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--- Steve Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [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 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _____________________________________________ 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/
