I so have to move

A friend sent me this. I won't comment as he/she is my friend, BUT I will say this, I am beyond disgusted that anyone is thinking of making an amendment of any sort in regards to any sexual activity.

It shows how fucked up the priories are of the people right now.

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And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
-Ephesians 3:17b-19


>Subject: Mississippi Marriage Amendment 1 – VOTE YES!
>Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 01:15:00 -0500
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>Mississippi Marriage Amendment 1 – VOTE YES!
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>Tuesday is the day. Please go vote yes on Amendment 1, a constitutional
>amendment that defines marriage as being only between one man and one woman.
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>So much is riding on this. Please ask one other person to go with you. We need
>every vote we can get. Be sure to go vote YES on Amendment 1.
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>Please forward this to all family and friends in Mississippi. Help pass the word!
>Vote YES on Amendment 1!
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>P.S. Please forward this email to at least one friend in Mississippi.

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That ammendment isn't about sexual activity. It's about marriage.

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Originally Posted by Saint of Killers

That ammendment isn't about sexual activity. It's about marriage.

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I was going to say something. But I don't feel like being captain obvious right now.

I'm actually a bit offended that this email was not forwarded to me, IP. Also, what is the relevance of the bible quote? If you love Jesus enough, you'll realize that you should vote for Amendendment 1?

I hate Jesus.

Guess I'm voting no.

Marriage is a social institution as well as a religious one. Our country was raised on a very puritan foundation, and evidence of it still exists today. The difference between being married and not being married can be as simple as whether or not one can afford to be married or not.

For example, the lower class or lower middle class may opt to marry and take the tax breaks instead of living a single life. This sets them up as the nice, target consumer family unit that's easily managed. In this way marriage is not only encouraged, but rewarded. This has serious cultural, sociological and economical implications.

Marriage between members of the same sex may be seen as a challenge to this system, and therefore measures are being taken to eradicate it. Since the issue also has many deeply rooted religious connections, it's easy to rouse the public for the cause, and that's what I don't like.

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Originally Posted by flux=rad

I'm actually a bit offended that this email was not forwarded to me, IP. Also, what is the relevance of the bible quote? If you love Jesus enough, you'll realize that you should vote for Amendendment 1?

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Well I don't have your email hence the PM.

As for the relevance, I don't know. I would think Jesus would be ok with the government letting gays marry. He did say give onto Caesar what is his, and that has been abused forever now to say that you should obey the law. Though to be fair, his opinion of what Christian should do would probably be different.

I find it funny MS is even voting on this. Is there really a huge group of gay red-necks out there who want to get married?

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Originally Posted by Opaque

I hate Jesus.

Guess I'm voting no.

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I'm watching techtv. It is unscrewed with Martin right now. There is some attractive woman on talking about all the ways a woman can get a man off with out full blown intercourse. It's pretty interesting as they are referring to the cock as "pickle".

I don't know if I've said this before, but the swish is amazingly hot. I must have some thing for smart cynical light skinned black women. But anyway, she is such a cutie =D

IronPlant just cracked. Cukoo Cukoo!

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Originally Posted by ViciousJazz

Marriage is a social institution as well as a religious one. Our country was raised on a very puritan foundation, and evidence of it still exists today. The difference between being married and not being married can be as simple as whether or not one can afford to be married or not.

For example, the lower class or lower middle class may opt to marry and take the tax breaks instead of living a single life. This sets them up as the nice, target consumer family unit that's easily managed. In this way marriage is not only encouraged, but rewarded. This has serious cultural, sociological and economical implications.

Marriage between members of the same sex may be seen as a challenge to this system, and therefore measures are being taken to eradicate it. Since the issue also has many deeply rooted religious connections, it's easy to rouse the public for the cause, and that's what I don't like.

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Fair enough, but I don't think there should be an amendment made for this even if it was one FOR it.

I do not want amendments that have to do with sex. You can say what you want about marriage and relationships, but this is still a sex issue. The difference between a strait couple, and a gay couple, is in a gay couple, both members desire the same sex physically.

Sex and sexual desire are the key differences in the group this amendment wants to protect, and the group it wants to restrict.

I do not want an amendment or any amendments to have anything to do with sex. To me, doing so would cheapen the rest of the document.


I do however think there should be something gay couples can to make their relationships official. I know if I was gay, and had an ex-wife and had a boyfriend who I cared about, I’d want him to get my things and not my bitch of an ex if I just fell over dead one day.

Jesus never has and never will decide for whom or what I vote.