[Vision2020] 07 05 05 Ny Times: United ChurchofChristBacksSame-Sex Marriage

David M. Budge dave at davebudge.com
Tue Jul 12 08:13:00 PDT 2005


Wayne,

I'm no "so-called" libertarian.  I do, however, have a day job to tend 
to.  As for sexual orientation?  I'm for it - and I'm also good with 
same-sex marriage.  I do think, however, that the government needs to 
stay out of the marriage biz.  I think we're all smart enough to make 
our own declarations and the common law serves us just fine.

Back to work!

db

Art Deco wrote:

> I am disappointed that some of the so-called libertarians on this list 
> have not responded to this argument.  Or is the concept of individual 
> liberty, choice, and aspiration in its death throes?
>
> W.
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Kraut" <pkraut at moscow.com>
> To: "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 9:52 AM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] 07 05 05 Ny Times: United 
> ChurchofChristBacksSame-Sex Marriage
>
>
>> If they can convince us that this has been a normal practice throughout
>> history then they think they can justify their actions today and 'prove'
>> that the stand against homesexuality is wrong is our problem. It is the
>> argument of a thirteen year old...'everybody else is doing it'. If it is
>> wrong I don't care who else did it and just being famous is not reason
>> enough to follow the beliefs of anyone.
>> PK
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "lfalen" <lfalen at turbonet.com>
>> To: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>; "'Pat Kraut'" 
>> <pkraut at moscow.com>;
>> "'vision2020'" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>> Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 12:52 PM
>> Subject: RE: [Vision2020] 07 05 05 Ny Times: United Church
>> ofChristBacksSame-Sex Marriage
>>
>>
>> Not that it makes any difference, but I would question some 20 plus 
>> of the
>> names on your list being accurate. Some were great people some were
>> scoundrels. Whether they were homosexual is debatable. You may be 
>> right, I
>> don't know. Lord Byron was a notoriouss womanizer. He may not have had a
>> preference, I don't know. There were accusations against J. Edgar 
>> Hoove made
>> by his enemies. I don't know that they have been shown to be any 
>> thing more
>> than accusations made to discredit him. I have never seen anything on
>> Eleanor Roosevelt or about 20 other people on you list. Against that 
>> doesn't
>> mean anything.
>> -----Original message-----
>> From: "Tom Hansen" thansen at moscow.com
>> Date: Sat,  9 Jul 2005 06:48:42 -0700
>> To: "'Pat Kraut'" pkraut at moscow.com
>> Subject: RE: [Vision2020] 07 05 05 Ny Times: United Church of
>> ChristBacksSame-Sex Marriage
>>
>>> You may be on to something there, Ms. Kraut.
>>>
>>> We certainly cannot have our children growing up thinking (or for that
>>> matter, believing) that homosexuals are people with human emotions.
>>>
>>> We must identify homosexuals and eliminate them.  It's the moral 
>>> thing to
>>> do.  Right, Ms. Kraut?
>>>
>>> Perhaps another concept we should adapt concerning our children is 
>>> "Out of
>>> sight, out of mind."  We should purge any and all documents, films,
>>
>> photos,
>>
>>> etc. etc. that depict any of the following homosexuals.  After all, 
>>> it is
>>> only right.
>>>
>>> This list is not all inclusive, just a mere spattering of 
>>> homosexuals in
>>> history.  You've got to start somewhere.
>>>
>>> Right, Ms. Kraut?
>>>
>>>      *Macedonian Ruler, 300 B.C.
>>>  Socrates
>>>      *Greek Philosopher, 400 B.C.
>>>  Sappho
>>>      *Greek Woman Poet, 600 B.C.
>>>  Hadrian
