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Old 12-11-2004, 03:17 PM   #40
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Excuse me?

Where do you see anyone being dicriminatory towards gays here, or calling them names, or vying for thier extermination and deportation.

Please don't start playing a race card or racism card here, it has no place in this debate.

And nobody says that marriage is perfect but if your going to attack the sanctity of marriage by spouting a 50% disolution rate then you have to look at the 50% who have worked hard to make thier marriage work and are still together after decades. Your judging a concept based on a statistic and that just dosen't work

Marriage as its written is a great concept, its the people that are involved in the ones that fall who form the fatal flaw.

And it is one of the very few institutions thats survived throughout history.


And as I've said many times before i have no trouble with gays getting married and having thier marriages recognized by the state. However the state has no right in imposing its will on a religion that dosen't want to recognise it period.

With Canada's governments past history of trying to butt into how we raise our children and how thier education should be done, my only fear is that they are going to try to steam roll the church.

It has nothing to do with me being homophobic, or disliking thier life style. I personally couldn't care a less about what other people do with thier time or who thier dating or sleeping with.

I see this as shaping up to be a battle between church and state and lobby groups on both sides of the equation period. I also see this as forming up to be a battle between the courts and the provinces especially Alberta, and I'm not sure that in the end democracy will be represented, and those are my concerns.

If Bill and Bob want to date and marry so be it, whether they have a right to get married in a church is a different tale

Period
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