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Old 03-07-2010, 01:42 AM
 
Location: Bayou City
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I'm just curious. Where do we draw the lines at what kind of marriage is acceptable and not acceptable according to the government? Why shouldn't government ban interracial marriage? It's not natural (not natural in the sense that it's not very common).
This is where your entire premise fails miserably. Not common does not necessarily imply not natural. High intelligence is not very common (esp among those who would vote to ban interracial marriage), but it is certainly not unnatural.
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Old 03-07-2010, 07:16 AM
 
Location: Moving around west virginia looking for home
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That would make me happy as can be but it is not going to happen so why bother bringing it up. We had those good days they are gone now liberalism has destroyed a once great society.
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Old 03-07-2010, 07:19 AM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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Homosexual behavior is a bad sexual habit that that turns into a mental illness, not unlike bulimia with weight and food, that people fall into because they are sexually permissive and experimental. They view their lifestyle as the result of self-indulgence and an unwillingness to play by society rules.
Homosexual behavior is a mental illness, symptomatic of arrested development. Homosexuals have unnatural or perverse desires as a consequence of poor familial relations in childhood or some other sexual trauma.

No researcher has found provable biological or genetic differences between heterosexuals and homosexuals that weren't caused by their behavior.

No one has found a single genetic, hormonal, or physical difference between heterosexuals and homosexuals - at least none that is replicable.

By Paul Cameron, Ph. D.

Two large studies asked homosexual respondents to explain the origins of their desires and behaviors - how they "got that way." The first of these studies was conducted by Kinsey in the 1940s and involved 1700 homosexuals. The second, in 1970, involved 979 homosexuals. Both were conducted prior to the period when the "gay rights" movement started to politicize the issue of homosexual origins. Both reported essentially the same findings: Homosexuals overwhelmingly believed their feelings and behavior were the result of social or environmental influences, during their youth.

There is evidence that homosexuality, like drug use is "handed down" from older individuals. The first homosexual encounter is usually initiated by an older person. In separate studies 60%, 64% and 61% of the respondents claimed that their first partner was someone older who initiated the sexual experience at sometime during their youth.
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Old 03-07-2010, 07:29 AM
 
Location: Sierra Vista, AZ
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Homosexual behavior is a bad sexual habit that that turns into a mental illness, not unlike bulimia with weight and food, that people fall into because they are sexually permissive and experimental. They view their lifestyle as the result of self-indulgence and an unwillingness to play by society rules.
Homosexual behavior is a mental illness, symptomatic of arrested development. Homosexuals have unnatural or perverse desires as a consequence of poor familial relations in childhood or some other sexual trauma.

No researcher has found provable biological or genetic differences between heterosexuals and homosexuals that weren't caused by their behavior.

No one has found a single genetic, hormonal, or physical difference between heterosexuals and homosexuals - at least none that is replicable.

By Paul Cameron, Ph. D.

Two large studies asked homosexual respondents to explain the origins of their desires and behaviors - how they "got that way." The first of these studies was conducted by Kinsey in the 1940s and involved 1700 homosexuals. The second, in 1970, involved 979 homosexuals. Both were conducted prior to the period when the "gay rights" movement started to politicize the issue of homosexual origins. Both reported essentially the same findings: Homosexuals overwhelmingly believed their feelings and behavior were the result of social or environmental influences, during their youth.

There is evidence that homosexuality, like drug use is "handed down" from older individuals. The first homosexual encounter is usually initiated by an older person. In separate studies 60%, 64% and 61% of the respondents claimed that their first partner was someone older who initiated the sexual experience at sometime during their youth.
Wow, you really need to stop worrying about other peoples conduct and look to yourself.
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Old 03-07-2010, 07:30 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Well, you definitely have some nerve even suggesting this. I'm gonna mix me a nice stiff drink and sit back and watch this one develop.
I like your attitude!
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Old 03-07-2010, 07:34 AM
 
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
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FALURE

1.an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
2.nonperformance of something due, required, or expected: a failure to do what one has promised; a failure to appear.
3.a subnormal quantity or quality; an insufficiency: the failure of crops.
4.deterioration or decay, esp. of vigor, strength, etc.: The failure of her health made retirement necessary.
5.a condition of being bankrupt by reason of insolvency.
6.a becoming insolvent or bankrupt: the failure of a bank.
7.a person or thing that proves unsuccessful: He is a failure in his career. The cake is a failure.
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Old 03-07-2010, 07:34 AM
 
Location: West Coast of Europe
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I can't image any ban on such marriages would be constitutional. It would be torn apart by the courts. If a priest or whatever doesn't want to bless such a marriage, it is his business, but even if every priest thought that way, the couple could still get legally married, couldn't they?
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Old 03-07-2010, 07:38 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Homosexual behavior is a bad sexual habit that that turns into a mental illness, not unlike bulimia with weight and food, that people fall into because they are sexually permissive and experimental. They view their lifestyle as the result of self-indulgence and an unwillingness to play by society rules.
I'm embarrassed to be living in the same city where you dwell.

You cite two "studies" (actually non-scientific surveys), one from the 1940s, the other from the 1970s.

Look at a calender and try doing some more research.

And take a good look at your own mind. If you're able to use logic at a rudimentary level you can easily deduce, by observing the plight of gays and lesbians in a nation where barely half the populace tolerates them, that nobody in their right mind would CHOOSE to prefer their own sex for intimate relationships. To be gay and to fully accept that fact about oneself is a heroic journey, not a series of selfish decisions associated with a mental illness.

If anything, bigotry is a mental illness. And, don't you know, there are many scientific studies linking homophobia and strong intolerance for gays with a tendency to be gay and ashamed of it. Perhaps you need to accept your own preferences and stop trying to control others.
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Old 03-07-2010, 07:46 AM
 
Location: West Coast of Europe
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I have read that there is a correlation between finger length ratios and homosexuality. I wonder how a mental illness influences the growth of fingers
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Old 03-07-2010, 09:25 AM
 
Location: The Republic of Texas
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That's right, kill the messenger, not the message.

You can try and discredit me all you want, the fact in the message is Homosexuality is taught, just like Heterosexuality is.
Bulimia is taught
Drug use is taught
They become a mental illness in your head, if you let it overcome your being.

Your issue is with the author, Paul Cameron Ph. D, not I.
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