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thenewgreen  ·  3505 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Not Often Heard Voice

Simple question:

What are you afraid of? What do you think will happen if we grant same sex couples the same rights given to heterosexual couples? Two adults might get to live the way they want?.... oooh scary. An unwanted child might receive a loving home? -Run for the hills!

There's a world full of kind, loving, interesting people in relationships with people of their same gender. This exists. My wife and I know these people, chances are you do too. Leave them alone. You can hide your BULLYING behind all the religious and political rhetoric you want, but it's still bullying. Generations beyond you and I will look back at the people who think the way you do in the same vein as the Theodore Bilbo's of the past. I see the same co-opting of politics and religion that promoted segregation and warned of the dangers of interracial marriage/adoption with that of same sex marriage/adoption.

Like interracial marriage, it's going to be something that my children don't even see as odd. I'm fine with that. You should be too.





hootsbox  ·  3482 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Not afraid of anything my man - wrong accusation. I just don't agree with it on principle, and in my convictions. I don't believe "marriage" should be redefined. I have known same sex folks who choose to live together, and they are nice folks. I work with them, get along, and have no problem interacting in a healthly manner with them. I just don't believe that "marriage" should be redefined. It is more how the "governments" will use that to further "intrude" on what the "government" (in this case the few "enlightened" elite) feels it wants. Then our country is no longer "of the people and for the people"; it will be more "of the government and for the government".