[Vision2020] Challenge to Crabtree

[Scott Dredge]

----- Original Message ----
From: g. crabtree <jampot at roadrunner.com>
To: Joe Campbell <joekc at adelphia.net>; vision2020 at moscow.com
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 7:42:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Challenge to Crabtree

Oh my, once again Mr. Campbell just can't seem to avoid trying to set up a 
pissing contest and a fairly lame one at that. The answer to the question:

We are justified in preventing gays from marrying because _________.

Is we are not. Homosexuals can run off and find any mail order minister they 
like to perform whatever solemn ceremony that makes their little hearts go 
pitty-pat. They can emotionally swear life long fealty to one another till 
they are blue in the face and I will do nothing but wish them the best. What 
I will not do is recognize that their little performance is in some way good 
for the community or the country as a whole.

For the record, what I suggested with my remark about mothers was that your 
assertion regarding your having "the right to marry any adult person of your 
choice" was, like many of your bold proclamations, incorrect. Using it as 
the counterpoint for your silly little game I suppose is probably the best 
you could do.

Save the vote in this goofy little for someone who cares. What's right isn't 
decided by a show of hands. Please try to remember (assuming you ever really 
grasped the concept at all) that good and right are distinct concepts from 
some vague, squishy, personnel notion of "fair."

g
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe Campbell" <joekc at adelphia.net>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 6:23 PM
Subject: [Vision2020] Challenge to Crabtree


> Crabtree suggests that if folks have a right to gay marriage, then they 
> have
> (a) a right to marry their mothers, and (b) a right to marry multiple 
> partners.
>
> I say that this is just crap that that some people bring up because they 
> have
> no argument and the best that they can do is appeal to emotion.
>
> I challenge Gary to fill in the blank:
>
> We are justified in preventing gays from marrying because _________.
>
> If he does so, I will fill in this blank:
>
> We are justified in preventing people from marrying their mothers because
> _________.
>
> Then we'll let the people of Moscow vote as to which response is better!
>
> --
> Joe Campbell
>
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