"The amendment affects me because I consider myself, a woman, to have essential female qualities that contribute to the health and happiness of my husband and children. I am not interchangeable with a gay man. Joni Stimpson, Columbia, Maryland"
"If homosexuals were allowed to legally marry this would affect me and the way I raise my children. I raise them to believe that right is right and wrong is wrong, and homosexuality is wrong. And yes, our laws are based on the Bible (study your American history). I am also raising my children in preparation for their own marriages, and you can't do that correctly if there are no standards. My son is being raised to be a good husband to his wife, and vice-versa for my daughters. Legalizing homosexual marriage would do nothing more than confuse the youth of today, who already have way too few positive role models. Tammy, McKinney, Texas"
Can I say that these are representative of the two stupidest arguments in this whole wacked debate?
There is NOTHING intrinsically "feminine" or "masculine" that outweighs being a seriously crappy parent. If you're an intolerant bigot who is teaching her children to discriminate against people who don't conform to their personal moral code...then you can totally be replaced by a gay man and your children will be all the better for it. If you're a woman who looks the other way while your husband molests your children, a woman who beats her children, neglects your children etcetera ad nauseum then not only could you but you SHOULD be replaced by ANY AVAILABLE SANE HUMAN BEING. Regardless of race, creed, gender or sexual orientation.
And if I hear/read ONE MORE IDIOT give me the "laws based on the bible" crap my head is going to explode! The fact that your church supplies you with biased/inaccurate research doesn't make you right, it makes you a gullible lemming. Trust me, I was raised fundamentalist christian for the first 13 years of my life, I know how the system works. Everything that is not of the church is wicked and wrong. Well IT'S REALLY NOT!!! It's time for you people to use your brains for something beside holding your ears apart! The founders of this country were NOT christians, they were deists. The laws of this land were not based on the bible. Thomas Jefferson fought tooth and nail to make sure that the separation of church and state was absolute. The fact that christians have been whittling away at it since day one is a separate issue, which is what we are addressing here. You are trying to MAKE the laws of the land based on the bible NOW, which is totally against the precepts and intent of the original authors of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
Leave these poor people alone! Let them get married, have families, be happy, contributing members of society for crying out loud! Mind your own damn business.
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