-04-15 15:10:48 |
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The number of people and what sex each person | by toysbfun | 2009-04-15 15:15:34 |
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"This is how we've always done it" | by Arachnid | 2009-04-15 15:19:56 |
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Any social custom started for a reason. | by toysbfun | 2009-04-15 15:23:50 |
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And that's still not a good argument. | by Arachnid | 2009-04-15 15:29:49 |
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I'm not saying I know the reason, merely that it | by toysbfun | 2009-04-15 15:38:38 |
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Saying that it "must exist" is a spurious | by voxwoman | 2009-04-15 15:41:29 |
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Everything has a reason behind it. | by toysbfun | 2009-04-15 15:50:13 |
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by Arachnid |
2009-04-15 15:59:12 |
| heart, we would still have slavery, and women wouldn't have the vote. You're essentially trying to claim that our predecessors new better than us, when there's no reason to suppose that - in fact, quite the reverse. If this is to be settled on any rational basis, it has to be based on available facts, not assertions that there's some really good argument our ancestors knew for the status quo, but nobody can quite think what it was. |
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an anecdote from a relative | by voxwoman | 2009-04-15 16:08:52 |
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Exactly. If the pan had been passed down with the | by toysbfun | 2009-04-15 16:12:41 |
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the problem is the *reasons* rarely get passed on. (n/t) | by morenna | 2009-04-15 17:01:20 |
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Not necessarily. Change can be good. | by toysbfun | 2009-04-15 16:11:07 |