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Amerigo Vespucci

(30,885 posts)
Tue Feb 7, 2012, 05:07 PM Feb 2012

Freeper "Ohioan" weighs in on gays ("one or another of muscular acts intended to simulate feelings")

From the freeper thread "Appeals court: Same-sex marriage ban unconstitutional (Calif)"



To: South40

The absurdity of this offers one more example of a crushing reality. Much of America, today, is in the grips of a pervasive Collectivist/Egalitarian fantasy, which makes Lewis Carroll's description of "Wonderland," seem only stark realism by comparison.

No one who actually understands the concept of marriage-or for that matter the unsanctified procreational mating procedures of other warm blooded creatures--can possibly see this as anything but absurd. Human marriage customs & procedures reflect an understanding of the multi-generational function & purpose of a species. Marriage is our way to sanctify the process. Not surprisingly, therefore, unconsummated marriages have been subject to annulment, even in societies that explicitly outlaw every form of divorce.

Marriage has never been simply a way to sanctify friendship. Nor has anyone ever suggested that friends of the same sex marry, to prove their ties of a lifetime. And yet what else do people of the same sex have to even suggest that they should marry, today? Only an act that most other people find offensive--one or another of muscular acts intended to simulate feelings that may mimic sexual feelings ("sexual" relating not to the feelings, but to the division of the species into sexes, for procreation and continuity).

Again, is this whole agitation--and this Court decision--not totally in the theater of the absurd?!!

21 posted on Tue Feb 07 2012 10:54:53 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) by Ohioan
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Freeper "Ohioan" weighs in on gays ("one or another of muscular acts intended to simulate feelings") (Original Post) Amerigo Vespucci Feb 2012 OP
They love the Constitution until they hate it justiceischeap Feb 2012 #1
There's nothing dumber then a freeper....... bowens43 Feb 2012 #2
that was so stupid i couldn't help xchrom Feb 2012 #3
"one or another of muscular acts intended to simulate feelings that may mimic sexual feelings" HangOnKids Feb 2012 #9
Obviously the person that wrote that has never been in love....nt Evasporque Feb 2012 #4
You're right, there's no evidence of anything other than cold-hearted judgement. Amerigo Vespucci Feb 2012 #14
He probably would stalk Ann Coulter, though ProudToBeBlueInRhody Feb 2012 #21
besides the hateful and ill-informed sentiment.... dhill926 Feb 2012 #5
ANY marriage to your friend, straight or gay, rather than just a sexual attraction, HockeyMom Feb 2012 #6
I have a theory Prophet 451 Feb 2012 #20
I had no idea that marriage only exists for procreation. I was raised to sinkingfeeling Feb 2012 #7
This is so bad it reads like satire... Surya Gayatri Feb 2012 #8
You never know... Amerigo Vespucci Feb 2012 #15
Well, he uses big words nobodyspecial Feb 2012 #10
"The absurdity of this offers one more example of a crushing reality..." The Genealogist Feb 2012 #11
Intelligently written prose is as rare at Freeperland hifiguy Feb 2012 #12
Clearly, however, having a decent vocabulary and understanding the fundamentals... tledford Feb 2012 #16
Clearly, this freeper's screed reads like Surya Gayatri Feb 2012 #17
Yeah, America is SOOOOOO collectivist! MNBrewer Feb 2012 #13
more rambling incoherence... provis99 Feb 2012 #18
Geez, where to start? Prophet 451 Feb 2012 #19

justiceischeap

(14,040 posts)
1. They love the Constitution until they hate it
Tue Feb 7, 2012, 05:11 PM
Feb 2012

It was quite plain that Prop 8 went against the California Constitution. You cannot create a law that is nullified by the constitution, they California voters would have to push for a Constitutional Amendment--which they didn't do (not that I want to give them ideas).

What will these Constitutionalists say if the USSC upholds this decision?

 

bowens43

(16,064 posts)
2. There's nothing dumber then a freeper.......
Tue Feb 7, 2012, 05:11 PM
Feb 2012

never before have I seen so much stupidity concentrated into one site....

