Posted On: May 11, 2006, 10:04 am CDT

Posted By: Dubya

"My agenda, like Family Research Council's, is truth. Yours is apparently excusing disease-spreading, soul destroying behavior. I don't think that the CDC has an anti-homosexual agenda, do you?"

Your agenda is spreading the truth as you believe it to be, and ignoring anything that does not support your view. I didn't say the CDC was wrong or lying, merely that it was one of many studies which have different results. This means that when you evaluate evidence, you have to spend a little more time trying to understand what it means, rather than rely on what your favorite web site tells you it means.

"The reason for marriage is not to share fringe benefits, it is an exclusive covenant of intimate companionship, dedicated to raising children and promoting the wellbeing of its members. Your desire to overthrow two millenia of Christian civilization in the name of benefits for sex perverts speaks for itself. Homosexuals, like anyone else, can purchase whatever they can afford including healthcare. But health insurance can hardly be considered a right, and paying for the health insurance of two buggers is hardly my duty."

If you had been reading this thread, you would understand that I agree with you on what the reason for marriage is. But employers have taken the status of marriage and now use it to determine who qualifies for health care benefits. Maybe you can understand this example: You work for the same company as a man in a homosexual relationship with children. They have both decided that what they are doing is a sin and they have entered a program sponsored by the Family Research Council to help them correct their ways. They are struggling to do what you and they think is the right thing. You have affordable insurance through your employer. They do not. They go bankrupt when their child gets a life threatening disease.

I'm not asking why they can't marry, I'm asking you why YOU deserve to have affordable health care and THEY do not. Because they're sinners? Why don't you let God do the punishing in the afterlife and say to yourself, WWJD?

"We should discourage self-destructive behavior like sodomy and smoking, rather than encourage them. I realize that with your moral and logical faculties being stunted as they are, you will not understand this. I feel like I'm trying to describe colors to a blind man. If you care to respond do so but I am through with this thread."

I've enjoyed our time together. Feel free to stop back if you want clarification.