As expected, New York Gov. David Paterson (D) unveiled legislation Thursday morning to allow same-sex couples to marry in the Empire State.
Standing beside New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R), openly gay Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D) and state leaders and union leaders, Paterson said “Marriage equality is about basic civil rights and freedom. That is why we stand together today to embrace civil rights for every New Yorker.”
Paterson’s bill would amend the domestic relations law allowing civil marriages between same-sex couples, and he called on the Legislature to approve the bill.
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Meh, everybody wants to get into the act after Iowa showed how it’s done in the point by point Court ruling finally trashing most all excuses put into DOMA laws nationwide.
I’m from Iowa, it’s still reeling though because we have enough ignorant rural conservative types having shit fits. =)
This is disgusting…
When you see to male dogs trying to have sex , we laugh and call it a stupid dog. This is not a NATURAL ACT.
NATURE DICTATES THAT LAW.
Now the immoral.
(1 Corinthians 6:9-10) “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God ? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God .”
Homosexuality is usually due to victim hood of adolescents or from children, not because of any genetic factors but largely because of environmental ones. The media has distorted the actual results of what those who tried to prove a homosexual gene actually found. They themselves admitted to their scientific peers that they found none and the idea that it was environmentally influenced still stands. To understand this more, the sexual drive (the desire to engage in sex) IS genetic. However with whom you choose to do it with, how you do it and to what you direct your attention and imagination to when you do so, whether the opposite sex, the same sex, children, infants or animals is a matter of personal choice.
The victim hood I speak of is usually caused by a child being neglected by a parent of the same sex, a daughter desiring to be held by one’s mother and be nurtured for example, only for whatever reasons, bad parenting, or unfortunate circumstances, the child as she grows seeks this nurturing, but will get the motherly nurturing more and more confused until it begins to resemble a sexual yearning. The same will be true for boys without the attention of fathers. Another problem is when the parents do not treat their child according to their gender and reinforcing the beauty of their gender, for example a father telling his daughter how lovely she is or reinforcing what a fine man his son will turn out to be, that is acceptance of the child’s gender and making them feel comfortable in their role. Sometimes this is neglected in say a couple wanted a son, but got a daughter instead or vice versa, and may unintentionally treat the child differently or show no acceptance for the child’s gender, leaving the child to unconsciously behave more like the opposite gender in order to please their parents.
However the problems don’t have to stem from parenting. A child or young teen may be molested or had a sexual encounter with an adult of the same sex who took advantage of them and like Stockholm syndrome they may hate to think that they have become victims and tell themselves that they are homosexuals and that it was consensual. Indeed many cases of homosexuals state that because of such encounters in their early life they ‘discovered’ they were homosexual and are happy about it.
There may be other explanations too (such as people feel so sexually repressed that they will lose themselves to whatever opportunity presents itself, for example in prisons) but parenting and sexual encounters with homosexuals are the main reasons. Indeed homosexual activists know that they cannot give birth and that homosexuality is largely due to environmental factors, and so they try to ‘recruit’ to keep their ‘population.’ In fact it was exposed that some homosexual groups distributed pamphlets to younger people and children trying to get them to attend homosexual meetings to learn more about themselves or to find out about any confusing things they are having with their sexuality, and to avoid telling their parents where they were going. It is often said that at these so called meetings is where they try to initiate the pre-teen into the lifestyle usually by another adult.
Genesis 2:21-25) So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. ” For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
In the King James Version, Leviticus 18:22 is translated: “Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.”
All homosexual behavior is sinful, regardless of the nature of the relationship. Homosexuality is a chosen, unnatural, abnormal, changeable, and perverted lifestyle, which is hated by God.
sojourn, feeling a little obsessive this morning? You do understand that most people just don’t spend that much time worrying about how other people have sex, right?
sojourn, out of curiosity, do you also believe it to be a mortal sin to even look at a woman who is menstruating, per Leviticus 18:19? Are they unclean and sinful and their merest touch pure corruption per most of Leviticus 15?
And what are your feelings on shrimp?
Must have been a hit and run, considering it’s a month-old post. Some fundie forum linked here I’m guessing. What a shame, I was only getting started.
*hums tunes from Prop8: The Musical*