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The Media Noose: Copycat Suicides and Social Learning
Tim Rogers and ex intelligence officer Brian Gerrish showing the evidence of who and what caused the Bridgend suicides. Please watch and spread.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceLIJgu7PR4&feature=plcp
The Secular Right
@ziel:
"If you're going to ban gay marriage because only a man and a woman should be married or should raise kids, you will also have to ban single parenting, or pass a law that says that whenever a man or a woman is widowed, they have to immediately re-marry for the sake of their children's emotional stability."
"Huh? Gay marriage has never been allowed anywhere before very recently, while widows and single mothers have always been allowed to raise their children. Where did you come up with this rule?"
The point is that the anti-gay-marriage people have only one argument: tradition. It's not an ethical argument, not a moral argument, just argument-from-posterity. It is irrational not to question tradition or not to allow it to evolve. If everyone did this, there would never be any social progress.
See also Jason's comment which quotes a conservative as being opposed to gay marriage only because it threatens people's beliefs or their perceived sense of social stability, not because it is actually right or wrong on its own merits.
"If you're going to ban gay marriage because only a man and a woman should be married or should raise kids, you will also have to ban single parenting, or pass a law that says that whenever a man or a woman is widowed, they have to immediately re-marry for the sake of their children's emotional stability."
"Huh? Gay marriage has never been allowed anywhere before very recently, while widows and single mothers have always been allowed to raise their children. Where did you come up with this rule?"
The point is that the anti-gay-marriage people have only one argument: tradition. It's not an ethical argument, not a moral argument, just argument-from-posterity. It is irrational not to question tradition or not to allow it to evolve. If everyone did this, there would never be any social progress.
See also Jason's comment which quotes a conservative as being opposed to gay marriage only because it threatens people's beliefs or their perceived sense of social stability, not because it is actually right or wrong on its own merits.
I personally find the fuss over gay marriage to be largely silly.
If you're going to ban gay marriage because only a man and a woman should be married or should raise kids, you will also have to ban single parenting, or pass a law that says that whenever a man or a woman is widowed, they have to immediately re-marry for the sake of their children's emotional stability.
Moreover, gay parents often go to great lengths to provide role models of the appropriate sex for their children, e.g., lesbian mothers with sons often involve male friends or family members as godfathers so that the child actually ends up with three or four parents, which is even better than the two-parent situation.
Laws should be protecting us, not usurping our conscience.
If you're going to ban gay marriage because only a man and a woman should be married or should raise kids, you will also have to ban single parenting, or pass a law that says that whenever a man or a woman is widowed, they have to immediately re-marry for the sake of their children's emotional stability.
Moreover, gay parents often go to great lengths to provide role models of the appropriate sex for their children, e.g., lesbian mothers with sons often involve male friends or family members as godfathers so that the child actually ends up with three or four parents, which is even better than the two-parent situation.
Laws should be protecting us, not usurping our conscience.
Jason, could you point to a book or article which explains the secular right's position on homosexuality/same-sex marriage?
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