Haggard Scandal

I see ... being honest is immoral and lying is moral.got it.

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Psalm 14:3
All have turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.Psalm 53:3
Everyone has turned away, they have together become corrupt; there is no one who does good, not even one.Except Ringo...

He wasn't the only one offended... and I'm not even gay. Yes, and I take it that in your little fantasy world consenting adults include little children and dogs too, right? Why don't we just throw in cars to be part of the "consenting adults" group? I've been driving my car for years now and have been for some time wanting to marry it. Let me tell you something, I don't think you can be a christian and good person at heart at the same time. At least I have the guts to admit it. If you think gay people are like children and dogs, just say so. This same argument was used when interracial marriage was ruining the good christian society of America. Personally, I'm still waiting for fire and brimstones raining down on us from the whole giving the black man basic human rights thing.Edited by gasby, : No reason given.

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Or european countries.Given that the rate of incarceration in the USof(N)A is second highest in the world (only Russia rates higher), ...... one could easily claim that the high proportion of christian morality within the population ...... where various polls say 80% to 90% of american claim to be christian ...... is a contributary factor to the high rate of crime.After all, it absolves people of responsibility for their actions: it's not their fault, they are just another failed sinner.It would be interesting to compare societies based on the rates of violent crimes and see what the correlaries are.I do know that the rates of crime in the USof(N)A is much higher than in Canada and that correlating factors may include:

• higher rate correlates with noise levels in urban areas
• higher fundamentalist christianity in US
• higher proportions of readily available weapons of personal destruction in the US.

The first is from a study that I was involved in running in the '70's, and the correlation between noise levels and violent crime was linear in both populations, but the slope was much steeper for the USof(N)A than for Canada.Enjoy.

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We already know his sense of humor about his own military is about as funny as a swift kick to the genitals.

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He never disparaged his own military.Also, he never sent them into battle underequipped, undermanned, and with no clear strategy for how to get them out.

I can see how you get that idea through the single bolded sentence you took out of context. In context, it's the group on the right that helped his fellow man ("one of the least of these my brethren"). The group on the left didn't, even if they were good to Jesus himself.

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Aside from which, can I marry a little boy or girl? Can I marry my dog? Are the forces of oppression working against me?

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What part of "consenting adult" do you have trouble understanding?

Who is righteous?There is only one begotton Son of God.The difference between created and begotton. We cannot create that which is identical to us. We create machines and art work. We beget humanity.God creates humans, and begets God.

Then why is the group on the left, the one's trying to justify themselves? The one's on his right asked, "when did we do these things?" Certainly such do-gooders would remember their service to the poor.If you can get this... your life will change!

No one will accept it as valid. Morals are personal values and cannot be imposed from without. Your morality and ethics govern what you do when no one is looking, as demonstrated by Haggard.All it creates is more laws being broken and less respect for laws overall, less compliance with them.Can you shed any light on what is beneficial about that?Enjoy.

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I think he thinks the word "adult" means anything that has mass.

He just said what I told you he would say. You need to stop and think about this carefully as you are talking past him.In the very quote you cited he sets the context for his statement as "relatively speaking". He is saying that the comparison would be true for relativists, which he most clearly is not. If you are claiming that there is an absolute true criteria that everyone must use regarding marriage such that no one can make a comparison between all of those situations... remember, situations and not the entities within the situations... then you are engaging in moral absolutism, and you are in fact conceding the very point NJ was trying to make.If you are claiming that he is wrong because even relativists would be unable to compare those situations, then you would be wrong. Relatively speaking those situations could (it would depend on the cultures one is looking at) be compared as identical. It all depends on the criteria used to judge them based on the culture.Perhaps an example taken outside the US will make this more clear.Theoretically there could be a society which allows any and all marriages as long as the two (assuming monogamy) appear to be happy together as judged by village elders (or a shaman). And one could find adults married to what we would call minors, as well as hetero, homo, and bestial marriages. There could even be marriages to trees and plants in that culture. Thus in their culture all of these are equivalent.A relativist would say that that particular society has a valid concept of marriage, whether the relativist enjoyed such a concept or not.NJ is arguing for the absurdity of such a situation, and that there are criteria that are universal or somehow obvious and those people's ways should be viewed as wrong based on those criteria.Further, denial of gay marriage, by absolutists (including NJ), would not require assumptions that gay and bestial marriage would be equal. They could use wholly different criteria, and it just so happens that both cases are denied legitimate status. Hell, you could easily have an absolutist that allows for marriage to some animals and not others, and still deny gay marriages.I hope you can see then, that you are pulling a direct insult out of a statement viewed out of context. He is making a much broader statement about relativists, not about gays.The irony being that it is in relativists that you are more likely to find allies for gay marriage than with absolutists such as NJ. That is indeed the strength of his argument and why it is used. It is an emotional appeal to get people to reject relativism based on inherent biases (tastes), and so undercut relativist arguments for such things as the legitimacy of gay marriage.

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holmes
"What a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away." (D.Bros)

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Being physically disgusted at the sight of blood and internal organs is not the same as recognizing when a person is being killed.

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Ah, now you are moving the goalposts.

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The child may associate bloody knives with killing the wo/man on the table until told what surgery is.

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Maybe.

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Can you explain little severed heads coming out of the birth canal as just apart of surgery?

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Most abortions are performed in the first trimester when the embryo is around an inch and a half long. Nobody's going to see "severed heads coming out of the birth canal" during a typical abortion.

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You've mentioned this specious argument before which can only make me conclude that pregnancy terrifies you. Perhaps you should do yourself a favor and just never procreate.

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What, you don't think women die from pregnancy?From the Wiki: According to my math and after looking up some numbers, almost 700 women died from complications of child birth in the US in 2002. Edited by AdminPD, : Warning

Berb is already going through this same mistake.If you agree that there are universal standards then NJ has made his point, regardless of if you happen to disagree which criteria are the universal standard.If you believe there are no such things as universal standards, and in fact morals are relative, then you will have to concede that "consenting adult" is not a true absolute criteria and the situations he is describing could be considered equally valid.

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holmes
"What a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away." (D.Bros)

Haven't you heard the "good news"? There's a New Testament.Why are you using the Old Testament to supercede the New?

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