Are you still against gay marriage!? READ THIS TRACT!

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  1. Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
  2. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
  3. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
  4. Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can’t marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
  5. Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britney Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
  6. Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn’t be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren’t full yet, and the world needs more children.
  7. Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
  8. Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in America.
  9. Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
  10. Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven’t adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.
  11. The Bible says that being gay is wrong, therefore it is true. Well, the Bible also says that the earth is flat, condones slavery, supports murdering those who work on saturdays, etc. So we should definitely follow the Bible on a day-to-day basis.
THERE YOU GO FOLKS! Obviously, we’re wrong.
 
Making straw men is such fun. 👋
Let’s do it again some time. 😃
 
Raise your hand if you think that tract was dumb…

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carol_marie said:
Raise your hand if you think that tract was dumb…

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Indeed. Plus, I don’t think Pope Benedict would appreciate being tacked on to the OP if he knew about it, considering he referred to homosexual unions as “pseudo-matrimony”.

“The various forms of the dissolution of matrimony today, like free unions, trial marriages and going up to pseudo-matrimonies by people of the same sex, are rather expressions of an anarchic freedom that wrongly passes for true freedom of man” - Pope Benedict XVI
 
Pope Benedict also said this to the Canadian bishops:

“At the same time, however, certain values detached from their moral roots and full significance found in Christ have evolved in the most disturbing of ways. In the name of ‘tolerance’ your country has had to endure the folly of the redefinition of spouse, and in the name of ‘freedom of choice’ it is confronted with the daily destruction of unborn children. When the Creator’s divine plan is ignored the truth of human nature is lost.”
 
ricko said:
And where, pray tell, did you come upon such knowledge?:confused:
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Someone’s blog. 😦

I wish I could refute such nonsense, but I think that would be a task to great to endure, for I have not the capacity to comprehend it.
 
carol_marie said:
Raise your hand if you think that tract was dumb…
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👋 👋

Whenever I hear the phrase “gay marriage” I think of a story of Abraham Lincoln’s.
He’d ask “If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have?”
When the other person answered, “Five” he’d say, “No, four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
 
havemercy said:
  1. Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.
  2. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.
  3. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.
  4. Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn’t changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can’t marry whites, and divorce is still illegal.
  5. Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britney Spears’ 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.
  6. Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn’t be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren’t full yet, and the world needs more children.
  7. Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.
  8. Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That’s why we have only one religion in America.
  9. Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That’s why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.
  10. Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven’t adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans.
  11. The Bible says that being gay is wrong, therefore it is true. Well, the Bible also says that the earth is flat, condones slavery, supports murdering those who work on saturdays, etc. So we should definitely follow the Bible on a day-to-day basis.
THERE YOU GO FOLKS! Obviously, we’re wrong.
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While sounding like a stand up comedy act, the OP is extremely right. I think that points 11 and 5 are particularly relevant, but all of them are basically right. Good on you for doing the research and displaying it thus!!!👍 👍 👍 👍
 
didymus said:
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Whenever I hear the phrase “gay marriage” I think of a story of Abraham Lincoln’s.
He’d ask “If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have?”
When the other person answered, “Five” he’d say, “No, four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
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:yup: :clapping: 👍
 
havemercy said:
Someone’s blog. 😦

I wish I could refute such nonsense, but I think that would be a task to great to endure, for I have not the capacity to comprehend it.
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Have Mercy:

There is probably no use in refuting it, because as soon as you did, the people who ran the blog would discount what you said by calling you a homophobe and a bigot and then would delete your posting so that none of their members would run the risk of being offended. In that situation, you would be running a fool’s arrand, and you’d just be abused by those who would reply to you.

You’re far better off inviting them to debate you here, under the rubrick that they can say what they want so long as they can support it and that they aren’t allowed to call us bigots and homophobes or any other creative names they can think of because we disagree with them and support traditional marriage and the definition of marriage as sacramental union between a man and a woman for the purposes of representing the union of Christ and the Church to society at large and of raising families in the Church and in society.

If you posted an invitation saying that whomever wrote this “piece of wit” was welcome to register and post it here, only if he could support it with references and that he had to show courtesy and abide by the forum rules, I doubt you’d have any takers.

It’s easier to do a “hit and run” with slime like that than it is to “agreeably disagree” and to have a polite debate with someone.

Your Brother in Christ, Michael
 
Wammy101 said:
While sounding like a stand up comedy act, the OP is extremely right. I think that points 11 and 5 are particularly relevant, but all of them are basically right. Good on you for doing the research and displaying it thus!!!👍 👍 👍 👍
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Whammy:

Regarding #5 - Since everyone gets into Auto Accidents every 3 years (that’s the average), I assume you won’t try to avoid them and won’t get angry at the other person if she hits your car?

Or, will you try to avoid them for the sake of your own personal safety and that of the others in your car?

We don’t throw out the altar because some idiots decide to poop on it. Do you? Don’t you teach them that they’re not supposed to poop on the altar?

And, you don’t change an institution designed to raise children for the benefit of society in a way that makes it less able to do that. Esp. if the Institution has worked through 2 Ice Ages, multiple Great Migrations, multiple empires, hundreds of wars, 3 World Wars, 1000’s of vocanic eruptions and major earthquakes, hundreds of tsunamis and disasters beyond counting, both natural and man-made.

Regarding #11 - No Scripture was ever interpreted as saying that the earth was flat. The history lesson may be too much to condense, but when Christopher Columbus sailed, the debate was about the Earth’s circumference. Columbus had miscalulated by several 1000 miles, but was lucky. He landed on what he believed were the East Indies but what proved to be modern day Puerto Rico. and the Dominican Republic.

Till the day he died, Christopher Columbus believed he had landed in the East Indies. No one bothered to ask him the obvious question - If that were so, where were all of the Muslims who had taken over the East Indies ?

If the legislation about the treatment of slaves (Please read the passages so you know what I’m talking about) laid down in the Torah were followed - The Institution that was practiced in the rest of the world was virtually eliminated. If there wasn’t room in the house for both the owner and the slave, the owner slept outside. If there wasn’t adaquate food, the owner went hungry. Slaves could not be beaten or abused in any way manner or form - Not for any reason. And, at the end of 5 years, the slave was given the option of staying or leaving. And, Slaves could not be sold - if someone a slave because that person owed them a debt or because he had committted a crime, he, and only he, belonged to that master for the 5 years, and no one could touch his family or do anything to them, because they were still FREE and stayed free during the entire term.

You call that slavery?

And Regarding the Sabbath - There’s only one recorded instance where someone was stoned for violating the Sabbath, and that was someone who actually made a show of disobeying the law (he walked right in front of Moses, Aaron and Joshua). After that, we hear of NO stonings or any thing like that all.

Does the book sound so ridiculous now, esp. in the light on Greek and Roman Mythology and how the rest of the world treated slaves and everyone else who didn’t have status in society?

Marraige, like most of the things we do in this society, isn’t a right, it’s a privilege with an obligation. Didn’t the Mahatma talk about the the “Poverty of Rights without Obligations”.

Your Brother in Christ, Michael
 
didymus said:
👋 👋

Whenever I hear the phrase “gay marriage” I think of a story of Abraham Lincoln’s.
He’d ask “If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have?”
When the other person answered, “Five” he’d say, “No, four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.”
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