Klarinet Archive - Posting 000013.txt from 2004/03

From: Jimmy Lee <jrlaudio@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Fwd: [SMB] Dont Amend Protest
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 11:08:08 -0500

Thank you Tony.
Jimmy

tony-w@-----.co.uk wrote:

> From: Lelia Loban <lelialoban@-----.net>
> To: <klarinet@-----.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 1:40 PM
>
> > To Sean Osborne: Thanks for your gracious apology for the accidental
> > off-topic message, but I'm glad to know that campaigns are being organized
> > against that mean-spirited amendment. As long as both parties to the
> > marriage are consenting adults, how is it the government's business who
> > marries whom?
>
> I`m probably one of the few who 'poke my nose' into other peoples businesses
> in here without contributing too much any more - I`m sorry. I do have to
> prioritise my time these days, not that I contributed much anyway.
> I am intrigued tho` with governmental interferences into the way we live our
> lives.
>
> We have been around for 1,000,000 years, 40,000 of those as humans; and in
> all that time, thru`out all the wonderful, and not so wonderful early
> civilizations, we have never had same sex marriages. In human terms, the
> word 'marriage' has meant *only* to betroth oneself to one`s opposite sex
> partner in a religious and legal ceremony. This has been going on for nearly
> 40,000 years.
> Same sex partners CANNOT therefore *marry* - but they can religiously, *but
> not legally*, betroth themselves to each other, with their own kind of
> 'ceremony'. They may 'think' of this as a marriage, but it will not be, due
> to the legal aspect.
> A mere technicality I here you say - but we have to have this law. If this
> present 'madness' were to go on and on and on and on, oh my goodness - in
> another 40,000 years we`ll all be 'marrying` our pets. After all, bestiality
> is with us now. Sorry to be blunt.
> There is a limit to tolerance, and everyone should understand this. I`d back
> Bush - if I could. With this kind of delicate subject, Goverment has to be
> seen to be understanding the wishes of the majority. It may be a scam,
> coming up soon to the US election, but Bush can`t just sit still until the
> election is over. When it comes to taxes, government cracks the whip. When
> it comes to human morality and equality, government has to be seen to be
> following the majority cracking the whip!
>
> Best Wishes to all old colleagues, Annie, Martin, Tony, Peter, Walter,
> (can you write to me Walter please) Lelia, Nancy, Sue, Dan, Sean,
> and Bill Wright - wherever he might be. And not forgetting
> Anonymous! Also hello to knew ones.
> Tony W.
> http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/anthonywakefield/
>
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