Anonymous Poll: Should homosexuals be allowed to get married? - Page 28 - Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community

Russic · 03-23-2011, 09:00 PM

Just think of all those Chinese kids that wretch at the thought of going home to their white parents. White people. They just aren't right.

WhiteTiger · 03-23-2011, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by jhunt223

but i have a problem with them raising children when i believe it could have adverse psychological effects on the child.

I guess this is the part I really have a problem with. Have you done anything to form or refute this belief? How did you come by it? Just...feel it? Have you looked at any of the many studies done on it?

I happen to believe that the "won't someone think of the children?" syndrome isn't a good basis for discrimination.

Nage Waza · 03-23-2011, 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck

Your arrogance is astounding..
Are all people who don't agree with gay marriage tin foil hat wearers too?

This is brilliant, I swear this may be the best post of all time.
Do you know what arrogance means? It is (quoted from Merriam-Webster) "an attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or in presumptuous claims or assumptions". In other words, being straight does not make you better and you appear like a fool when discounting sexual orientation in regards to anything. Marriage should simply be between consenting adults, period. Why should anyone else care?
Previous posters said it best, in twenty years we will look back on this thread and be embarrassed about how people used to think about sexuality.

mikey_the_redneck · 03-23-2011, 09:18 PM

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Originally Posted by HeartsOfFire

No. They're worse: Narrow-minded, backward thinking, black sheep of sophisticated society. Bigots.

Tin foil hat wearers everywhere are disgusted at being lumped in the same category as these chumps.

You'd make a great actor.....very dramatic.

I guess why have this thread at all if opinions against gay marriage are socially unacceptable.

If you can't handle it, stay out of the thread.

Dion · 03-23-2011, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck

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I guess why have this thread at all if opinions against gay marriage are socially unacceptable.

How does gay people getting married affect you personaly?

Dion · 03-23-2011, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by jhunt223

I'm sure the fact that the ratio of people who have been raised by heterosexuals to people who have been raised by homosexuals is so high has nothing to do with that.

There are countless single parents in the world today raising their children. Should we take thier children away from them because there is no mother of father figure in that family unit?

HeartsOfFire · 03-23-2011, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck

You'd make a great actor.....very dramatic.

I guess why have this thread at all if opinions against gay marriage are socially unacceptable.

If you can't handle it, stay out of the thread.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

If YOU can't handle that the majority of people have opinions more in line with a sophisticated society rather than your own, keep yours to yourself.

photon · 03-23-2011, 09:32 PM

Keep it civil please. There's been crossing the line from discussing the idea to discussing the poster, please refrain from that.

Moderators usually try to keep from moderating discussions they're active in (sometimes hard to keep an impartial view) so I'm not looking at things from that viewpoint, and I don't want to have to start reporting posts myself.

Thanks.

mikey_the_redneck · 03-23-2011, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Nage Waza

In other words, being straight does not make you better and you appear like a fool when discounting sexual orientation in regards to anything. Marriage should simply be between consenting adults, period. Why should anyone else care?
Previous posters said it best, in twenty years we will look back on this thread and be embarrassed about how people used to think about sexuality.

I never said straight people are better than gays.

Why do I care?
Because the nuclear family is probably the most important institution in society.

With easy divorce, over-sexed media, hardcore feminism, current economic conditions and now gay marriage, it seems like the family unit is being radically transformed, and not taken all that seriously nowadays. If we didn't have immigration here, our population would actually drop because our fertility rate is below replacement rate, which is 2.1. In Canada it was 1.6 in 2008, and has been around 1.5 in the early 2000's. This drop in fertility rate is because a significant portion of the nuclear families in North America are very dysfunctional, and I believe most of the things I listed above have played a huge part.

I just think they should have made a separate law for gay couples like a civil union.

mikey_the_redneck · 03-23-2011, 09:36 PM

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Originally Posted by HeartsOfFire

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

If YOU can't handle that the majority of people have opinions more in line with a sophisticated society rather than your own, keep yours to yourself.

Stfu, ....you don't decide who posts and what gets posted on this board.

HeartsOfFire · 03-23-2011, 09:36 PM

The world could use a good population thinning. And I can think of a good place to start.

HeartsOfFire · 03-23-2011, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck

Stfu, ....you don't decide who posts and what gets posted on this board.

Ahh, nice, Mikey. Good for the Goose, leave the Gander alone?

mikey_the_redneck · 03-23-2011, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by HeartsOfFire

The world could use a good population thinning. And I can think of a good place to start.

So could I.....

HeartsOfFire · 03-23-2011, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck

So could I.....

mikey_the_redneck · 03-23-2011, 09:45 PM

I'm definately the dude on the right.....

Montana Moe · 03-23-2011, 09:49 PM

So, you're more of a bear?

Cole436 · 03-23-2011, 09:52 PM

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Originally Posted by jhunt223

I don't think being gay is wrong. I understand that they are born that way. What i think is wrong is letting them raise children. I don't buy that every single kid is just going to accept gay parents as willingly as so many of you seem to believe they will.

You're either not very intelligent or you have let your emotions take such a full control of your train of thought that you don't realize the nonsense you're posting.
You're looking at the childs perspective from that of an adult; the view of rationality and acceptance is one of a mature mindset, not a childs. Until the age 10 or 11 you would only see them as your parents, not as homosexuals, and by that point I would not only hope but assume almost any rational person would stand behind the parents who raised them and loved them.

Here, I'll change your post just a little bit and see if you agree.

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I don't think being black is wrong. I understand that they are born that way. What i think is wrong is letting them raise children. I don't buy that every single kid is just going to accept black parents as willingly as so many of you seem to believe they will.

I don't see the difference.

ben voyonsdonc · 03-23-2011, 09:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder

My brother is out as gay in Junior High School and he is not bullied at all and has lots of friends. In fact, he told me the other day he's never been more popular.

That is fantastic! I can't imagine coming out at that age. I came out almost a decade after Junior High.

I can see why he would be more popular when he came out...generally when people come out of the closet they are a whole lot happier and more confident. Definitely traits that will make them more popular.

When you're in the closet, you don't really want anyone to get too close to you. The reason for that is because you fear losing them if and when you tell them the truth. Closeted folk usually have pretty thick walls to protect them and often resort to hurting themselves via self-mutilation, drug use, promiscuity, eating disorders, etc. Not the type of people that you want to be around too much!

ben voyonsdonc · 03-23-2011, 09:53 PM

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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck

I just think they should have made a separate law for gay couples like a civil union.

There is no such thing as separate but equal. The very fact that it is separate makes it inherently unequal.

ben voyonsdonc · 03-23-2011, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by jhunt223

I don't think being gay is wrong. I understand that they are born that way. What i think is wrong is letting them raise children. I don't buy that every single kid is just going to accept gay parents as willingly as so many of you seem to believe they will.

Hey...it's cool that you think differently. I can't wait to be a parent.

I'm not going to be worried about what you think of me being a parent...I'll be far too busy worrying about raising a kid who is decent, caring and respectful of those around him/her.