Methinks what Gareth19 meant by 'given the idea that homosexuality is just a phase' is not that it IS just a phase, but what follows from that idea is that.......(the rest of his post).

MUAH.... HA HA!

The GIRLY BOYS have BEATEN the GOVERNATOR...! OH, GOVERNATOR..., YOUR BALLS have BEEN kicked... OH! ...what a FEELING, huh? NOW, Hold your BALLS tightly and LIMP home to your aneorexic wifey. Well, that's what a REPUBLICAN gets for marrying into a DEMOCRATIC family...

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Your question really questions the legitimacy of the institution of marriage itself. Why is the 'state' getting involved in this matter at all? It might be said that the 'original' purpose of marriage was to try to corral two horney teenagers into a committed relationship long enough to raise their ...

Certainly I applaud the ruling, and a win at this stage is a whole lot better than a loss, but it is way too early to celebrate. Both sides have expressed determination to take it to the Supreme Court, and as was recently reported the current court is the most conservative in 60 years. I am good ...

I apologize for inserting my responses in your text, but there's no other way.


Maybe in principle what you say is true.

However, you DO NOT have a theory until you gather data to support it.

So what are you gathering the data for before you have the theory that suggest the need for some data ...

I remain UNCONVINCED of this. It is a RELIGIOUS DOGMA. Science is based on IDEAS and EMPIRICAL justification, NOT Ideal justification. (i.e. 'faith'). Ideas are NOT a form of faith whatsoever.

All Ideas are a form of faith. Otherwise we'd call them 'facts', not 'ideas'. The 'idea' that there is ...

Sorry Sensenbender, I didn't mean that we should have a process forcefully carried out where certain men are forced to be castrated. I just like to point out that there is a sexual imbalance. Well isn't there? It was on another thread that A-1 and you spoke about women wanting sex less (no sex ...

A more obvious question is why one would hold unsupported beliefs? There are several equally weak reasons: to conform with others, seeking praise and acceptance while avoiding censure and ostracism; to assert that one's wishes are true, and that life is as one would want it to be; to placate a ...

A listing of the 15 best selling books of all time:

1 – The Bible (of course, with a long history and over a billion believers)

2 – Quotations from Chairman Mao (The Little Red Book)

Put together by the People’s Liberation Army in 1964 and has sold over 800 million copies worldwide.

3 – The ...

I have an urge to drag this thread kicking and screaming back on topic. So lets see if this will do it:

I’ve been visiting this site for about three weeks now and I’ve learned that you should prostrate yourself before the masters if you’re tempted to post anything that smacks of gratuitous ...