>>>      *Roman Emperor, 1st-2nd c.
>>>  Richard the Lionhearted
>>>      *English King, 12th c.
>>>  Saladin
>>>      *Sultan of Egypt and Syria
>>>  Desiderius Erasmus
>>>      *Dutch Monk, Philosopher
>>>  Francis Bacon
>>>      *English statesman, author
>>>  Frederick the Great
>>>      *King of Prussia
>>>  Lord Byron
>>>      *English poet, 18th c.
>>>  Walt Whitman
>>>      *U.S. poet, author, 19th c.
>>>  Oscar Wilde
>>>      *Irish author, 19th c.
>>>  Marcel Proust
>>>      *French author, 20th c.
>>>  Colette
>>>      *French author, 20th c.
>>>  Gertrude Stein
>>>      *U.S. poet, author, 20th c.
>>>  Alice B. Toklas
>>>      *U.S. author, 20th c.
>>>  Federico Garcia Lorca
>>>      *Spanish author, 20th c.
>>>  Cole Porter
>>>      *U.S. composer, 20th c.
>>>  Virginia Woolf
>>>      *English author, 20th c.
>>> Leonard Bernstein
>>>      *U.S. composer, 20th c.
>>>  Pope Julius III
>>>      *1550-1555
>>>  T.E. Lawrence
>>>      *English soldier, author, 20th c.
>>>  Jean Cocteau
>>>      *French writer, director, 20th c.
>>>  Charles Laughton
>>>      *English actor, 20th c.
>>>  Marguerite Yourcenar
>>>      *Belgian author, 20th c.
>>>  Tennessee Williams
>>>      *U.S. Playwright, 20th c.
>>>  James Baldwin
>>>      *U.S. author, 20th c.
>>>  Andy Warhol
>>>      *U.S. artist, 20th c.
>>>  Michelangelo
>>>      *Italian artist, 15th c.
>>>  Leonardo Da Vinci
>>>      *Ital. Artist, scientist, 15th c.
>>>  Christopher Marlowe
>>>      *Eng. Playwright, 16th c.
>>>  Herman Melville
>>>      *U.S. author, 19th c.
>>>  Horatio Alger, Jr.
>>>      *U.S. author, 19th c.
>>>  Tchaikovsky
>>>      *Russian composer, 19th c.
>>> Willa Cather
>>>      *U.S. author, 19th c.
>>>  Amy Lowell
>>>      *U.S. author, 19th & 20th c.
>>>  E.M. Forster
>>>      *English author, 20th c.
>>>  John M. Keynes
>>>      *English economist, 20th c.
>>>  Ludwig Wittgenstein
>>>      *Australian mathematician, 20th c.
>>>  Bessie Smith
>>>      *U.S. singer, 20th c.
>>>  Noel Coward
>>>      *English playwright, 20th c.
>>>  Christopher Isherwood
>>>      *English author, 20th c.
>>>  Pier Paolo Pasolini
>>>      *Italian film director, 20th c.
>>>  Yukio Mishima
>>>      *Japanese author, 20th c.
>>>  Eleanor Roosevelt
>>>      *U.S. stateswoman, 20th c.
>>>  Julius Caesar
>>>      *Roman Emperor, 100-44 B.C.
>>>  Augustus Caesar
>>>      *Roman Emperor
>>>  Harvey Milk
>>>      *U.S. politician, 20th c.
>>>  Bayard Rustin
>>>      *U.S. Civil Rights activist, 20th c.
>>>  James I
>>>      *English King, 16th-17th c.
>>>  Queen Anne
>>>      *English Queen, 18th c.
>>>  Marie Antoinette
>>>      *French Empress, 18th c.
>>>  Melissa Etheridge
>>>      *U.S. Rock Star, 20th c.
>>>  Pope Benedict IX
>>>      *1032-1044
>>>  May Sarton
>>>      *U.S. author, (1912 - 1995)
>>>  Edna Ferber
>>>      *U.S. author, 20th c.
>>>  Elton John
>>>      *English Rock Star, 20th c.
>>>  Margaret Fuller
>>>      *U.S. writer, educator, 20th c.
>>>  Montezuma II
>>>      *Aztec ruler, 16th c.
>>>  Peter the Great
>>>      *Russian Czar, 17th-18th c.
>>>  Langston Hughes
>>>      *U.S. author, 20th c.
>>>  Pope John XII
>>>      *955-964
>>>  Madame de Stael
>>>      *French writer, 17th-18th c.
>>>  Martina Navratilova
>>>      *U.S. tennis star, 20th c.
>>>  Greg Louganis
>>>      *U.S. Olympic swimmer, 20th c.
>>>  Billie Jean King
>>>      *U.S. tennis star, 20th c.
>>>  Roberta Achtenburg
>>>      *U.S. politician, 20th c.
>>>  Barney Frank
>>>      *U.S. Congressman, 20th c.
>>>  Gerry Studds
>>>      *U.S. Congressman, 20th c.
>>>  Hans Christian Andersen
>>>      *Danish author, 19th c.
>>>  Tom Dooley
>>>      *U.S. M.D. missionary, 20th c.
