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  • It is a shame that the Law *is* being broken. I read the Oregon statute and the courts are going to say the man->woman inference is implied. Unfortunately, I think this whole thing is going to piss off the majority of Americans and it will end up as an amendment to the constitution. I hope it doesn't end up like that but I think because people have taken the law into their own hands its going to force it to go that way.
    • Agreed.

      These people have no respect for the rule of law. Civil disobedience has it's place, but only when every other mechanism has been tried. This issue is currently being decided in the courts and legislatures nationwide and now is not the time to disregard the law.

      I don't seriously believe that many of these people even want to be married. I think they just want to participate in destroying a traditional institution that they have been excluded from for reasons of revenge.

      That being said, I do bel

      • I don't seriously believe that many of these people even want to be married.

        Based on what evidence?

        I think they just want to participate in destroying a traditional institution...

        Could you give me an example (or two) of exactly *how* the 'traditional instituion' will be destroyed. Thanks.
          • Based on what evidence?

          Like many things, based on life experience. Do you really believe that none of the gays currently marrying are just doing it to attack a traditional institution? If you agree that some may be, then it's just a quibble of the meaning of some and many.

          • Could you give me an example (or two) of exactly *how* the 'traditional instituion' will be destroyed.

          I didn't say it would be destroyed, I said that was their intent.

          Heterosexuals have already done so much more toward destroying

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