Index of SPPS Budget Discussion http://www.e-democracy.org/stpaul/spps-posts.html _________________________________________ > [TS] Every adult man and woman in the state of > Minnesota enjoys the exact same rights to the exact > same contractual relationships and lives with the > exact same prohibitions. Homosexuals are demanding we > draw completely new contracts with new rights to > accommodate their *behavioral choices*.
Who we are attracted to is not choice but biology. I prefer women because that is the inclination GOD gave me at birth. But GOD is not bound to produce all of us alike. He likes some black and some brown and some yellow and some white and some red and every other hue of the rainbow. He has also blessed us every so often with the birth of someone not completely mail and not completely female. GOD determines who we will be inclined to love and it is programmed into our biology which is why gays who have tried to pass, who have gotten married and had children fail in the end because they are going against the nature they were given at birth. Who the heck are we to claim some sort of superiority? These are not NEW rights for partnership they seek but EQUAL rights under CIVIL law. > Yes, choices. No matter how you feel about the root > cause of homosexuality, you cannot deny the fact that > whom we choose to have relationships, sexual or > otherwise are based on decisions we have control over. Again, you spew the common misconception that this is a lifestyle choice. Which, of course, explains why homosexual activity also occurs in the animal world. The legendary racehorse and prodigious stud Man-O-War was found to participate in homosexual sex--but then I am sure you are a speciest who thinks that man is the only creature on the planet worthy of consideration. Homosexuality has occured throughout history at a near constant 10%. Seems that the ones who reject GOD in this area are the folks who think GOD is required to only duplicate them! > And let's do take sex out of the equation. Once we > redefine the marriage contract to include all of these > chaste homosexuals just what argument are you going to > use to deny this new contract to polygamists, family > members or any other combination of beings the human > mind can conjure? > You cannot use the moral standards you have so > carefully just deconstructed; they don't exist any > longer. I agree--let's get back to the Bible. I especially like that part about Lot and his Daughters or when Jacob worked for 7 years for Laban for Laban's daughter Rachel to be his wife. And when the wedding night came Laban slipped in Rachel's older sister Leah instead. When Jacob saw her next to him by the dawn's early light, Laban asked him how he could expect the younger daughter with the older one still unwed. So Jacob agreed to lay with Leah for one week and then he could be with Rachel. Of course, when Rachel was baren she offered Jacob her handmaiden Bilhah who bore him two children. Not to be outdone, Leah gave Jacob her handmaiden Zilpah who also bore him two children. Kind of like Abraham and Sarah and her handmaid, Hagar-- Let's bring back handmaidens!! Bigotry is Bigotry, TS, and once again majority does not make right and thank GOD for a constitution to protect everyone. By the way, TS, what scares you so much about gays enjoying the same satisfaction of a longterm committed relationship as you? Or is it just that there would be one less group you can define yourself as superior to? Steve Nelson, happily, heteroly, UNTHREATENEDLY married in Willard Hay, Minneapolis _____________________________________________ SPPS Budget Reduction Forum - Feb. 23-27 Co-Sponsored By NEAT: http://www.stpaulneat.org/ _____________________________________________ NEW ADDRESS FOR LIST: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe, modify subscription, or get your password - visit: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/listinfo/stpaul Archive Address: http://www.mnforum.org/mailman/private/stpaul/
