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Igel

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3. They see context.

Reply to cleanhippie (Reply #2)

Thu Aug 2, 2012, 05:14 PM

Aug 2012

What's said in one place is often evaluated in another. Mere practice doesn't connate approval, and, in fact, silence doesn't necessarily connote approval.

NT's also conspicuously absent from this obviously OT-oriented poster.

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So is this contemporary concept of "traditional marriage" based on considering only Adam and Eve? [View all] dballance Aug 2012 OP

I love this sort of stuff. Reminds me of the Dr. Laura letter. cbayer Aug 2012 #1

Where you see contradiction, they see confirmation. cleanhippie Aug 2012 #2

They see context. Igel Aug 2012 #3