I couldn't agree with you more Pacridge. I had a conversation with someone who shall rename nameless regarding this a few months ago. The person told me that the social issue of Janet Jackson's nipples on TV and gay marriage were the biggest issues facing our nation. I was in shock and still am that these minor issue dominate issue like the war on terror etc.I also think it's sad that they choose to put some much energy into this when there are so many real problems in the world and in our country that could use their attention
Yep! I am far more concerned about people who want to blow us up then I am with people who want to blow each other.CSA_TX said:I couldn't agree with you more Pacridge. I had a conversation with someone who shall rename nameless regarding this a few months ago. The person told me that the social issue of Janet Jackson's nipples on TV and gay marriage were the biggest issues facing our nation. I was in shock and still am that these minor issue dominate issue like the war on terror etc.
That statement is true in that both societies began to collaspe if both societies were always collapsing. Homosexuality in the Greco-Roman world was almost universally practiced and almost universally accepted as a part of everyday life. Yet it did not exist at all in the sense in which we understand it today. Neither in Greece nor in Rome were there groups of people classifying themselves or each other as 'homosexuals' or 'heterosexuals' and regarding each other with disapproval or incomprehension. This bisection of human sexual potential seems to be a modern invention. Both Greek and Roman men and women practiced homosexuality and heterosexuality in different social circumstances, at different times in their lives and according to different religious, political and ritual obligations, without drawing any kind of ethical distinction between them. Both of these societies had long histories of homosexuality and an acceptance of it.bryanf said:Here's what I said: "the collapses of the Greek empire, and later the Roman Empire, both occurred AFTER those two respective societies began to acknowledge homosexual unions as equal to traditional marriage."
The empires were not brought down merely by the acceptance of homosexuality, but it is indicative of the direction of a society, as it was in those cases.
I' couldn't agree more. I said it before and I'll say it again- I'm much more concerned about people trying to blow us up, then I am about people trying to blow each other.Hoot said:I don't mean to make light of your concerns, but I think there are more pressing things to worry about in our nation than whether two people, who love eachother, choose to spend a life as a married couple.
Hoot