 

HangOnKids

(4,291 posts)
9. "one or another of muscular acts intended to simulate feelings that may mimic sexual feelings"
Tue Feb 7, 2012, 05:45 PM
Feb 2012

So this guy is telling us he has NEVER beaten the bishop, honked the salami, or jerked off in a gym sock? LIAR LIAR gym sock on fire! What a NITWIT.

Amerigo Vespucci

(30,885 posts)
14. You're right, there's no evidence of anything other than cold-hearted judgement.
Tue Feb 7, 2012, 06:12 PM
Feb 2012

There's a lot of talk on DU about "projection," and I tend to agree with it. It may be "Psychology 101," but I think the people most willing to speak out against people in love are the ones most in need of love themselves. It's envy, it's anger that someone else might have possibly found love while they could not.

dhill926

(16,339 posts)
5. besides the hateful and ill-informed sentiment....
Tue Feb 7, 2012, 05:17 PM
Feb 2012

that was some seriously awful writing. Think I need to wash down a couple of Aleve with a nice glass of wine after reading that.....

 

HockeyMom

(14,337 posts)
6. ANY marriage to your friend, straight or gay, rather than just a sexual attraction,
Tue Feb 7, 2012, 05:25 PM
Feb 2012

is a far better, and lasting, marriage. "Unconsummated marriages subject to annulment (CATHOLIC ONLY)". How about marriage where one spouse doesn't want kids and doesn't tell the other? BOTH? Oh, yeah, that is subject to annulment too, but if NOBODY COMPLAINS, how will they, again, Catholic Church KNOW?

Sodomy? Look up a dictionary for that one. Oral or anal sex is sodomy. Straight couples only have missionary, no oral or anal, sex to make babies? In what Century?

That person, if real, is crazy.

sinkingfeeling

(51,457 posts)
7. I had no idea that marriage only exists for procreation. I was raised to
Tue Feb 7, 2012, 05:26 PM
Feb 2012

believe that marriage was a committment to another loved one.

Amerigo Vespucci

(30,885 posts)
15. You never know...
Tue Feb 7, 2012, 06:14 PM
Feb 2012

...it could be a stealth DUer fanning the flames. Sometimes the most extreme posts on F.R. are also the most bogus.

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
11. "The absurdity of this offers one more example of a crushing reality..."
Tue Feb 7, 2012, 06:05 PM
Feb 2012

and that is, there is an ignorant fool that calls him or herself "Ohioan"

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
12. Intelligently written prose is as rare at Freeperland
Tue Feb 7, 2012, 06:09 PM
Feb 2012

as penguins are on the Moon. This one is marginally more literate than most, which is pretty frightening in and of itself.

tledford

(917 posts)
16. Clearly, however, having a decent vocabulary and understanding the fundamentals...
Tue Feb 7, 2012, 06:29 PM
Feb 2012

...of grammar and syntax does not in and of itself indicate a grasp on reality and the ability to think clearly and critically.

 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
17. Clearly, this freeper's screed reads like
Tue Feb 7, 2012, 07:24 PM
Feb 2012

the abortive attempt to fulfill an assignment for some cut-rate creative writing course.

The ability to think clearly and critically was obviously not one of the course objectives.

The "open thesaurus, choose random word that sounds good..." school of writing!
Bwaaahaaaaaa!
SG

edit for clarity

 

provis99

(13,062 posts)
18. more rambling incoherence...
Tue Feb 7, 2012, 08:53 PM
Feb 2012

I wonder if he also thinks fluoride is a communist plot and that the UN wants to take over Ohio?

Prophet 451

(9,796 posts)
19. Geez, where to start?
Wed Feb 8, 2012, 01:09 AM
Feb 2012

To begin with, "collectivist/egalitarian fanasy"?

Secondly, homosexuality is hardly unknown in the animal kingdom. Homosexual acts have been observed in about 1500 species at last count and in about a third of those, it's both widespread and common.

Third, did you notice the complete refusal to acknowledge that same-sex partners could love one another? He describes it as friendship and a sexual act but cannot bring himself to accept the possibility of love. That, in and of itself, makes me smell closet-case.

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