>>>  J. Edgar Hoover
>>>      *U.S. director of the FBI., 20th c.
>>>  Frida Kahlo
>>>      *Mexican artist, 20th c.
>>>  Suleiman the Magnificent
>>>      *Ottoman ruler, 15th c.
>>>  Rock Hudson
>>>      *U.S. actor, 20th c.
>>>  Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
>>>      *Mexican author, 16th c.
>>>  Ralph Waldo Emerson
>>>      *U.S. author, 19th c.
>>>  Candace Gingrich
>>>      *Gay Rights activist, 20th c.
>>>  Margarethe Cammermeyer
>>>      *U.S. Army Colonel, 20th c.
>>>  Zoe Dunning
>>>      *U.S. Military Reservist, 20th c.
>>>  Tom Waddel
>>>      *U.S. M.D., Olympic star, 20th c.
>>>  Kate Millet
>>>      *U.S. author, 20th c.
>>>  Janis Joplin
>>>      *U.S. singer, 20th c.
>>>  Rudolf Nuryev
>>>      *Russian dancer, 20th c.
>>>  Waslaw Nijinsky
>>>      *Russian dancer, 20th c.
>>>  Ernst Röhm
>>>      *German Nazi leader, 20th c.
>>>  Dag Hammerskjold
>>>      *Swedish UN Secretary, 209th c.
>>>  Aristotle
>>>      *Greek philosopher, 384-322 B.C.
>>>  Paula Gunn Allen
>>>      *Native American author, 20th c.
>>>  Angela Davis
>>>      *U.S. political activist, 20th c.
>>>  June Jordan
>>>      *U.S. author, activist, 20th c.
>>>  Rainer Maria Rilke
>>>      *German poet, 20th c.
>>>  James Dean
>>>      *U.S. actor, 20th c.
>>>  Montgomery Clift
>>>      *U.S. actor, 20th c.
>>>  Baron VonSteuben
>>>      *German General, Valley Forge
>>>  Edward II
>>>      *English King, 14th c.
>>>
>>> Take care, Moscow.
>>>
>>> Tom Hansen
>>>
>>>
>>> We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, 
>>> some
>>
>> are
>>
>>> dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but 
>>> they all
>>> exist very nicely in the same box.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com 
>>> [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
>>> On Behalf Of Pat Kraut
>>> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 9:54 PM
>>> To: vision2020
>>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] 07 05 05 Ny Times: United Church of
>>> ChristBacksSame-Sex Marriage
>>>
>>> You truly cannot see the difference...no wonder our kids don't know 
>>> what
>>> morality is. We are doomed!
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Scott Dredge" <sdredge at yahoo.com>
>>> To: "donald toogood" <dtoogood at email.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>>> Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 7:40 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] 07 05 05 Ny Times: United Church of Christ
>>> BacksSame-Sex Marriage
>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe you didn't understand my comment.  At one point
>>> in this country not so long ago (around 1950), many
>>> states outlawed interracial marriages...something like
>>> 38 states banned them.  Some had bans within their
>>> state constitutions.  The reason why I bring this up
>>> is that it is a direct parallel to banning same sex
>>> marriage.
>>>
>>> Roughly 60 years ago in this country, interracial
>>> marriages were banned.  A black man marrying a white
>>> woman was illegal.  A white man marrying a black woman
>>> was illegal.  You claim this isn't the same thing as a
>>> man marrying a man or a woman marrying a woman.  Why?
>>> If at one point, there were laws against interracial
>>> marriage and same sex marriage, what's the difference?
>>>  They were both considered illegal marriages.
>>>
>>> Married can mean between a man and a woman.  However,
>>> same sex couples in a civil union deserve the exact
>>> same rights as married couples.
>>>
>>> -Scott
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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