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Archive for the ‘Marriage’ Category

The Mother Thing

This is going to meander.  It’s more of a thinking-out-loud type post than really having a point. So I got married.  And suddenly, like the boy thing had hit, the motherhood-thing hit.  I wanted children. In retrospect this is vaguely puzzling.  Look, guys, I was always awkward around babies, vaguely puzzled by toddlers and often [...]

>And this is why I titled the post as I did

>I posted on the nonreligious reasons for homosexual marriage being a non-starter. Mastgrr said… In my opinion the government should leave it up to the churches and priests. Nobody has the right to tell you what version of Christianity is the best for you, so it’s not right to outlaw gay marriage because it would [...]

>Please don’t read if you’re not willing to argue with logic

> Look: Marriage is the organized, religion-approved, government protected version of animals mating. Animals mate to reproduce, continuing the species, and so do people. Because people are a lot more complicated, we have to have support while we’re growing up– come on, until you’re about 13, there’s no way you could possibly support yourself if [...]

>"You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

>I’m beginning to believe that half of all arguments in good faith are based off of folks not meaning the same thing when they say something. Example: most of my friends here on the ship believe that most of the US is homophobic. I bristle at that based on the use of a psudo-psychiatric word [...]

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