The Future of Love. was Re: [extropy-chat] Gay marriage in Spain, a world of change, biology, last post, post, etc.

[Robert Lindauer]

How did you say that with a straight face without giggling yourself?




On Jul 23, 2005, at 4:05 AM, Bret Kulakovich wrote:

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> ... But by involving government, and having a separation of church and 
> state (ok stop laughing, Rob) we are bypassing religion, aren't we?
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> On Jul 22, 2005, at 10:30 PM, Robert Lindauer wrote:
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>>> On Jul 21, 2005, at 7:27 PM, Al Brooks wrote:
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>>>> Though I support all rights & full legal marriage for gays, it is 
>>>> good to see reasonable dissenting views.
>>>>
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>>> Name one 'reasonable' dissenting view.
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>> The only, I think, reasonable dissenting view would be the purely 
>> religious objection that Marriage is a Sacred and Holy thing ordained 
>> by God.
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>> The only reasons to reject it are substantive ones for which there 
>> aren't any obviously definitive arguments (prove "God doesn't exist." 
>> or "God didn't ordain marriage" or "God doesn't care what people do", 
>> etc.).  It's sufficient for a dissenting view to not have any 
>> definitive arguments against it to call them reasonable.
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>> However, I don't think such a position would necessarily carry over 
>> to having any consequences for a secular government and though a 
>> dilution of what is meant by "marriage" might occur (we'd just have 
>> to specify what -kind- of married two people are - church-married or 
>> not-church-married) this would really just be a continuance of the 
>> already evolved meaning of the term.
>>
>> With suprisingly high regards for all,
>>
>> robbie lindauer
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