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- From: stevef@bug.UUCP (Steven R Fordyce)
- Newsgroups: or.politics,alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Gay marriage (was: The Difference Between Cs and Ls)
- Keywords: marriage relationships gay rights
- Message-ID: <1133@bug.UUCP>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 05:50:23 GMT
- Article-I.D.: bug.1133
- References: <1085@bug.UUCP> <1992Oct28.184732.14612@qiclab.scn.rain.com> <1109@bug.UUCP> <Bx6MsH.936@news.orst.edu>
- Reply-To: stevef@bug.UUCP (Steven R Fordyce)
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- Organization: Handmade Designs, Salem, OR, USA
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- In article <Bx6MsH.936@news.orst.edu> chamberk@ucs.orst.edu
- (Kevin Chambers) writes:
- <In article <1109@bug.UUCP> stevef@bug.UUCP (Steven R Fordyce) writes:
- <>So far, no one has explained to me what interest society or government has
- <>in same-sex "marriages", what business of their's it is.
- <
- <How about the fact that child rearing is hardly an activity restricted
- <to heterosexuals?
-
- How about it? Single people raise children too. One man and two or
- more women could too, or three men and one woman. The question isn't
- who can raise children, but what works best on average.
-
- <If you really think that marriages are for the sake of children, then
- <shouldn't you be for *ANY* relationship, be it straight or gay?
-
- It isn't a matter of being for or against, but rather a question of what
- the government has an interest in promoting.
-
- <A lesbian friend of mine has children, and if she could get in her
- <lesbian partnership the privileges that straights get in theirs, that
- <would make her job as a parent go much easier. Or do you think that
- <Gay and Lesbian families don't need the help that straight ones do?
-
- I have no quarrel with your friend, but this isn't the issue.
- --
- orstcs!opac!bug!stevef I am the NRA Steven R. Fordyce
- uunet!sequent!ether!stevef . . . Deer are for Dinner
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