I can't help but feel a weird, smirking detachment from current events in the US. We get our dose of news out here. I mean, let's look over the recent months
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I just wanted to address your view on gay marriages. It is not a religious issue. The reason that the institution of marriage can not be extended to homosexuals, is because it will begin to undermine the family. The family is the basic structure of society, and when the family is undermined, then society is undermined. when society is undermined, eventually that society and government will collapse. you can go back in history and see what i mean. it is the case with every fall of a great nation. the root is the undermining of the family institute, which is the very foundation of society
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I agree with much of what you said. Yes, the media is way out of line. Yes, video games are too violent. Yes, it is up to parents to raise children to be decent, ethical human beings. But that is not the purpose of the state
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Re: hey Docthe_marineFebruary 25 2004, 14:21:11 UTC
I've heard the argument that the family is the basic structure of society before. However, since it is the basic structure of society, a society shouldn't be undermined unless the idea of family is. Yet, great societies have fallen because of things like warfare, corruption, over-extension, a ruler's death (and subsequent bickering over who gets to lead) and so on. Also, the idea of what constitutes a family changes over time and space. Some cultures have marriages which last only a specific period of time, some have polygamous marriages, some expect adultery. Families have been built for bloodlines, money, or political ties. There have been/are families where children are nursed and/or raised by others (e.g. nursing maids, nannies) and families where the children were expected to be adults. Which of these types of family is right? Or is only our nuclear family with a love-marriage and the stages of childhood and adolescence (both recent 'inventions'; the idea of adolescence was created only in the early 1900's, childhood started
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Re: hey Docthe_marineFebruary 26 2004, 15:08:20 UTC
you have many valid points..i am afraid that i can not respond to any of them until i have done more research in that area.
i am sorry i insulted you. i did not say what i meant very clearly. what i was trying to say was that sometimes we are our own worst enemy. those Americans who support gay marriages are still Americans. Gay Americans are still Americans. what i was trying to point out is, i have a duty to protect the liberty of ALL Americans. I believe that what the gay agenda is pushing for, will undermine the liberties of ALL Americans, both homosexual and heteralsexual. By taking the position that i do, I am trying to protect us from ourselves, our own worst enemy in this case.
i do not have time to my position. i have a paper that is more pressing. but when i get the chance, i would love to continue this discussion.
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i am sorry i insulted you. i did not say what i meant very clearly. what i was trying to say was that sometimes we are our own worst enemy. those Americans who support gay marriages are still Americans. Gay Americans are still Americans. what i was trying to point out is, i have a duty to protect the liberty of ALL Americans. I believe that what the gay agenda is pushing for, will undermine the liberties of ALL Americans, both homosexual and heteralsexual. By taking the position that i do, I am trying to protect us from ourselves, our own worst enemy in this case.
i do not have time to my position. i have a paper that is more pressing. but when i get the chance, i would love to continue this discussion.
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