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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (536234)	2/5/2004 9:40:11 PM
From: Johannes Pilch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

I believe in marriage as a lifetime commitment You obviously lead a thoughtless and unexamined life. Explore your beliefs for once. Sit for a spell and think why it is you believe as you do, why things are as they are. Stop simply breathing and taking up space like some worthless lump of fat and seriously ask yourself why you think marriage should be a lifetime commitment. (despite the fact that more than half end in divorce... I believe that's it's still a worthwhile goal). What is so “worthwhile” about it? (sheesh!) Unless you want to entertain the prospect of 'term' or limited marriages. Why not? What bunk! 'Ya composed of human DNA, 'ya 'human'. Reread the statement to which you have here ignorantly responded. Indeed, homosexuals, because they are each ‘composed of human DNA,’ are human, and as such they have rights based only upon their individual humanity. But should they each combine sexually with sexual equivalents (instead of sexual opposites), then the relationship they create is not human at all and deserving of not a single right or act of recognition. Their relationship is not human because it falls outside the biological scheme upon which the very DNA that makes them is predicated. It falls outside the scheme that marks every single human on the globe-- every human that has ever existed and that ever will exist for all time. I know of little evidence to support that big leap-of-faith you have just made there [that marriage is rooted directly in human biology]... not in Anthropology... nor in the direct study of our nearest simian relatives. This is because your view of marriage is terribly simplistic. Marriage is to you merely an empty platitude recognized by the government (that supposedly should last a lifetime for some undoubtedly foolish and empty-headed reason). You ought to consider the matter for a longer time. I suggest you look to Sociology or Psychology and Economics for a 'reason' for 'marriage'. And I suggest you simply look to yourself for the reason. The truth is all around you and through you.