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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Katelew who wrote (94644)11/7/2008 5:42:04 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (5) of 541373
 
All it means is that I prefer the traditional legal definition of marriage be upheld and not overturned.

That's a just another way to frame a preference for others not having equal rights. Which has more value, your preferences or someone else's rights? No contest. Lots of people preferred not to have to interact with blacks. Until they were forced to. And until time passed and they got used to it or died off. And their grandchildren grew up to wonder what all the fuss was about.

We're trying to preserve a belief system, not neccessarily expand it.

I take your point about aggressors. But being the aggressor in seeking justice is hardly a moral negative.

I agree that the status quo is the default. I have said often that it is a strategic negative to press this the way it has been. I really think there was a lot of overreach on this issue that is doing more harm to the cause than good. But a strategic mistake is not the same as being wrong on the issue.

will most likely always vote against any initiative that asks me to legitimize adultery, fornication, homosexuality and bestiality.

That's a odd grouping. Apples and oranges. By your grouping it looks like you're thinking about this in terms of "weird sex." Others are thinking in terms of the rights of citizens to do their own thing as long as they don't hurt anyone. I don't think you have to worry about bestiality. You have a victim there. In adultery you have a victim. With fornication and homosexuality among consenting adults there is no victim.
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