http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2008/10/prop-8-comment-they-would-not-print/569/

“including the highly dubious claim that the Church will somehow be forced to recognize and perform same sex marriage. As TT notes, this has been thoroughly disproved.”

The argument of the Church being forced to perform same-sex marriage makes me think that whoever originally posited it used “could” instead of “will,” so that it originally read:

The Church (or churches, I’ve seen it elsewhere, too) could be forced to perform same-sex marriage.

Since “will” is far more rhetorically powerful than “could,” I wonder if somewhere it got transmogrified. I don’t know for sure, though, but those are my musings.

Since the whole thing is couched in the 14th Amendment, I could see how it could be used that way, especially with the right lawyer and judge, though it would probably be pretty tenuous at best.

Just a thought.

Cheers!

Also, the church views homosexual activity as inherently harmful. So yah, it’s not helpful to teach teenagers the nuts and bolts in great detail about gay sex along side with how sex happens between heterosexuals and reproduction.
I agree, that hurts kids.

Failure to pass Proposition 8 will hurt children.
If gay marriage remains legal, public schools will put it on equal footing with traditional marriage. Children will likely receive “age appropriate” information about sexual relations within heterosexual and homosexual marriages.

Is the last sentence with the quotes around “age appropriate” meant to suggest that it isn’t really? I am also confused about this claim. Children will be hurt because they will be taught in school about how homosexual people have sex when they are married?

It lacks the elements that historically defined what a marriage is, beginning with the most fundamental level of the X and Y chromosomes that define gender. [Emphasis mine.]

Nature itself refutes this simplistic definition of sex. I invite you to take a look at androgen insensitivity syndrome and ask yourself, are such individuals male or female? To help you reach a decision, take a look at some stories and pictures of individuals with this condition; remember that they look this way naturally, not because of surgical intervention.

Note that my use of the word “individuals” is purely to avoid colouring your judgement; I am of the firm belief that these are definitely, undeniably women, and that society should tolerate no deviation from this in any material sense.

Mogs

That would certainly come as news to the members of my extended family who are unable to have children, and to my father-in-law, who is in his 70s and who recently married a woman who is also in her 70s. It would also come as news to the church, which solemnized all those marriages in the temple.