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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>Ed Writes:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>>> My example (in <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>>> gestalt form)
was specifically meant to illustrate that when we began <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>>> to accept
homosexual marriage and relationships as normal, we morphed <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>>> from the idea of
being a Christian or Judeo-Christian society based <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>>> on biblical
morality. And, of course, this is historically when <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>>> societies get
into trouble--the beginning of the end so to speak. My <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>>> previous post
laid out all the societal dangers for normalizing <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>>> homosexual
activity..... So, some say that there are so few, embrace <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>>> them. The issue
is not how any individual poses a threat to anyone, <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=4
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>>> but how the
normalization of homosexuality endangers the entire <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>>> society.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>I think we have too easily dismissed this argument. The problem
is not the inference; the problem is making the premises probably true. Ed now has
to tell us a short world history, focused on the causal relations between acceptance
of homosexuality and the general moral break up of society, and the typical
cultural result in the West when the classical and/or Judeo-Christian framework
is rejected. There is still the possible problem of confusing appropriate law
with appropriate morality, but I think we could table that in order to hear Ed
out. So, Ed, are you going to start in the ancient East or the ancient
West? If you can historically verify these claims I think you would have one
interesting argument. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>Michael Metzler <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'>P.S. And thanks for treating us like normal human beings; not
often you see conservatives do that around here. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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