Anna Donnison said:To think this issue all began over a disclaimer! Okay, we see now that Lurch7 has his views and even though his views would forbid me (Anna) from legally marrying the woman I (Anna) adore, I (Anna) just want to read a part 4! Neither of us mentioned lynching or genocide! The fact that Lurch7's views impact not on his life but ours is his decision. But what upsets both of us is the fact that Lurch7 can marry whatever woman he wants and we cannot. That is the equal right! There is a huge gap between two women in love which is just two and a man or a woman marrying many in the oppositve sex. The reason bigamy is illegal is not because of anti-polygamious thought, but it is considered to be somewhat unfair to the same sex involvers (the wives to the one man or the husbands to the one wife), there is a disparity of power. Lesbian marriages are not that way at all! They would be the same as heterosexual marriages! All Heather and I (Anna) want is to marry each other. That doesn't hurt the concept of marriage. Adultery and Las Vegas quickies do (that last one is a joke!). Britney Spears got married twice in a year (An extreme example, but still unfair)! I (Anna) just want to marry the girl I love. That's all. Marriage is NOT about uniting the sexes but about love that exists between two people. We love each other, Heather and I (Anna) but since we can't marry in Australia or in America (Except in Boston, we think), that's just what we will have to live with. Lurch7, if the roles were reversed we would fight for your rights, we just wanted to add. that. But we do not wish this thread to end up like the sorority thread. Consider this an agreement to disagree. Travalion3000 is right, so we'll concede not the issue but fighting over it. We meant only in reference to slavery that this also was a traditional view that many Southerners had and it was been proven to be wrong. Maybe one day, love will shine ahead of hate. At any rate, both Heather and I (Anna) voted conservative (liberal Party) for Howard over Latham so I (Anna) guess that's just that. So since you said you do not belief anything your story said, then okay. Just please don't use the words le**** or D****, cause they hurt. Thank you and God Bless
Yours Sincerely,
Anna and Heather
P.S Lurch7, We hope for your sake, any children you have or will have don't want lesbian marriages! (That's not an attack or an insult! We just feel it would be an unpleasant experience for you!)
P.P.S Any chance of Part4, now that you have dealt with the mean lesbians? (A joke!) (No intended Patronising!)
I said it before and I'll say it again, homosexuals already have the same right to marry in the US and Australia under the same terms as anyone else. I have no more a right to marry someone of my own sex than you do. Each and every person in both societies regardless of sexual orientation can only marry someone of the opposite sex. So to say that homosexuals are denied the right to marry is innaccurate, to say the least.
And if marraige is redefined as a union between TWO PEOPLE, that would include inscestuous couples as well, between father and daughter and/or mother and son. Not to mention between siblings as well.
If marriage MUST be redifined to accomidate the homosexual lifestyle, then marriage has to be redifined to accomodate all other lifestyles as well in the interest of equality and fairness, from polygamy to beastality. Don't think that just because those lifestyles don't recieve as much media attention as the homosexual lobby does means that they won't use the legalization of same sex marriages as precedent for their cause.
Anyway, that's my two cents. Part 4 will be coming shortly.