"This is an Urgent Marriage Alert!"

Must an informed voter (0.00 / 0)

Know just what every subsection of 501(c) of the tax code is?

That 501(c)(67) - who knew??

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by: elwood @ Thu Mar 19, 2009 at 21:15:13 PM CDT

There's 28 (4.00 / 1)

of them!

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by: Dean Barker @ Thu Mar 19, 2009 at 21:21:27 PM CDT

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wait... (0.00 / 0)

are teachers forcing Grandfathers to have gender reassignment surgery.? I don't get it?

What a slime ball ad.

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by: Mike Hoefer @ Thu Mar 19, 2009 at 21:39:28 PM CDT

It would have been fun to see the first cut. (0.00 / 0)

I am so glad that they left out the part with Bill Maher's talking snake.  

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by: xteeth @ Fri Mar 20, 2009 at 07:12:32 AM CDT

Good news Dean... (4.00 / 2)

First of all, this same organization is campaigning all over Vermont right now... and they're losing. Why? Because this morning, the Senate passed the Freedom To Marry bill out of committee, 5-0. Discussion and a vote will more than likely take place on Monday. It's going to pass the Senate! After that, it's on to the House.

So that's one hurdle cleared today. A big one comes up Monday. Good luck NH... and Maine too. Go tri-states!

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by: NH Ex-pat @ Fri Mar 20, 2009 at 10:17:15 AM CDT

Monogamy is actually a pagan custom (4.00 / 1)

You know something that surprised me once I did research on it?  Monogamy is actually a pagan Roman cultural tradition.  That's the only reason it's part of Christianity.

Guess what the one province of the Roman empire was where polygamy was widespread, even before Constantine.  Palestine!  Because that's where the Jews were.

That's right - note that the three other large branches of Abrahamic religion - Judaism, Islam, and Mormonism - all practice polygamy.  The only reason Christianity holds to monogamy is because of pagan gentile customs - not because God had some change of opinion or whatever the Christian theological explanation is for why polygamy was sanctioned in the Old Testament.

So, more proof that marriage is between one man and one woman is a crock.

You know what we ought to do?  Start an organization called the Defense of Biblical Marriage Coalition that fights to protect society from all of these subversive forces trying to introduce pagan and heathen practices into society, like marriage being between one man and one woman.

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by: Vis Unita Fortior @ Fri Mar 20, 2009 at 21:24:29 PM CDT

Um, Not Anymore (0.00 / 0)

That's right - note that the three other large branches of Abrahamic religion - Judaism, Islam, and Mormonism - all practice polygamy.

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by: Dartmouth Dem @ Sat Mar 21, 2009 at 16:54:56 PM CDT

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Yeah, they do (0.00 / 0)

Islam definitely practices polygamy, as do Oriental Jews in Israel - the ones whose ancestors remained in the Middle East or North Africa after the Diaspora rather than migrating to Europe and living in walled ghettos under the government of Christians.  (Or being forced to live as Christians in the case of the Marranos, the "Secret Jews".)

As far as the Mormons, the groups that want to have access to the mainstream culture (and potential converts!) and minimize their political and legal troubles have avowed monogamy under pressure from the surrounding non-Mormon Christian society.  But believe me, they all still think it's a great and virtuous thing that Brigham Young et. al. had so many wives and they'd do it too if they thought the net effect would be to advance their cause.  The change in marriage practices among average Mormons during the last couple of centuries isn't due to any theological revelation, it was a change brought on by external pressure.  So now, unfortunately the only contemporary examples of Mormon polygamy we have to look at is what's practiced by the fringe wackos.

Trust me, the "traditional marriage was between one man and one woman throughout human history" people either don't know what they're talking about or are lying through their teeth.  The number of societies where polygamy was practiced right up until the appearance of the influence of Christianity are probably uncountable.  This is a totally false assertion of what is "natural" or "normal" marriage in human culture.

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by: Vis Unita Fortior @ Sun Mar 22, 2009 at 00:12:59 AM CDT

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