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SoCalCoug · 06-25-2008, 11:37 PM

homosexuality and family.

What I want to know is how is homosexual marriage destructive to the family? In what way does marriage of homosexuals undermine traditional marriage?

Archaea · 06-25-2008, 11:55 PM

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Originally Posted by SoCalCoug

homosexuality and family.

What I want to know is how is homosexual marriage destructive to the family? In what way does marriage of homosexuals undermine traditional marriage?

In the complexities of our society how could we ever devise a study or studies to control to determine harm and causation? I'm not certain I care any more, but if somebody is in my face about it, then like anybody else, I'll tell them to go to hell. Usually that's not the case though.

i'm irritable today, can't you tell?

creekster · 06-26-2008, 12:08 AM

I htink in the same way that adultery or serial divorce, etc., does. The effect is possibly magnified by the fact that the relationship so sanctioned is inherently immoral in the first place. While a rising tide floats all boats, pulling the plug on the pool sends them all to the bottom.

The more I have thought about it, the more I tend to think that we should make marriage a religious function and domestic unions a state function.

Archaea · 06-26-2008, 12:16 AM

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Originally Posted by creekster

I htink in the same way that adultery or serial divorce, etc., does. The effect is possibly magnified by the fact that the relationship so sanctioned is inherently immoral in the first place. While a rising tide floats all boats, pulling the plug on the pool sends them all to the bottom.

The more I have thought about it, the more I tend to think that we should make marriage a religious function and domestic unions a state function.

I like this approach.

CardiacCoug · 06-26-2008, 12:32 AM

(as noted by SeattleUte) I'll go ahead and post a link to the mullah viewpoint from CB:

http://www.cougarboard.com/noframes/...tml?id=3742636

TripletDaddy · 06-26-2008, 02:04 AM

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Originally Posted by SoCalCoug

homosexuality and family.

What I want to know is how is homosexual marriage destructive to the family? In what way does marriage of homosexuals undermine traditional marriage?

It doesn't.

At least not in a way that doesn't require extreme conjecture or baseless paranoia to comprehend.

Creekster's approach would end the argument entirely. If all heteros and homos were given civil unions by the state, religions would then be free to "marry" whomever they saw fit. Gays would have no legal argument anymore.

Creekster is like the new and improved Harvey Milk, but hopefully he doesn't get assassinated.

ERCougar · 06-26-2008, 02:11 AM

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It doesn't.

At least not in a way that doesn't require extreme conjecture or baseless paranoia to comprehend.

Creekster's approach would end the argument entirely. If all heteros and homos were given civil unions by the state, religions would then be free to "marry" whomever they saw fit. Gays would have no legal argument anymore.

Creekster is like the new and improved Harvey Milk, but hopefully he doesn't get assassinated.

So, what are you going to do about the letter to be read on Sunday?

SteelBlue · 06-26-2008, 02:35 AM

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Originally Posted by ERCougar

So, what are you going to do about the letter to be read on Sunday?

What did I miss? Is this common knowledge?

marsupial · 06-26-2008, 02:38 AM

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I have said many times, the LDS Church lost its moral high-ground on marriage when it abdicated the definition of the law of chastity to a bell-bottomed body-suit wearing Elvis impersonator at the Chapel of Burn'n Love in the Golden Nugget Casino. If this bejeweled officer of the Great State of Nevada says you are married, your sex is sanctioned by Elohim and Jehovah and Boyd K. Packer and Sheri Dew herself.

The Catholics have this one right--no one is married in God's eyes unless the Church marries them. Someday we will learn from them on this point and get it right.

So the church should take the position that anything but a temple marriage is fornication?

ERCougar · 06-26-2008, 02:48 AM

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What did I miss? Is this common knowledge?

I came across the news a few days ago on the yahoo.com front page. Can't find that story, but here's a Provo Daily Herald story on the same thing.

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/271026/17/

06-25-2008, 11:37 PM	#1
SoCalCoug Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Orange County, California Posts: 3,059	I know what the church's stance is on homosexuality and family. What I want to know is how is homosexual marriage destructive to the family? In what way does marriage of homosexuals undermine traditional marriage? __________________ Get your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty Yewt! "Now perhaps as I spanked myself screaming out "Kozlowski, say it like you mean it bitch!" might have been out of line, but such was the mood." - Goatnapper "If you want to fatten a pig up to make the pig MORE delicious, you can feed it almost anything. Seriously. The pig is like the car on Back to the Future. You put in garbage, and out comes something magical!" - Cali Coug

06-26-2008, 12:08 AM	#3
creekster Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: the far corner of my mind Posts: 8,711	I htink in the same way that adultery or serial divorce, etc., does. The effect is possibly magnified by the fact that the relationship so sanctioned is inherently immoral in the first place. While a rising tide floats all boats, pulling the plug on the pool sends them all to the bottom. The more I have thought about it, the more I tend to think that we should make marriage a religious function and domestic unions a state function. __________________ Sorry for th e tpyos.

06-26-2008, 12:32 AM	#5
CardiacCoug Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 471	Since there is a mullah shortage on this board... (as noted by SeattleUte) I'll go ahead and post a link to the mullah viewpoint from CB: http://www.cougarboard.com/noframes/...tml?id=3742636