re: Same sex marriages

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Progressives are going to push the envelope regardless.

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Activists will, yes.

But if you don't think that normalization as powerful as the state codifying a behavior doesn't have an impact on the John and Jane Does that the activists are attempting to influence, I point to the number of parents who willingly take their children to Drag Queen Story Hour and Pride parades where they subject their small children to nude adults acting in sexually suggestive manners because they've been conditioned to believe that they are being "tolerant" and "open-minded." If a straight guy came to their child's playground and acted exactly the same way undressed exactly the same way, they call the cops, but for the gay people it's o.k.

You said you didn't understand the argument or the viewpoint. That's it.

I don't think it's that you don't understand it. I think you don't want to understand it.

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This is one of those issues that keeps getting Republicans voted out

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Republicans won the White House and kept the Senate and gained seats in the house this last election, and the gender nonsense was one of the reasons why.

I’m not saying it was the main reason, but it isn’t as though the election was won despite Republicans’ position on these issues-it had a contributory effect, not a deleterious effect.

Don’t be like slow flow pro here and just lazily default to “Republicans should give up on this issue because I don’t agree with their position on it and it will make us lose.”

The facts suggest otherwise currently.

Trump doesnt want a ban on gay marriages either.

Then exactly what are you worried about that is going to make Republicans lose?

No one here has called for a ban On gay marriage either. Nor am I aware of any prominent Republicans asking to repeal the decision

Everyone understands that the horse has left the barn. But the discussion here was about why the opposition was originally there and why people care. I’m telling you why people care. And I guess you’re seemingly knee-jerk responding with, “this is why Republicans lose.”

I’m not sure that it’s going to end up being as simple as we might think, though. I would never have Roe v. Wade would have been overturned, but it was. And despite the narrative that you and slow flow pro favor, that didn’t keep Republicans from winning either.

It will be interesting to see whether the ideological momentum that carried this election is maintained or whether the pendulum swings back the other way. The left seems to have learned nothing and they’re only response is to double and triple down, which is good.

Because this election there were lots of John and Jane Does who were big mad about their children being actively groomed with Gay sex books in third grade libraries across the country. If this next time around, someone can explain to them that none of that stuff ever happened before we lit up the White House like a rainbow to celebrate gay marriage and further explained to them that that’s not a coincidence, despite what you and other “live and let live” advocates Say, who knows?

Next election it might be on the table.

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In fact, I said "the older the better".

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You just can't explain why.

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Do you agree with all atheists on all issues?

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Of course not.

But the topic of discussion was all Bible translations stemming for one set of "original" manuscripts".

You failed to answer my question. Where are there multiple English translations if one should be sufficient?

I dont overthink it. Usually partner and if they say something more specific after that like husband or wife I'll use that.

wasn't that fozzie bear's catch phrase on the muppet show?

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So I don't see any societal benefit to gay marriage.

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One of the partners in a long-term gay relationship has a sizable estate and dies without a will.

Who inherits the estate?

The courts have to decide. Forcing the courts have to decide is a burden on tax payers. If that long-term relationship were a sanctioned marriage, then there would be zero burden placed on the tax payers.

There is your benefit to society.