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Do you think that you turn a PROFIT with the tax breaks by adopting a kid?
R.L.
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4/21/2006 1:07:13 PM
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God, penguins, gays, and ID
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ljk
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4/13/2006 4:21:28 PM
Non-reproducing members of a species
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SDF
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4/20/2006 5:23:32 PM
re: Non-reproducing members of a species
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SDG
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4/20/2006 7:16:07 PM
re: Non-reproducing members of a species
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SDF
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4/20/2006 8:10:54 PM
OK... define YOUR role....
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R.L.
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4/20/2006 10:57:57 PM
Nothing wrong with being single
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SDF
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4/21/2006 1:03:36 AM
and I'm not demanding spousal benefits either, since I have no special role
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SDF
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4/21/2006 1:06:35 AM
By your reasoning...
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R.L.
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4/21/2006 1:04:31 PM
Not really
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SDF
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4/21/2006 3:12:10 PM
So - then you would be ok with gays getting spousal benifits if they adopt?
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R.L.
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4/21/2006 5:29:28 PM
Twenty years ago, we wouldn't be having this conversation
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SDF
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4/22/2006 1:06:18 PM
No, we'd be having the same conversation about race.
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Mary Anne
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4/22/2006 4:53:18 PM
Pairing off
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Tony
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4/20/2006 9:10:17 PM
Good point
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SDF
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4/20/2006 11:42:04 PM
re: "Alot of women also marry because they don't want to work."
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Mary Anne
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4/21/2006 12:58:25 PM
However
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SDF
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4/20/2006 11:51:04 PM
Do you think that you turn a PROFIT with the tax breaks by adopting a kid?
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R.L.
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4/21/2006 1:07:13 PM
"without first finding a father that will stick around"
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Mary Anne
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4/21/2006 1:05:15 PM
If he beats her up, he should be charged with assault, taken away, and never allowed to return
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SDF
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4/21/2006 4:01:51 PM
Gays already adopt.
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tony
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4/21/2006 12:12:41 AM
I didn't know that. A court decision was made on November 26, 1999.
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SDF
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4/21/2006 12:35:18 AM
so should single women not be allowed to adopt?
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SDG
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4/21/2006 12:12:05 AM
No.
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SDF
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4/21/2006 12:38:59 AM
and if the single woman is gay?
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SDG
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4/21/2006 5:16:22 AM
then she is still single
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SDF
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4/21/2006 3:50:50 PM
"I just don't agree with that. I think children should be raised by a mother and a father."
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R.L.
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4/20/2006 11:56:40 PM
Because that is the natural means by which babies are made, with few exceptions
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SDF
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4/21/2006 12:38:12 AM
Most things people do today isn't 'natural'... why does this one example bother you?
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R.L.
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4/21/2006 12:58:29 PM
What makes you think homosexuality is natural?
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SDF
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4/21/2006 3:34:20 PM
Because it appears in nature.
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Mary Anne
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4/21/2006 3:50:34 PM
That was my original point, it DOES appear in nature
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SDF
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4/21/2006 3:54:24 PM
While you assign them their "place", don't forget to shave their heads and tattoo numbers on their arms.
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Mary Anne
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4/21/2006 4:33:07 PM
Ironically, many of them are already doing such things
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SDF
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4/21/2006 4:45:06 PM
So sayeth Some Dumb F...
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R.L.
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4/21/2006 5:44:46 PM
Because the cause of the condition is not understood.
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SDF
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4/22/2006 1:10:34 PM
Why do you need to consider it a disease?
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R.L.
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4/23/2006 8:56:08 AM
You are quick to call me bigoted (which is a form of bigotry itself), but I am being objective
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SDF
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4/24/2006 12:49:04 PM
Corrections
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Mary Anne
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4/25/2006 1:27:56 PM
You are one sick puppy....
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R.L.
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4/24/2006 8:15:17 PM
I don't think so
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SDF
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4/25/2006 12:33:36 PM
Irony is a mystery to you, isn't it?
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Mary Anne
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4/21/2006 4:55:53 PM
Its like coppery except harder...
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R.L.
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4/22/2006 4:59:21 AM
Sounds like a past description of the left-handed.
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Mary Anne
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4/20/2006 6:36:08 PM
Left-handed people aren't so offensive.
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SDF
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4/20/2006 8:15:40 PM
What garbage!!!
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R.L.
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4/20/2006 10:51:56 PM
The degree of deviance that people are willing to accept varies somewhat, but not really that much.
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SDF
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4/21/2006 12:53:10 AM
Setting rather than content.
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Mary Anne
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4/21/2006 1:25:30 PM
It used to be the same for interracial marriage...
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R.L.
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4/21/2006 1:12:39 PM
Only in some countries
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SDF
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4/21/2006 3:24:03 PM
Maybe they don't hate men.
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Mary Anne
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4/20/2006 9:26:20 PM
Birds of a feather flock together
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SDF
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4/21/2006 12:57:44 AM
"And so do pigs and swine...
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Mary Anne
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4/21/2006 12:44:41 PM
Well, if they act a certain way and their friends act the same way
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SDF
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4/21/2006 3:20:15 PM
Um, because human beings are more complex than that.
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Mary Anne
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4/21/2006 3:37:12 PM
I don't think people are complex at all
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SDF
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4/21/2006 3:42:46 PM
Obviously.
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Mary Anne
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4/21/2006 3:53:06 PM
Simple response.
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SDF
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4/21/2006 3:56:23 PM
Suits you, then.
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Mary Anne
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4/21/2006 3:59:45 PM
LOL. What's wrong, can't win?
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SDF
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4/21/2006 4:08:22 PM
According to some parliamentary rules, silence implies consent.
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Mary Anne
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4/21/2006 5:08:51 PM
Hatred of men?
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Tony
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4/20/2006 9:12:13 PM
It's not really hatred that I feel. It's disgust. Why are you willing to accept their bahaviour, but not willing to accept that I am offended by it?
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SDF
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4/21/2006 1:01:24 AM
Be offended all you want.
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Mary Anne
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4/21/2006 12:54:16 PM
re: Be offended all you want.
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SDF
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4/21/2006 3:16:03 PM
Then file charges for harassment.
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Mary Anne
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4/21/2006 3:39:32 PM
I still think they should justify their sexual preference before encoding it in law
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SDF
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4/21/2006 3:49:37 PM
Why? And do you intend to institute a "test" for that too?
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Mary Anne
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4/21/2006 4:00:24 PM
You lasted longer than me :-)
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Tony
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4/21/2006 5:14:59 PM
You still letting that eat you up inside?
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SDAI-Tech1
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4/22/2006 6:41:08 AM
Not eating up.
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Tony
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4/22/2006 7:38:45 PM
Most diseases are biological. Eventually we find treatments.
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SDF
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4/21/2006 4:04:03 PM
Yup, and education is the vaccine against bigotry...
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R.L.
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4/22/2006 1:49:01 AM
HabitableZone — be civil, or at least entertaining.