Dayton Gay Marriage Derp

Yeah. Unemployed people don’t even have colleagues. Suck it @Ancalagon!

I can't speak to that... only that I find you amusing, which has to count as resembling useful or worth something.
Not much, obviously; but something.

Only in between?

Ban him.
Get it over with already.

We need to rename this smilie "Dayton"

All this is lovely, but it doesn't really matter one way or another what the Bible says.

Marriage existed before Jesus, it existed all around the world throughout his life, it continued to exist throughout the world in the subsequent centuries till today.

Jews, Muslims, Sikhs, Druids, atheists all get married all around the world.

Sorry but Christians don't get to define what the word means.

Jesus probably shared the prevailing negative views of homosexuality in Jewish culture.

Of course, he didn't approve of marriage at all. He thought that the end times were near and that familial relationships of any sort should be discarded. (This stuff is repeated throughout Matthew and Luke.)
Early Christians revised this somewhat when it became apparent that the end was not so imminent. They held that chastity was the ideal but that marriage could be tolerated where a man was unable to restrain himself.

Would Dayton survive eso?

Dayton3 disagrees:

Poking at the bear, are you? Not a terribly smart thing to do, geeze. Oh well, at least it's the Red Room.

Anyway, Dayton, quit spamming.

They didn't approve of reproduction?

Why would that be important if the world was ending?

Why would you waste the time and energy trying to stop it if that ending was imminent anyway?

I don't think they did waste much time and energy on it. Read 1 Corinthians 7 particularly from Verse 26 (the "present crisis" is the coming end of the world.)

Very possibly not, but the association of sex with shame and judgement certainly went on to become a favourite theme later on.

If only this was true of everyone who thinks their imaginary friend should get to control the world and dictate how everyone behaves.

On a lighter note, you've just made me think of this:

What makes you think I am unemployed? The school board meets tomorrow to review my improvement plan and I am confident that they won't take the option of removing me from my position as they said they would.

Nice try, ND.

Paul was an epileptic, a psychopath, and probably a self-flagellating repressed homosexual. Also, please note that he never married. Neither did Jesus. And Jesus was the one who told Peter to ditch his wife and go on a road trip with him. Great role models, all of 'em.

Hey @Dayton3, the law now recognizes gay marriage, even if you and Yahweh do not. The law is real and Yahweh is not.

Except for neither Jesus nor Paul ever being married none of that is true.

Nor for that matter did Paul ever even meet Jesus while Jesus was on Earth. Saul (Paul) did not become a follower of Christ until apparently years after Christs death and resurrection.

I would have to agree with this here. I don't really give a fuck if @Dayton3 's puny imaginary god recognizes gay marriage or not. It makes no real difference to me one way or another if I was going to make a legal partnership in the US. Their desire to impose their views on others by banning gay marriage shows their lack of faith in their own god.

If you think about it the eternal force of the creation of the universe and control of our eternal spirit after death would make a huge difference. our time on earth would not even be a speck of time compared to eternity. If god really mattered than in their minds the time on earth gays were married would not matter at all. It would be nothing. Instead it does matter the most to them because people like Dayton do not believe in the god and are just looking to have power over others in this life.

They betray their own lack of faith by making this world much more important than their eternal universe with their imaginary fiend.

How does opposing gay marriage indicate that I want to have "powers over others"?

What good does opposing gay marriage do me?

This was explained. Lay off the stupid pills. Thanks for your non-argument.

I have an important question, quite possibly a serious question, that I need answered:

Why, do we as a society, let people essentially saying "you have to do what I say because my imaginary friend says so, and he invented the universe! I have a book that says so" run things?

If people want to have imaginary friends, that's cool. If people with the same imaginary friend want to form a club and meet at the clubhouse on Sunday morning to talk about how great their imaginary friend is, that's cool too. However, when people are all "everyone must do what my imaginary friend wants," no, fuck that.

Don't like gay marriage or sodomy because it makes your imaginary friend cry? Don't get gay married and don't sodomize things then! More gay marriage and sodomy for the rest of us. Unless you can demonstrate that gay marriage and/or sodomy actually causes some kind of tangible harm, shut the fuck up and go sit in the corner!

Why that is a brilliant argument! Let's expand upon that. Don't believe in slavery. Don't buy a slave. But don't tell other people they can't own one.

Exact same argument.

Not the exact same argument. With slavery there is a victim. With gay marriage, there is no victim...unless there is. If there is, who is it?

society as a whole. Looked what happened to Sodom and Gomorrah.

Very good. You accidentally stumbled across the bottom line.