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Re: Sex Scandal: U.S. President had sex with Intern!
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Date: 
Tue, 13 May 2003 04:31:07 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Richard Marchetti writes:
Sorry to burst your bubble, John; but I know gay men that attend a Catholic
church regularly.

Sorry to burst yours, but they aren't married (by the Catholic church).

Again, the world is not limited to the flavors you would
impose upon it.  Indeed, the world doesn't care about the restrictions you
would place upon it.


What's this "world" stuff?  We are talking about marriage in the Christian
context.  I don't know what you are talking about.

It seems to me that you don't live in the world as you think it is.

It seems to me that you don't know what you are talking about-- I sure as heck
don't.

I
expect that there is some kind of cognitive dissonance at work in you also
-- that you are not precisely as you present yourself either, and that
problem is rampant amongst "well-meaning xtians."


I know that there is a foolish arrogance in you-- I think you think that you
have life pretty much figured out.  How nice it must be.

The mote in my eye, the beam sticking out of your own -- you get the picture.

I get the quotation, not the application.

JOHN



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  Re: Sex Scandal: U.S. President had sex with Intern!
 
(...) You may be right. It amounts to something like this: I don't judge others by my own possibly limited notion of what is right and wrong for me as being right and wrong for them; unless they are dragging me down with them, then my hand is forced (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
  Re: Sex Scandal: U.S. President had sex with Intern!
 
(...) And why is that? Why should the "church" tell two people, who want to live in the institution of marriage, that they can't just because those two folks are of the same sex? Where in the teachings of Jesus does it say, "Marriage is good for (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Sex Scandal: U.S. President had sex with Intern!
 
Sorry to burst your bubble, John; but I know gay men that attend a Catholic church regularly. Again, the world is not limited to the flavors you would impose upon it. Indeed, the world doesn't care about the restrictions you would place upon it. It (...) (21 years ago, 13-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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