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BLUEBLOCR
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joshua tree
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Jun 27, 2015 - 10:51pm PT
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Well it's not about laws per say. We have a thousand laws prohibiting people's wants.
And as I directed, this is not religious. It's about what's good for us brought from nature.
We all want sugar. But we try maturely to direct people away from it. Because its not evolutionary correct to consume to much. If people are to sad, depressed even, science gives us a concoction to redirect.
Jus Sayin
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Jun 27, 2015 - 10:54pm PT
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turn our attention to more critical issues.
What's more critical than the welfare of people's who have no control over their own actions?
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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Jun 27, 2015 - 11:01pm PT
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Per say, jus sayin.
Vagueness pervades.
Gay marriage = more love.
Jesus would appreciate
your support.
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Jun 27, 2015 - 11:24pm PT
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"If your actions causes your brother to sin in his conscious, you will be called least in heaven"
That would be religion.
Which seems to be your reoccurrence.
Mine is a separation of church from state.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 27, 2015 - 11:28pm PT
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Repubs should be happy for the gays - gay marriage is a net economic boon,
especially for lawyers.
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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Jun 27, 2015 - 11:32pm PT
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It is the
least of us
that need help
from the most
of us.
You "prolly"
read something
like that in
one of your
books.
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Jun 27, 2015 - 11:35pm PT
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Sure. But that doesn't mean Repub's are Christian!
Every time i check your president is Christian. But last i checked he was still a Demo.
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d-know
Trad climber
electric lady land
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Jun 27, 2015 - 11:37pm PT
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Our president.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 27, 2015 - 11:40pm PT
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If it became politically expedient to profess agnosticism I suspect he would experience an
epiphany, so to speak. He is a political animal after all. A politician's gotta do what a
politician has to do.
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Jun 27, 2015 - 11:45pm PT
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Yeah well like Jstan says, it's what we do that defines us.
With that in mind. Obama has been a more biblical president than,,,,,,,anyone?
No matter what he says.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jun 27, 2015 - 11:50pm PT
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More 'biblical' than Jimmy? And who has been more 'biblical' than Bill? Dood was epic!
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BLUEBLOCR
Social climber
joshua tree
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Jun 27, 2015 - 11:55pm PT
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Bill? We don't know if Jesus ever got a nobber from Mary?
And Jimmie was cool. But he didnt become biblical till after his presidency.
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Maysho
climber
Soda Springs, CA
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Jun 28, 2015 - 07:32am PT
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Yesterday…was a great day for America. Hurray for the lovers, and hurray for their kids! I spent my adolescence and teen years living with my father Paul, and his partner Rob. We were in Berkeley, and there was tolerance and acceptance. But it was also the era of the fear of Proposition 6, and the hope and tragedy of Harvey Milk. I remember attending “back to school night” with my dad and Rob. I was basically fine with my alternative family, but there was still that sense of marginalization from the dominant culture. As of yesterday, every kid going back to school, or to the playground with two moms or two dads, whether in Berkeley or Dallas, or Peoria, finds their family more accepted. As adults some of us might relish being apart from the mainstream, I certainly do…but remembering my 11 year old self…I raise my head up a little higher!
Peter
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Jun 28, 2015 - 07:39am PT
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As of yesterday, every kid going back to school, or to the playground with two moms or two dads, whether in Berkeley or Dallas, or Peoria, finds their family more accepted.
If only that were true. But as I posted on the previous page, legalizing same-sex marriage one day does not mean more respect for same-sex couples, or their children, the next.
If 150 years of no enslavement of blacks has taught us anything, it is that prejudice, hatred, and fear cannot be legislated out of existence overnight. On Friday, we took a significant step on a journey that began many years ago, but it is just a step, and there is still a long, long way to go.
And an edit: Re Blublockr's post about how, instead of legitimizing homosexuality, we should look to science to "cure" it. (Because, says he, it is obviously much more joyful to be straight and have kids.) I wonder if he thinks we should also turn to science to lighten the skin of blacks, because, you know, it's much more joyful to be white.
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MikeL
Social climber
Seattle, WA
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Jun 28, 2015 - 08:46am PT
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Today at 11 am in Seattle is the Pridefest parade down 4th Avenue. Show up and have some fun. "Ms. Multicultural" (Lisa--the wife) will be a part of the “Glam-azon” (Amazon) float. She's so excited by it all.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Jun 28, 2015 - 12:28pm PT
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Now if they would only legalize, Polygamy I've been trying convert my wife on this matter, but she won't budge.
Her sisters are hot, you know.
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SC seagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, Moab or In What Time Zone Am I?
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Jun 28, 2015 - 12:54pm PT
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SCOTUS opines on Gay Marriage by Haiku
Roberts’ dissent:
I support you all
No, really, I do, but this
Isn’t our problem.
Alito’s dissent:
“Happiness is not
the point of marriage, fools. It’s
BABIES,” he whispered.
Thomas’ dissent:
“Liberty” – this word,
I do not think Locke means what
You think it means. Sigh.
Scalia’s dissent:
You’re not a poet,
Kennedy. And by the way,
Democracy’s dead.
Kennedy’s majority decision:
Hark! Love is love, and
love is love is love is love.
It is so ordered.
Susan
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Norton
Social climber
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Jun 28, 2015 - 01:01pm PT
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In dissent, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said the Constitution had nothing to say on the subject of same-sex marriage.
“If you are among the many Americans — of whatever sexual orientation — who favor expanding same-sex marriage, by all means celebrate today’s decision,” Chief Justice Roberts wrote. “Celebrate the achievement of a desired goal. Celebrate the opportunity for a new expression of commitment to a partner. Celebrate the availability of new benefits. But do not celebrate the Constitution. It had nothing to do with it.”
well Justice Roberts, the Constitution also says nothing about the Space Program
or doing away with Slavery
or "allowing" women to vote
but it does say, Mr. Roberts, that all Americans should be accorded Life, Liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness....you "conservative" moron
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Jun 28, 2015 - 01:24pm PT
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Norton,
Check the Thirteenth and Nineteenth Amendments.
And you could probably use Article 1 and Article 2 to cover a space program - so long as it's a Military space program.
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That came from the Declaration of Independence. Didn't it?
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Norton
Social climber
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Jun 28, 2015 - 01:51pm PT
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Chaz,
read Justice Kennedy's decision statement, that should help you sort things out
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