Do you know what a strawman is?

I didn't say anyone sees this as another reason to despise the United States, but that it would give them another reason to despise the United States.

Agree 100%.

Yes, people do mature as they age... but I tend to think that issues like this do fade away as older people die off.

If we were talking about business regulations or taxes or foreign policy your point would be valid. But there is no connection between fighting gay marriage and maturity. It's an irrational position that only exists because of prejudice and fear. If you haven't been raised with it I don't think you can learn it later.

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as I said, we'll see.

another factor that could impact this is America's changing demographics. if we get more hispanic or imports for other parts of the world that are less inclined to this, it could well impact how thinking goes.

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Since Maine has a huge logging/timber industry I had to think of Monty Python's Lumberjack Song when considering gay Mainers.

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as I pointed out in the OP, I cannot grasp this insistance of calling it fear.

right and wrong tend to come into better focus as you age. a sure sign of maturity.

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"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others."

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Yes, my reply to you was entire satirical though. They don't despize us for this, and they won't.

Which is just utter nonsense.

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That's another area where opinions change over time. A staunchly conservative foreinger cannot control how his children will regard these matters. He may be very much against gay marriage, but his kids probably won't care so much about it.

Yeah, haha, but i couldn't see a joke about a venerial disease with the word lobster!

I hate their freaking accents there, too!

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If you thought crabs were bad, just wait till you come down with a case of the lobsters!

As opposed to your Texas accent? You all sound like a bunch of hillbillys to me.

lol...

It's easy to characterize it as fear or bigotry because there is no rational basis for it.

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It's not fear, it's refusal to accept deviate behavior as normal behavior. They want us to line up to be socially and morally dumbed down. How dumb do you have to be to examine man and woman's anatomy and not draw the hetro conclusion?

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Strangely, i don't have a heavy Texan accent. Its kind of like a Cary Grant, transatlantic mix, very strange to most people and half of them think i sound Australian. (That comes of years and years of watching neighbors).

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Yes, the slippery slope is a recognized, formal logical fallacy. You, being utterly unfamiliar with logic, its formal tenets, it's application, etc.... wouldn't know this.That is illogical.No, that's not why it's called a fallacy. And, if it's not provable, you wouldn't be able to guarantee it.No, it doesn't set any precedent. It's a logical fallacy. Logical fallacies don't set precedents.Did your parole officer tell you that?

Ah, so you've never had a blowjob. Somehow I find that comforting and simultaneously amusing.