Re: Atheists: America's most distrusted minority

On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 13:35:35 GMT, Amy Guskin <aisling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006 03:09:23 -0400, Rob Perkins wrote
(in article <4h16t0F1pl4f0U3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

Josh Hill wrote:

From your point of view, this is absolutely true. From theirs, it's
absolutely not true. But, you're not assigning the same value as they
are to what is threatened.


That's great. I support their right to hold such values. But what
right do they have to force their values down my throat?

What right do you have to do likewise?

Rob, who thinks the controversy is that fundamental <<

But no one has a right to legislate what anyone does in their own bedroom.
Are we next going to say that heterosexual people who engage in oral sex with
their partners aren't going to be permitted to marry? What about tickling?
Water sports? At the very least we need to prohibit straight transvestites
from being permitted to marry, right?

It's just as ludicrous as that, from where I sit.

Oral sex actually was actually illegal in some states, along with
sodomy, heterosexual or otherwise. The zeal of some to control the
private parts of others never ceases to amaze me.

Just read that they arrested a dominatrix in a neighboring community.
Seems that here in 19th-century Connecticut they don't like fat
middle-aged guys kissing butts, unless they belong to their boss . . .

--
Josh

"I love it when I'm around the country club, and I hear people talking about the debilitating
effects of a welfare society. At the same time, they leave their kids a lifetime and beyond
of food stamps. Instead of having a welfare officer, they have a trust officer. And instead
of food stamps, they have stocks and bonds."

- Warren Buffett

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