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Re: Yet another push for thoughtful legislation from Tennessee
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Date: 
Fri, 19 Mar 2004 13:10:29 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote:

(snip worthy summation)

This all seems so blindingly obvious to me, I confess I find the whole gay
marriage debate rather confusing.

Agreed.  Its validity seems to flow rather directly and consequentially from
some deeply enshrined and rather important principles concerning the fundamental
rights of human beings.

What is there to debate?

As I understand it, the debate is about whether the American President can
actually get himself re-elected by playing to shallow thinking conservatives,
regardless of the terrible discontinuity between his position and the underlying
principles he purports to uphold.

I think the affirmative team is winning.

Richard
Still baldly going...



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  Re: Yet another push for thoughtful legislation from Tennessee
 
(...) Sadly, (and from the perspective of) for the future of the republic, I'm not sure that's really worth being debated either, as it appears to be a settled question that he can make mileage from this issue and a mostly irrelevant question (...) (20 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: Yet another push for thoughtful legislation from Tennessee
 
(...) Yes, they do. As long as the forsake any governmental affiliation is strictly adhered to. That's tough to do today though. (...) But LUGNET, being completely privately funded, ought to (under the free association clause) be completely within (...) (20 years ago, 19-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)

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