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icehenge Donating Member (411 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 04:37 PM
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Banning gays from adopting isn't prejudice - ( TENNESSEAN paper)
Anyone in the area want to write a letter to the editor in
responce to this letter to the editor:

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Banning gays from adopting isn't prejudice

To the Editor:

Last time I checked, we were a nation of liberty and freedom — the two greatest words a human being could ever hear.

But with that said, you always have to have limits on how far liberty and freedom extend. Drawing the line at homosexual marriage and adoption is an example of freedom prevailing. In no way is this act prejudice.

If we were to allow such acts, then America would become another Sodom and Gomorrah and we would be defeated.

As we all know, children get curious. And by not allowing these acts to go on legally, we eliminate the image of two men or two women as parents.

http://tennessean.com/opinion/letters/archives/05/01/65998372.shtml?Element_ID=65998372
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Letters to the editor can be sent here: jgibson@tennessean.com
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More Than A Feeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 04:40 PM
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1. Defeated by whom?
God? I thought this was a war on terror, not a war on God. :shrug:
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ashmanonar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 05:15 PM
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6. didn't you know? the war on terror IS a war on god.
silly goose.

:evilgrin:
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meegbear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 04:47 PM
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2. Hmmmm ....
Banning blacks from adopting isn't prejudice

To the Editor:

Last time I checked, we were a nation of liberty and freedom — the two greatest words a human being could ever hear.

But with that said, you always have to have limits on how far liberty and freedom extend. Drawing the line at interracial marriage and adoption is an example of freedom prevailing. In no way is this act prejudice.

If we were to allow such acts, then America would become another Sodom and Gomorrah and we would be defeated.

As we all know, children get curious. And by not allowing these acts to go on legally, we eliminate the image of black men and white women as parents.


How about ...

Banning jews from adopting isn't prejudice

To the Editor:

Last time I checked, we were a nation of liberty and freedom — the two greatest words a human being could ever hear.

But with that said, you always have to have limits on how far liberty and freedom extend. Drawing the line at interfaith marriage and adoption is an example of freedom prevailing. In no way is this act prejudice.

If we were to allow such acts, then America would become another Sodom and Gomorrah and we would be defeated.

As we all know, children get curious. And by not allowing these acts to go on legally, we eliminate the image of two jews as parents.
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icehenge Donating Member (411 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 04:48 PM
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3. This line made me sick
"Drawing the line at homosexual marriage and adoption is an example of freedom prevailing."

Bush serves freedom soup and they eat it up and spit it out.
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 04:50 PM
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4. "you always have to have"
"if you allow such acts"

"as we all know, children get curious"

Holy Fashizzle. I guess banning gays from having jobs or managing their property ain't prejudice either, it's FREEDOM. I am deeply touched to know that I have more FREEDOM than everyone else. Also that black is white and night is day and lynching darkies ain't prejudice either, it's FREEDOM.

Oh wait, this guy is in Tennessee; that explains everything. He shore does have a purdy mouf.
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unblock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 05:01 PM
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5. "by not allowing these acts to go on legally, we eliminate the image..."
riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

and that 18th amendment sure did stamp out the image of drinking....
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bunkerbuster1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 05:30 PM
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7. I'm glad you included a link to that page
so I could see the far more enlightened letter from Robert E. Wages that preceded this idiot's.

Seems pretty obvious that they had to have "one from each side," and our side looks a shitload better than the inbred vermin's.
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icehenge Donating Member (411 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 07:17 PM
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9. Yep
My eye was first caught by this gem though.

After I saw his article I was glad to see that they
weight the arguments from both sides.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 05:50 PM
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8. I remember way back when I dated a man with kids
we often had a gay friend babysit them - I actually got the HOW CAN YOU LET A GAY MAN BABYSIT YOUR KIDS line - *sigh*
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Blower Donating Member (195 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 08:52 PM
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10. Blue states not subsidizing inferior southern states like Tenessee...
IS an example of "freedom" (to not support idiots)
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readmoreoften Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-23-05 10:12 PM
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11. how are they going to ELIMINATE this image?
Gay people have biological children all the time. I think the operative word of this whole article is ELIMINATE. How far do we go to eliminate this image? Ban gay marriage? Ban same-sex couples living with kids? Take away the biological children of gays?

How far will they go to 'eliminate' the problem?
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