[extropy-chat] gay marriage

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:
> --- Harvey Newstrom <mail at HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:
> > Kevin Freels wrote,
> > > I am so angry I can't even type a decent letter!
> > This gay marriage thing
> > > is just as stupid as segregation!
> > 
> > It is interesting that you compare this debate with
> > the one on segregation.
> > I see the concept of civil unions as being "separate
> > but equal" for gays.
> 
> How about the followup: ...and then ban marriage
> entirely, converting already existing marriages into
> civil unions?  Thus, neither hetero nor homo get
> government-sanctioned religious institutions. 
> Anything currently going to marriages and not to civil unions
> would either have to be revised or become universally
> inapplicable.

Bush said recently that marriage has been in existence for 5000 years.
What this means is that marriage had been a fine institution for 4850
years. It took the US only 150 years to screw it up. Get the government
OUT of marriage. Private enterprise can do it better...

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Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                       - Gen. John Stark
Sado-Mikeyism: http://mikeysoft.zblogger.com

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