Considering they protected the Church from being forced to perform gay marriages against it's will, and I don't recognize any marriage performed outside the Catholic Church anyway, this really doesn't change anything for me.
New York Senate approves same-sex marriage
- 25/06/2011 03:47:43 AM
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I'm actually not opposed to this.
- 25/06/2011 03:48:32 PM
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I'm not sure why there was even any need for such explicit protection.
- 25/06/2011 04:04:47 PM
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so in your only Catholics are really married?
- 26/06/2011 12:04:07 AM
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Church Doctrine.
- 26/06/2011 12:57:39 AM
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That's patently wrong in that Orthodox weddings are explicitly recognized by the Church.
- 26/06/2011 02:42:00 PM
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Yeah okay...
- 26/06/2011 05:16:05 PM
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They are outside of the authority of Rome, and have, on occasion, excommunicated Popes.
- 27/06/2011 05:03:31 PM
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Seems fine to me
- 25/06/2011 05:44:30 PM
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Voting on civil rights constitutes tyranny of the majority, not legitimate democracy.
- 25/06/2011 09:37:28 PM
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Re: Voting on civil rights constitutes tyranny of the majority, not legitimate democracy.
- 26/06/2011 03:11:06 AM
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Good luck telling that to the deeply religious right.
- 26/06/2011 03:20:04 AM
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I am a deeply religious member of the right, and I tell them that all the time *NM*
- 26/06/2011 03:30:14 AM
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After a number of years of gay marriage
- 26/06/2011 06:57:07 AM
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That's more or less true of virtually everything, not a great example
- 26/06/2011 07:09:03 AM
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People shouldn't turn their own religion and/or opinion into law
- 28/06/2011 07:33:48 PM
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I don't recall mentioning religion beyond confirming that I was religious
- 28/06/2011 08:22:51 PM
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I admit I wasn't replying to you directly
- 29/06/2011 07:20:10 AM
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I think you should give this subject a bit more thought
- 29/06/2011 02:16:04 PM
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Believing things without strong supporting evidence is not rational.
- 30/06/2011 12:11:33 AM
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Requiring different degrees of proof for things isn't particularly rational
- 30/06/2011 01:14:44 PM
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I require the same standard of evidence to be confident in anything.
- 30/06/2011 07:43:51 PM
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Re: I require the same standard of evidence to be confident in anything.
- 30/06/2011 08:59:00 PM
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Re: I require the same standard of evidence to be confident in anything.
- 30/06/2011 09:47:30 PM
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No, I used the word irrational to mean that it's not rational.
- 30/06/2011 09:12:19 PM
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Re: Voting on civil rights constitutes tyranny of the majority, not legitimate democracy.
- 26/06/2011 10:38:56 PM
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I think you should give your fellow citizens a bit more trust and respect
- 27/06/2011 05:41:52 PM
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My expectations are guided by psychology and history.
- 28/06/2011 07:08:06 PM
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That's good to know, most of us do that, though we usually just call it common sense and experience
- 28/06/2011 08:55:23 PM
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No, most people don't do that. Reasoning from cognitive biases and anecdotes is much more common.
- 30/06/2011 12:18:40 AM
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Empire State Building was lit up in rainbow colors, looked cool *NM*
- 25/06/2011 08:21:03 PM
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I approved that years ago. They are way behind. Granted, I have no authority over anyone...
- 26/06/2011 12:22:33 AM
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The real issue is going to be when the Supreme Court rules on the full faith and credit clause.
- 26/06/2011 02:43:23 PM
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