Support for same sex marriage grows... ever stronger

[Straybow]

I know from plenty of other sources that the ancient Greeks were huge on pederasty, and eros was certainly inclusive of the NAMBLA stuff. IIRC they actually thought boy-diddling was the best kind of relationship, since women could never be men's intellectual equals. I'm not going to bother digging up an alternate source, you'll just ignore it if I do. I'm mostly posting for others' benefit, not yours.

As for the bit about the origins of "love," I didn't get that from Wiki at all. I got it from a Medieval Lit class focusing on the origins and development of "courtly love." The whole concept started out as a half-assed justification for adultery and got whitewashed later.

And yet... the Greeks never created homosexual marriage. When they wanted their homosexual lover to have inheritance rights and the like, one adopted the other as a son.

[Kuciwalker]

You cannot say that NO ONE cares about what is happening in some of the countries in Africa though. There are activist organizations out there specifically for the purpose of raising awareness of the atrocities happening there.

Yeah, and after raising all that awareness STILL no one cares.

I think some people wrote letters to Martin Luther King Jr. while he was in jail, saying that he should be more "patient" and that people were not "ready" for the changes he was demanding. That politicians could face serious backlash if they agreed to King's insistence on civil rights protection. So it is with the current civil rights struggle of gays and lesbians - there is no time like the present to make our case and to defend our dignity against bigots.

It's not a matter of people not being ready. It's a matter of your struggle really not being that important in the grand scheme of things.

[MrFun]

I think plenty of people believe human rights and civil rights are important in the grand scheme of things.

[Ming]

Let's all do the DL dance...

[rah]

DO WE REALLY NEED TO KEEP BUMPING THIS THREAD OR DO I need to do 45 quick +1 posts so it gets closed down.

And yeah, dl dance and all that.

[Lorizael]

Ming and rah... I really thought you two would be above this kind of spammy necromancy.

[MrFun]

DISCUSS THE TOPIC, NOT THE POSTERS.

[Ming]

Ming and rah... I really thought you two would be above this kind of spammy necromancy.

Thanks for deleting the DL and making it look like I bumped the thread

[rah]

yeah always good for making someone look foolish.

Only 41 more to go.

[Jon Miller]

And than we can have a new gay BK thread.

I would prefer if this one kept to below 500 posts.

JM

[rah]

THEN STOP posting in it.

[Ben Kenobi]

I'll host the thread next time.

That way you can really have a gay BK thread.

And thanks for resurrecting this one, again Ming.