Things were little different when Puritanism was around, just more stuff was done sub rosa. I think that the Swedes and Dutch have a much better system in which most stuff is legal so that it's out in the open and everyone knows about it. Hiding things keeps people in the dark and they never learn how to deal with the ugly things rationally.
Amsterdam is a good example of human society in decay. They hav caved to everything the “people” wanted. They changed the rules to anyone can get married, but guess what? Marriage is in deep decline. Drugs are legal, a huge precent of the population is addicted to herion and they have to actually have a government job to pick up hyperdermic needles in parks and other public places.
I often hear how if we could just legalize drugs we wouldn’t have needles in park problems, but all we have to do is to look where its been done and see it created a worse problem. I personally think the attack on marriage is to make it just like Amsterdam, where no one would want to bother with it.
If people want to be in moral decay, I really don’t care about it. But mabye we could have a red light district. Like one state that any imoral thing can happen. And since Washington state has already past beastiality (as long as the animal is willing) I say lets make Washington state the state where anyone can go and do any seedy thing they want.
I'm a big fan of freedom as long as there is no coercion allowed, for instance I've no interest in pornography, but if the people who make it are there because they want to engage in sex on film and you want to buy it and watch it, then I'm okay with that. It's when the actors are forced to perform and you use the porn by showing it to little kids that I have a problem with it.
I am too but I also think we shouldn’t have strip clubs in front of schools. Like my above statement, im up for every seedy thing a person wants to do as long as they keep it out of my face and other peoples faces who wont want anything to do with it, so give them a state of their own to tear down like Amsterdam. But leave everyone else alone.
Another issue I have is gay marriage. People are always trashing gay people for this and that, but turn it around, what if only gay people were allowed to marry, they got all the legal rights and privileges, and heteros had no legal union available to them, they had no way to legally protect their loved ones, inherit, get health coverage, etc. I'll bet the hetero community would have far more crazy behaviors than it does now--and it's got plenty now
You keep changing your point. You posted you think gay people should be able to marry because of love and commitment but then in other posts it’s about the benefits.
I don’t think people “trash” gays. I mean sure there are some egg heads out there who hate just for the sake of hating.
But to me there is a big difference in hating someone because they are gay and not believing we should cave in to our sexual feelings no matter how strong if they are not moral. Even if we feel we are born that way.
I would be perfectly happy if no person got any special rights married or not. But if you just add gay marriage to the existing laws it really does cause a problem. Polygamists do have marriage rights (according to the constitution under the first amendment) if we change for gay marriage then we MUST do the same for Polygamy.
Once we start down that path who will be the next group? Half brother/sisters or heck full brother sisters. I know for sure if my sister/brother was in need of my medical benefits or if I knew I wasn’t going to be around long but they could get years of pay from my PERS retirement plan and all I had to do was marry them to make it possible I WOULD DO IT IN A HEART BEAT. Please tell me why I shouldn’t be able to do it if marriage is for anyone? I’ll want the same benefits your getting.
At what point do we stop and say the line stops here and what do you say to the next group of people on the other side of that line?
