tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15027074.post112420504318109653..comments2023-10-24T03:44:58.589-05:00Comments on A Beginner's Mind: What Every Homosexual Already KnowsSamurai Samhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13874504160316803215noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15027074.post-1124738585874241382005-08-22T14:23:00.000-05:002005-08-22T14:23:00.000-05:00Thanks gillian!Sadly, "they" are afraid of the sam...Thanks gillian!<BR/><BR/>Sadly, "they" are afraid of the same old thing people have always been afraid of: change, and the unknown. They are doing what Conservatives do: dig in their heels against change. Sadly, they seem to have lost the ability to differentiate good change from bad (even there even is such a thing as "bad change").Samurai Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13874504160316803215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15027074.post-1124734145799873732005-08-22T13:09:00.000-05:002005-08-22T13:09:00.000-05:00Hey, Sam! Great blog! Many thought-provoking ent...Hey, Sam! Great blog! Many thought-provoking entries!<BR/>In regard to this one, remember this is a capitalist country, why would it not be about money?<BR/>Aside from that, I've yet to understand why there needs to be such a discussion as to nature versus nurture or biology versus preference. We are all people afterall and we are more alike that we are diffent. We just want to live our lives in peace, be happy, and provide for our families. Does it really matter the gender of my mate/partner/husband/wife? <BR/>There is an underlying emotion to the intensity of the topic and that is fear. What I can't determine is just what are "they" afraid of?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15027074.post-1124242204496310252005-08-16T20:30:00.000-05:002005-08-16T20:30:00.000-05:00Thanks anna!Thanks anna!Samurai Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13874504160316803215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15027074.post-1124230509106666422005-08-16T17:15:00.000-05:002005-08-16T17:15:00.000-05:00Samurai, you had it right when you said "It's all ...Samurai, you had it right when you said "It's all about the money, in the end." Now that gays can legally marry in Canada (which I applaud), there are a couple of heterosexual guys back east who are going to tie the knot for tax purposes! Too funny.<BR/><BR/>Great entry - I really enjoy your blog.Annahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17006968236914925815noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15027074.post-1124226249216019662005-08-16T16:04:00.000-05:002005-08-16T16:04:00.000-05:00It was also a method of collecting money from the ...<I>It was also a method of collecting money from the locals.</I><BR/><BR/>It's all about the money, in the end. It's the same reasoning behind requiring celebacy in priest: it was so they couldn't pass church property on to their family members. Some folks on the religious right could really use to crack open a history book (besides the Bible) occasionally.Samurai Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13874504160316803215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15027074.post-1124216124314487992005-08-16T13:15:00.000-05:002005-08-16T13:15:00.000-05:00Marriage was originally used as a method of proper...<I>Marriage was originally used as a method of property transferral throughout most of European history. It was never tied to child-rearing either. Just more historical revisionism by the Right.</I><BR/><BR/>Indeed. It was also a method of collecting money from the locals. I had a history professor at UT who delighted in telling the story of how the Catholic Church forced people, who were using the steps of the local churches to publicize their ad hoc marriages, to start paying for the privilege, which of course turned into a requirement that only church-sanctioned marriages were legitimate.Dunderdadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08615248150055824164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15027074.post-1124215954329923822005-08-16T13:12:00.000-05:002005-08-16T13:12:00.000-05:00I've always thought that the idea of homosexuality...I've always thought that the idea of homosexuality as being somehow innate is something of a non-starter. I think this because it opens the discussion to designer genetics, commentary such as "it's not his fault; he was born gay" (as if there is "fault" in being gay), and, as you say, it doesn't matter what science says. if fundamentalists are quite happy to say that dinosaur fossils are god's little tricks, they aren't going to care what some journal says is the case.<BR/>homosexuality is what it is, whether it is innate or a choice, and to punish people for it is quite reprehensible.Dunderdadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08615248150055824164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15027074.post-1124212919897330402005-08-16T12:21:00.000-05:002005-08-16T12:21:00.000-05:00That actually begs the point, which I didn't make,...That actually begs the point, which I didn't make, that in what way does gay marriage actually affect existing marriages? Also, this whole conservative ideal of the "traditional" iteration of marriage is horseshit, to be frank. Marriage was originally used as a method of property transferral throughout most of European history. It was never tied to child-rearing either. Just more historical revisionism by the Right.Samurai Samhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13874504160316803215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15027074.post-1124207356987554912005-08-16T10:49:00.000-05:002005-08-16T10:49:00.000-05:00Wonderful commentary! We should all share in the f...Wonderful commentary! We should all share in the freedoms that come with being Americans... regardless of sexual preference! <BR/><BR/>I firmly stand by 'Marriage for all'! Who would it possibly hurt? Why can't we just get our heads out of our ass, like Canada?<BR/><BR/>Alesha ~ 'Straight but not Narrow'Gifted-1https://www.blogger.com/profile/17911315738072217319noreply@blogger.com