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		<title>By: Sarah</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:43:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m so glad there are other sane people who realise that the supposed arguments against same-sex marriage are complete bs!!! I&#039;m proud to say i live in a country (the UK) where LGBT can marry ..well we have to call it a &#039;civil partnership&#039; but everyone knows what it is really! lol hopefully it will be legalised in America and on the continent soon - isn&#039;t it funny how we see ourselves as so advanced, and yet, socially, the Romans and Ancient Greeks got it so much better than we do?
xxxxx</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m so glad there are other sane people who realise that the supposed arguments against same-sex marriage are complete bs!!! I&#8217;m proud to say i live in a country (the UK) where LGBT can marry ..well we have to call it a &#8216;civil partnership&#8217; but everyone knows what it is really! lol hopefully it will be legalised in America and on the continent soon &#8211; isn&#8217;t it funny how we see ourselves as so advanced, and yet, socially, the Romans and Ancient Greeks got it so much better than we do?<br />
xxxxx</p>
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		<title>By: There Still is Much to be Done for GLBT Rights &#124; Dominick Evans</title>
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		<dc:creator>There Still is Much to be Done for GLBT Rights &#124; Dominick Evans</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Dominick</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dominick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m so glad you&#039;re enjoying my site Susan!</description>
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		<title>By: susan varney</title>
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		<dc:creator>susan varney</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>this is a nice site</description>
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		<title>By: Dominick</title>
		<link>http://www.dominickevans.com/2008/10/getting-past-the-arguments-for-same-sex-marriage/comment-page-1/#comment-320</link>
		<dc:creator>Dominick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You really hit the nail on the head.

I should have talked about &quot;saving the children&quot;. I didn&#039;t want my post to get too long, so there were some subjects I didn&#039;t touch upon.

You have an incredibly valid point, though. Both the American Pediatrics Association and American Psychological Association have done extensive research on children living in same-sex households. What they found was this:

-children of GLBT individuals were as well adjusted (if not more) than children in heterosexual households

-children in GLBT households showed more compassion for others than children in heterosexual households

-children in GLBT households were as likely as children in heterosexual households to actually be GLBT themselves (which wasn&#039;t an overwhelming statistic)

-children in GLBT households (when GLBT themselves) were more willing to accept themselves than those raised in heterosexual households

There is absolutely NO HARM to children and with in vitro, adoption options, and sperm banks, GLBT individuals are not a threat to waning populations.

I personally believe that people who are GLBT just might be &quot;made that way&quot; as a way to control the population. Not every person on the Earth is designed to have their own children. Otherwise, we&#039;d be overpopulated.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You really hit the nail on the head.</p>
<p>I should have talked about &#8220;saving the children&#8221;. I didn&#8217;t want my post to get too long, so there were some subjects I didn&#8217;t touch upon.</p>
<p>You have an incredibly valid point, though. Both the American Pediatrics Association and American Psychological Association have done extensive research on children living in same-sex households. What they found was this:</p>
<p>-children of GLBT individuals were as well adjusted (if not more) than children in heterosexual households</p>
<p>-children in GLBT households showed more compassion for others than children in heterosexual households</p>
<p>-children in GLBT households were as likely as children in heterosexual households to actually be GLBT themselves (which wasn&#8217;t an overwhelming statistic)</p>
<p>-children in GLBT households (when GLBT themselves) were more willing to accept themselves than those raised in heterosexual households</p>
<p>There is absolutely NO HARM to children and with in vitro, adoption options, and sperm banks, GLBT individuals are not a threat to waning populations.</p>
<p>I personally believe that people who are GLBT just might be &#8220;made that way&#8221; as a way to control the population. Not every person on the Earth is designed to have their own children. Otherwise, we&#8217;d be overpopulated.</p>
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		<title>By: Dominick</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dominick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>While I believe that compared to now, early Christians would be considered &quot;prudish&quot; by today&#039;s standards, I believe it was more the fact that the temple prostitutes were polytheists was more threatening to them.

Essentially, the no orgies was used as a smokescreen to condemn polytheistic beliefs.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While I believe that compared to now, early Christians would be considered &#8220;prudish&#8221; by today&#8217;s standards, I believe it was more the fact that the temple prostitutes were polytheists was more threatening to them.</p>
<p>Essentially, the no orgies was used as a smokescreen to condemn polytheistic beliefs.</p>
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		<title>By: Jean P.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jean P.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Excellent, intelligently written argument for same-sex marriage!  Yes on 8 folks claim, &quot;Same-sex marriage violates the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman.&quot;  If we are protecting the sanctity of marriage by law, why don&#039;t we start by making divorce illegal? Let&#039;s make infidelity a felony! Let&#039;s require training and therapy prior to marriage! Marriage between a man and a woman is NOT threatened by same-sex marriage, nor would it be enhanced by a discriminatory law that seeks to &quot;protect&quot; it.  Yes on 8 folks also claim, &quot;We must protect our children!&quot;  What, exactly, is it that we are protecting children FROM, I ask?  Science has already proven that homosexuality is biologically-based.  The fear-based belief that children will somehow &quot;become&quot; gay by simply learning that same-sex marriage is legal is ignorant at best and very dangerous at worst.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excellent, intelligently written argument for same-sex marriage!  Yes on 8 folks claim, &#8220;Same-sex marriage violates the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman.&#8221;  If we are protecting the sanctity of marriage by law, why don&#8217;t we start by making divorce illegal? Let&#8217;s make infidelity a felony! Let&#8217;s require training and therapy prior to marriage! Marriage between a man and a woman is NOT threatened by same-sex marriage, nor would it be enhanced by a discriminatory law that seeks to &#8220;protect&#8221; it.  Yes on 8 folks also claim, &#8220;We must protect our children!&#8221;  What, exactly, is it that we are protecting children FROM, I ask?  Science has already proven that homosexuality is biologically-based.  The fear-based belief that children will somehow &#8220;become&#8221; gay by simply learning that same-sex marriage is legal is ignorant at best and very dangerous at worst.</p>
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		<title>By: John D</title>
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		<dc:creator>John D</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s funny that you should describe the ancient Christians as &quot;prudish.&quot; They probably were, since early Christianity was an apocalyptic group which foresaw the end in their own lifetimes (yes, just like some contemporary Christians).

The pagan writers had an answer for why they met in secret, in caves, crypts, or other hidden places: orgies.

We tend to think of the Ancient Romans as a pretty randy lot, but many of the religious practices tended to the ascetic. Those Christians talked about upsetting the order. They had to be perverts, right?

Each side accused the other of sexual sins.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s funny that you should describe the ancient Christians as &#8220;prudish.&#8221; They probably were, since early Christianity was an apocalyptic group which foresaw the end in their own lifetimes (yes, just like some contemporary Christians).</p>
<p>The pagan writers had an answer for why they met in secret, in caves, crypts, or other hidden places: orgies.</p>
<p>We tend to think of the Ancient Romans as a pretty randy lot, but many of the religious practices tended to the ascetic. Those Christians talked about upsetting the order. They had to be perverts, right?</p>
<p>Each side accused the other of sexual sins.</p>
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