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		<title>By: TXatheist</title>
		<link>http://atheists.org/blog/2005/11/08/election_day/comment-page-1#comment-14458</link>
		<dc:creator>TXatheist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I proudly say I did my civic duty a week ago in early voting.  My wife voted today.  I plan on going by my voting place, a church, and see if there are any anti-gay marriage people there.  If so, I will hold up my marriage for all sign.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I proudly say I did my civic duty a week ago in early voting.  My wife voted today.  I plan on going by my voting place, a church, and see if there are any anti-gay marriage people there.  If so, I will hold up my marriage for all sign.</p>
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		<title>By: Tim</title>
		<link>http://atheists.org/blog/2005/11/08/election_day/comment-page-1#comment-14459</link>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description>I am looking forward to voting to re-affirm traditional marriage and prevent it from being corrupted by a small minority.&lt;br /&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am looking forward to voting to re-affirm traditional marriage and prevent it from being corrupted by a small minority.</p>
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		<title>By: Tim</title>
		<link>http://atheists.org/blog/2005/11/08/election_day/comment-page-1#comment-14460</link>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>TXatheist,&lt;br /&gt;
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If I were in your state and you got in my face, I&#039;d knock that sign right out of your hands.  If you were vocal, I&#039;d just tell you to keep your opinions to yourself.  And if you just stood there I&#039;d smile as I left the polling place!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>TXatheist,</p>
<p>If I were in your state and you got in my face, I&#8217;d knock that sign right out of your hands.  If you were vocal, I&#8217;d just tell you to keep your opinions to yourself.  And if you just stood there I&#8217;d smile as I left the polling place!</p>
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		<title>By: Tim</title>
		<link>http://atheists.org/blog/2005/11/08/election_day/comment-page-1#comment-14461</link>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>TXatheist,&lt;br /&gt;
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So if you are from Texas as your handle suggests, I would assume you know by now that the amendment is going to pass and likely by a big margin.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>TXatheist,</p>
<p>So if you are from Texas as your handle suggests, I would assume you know by now that the amendment is going to pass and likely by a big margin.</p>
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		<title>By: crowlogic</title>
		<link>http://atheists.org/blog/2005/11/08/election_day/comment-page-1#comment-14462</link>
		<dc:creator>crowlogic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>TXatheist, Haha, I didn&#039;t get a sign but that&#039;s good though. I&#039;m in texas as well and the fucking polling location for my precint was a southern baptists church with some old white haired lady holding a &quot;1 man + 1 woman&quot; sign just beyond the distance marker. I told her she was a bigot and smiled and walked past.&lt;br /&gt;
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Tim, if it would have been someone like you holding that sign I&#039;d probably have punched you in the face.&lt;br /&gt;
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Btw, im not gay, and my girlfriend is muslim. How&#039;s that for strange?&lt;br /&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>TXatheist, Haha, I didn&#8217;t get a sign but that&#8217;s good though. I&#8217;m in texas as well and the fucking polling location for my precint was a southern baptists church with some old white haired lady holding a &#8220;1 man + 1 woman&#8221; sign just beyond the distance marker. I told her she was a bigot and smiled and walked past.</p>
<p>Tim, if it would have been someone like you holding that sign I&#8217;d probably have punched you in the face.</p>
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Btw, im not gay, and my girlfriend is muslim. How&#8217;s that for strange?</p>
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		<title>By: Tim</title>
		<link>http://atheists.org/blog/2005/11/08/election_day/comment-page-1#comment-14463</link>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>crow,&lt;br /&gt;
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You sound just like one.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>crow,</p>
<p>You sound just like one.</p>
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		<title>By: crowlogic</title>
		<link>http://atheists.org/blog/2005/11/08/election_day/comment-page-1#comment-14464</link>
		<dc:creator>crowlogic</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tim, just like one.. what?  I think you are trying to be clever.&lt;br /&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tim, just like one.. what?  I think you are trying to be clever.</p>
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		<title>By: Tim</title>
		<link>http://atheists.org/blog/2005/11/08/election_day/comment-page-1#comment-14465</link>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hopefully, a large majority of states will soon have constitutional amendments in place to thwart the attacks of the radical homosexual activists and their sympathizers.&lt;br /&gt;
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I think it would be nice to start a web site for donations so these folks can move to a country that accepts their lifestyle.  Perhaps they would feel more at home.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hopefully, a large majority of states will soon have constitutional amendments in place to thwart the attacks of the radical homosexual activists and their sympathizers.</p>
<p>I think it would be nice to start a web site for donations so these folks can move to a country that accepts their lifestyle.  Perhaps they would feel more at home.</p>
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		<title>By: sm</title>
		<link>http://atheists.org/blog/2005/11/08/election_day/comment-page-1#comment-14466</link>
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		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tim:  I cannot agree with you more.  Since marriage is a strictly religious event, and has been like this for ever, why not get rid of any legal benefits that a marriage in the church brings, after all, you are breaking the law by giving certain people rights that others have no access to.  &lt;br /&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tim:  I cannot agree with you more.  Since marriage is a strictly religious event, and has been like this for ever, why not get rid of any legal benefits that a marriage in the church brings, after all, you are breaking the law by giving certain people rights that others have no access to.  </p>
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		<title>By: Tim</title>
		<link>http://atheists.org/blog/2005/11/08/election_day/comment-page-1#comment-14467</link>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The screeching and howling will probably begin on this thread soon enough, but I have an observation in answer to the oft repeated lie that allowing homosexuals to marry &quot;won&#039;t harm society.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;
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All you have to do is look at the plummeting marriage rates and other evidence of social decline in countries that have re-defined marriage to allow just about any union.  Look what just happened in  the Netherlands, for example.&lt;br /&gt;
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It bears repeating once again:  if you say marriage is a &quot;civil right&quot; then you CANNOT DENY it to two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight or ANY number of people who want to make up a so-called &quot;family.&quot; &lt;br /&gt;
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Further, if you say it is a civil right then you NO LONGER have ANY control over what happens.  You have ABDICATED your responsibility as a member of the larger society.  That means you folks who are so in favor of this will have to allow things you never imagined people would want to do!  Bank on it.&lt;br /&gt;
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I just love defeating proponents of same-sex marriage with their OWN argument! I tell them this and then they say, &quot;Oh NO!  WE don&#039;t want THAT type of behavoir to be sanctioned!&quot;  Well, guess what geniuses, you in that scenario you will have just played a major role in letting it happen!  You will have nothing to say, then. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The screeching and howling will probably begin on this thread soon enough, but I have an observation in answer to the oft repeated lie that allowing homosexuals to marry &#8220;won&#8217;t harm society.&#8221;</p>
<p>All you have to do is look at the plummeting marriage rates and other evidence of social decline in countries that have re-defined marriage to allow just about any union.  Look what just happened in  the Netherlands, for example.</p>
<p>It bears repeating once again:  if you say marriage is a &#8220;civil right&#8221; then you CANNOT DENY it to two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight or ANY number of people who want to make up a so-called &#8220;family.&#8221; </p>
<p>Further, if you say it is a civil right then you NO LONGER have ANY control over what happens.  You have ABDICATED your responsibility as a member of the larger society.  That means you folks who are so in favor of this will have to allow things you never imagined people would want to do!  Bank on it.</p>
<p>I just love defeating proponents of same-sex marriage with their OWN argument! I tell them this and then they say, &#8220;Oh NO!  WE don&#8217;t want THAT type of behavoir to be sanctioned!&#8221;  Well, guess what geniuses, you in that scenario you will have just played a major role in letting it happen!  You will have nothing to say, then.</p>
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