re: #440 Aceofwhat?

that criticism, from you, is quite meaningful. i will try again.

i’m simply trying to think of a situation where our society has more or less embraced a practice that, when examined dispassionately, smacks of “separate but equal”.

Yet what you’re actually advocating is just that. “Marriage” for thee, but not for those two guys or gals over there. They get “civil unions”.

Look. No one is trying to force churches or synagogues to marry couples that they don’t consider to be valid couples. No one is telling churches that they have to officiate over marriages between, say, an atheist man and a voodoo-woman, either. So what possible problem does it pose for you, aside from a threat to your special uniqueness, if some other church that you don’t attend on the other side of town decides that they want to perform such ceremonies? Is it teh repulsive ghey-sex images that spring to your mind? Is it the thought of people doing things with their equipment that you wouldn’t do with yours? Is it really about babies, and nothing but babies?

You ought to get over your word-fetish.