VOTE!!!
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Election Day!
VOTE!!!
TNA:
I don’t know. I guess it just feels good since I am constantly challenged by religious freaks to prove my anti-belief is not going to send me to hell. Most people never listen when I prove them wrong. Atleast Tim fights back.
Noodly
It IS frustrating, and can be pointless to debate with Tim. But I have a cold, I’m cranky, and it just seemed like the thing to do at the time.
Where did everybody go?
TNA,podry,karen:
“Just wondering, has anyone gotten the impression that arguing with Tim is a complete and utter waste of time?”
Oh yeah, I’ve gotten that impression several times
Still, he does tend to fill out the slower moments on the blog.
I have discovered (I think) the source of the polygamy/gay marriage nonsense. Thomas & Rehnquist.
Also found this on the web: http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/rainbow/html/prej_prev.html#gal1_text
“In June of 2003, in the case of Lawrence v. Texas, the Supreme Court overturned its 1986 Bowers v. Hardwick decision and ruled that the Texas sodomy law was unconstitutional. Around the time of that ruling, a Gallup poll found that 60% favored legalization of same-sex relations, compared to 35% who opposed legalization.”
Public opinion is such a fickle mistress. It changes day-to-day, hour-to-hour, based on court decisions, presidential declarations, hell, who knows, maybe the weather has an impact on it?
If I relied on the majority as much as Tim does, I think I’d go a little bonkers.
Maybe that’s just me.
Tim said “Now before you folks start accusing me of being two-faced or worse, I will tell you not to bother. The folks I’m speaking of have way too much class to make an issue of their homosexuality. They don’t necessarily hide it either. They don’t rub it in everyone’s face or try to be confrontational.”
They have too much class to make an issue of their homosexuality? they don’t rub it in everyone’s face? Well I work in an office of primarily heterosexuals who are always making an issue of their heterosexuality and pushing it in my face by wearing wedding bands, talking about their spouses or opposit sex partners, and gasp! even having their partners visit the office. I just don’t understand why these radical straight activists have to take their *chosen* lifestyle and push it on everyone-what heterosexuals do in their private bedrooms is none of my business but why do they always have this overriding need to flaunt it? I really don’t mind straight people but I just wish they could act gay in public. (thats a joke Timmy so don’t get your knickers in a wad)…you then go on to state that gays make up a small percent of the general population by citing
“The truth is that homosexuals used the bogus 10% figure in order to inflate their numbers and their influence.The 10% Urban Legend has been effectively used by homosexuals to recruit children into the homosexual lifestyle and to lobby for legislation to provide special legal protections for homosexuals. Homosexual groups throughout the United States, however, continue to use this bogus 10% figure because it provides them with political power and legitimacy.”
Recruit children into the homosexual “lifestyle”? Yes because the sweet little innocent children are so easily influenced and swayed into the fantastically attractive gay “lifestyle”-Join the club! Get beaten up and estranged from your family! lose equal rights to heterosexuals! Sign up today! Get a free toaster oven for every ten people you recruit!
Give me a fucking break…even Tim can’t honestly believe that children can be “recruited”. Gay children are the product of straight parents and no amount of “recruitment” can alter a persons biological sexual orientation.
And as far as “special” rights go it is you heterosexuals who currently enjoy over 1,000 special federal rights not afforded to gay couples.
And why does it matter if gays are 2% or 10% or whatever percent of the population anyway? Jews are less than 2% of the USA population but we don’t deny Jews marriage equality just becasue they make up such a small minority. Numbers have absolutely nothing to do with it, Tim.
You are a bigot towards gay people for resons that you refuse to own up to and I just wish that you could be honest with us all in here. I admit that I am a bigot towards many religious people after I get to know them becasue of their INSANE beliefs that fly in the face of reason and cause so much misery in the world. I believe that my bigotry is justified because of what religious belief does to a person and a society. Now that I admit I’m a bigot why can’t you? with your resoning?
Alex.
alex:
I think Timmy-boy went to the NAMBLA site once too often, & he’s presently sweating under the phosphorescent lights at the precinct of the SVU task force.
“Seriously, officer, I was just doing research! I’m in this blog argument w/a bunch of atheists about gay marriage….”
“Save it fer the judge, short-eyes.”
Hehehehe……
No, wouldn’t wish that fate on anyone, except a guilty party.
Would be ironic, though….
RA
It disturbs me that we limit persuing research avenues for fear of being being labeled along with those we are researching.
I thought this was a free society. When did the thought police become so pervasive?
HZ:
I’m assuming you’re referring to my refusal to navigate the website Tim put forth?
Unclear as to what you otherwise might mean.
There are exceptions to any rule, free or otherwise. Were I a member of an SVU task force, I’d be keeping an eye on those individuals. Likewise, an Al-Qaida sympathizer.
Even freedom has its boundaries. Sometimes it can be defined by them.
Unless I was a psychologist, or a profiler, or something of that sort, it would be difficult to explain my interest away.
It’s vastly different, if I frequented a political website, or indeed, any other sort of information gathering (data mining) on a plethora of subjects.
As long as no one’s harmed.
Besides, I don’t trust the Republicans as far as I can sling a piano.
Rather err on the side of caution, these days.
Any other subject? They can kiss my…(you get the idea).
Isn’t it sort of morbidly, digustingly interesting,
that it is the proponents of biblically inerrent politics who lend sick things like NAMBLA credence?
HMDK:
For them, it’s the guilt of association sort of thing (I think). Or equivocation. Which fallacy is that, HZ?
I have pointed out a few times that the association in question has absolutely NO political power whatsoever. Probably never will. The NRA, & the RR (apparently 2 of Tim’s favorites)? Far too much.
It’s usually about money. But there ARE some scruples that can’t be bought. Even in America.
At least, that’s how I understand it. Lobbyists have a great degree of pull in DC.
I’m still waiting for Tim to bring forth evidence that the association (whom I’m sick of naming, let alone discussing) has any sort of representation whatsoever in our government.
Which he won’t.
Because they don’t.
It’s a war of attrition. Let’s repeat it all constantly, until someone gives up & goes away, & victory! I win, because the other side got sick of the discussion, got up, & left.
HZ:
Sack time. Off to bed. Long night. Be back soon (if my @#%^ing computer doesn’t finally completely fritz out on me!).
Night.
RA
Sleep well. What in hade’s name are you doing staying awake all night so often these days?
On the fallacy ident. I am not sure myself.
HZ:
Had to get a PT graveyard seasonal job, to pay the bills.
It’s awful, but hey, no free lunch as they say.
3 atheists have announced for public office, 2 in alabama and 1 in utah. the only contact i have is for Larry Darby for Attorney General, P O Box 3722, Montgomery, AL 36109 He has a great shot at getting the Democratic nomination. All atheists should get send money to him right away.