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NY Tea Party Candidate Paladino: 'I'll Use Eminent Domain to Stop the Mosque'

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reine.de.tout8/08/2010 6:06:42 pm PDT

re: #323 Fozzie Bear

I have no problem with that in principle. Anything less than absolute and total equality under the law is completely unacceptable, however.

If all marriages were to become “civil unions”, sure, whatever. It still seems a completely ridiculous concession to me, but I will admit I am not a religious man, and I do generally find religion to be absurd, so I shouldn’t speak to that.

I also find it somewhat offensive that some subset of the religious community would get to change the definition of words to demean and degrade the meaning of marriage to gays, just so they don’t “get any gay on them”.

However, this may be more perception than reality. I don’t know. Frankly, this issue pisses me off, so I don’t know.

Religious people see MARRIAGE as being the religious convenant FIRST; with the state contract secondary. So our view is that the term marriage is being changed. But, what the fuck, I’m an eeeeebil intolerant religious conservative, what the hell do I know?