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Originally Posted by lchoy
my $0.02 + 5% GST
Shows like "the bachelor" or "who wants to marry a millionaire" (or even celebrity shot gun marriages) are a greater threats on the scantity of marriage than 2 people who really love another, but happen to be the same sex.
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Q.F.T.!!!
Now.... I'm going to get crapped on for saying this, but here we go anyway.
To the "gays are a-ok just stay away from our
sacred word" crowd.
Why can't you people just admit the truth. You don't like gays. You disprove of the lifestyle. Maybe they make you uncomfortable or something. Maybe your neighbour is gay and you smile and say hello to him every day but then you go inside and whisper something under your breath. Maybe you don't even whisper. Maybe it's just a thought in the back of your mind. I don't friggin' know... but don't try to tell me that the real honest-to-god truth is that you think they should use a different word to describe their love.
Please.
It's just a word.
Never, in the history of civilization, have people fought so hard to save the traditional definition of a word. Language changes all the time. If it didn't, we'd have one dictionary that was written when we first all got together and started speaking and we'd only use that one.
I just don't buy it. No one cares this much about a word. You just don't like the idea of a gay honeymoon. You don't like thinking about someone saying "You may now kiss the groom". Maybe you just get a weird feeling when you think of two men kissing in a church.
Fine. But don't try to tell me you're fighting over a word.
Where was this crowd when the various insulting slurs were being invented to hurl in the direction of the nearest homosexual? All those words used to have different meanings. One of them is something you smoke in England. Where are the people telling us to preserve the "sanctity" of the word for a British cigarette?
Exactly.
For those with various religious beliefs for their disagreement with gay marriage, I don't agree with you, but I respect your right to follow your religion. My beef is with the bigots who hide behind the BS argument that they are trying to save a word.