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"what ive become, a nonbeliever" love 100 Demons |
So has your cousin written back to you yet to tell you to (no offense) fuck off and die? Don't take it personally, but if morons like you are allowed to vote, where will it end? Soon PETA will insist upon a constitutional amendment declaring all native-born primates including chimpanzees in zoos/prisons be sent absentee ballots. Next thing you know the chickens will want a say in it.
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the founding fathers knew the difference, and they saw the wisdom of creating a constitutional republic :2 cents: |
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isn't that thinking about the problems of the world ass backwards? Lets make sure the beneficial and contributing members of society get walked on BEFORE the people that aren't. How could gay marriage justify incest? |
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so tomorrow if the people vote and decide that anyone affiliated with porn should be thrown in jail let it be so. If the people vote that slavery really is good for the country, let it be so. We can get rid of all the illegals by simply buying slaves and having them do the jobs the illegals are doing. Women voting? Clearly you have seen them drive so they can't be allowed to vote. If the majority rules, make it so. Abortion? no. nadda. can't do it. Put it to a vote and if it passes outlaw it. Make it so that even if you are raped or a victim of incest you get to carry the child to term and give birth to it. Forget how you feel. You are a 15 year old girl who was just raped. This isn't a crime, think of it as a miracle baby and enjoy the process. Interracial marriage? Now we can't go having white and black couples making a bunch of brown babies out there. A simple majority vote can put an end to this. Do you get the point? Judges are there to sometimes step in and stop the mob from trampling on the minority. |
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Should we then outlaw all food which lacks nutritive value? Should we tell restaurants who serve high calorie or high fat or high glycemic index food that they are not allowed to call what they sell food any more? If we are going to go by the logic you put forth about reproduction, then, as a society, we should totally condone rape of any female old enough to get her period. I'm pretty sure we don't base modern society, in 2008, on what the primal urges of the majority are. It might have been evolutionarily successful to whack opponents hard on the head with a cave rock, but, as a society, we don't let people do that any more. Even if the urge might persist. |
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Simply that homosexuality is unnatural, or at very least, it's nature's way of ending evolutionary dead ends. |
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The idea that all laws should or will change when different parties are voted into more of a majority is just plain wrong. One of the main functions of the judicial branch of government is to prevent this. American government is based on exactly these sorts of checks and balances. If laws changed like that, we would not have seen peaceful exchanges of power for the past 200+ years. People can use the expression "activist judge" until they are blue in the face, but that won't change the fact that our forefathers set up the judicial branch of government to have solid checks and balance and to correctly interpret the meaning of what the legislative branch made law. The Prop 8 vote was extremely close in California. Basically, half for and half against. A lot of people had inaccurate information when they went to the polls because another state meddled in our California election. If you are saying the states should decide, then I really don't think this was what California wanted. Apart from everything else, a lot of people, due to the wording of Prop 8, did not understand that NO for for leaving our state constitution as is and YES was for changing our state constitution. |
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Prop 8 is purely a legal issue. Maybe you are talking about your feelings, but I'm just talking about law. We are changing the California constitution based on a ludicrously expensive campaign waged by people from another state. Prop 8 was the second most expensive vote in the nation this year. Counting senate seats and all other propositions etc. Only the presidency cost more. Nobody has to agree on biology theory in order to strike down a patently discriminatory law. The reason why being that we do not base modern law on evolutionary theory of the pre-civilization nature of man. |
I would be damn near certain that the issue could be successfully argued at the supreme court level that this law would violate ones right to privacy. Like it or not who you marry is a private matter as long as everyone is of an age of being able to give consent to do so. The age of consent could be set or altered by the states but I do not see them being able to prevent much more than that. If you do not see how it falls under the right to privacy there is no way I will argue it.
