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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (211254)	11/9/2004 3:56:16 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572942

Ted, I would look closely at your 'slippery slope'; I think it may be undermining your Christianity! It's your "slippery slope," not mine. I'm just pointing out how the arguments in favor of gay marriage can be applied to the defense of pedophilia. The only difference is that you've been raised to think that homosexuality is OK, but pedophilia isn't. What's stopping the next generation from being raised to think that pedophilia is OK? Homosexuality is not a crime. Even when there were strong sodomy laws on the books, that law applied to both straights and gays. An adult having sex with a person 16 and under is a crime. Its against the law. That's why there is no analogy there for me to look at nor a slippery slope to worry about but instead, as a strong advocate for children's rights, what you did was to insult me deeply. Was your intent to educate or to insult? No need to respond.......that's for you to decide. The bottom line is that you have your own boundaries that you want to impose upon others. Everyone does. What you find acceptable may be horrifying to some, and what you find horrifying may be acceptable to others. Think you can be tolerant of people more "liberal" than yourself? Conservatives are being told by liberals to be more "tolerant" everyday. When have I ever said that we should be more tolerant of people who break the law; meaning that they should be allowed to continue to break the law without intervention? For an example, I can understand why the Palestinians or the Iraqis blow things up but I can not condone their behavior. Nonetheless, I understand the point you are trying to make but its not well taken. You assign values to me that are not mine. I do obey the law. I am tolerant. Those are not two independent values. What I condemn are people who base their judgements not on the law but on their own personal biases. And that's what the brouhaha over gay marriage is all about......of course, its couched in references to the Bible and morality bla bla bla. The reality, however, is that Christian types and some non Christian types both think homosexuality is an abomination under God and should be silenced much like how interracial marriage were viewed decades ago. In the future, hopefully like interracial marriage, gay marriage should become less of a stigma as the law forces people to be more 'enlightened'. Should man/boy or man/girl love meet that same acceptance, then I would suggest this culture has fallen into serious moral decay. ted