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GarySeven Donating Member (898 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-04 03:56 PM
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How to Defeat a Dittohead
Edited on Sun Jun-13-04 04:12 PM by GarySeven
Just quote Rush (from July 16, 1996) (Thanks to Atrios):

"I--I really do not even think marriage is a right. Marriage is a responsibility. It's not a gift that somebody says, Hey, now it's time for you to get married. It's our bestowal to you.' It's--it's a--it's a commitment that you make and it is a responsibility that you accept. And it's--to--to be--to be tossed around in this manner is to devalue it, which is to devalue the fundamental building block of our society. And I think that's what's wrong with this whole process of same-sex marriage. It just simply denies the definition of what the institution is."
-- El Rushbo, 7-16-96
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-04 04:10 PM
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1. In the eyes of the law, marriage is a contract
period. It is a relationship involving property, inheritance, power of attorney, etc.

And just like any other legal contract, it DOES involve (and in fact DEFINES) responsibilities.

Would you deny homosexuals the right to incorporate? To form limited partnerships?

(I'm not going to touch Rush's three divorces, I will not attempt to make the point that serial marriage-divorce devalues marriage.)
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DBoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-13-04 04:19 PM
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