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Science > Abortion |
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"Johnny" |
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18 Jul 2006 08:13:59 AM |
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Same-sex marriage in history |
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Some scholars claim that marriage between homosexuals has been commonly
practiced and accepted by various peoples throughout history. One prominent
advocate of this view, William Eskridge, contends that same-sex unions and
even "marriages" have been common in other times and cultures.
Responding to Eskridge, professors Peter Lubin and Dwight Duncan point out
that the so-called "evidence" for homosexual marriage comes primarily from
small, isolated pre-literate tribes. Lubin and Duncan point out that "a
great many of the primitive societies deemed by Eskridge to be tolerant of
[same-sex marriage] ... have also been known to engage in other practices,
such as cannibalism, female genital mutilation, massacre or enslavement of
enemies taken in war, and other practices which was once held to be the duty
of the civilized to extirpate."31
Furthermore, what Eskridge takes for homosexual marriage are actually male
bonding rituals that he mistakenly eroticized. Alleged examples from ancient
Rome, such as Nero and Elagabalus, only reveal the degree to which
homosexuality was held in contempt by Roman society. In referring to Nero's
homosexuality, Tacitus wrote that the emperor "polluted himself by every
lawful or lawless indulgence, [and] had not omitted a single abomination
which could heighten his depravity." This hardly constitutes an endorsement
of homosexuality in ancient Rome.
Lubin and Duncan summarize: "There is no 'rich history of same-sex marriage'
that [Eskridge] has 'uncovered,' that was 'suppressed in recent Western
history, and is only now coming to light.' The 'resistance' to same-sex
marriage is not limited to 'Western culture' with its age-old
'anti-homosexual hysteria and bigotry,' but extends to almost every culture
throughout the world."32
On the face of it, theories about the supposed widespread practice of
homosexual marriage throughout history lack merit, given the biological
imperative of families consisting of husbands and wives producing children,
which is a basic requirement for the preservation of any culture or
society."
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=BC04C02&f=WA06G26
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| User: "Ray Fischer" |
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| Title: Re: Same-sex marriage in history |
18 Jul 2006 10:55:28 PM |
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Johnny <wxpprofessional@msn.com> wrote:
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Some scholars claim that marriage between homosexuals has been commonly
Now, when are you going to get through your thick skull that thing about
keeping your filthy nose out of other persons' affairs?
"Johnny" in <t7zqg.17589$7K2.8552@bignews2.bellsouth.net>
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Ray Fischer
rfischer@sonic.net
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| User: "Pr0r3p" |
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| Title: Re: Same-sex marriage in history |
19 Jul 2006 12:36:02 PM |
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Johnny wrote:
"
Some scholars claim that marriage between homosexuals has been commonly
practiced and accepted by various peoples throughout history. One prominent
advocate of this view, William Eskridge, contends that same-sex unions and
even "marriages" have been common in other times and cultures.
Responding to Eskridge, professors Peter Lubin and Dwight Duncan point out
that the so-called "evidence" for homosexual marriage comes primarily from
small, isolated pre-literate tribes. Lubin and Duncan point out that "a
great many of the primitive societies deemed by Eskridge to be tolerant of
[same-sex marriage] ... have also been known to engage in other practices,
such as cannibalism, female genital mutilation, massacre or enslavement of
enemies taken in war, and other practices which was once held to be the duty
of the civilized to extirpate."31
These sound just like your kind of people Johnny. There's pain and
suffering for women wich you like, and killing of people too. If they
could throw in some starvation of children, you'd be right at home...
<snip remainder>
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