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that is a silly theory, because homosexuals are still fertile and just as easily able to have offspring, if nature wanted it to be a dead end they would be sterile, and there is no evidence that homosexuality is hereditary, so that a gay father or mother having a child means that the child is 90% likely to be straight many homosexuals reproduce due to societal pressures and social mores and get in relationships with the opposite sex |
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If your point is that your post was off-topic, then, uhm, okaaaaaaay. I understood your point to be that biology argued in favor of banning gay marriage. My point, in case you missed it, is that, in the United States of America and the State of California, in 2008, we do not make law based on theories of the primitive biology of man thousands of years ago. |
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Thomas Jefferson who was one of the most influential people behind our founding documents expressely stated the separation of church and state. http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danpre.html James Madison wrote "Strongly guarded as is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the United States the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies, may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history". The Treaty of Tripoli states "As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion". This was written by many of our founding fathers. Religion had no impact in our founding documents. It was a very secular document. They did this to protect religion in fact. They knew that including religion in the government would restrict the religions of those who were not counted. That is why they made countless statements about the separation. Religion has no business inside our government. And even if they had written in the documents that we should all believe in God and go by his rule, it wouldn't be relevant today. We're over 200 years removed from that time. Science has shown those religions to be fairy tales. The country would need to change and adapt to survive. Basing every decision off the documents of our founding fathers is suicide. |
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Another bullshit it`s your claims that banning gay marriage is a form of discrimination. Homosexual guy can marry woman and lesbian woman can marry guy - they have equal rights as heterosexuals. |
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let me help you out in another way so that even you, a total fucking idiot can understand the idea that was being expressed that everyone but you understood. people vote in free elections and elect people who represent their values/political positions to represent them in our government. the government is a reflection of the will and values of the people. proposition 8 didn't get voted down by whaling captains in Norway or by the King of Eskimos... it got voted down by residents of California who chose to vote. i'm not saying you can't suck a cock and push some little twinks shit in. please... i'm all for you exercising your right to do so. don't think i have any intention of telling you what cock to suck, where, how or why. do what you want. its the stupidity that i have a problem with. |
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Don't get upset with me because you couldn't pass a 6th grade social studies test. |
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If you want to make the argument for realism vs. traditional American political practices and structures, here you go. Realistically, Prop 8 was an extremely close election. Realistically, the subject matter of Prop 8 is going to be put to vote again. Realistically, there is going to be a lot of sturm und drang on the issue, but it is pretty obvious how the movie ends. Prop 8 will eventually fail in California and homosexuals and heterosexuals in California will have equal rights. Utah meddled in California politics to the tune of many many millions of dollars. The people in favor of Prop 8 changed the California state constitution with money from Utah. Because of the wording and the campaign ads, many people who voted did not understand that NO was a vote for gay marriage and YES for a vote for changing the state constitution. Additionally, their propaganda included many bald-faced lies, including that Obama supported Prop 8, when he has clearly stated he does not. Many people voted YES because they were Obama supporters and wanted to go with what he backed, only they were given inaccurate information. |
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Like I posted in another thread on this topic, homosexuality has been around just as long a heterosexuality, it has been around since before the written word and language. Homosexuality is even present within the animal kingdom. It is obviously there for a purpose. Quote:
I think there is a larger underlying issue here, and that takes form of the individuals who are genetically predisposed to attraction of the same sex. You gonna tell them they are unnatural or a deviant when they have no choice in the matter? Quote:
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I still think there is a good chance of the Supreme Court overruling it down the road. Eventually you get the right judges and right case that allows it to happen. The whole issue is somewhat similar legally to segregation in this country. |
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i just find the prop 8 issue humorous. people don't want to accept that people have voted on something and voted no. everyone loves a democracy until they don't agree with the outcome. and the arguments are interesting. one side can argue that homosexuality is unnatural. the other side likes to argue that gays are born homosexual. however, making that argument means ignoring the fact that someone can obviously choose to be gay and choose to have gay sex (regardless of biology and genetics) as is common in this industry for example. so being gay can be the result of a variety of issues. that has to be denied because then it opens the door to the other arguments. its pretty fascinating. |
"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."
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Glad you aren't my cousin.
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If a poster like camperjohn64's parents had a polling place in their house, and it appears they did, then I wonder how the ballots were handled and if they were handled properly. I would not put that past a guy who threatens to rape and murder me because I suggested that single people were more likely to parade flamboyantly than married ones. I'm a little perturbed at people on GFY going quite that far and no one saying anything.
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