Letter: Personal reasons to vote ‘no’ on marriage amendment
November 1, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Worthington Daily Globe
I will start by saying that I don’t normally follow politics very closely, and I don’t voice my opinion very often, but I can’t sit idly by and not make my voice heard about the Minnesota Marriage Amendment issue. Continue Reading
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Pathetic. What a silly, passive-aggressive post. You’re saying “I’m sure gays are nice people.. blah,blah,blah… I just don’t want them to have the same rights I have.”
Where does it all stop? It stops when all the bigots and false zealots are dead, I guess.
Younger people are far more ‘open minded’ and see the world the way it is, not the way it was. You continue to beat the same old, tired drum trying to spread fear in the name of religious beliefs. Give up those inane arguments about “man and pet”, polygamy, etc. There’s already a law prohibiting gay marriage in MN. That should be more than enough for everyone.
I appreciate the writer placing a human, personal, well-thought-out perspective to this issue. People who are truly interested in being enlightened / educated should listen to the debate today no MPR at 12 noon.
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I don’t think you’ve caught on. Don’t flatter yourself.
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Actually, I thought this country was founded because others were escaping religious persecution. To flee from those who would force their own beliefs on non-believers of another’s particular canon. With that in mind, why would some choose to force their particular canon on another? To persecute another’s way of life simply because they do not believe as some would believe? To me, it’s good old fashioned hypocrisy.
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“Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.”
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Dr. Thomas Cooper, February 10, 1814
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And, to follow in mistermerc’s footsteps:
While president in 1802, Jefferson wrote: “Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church and State … ”
So, to base an agument to change Minnesota’s Constitution on a religious belief is so far against what our country was founded upon it’s almost to be admired for its audacity.
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“Pathetic. What a silly, passive-aggressive post……It stops when all the bigots and false zealots are dead”……
I guess I struck that liberal nerve again because you can only respond with name calling and hatred. I ask again, why has gay marriage been voted DOWN everywhere again and again?
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Eastender and All, I really think you should read this article on same sex and the 2012 election from the CedarFalls paper in Iowa. Could lean something.
http://cedarfalls.patch.com/articles/election-2012-from-same-sex-marriage-to-politics-in-the-courtroom-a-lot-at-stake-in-wiggins-vote
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I doubt I will “lean” anything. I have yet to “lean” anything from the stuff you bring to the comments section. Don’t waste your time. Sorry.
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