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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
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Originally posted by Melchior:
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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
Now, we should give these couples their fair rights legally, and retain the moral issue to its rightful place -- which is the home, and not the judiciary or legislature.
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Why? [/QUOTE]Fair enough. Answer: Because the most fundamental view of our country is that you can create a uotpia based on one rule -- that you do not harm others, and otherwise you are free -- completely free. This is specifically targeted at not legislating morality. I think it's difficult to legislate morality outside those things that directly hurt/harm other people. I admit that philosophically this stance is shaky for a number of reasons -- chief among them the fact that you can broaden or tighten the whole thing based on your understanding of what constitutes "harm." [/QUOTE]So you're saying the law should be the way you're suggesting just because "it's the right thing to do?" Or is it just because "the founding fathers said this is how it should be".
Both have a sense of either subjective morality, or religious adherance to the writings of long dead men.
Why should homosexuals be given the rights you've suggested? Is there a reason outside the subjective morality that you have?