[Aramike]

Wrong. You mis-represented it. Rights are inherent. Laws are not made to create or allow rights, they are made to restrict them. Usually this is done for protection. You want to do it for moral reasons, and this is wrong.

Wrong. You're responding to a point you clearly didn't get.

Then why the hostility, and the insistence? It looks like you care about it a great deal.

Hostile? WHAT?

I'm sorry, I'm being pointed - not hostile. I'll try to include the proper amount of emoticons and smilies if it will soothe your conscious.

Again, I really don't give a damn, and I have presented what I believe would be a proper compromise (a term the minority never seems to understand).

How was he out of line? A case was brought before his bench and he ruled on it, and created a very detailed explanation of why he ruled what he did.

Did you read the explanation?

You now need to explain why, if you don't care about the issue, you feel the need to attempt to dismiss it with an intentional insult to everybody who disagrees with you.

It wasn't meant as an insult to everybody who disagrees with me, as you say. It was meant as an observation of EVERYONE IN GENERAL.

People tend to find a way to spin things into meaning what they want them to mean, rather than taking them at face value. Your response was an excellent case-in-point. I suspect you wanted to find every line I wrote to be wrong, and therefore you argued as though I said something I didn't.

Thanks for proving my point.

Tradition is not always right either.

Nor, in this case, is it wrong.

Is there a possibility that you are so upset over this because you find homosexuality offensive and hate to see any concession in that direction.

Nope.

Well guess what? I find the act itself not only offensive but revolting, and I hate seeing men holding hands (and fondling each other) in public. But I also realize that my morality and sensibilities might just be skewed by what I've been taught over the years.

That sounds like something you should work on.

While I don't particularly want to see two men making out, I don't find it any more offensive than seeing a straight couple doing the same.

What I find offensive is when the minority insists upon infringing upon the established traditions of the majority when THEY CAN REAP THE SAME BENEFITS WITHOUT DOING SO!

It has gone from a question of doing what is right to a question of one side being able to stick it to the other.

But considering that you've so convieniently lumped me into the anti-gay crowd, you've gone far to make my point that compromise, and as such, the middle ground is beyond the grasp of your side's capability.