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johninnaha
Redefine "marriage"?
That's not all.
You're going to have to redefine:
Husband
Wife
Mother
Father
Mother in law
Father in law
Son in law
Just give up!
Gay "marriage" is ridiculous.
Nothing against gays whatsoever.
But "marriage"?
Don't be silly!
Posted in: Do you support same-sex marriages?
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johninnaha
Badge, your post raises many questions:
The vote is not "for" or "against" gay "marriage."
It is whether or not you support same-sex marriage. Different thing. People may not support it, but that doesn't mean they are against it.
I cannot see how you get the idea that people don't seem to have a problem with the millions of divorces.
Was this question asked?
Why do you assume that the same people who are against "gay marriage" (as you put it), don't have a problem with "the millions of divorces?"
Which millions of divorces are you talking about?
There seems to be a singular lack of logic on this topic.
Posted in: Do you support same-sex marriages?
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johninnaha
"Gay marriage"
Wot?
You mean two blokes getting wed?
Go on! Pull the other one!
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johninnaha
showmethemoney:
A gay man cannot impregnate a gay man and a lesbian cannot get pregnant from a woman.
And parenting is intimately connected to marriage.
Marriage is about producing and rearing children.
Everyone has the right to love whomever they want, male, female or something in between.
That doesn't make it marriage.
It's not just a question of redefining a word.
You're marching to the beat of a different drummer.
Posted in: Beat Takeshi compares same-sex marriage with bestiality
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johninnaha
Whose standards are they judging by?
Posted in: In an OECD survey of 36 nations on people's perceptions of their living conditions, Japan ranked 21st in terms of quality of life; Australia, Norway and the U.S. were the top 3. What do you think of that?
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johninnaha
This guy has single handedly reinvented pretentiousness.
I wonder why he and his counterpart in Osaka got voted in?
On election day, there was something better on TV?
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johninnaha
Who knows whether Bin Laden was involved in 9/11 or not?
He was tried and found guilty with no trial whatsoever.
This is a MAJOR travesty of justice.
He may have been the most evil guy since Adolf.
Or he might not have been.
We never had the chance to find out.
Posted in: Amnesty criticizes U.S. for 'unlawful' bin Laden raid, drone attacks
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johninnaha
I have worked in the field of education for the last 40 years. I am quite familiar with children in many parts of the world.
Whoever thinks they are cute, innocent and harmless needs to put aside their fixed ideas and LOOK.
Kids can be CRUEL. Like REALLY CRUEL.
When it got out that little Johnny's dad was a guy and his mom was a guy too, they would RIP HIM TO PIECES.
I don't know why, but kids are much less tolerant of this kind of thing than adults.
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johninnaha
How on Earth can anyone talk about same sex PARENTS?
Wake up!!!!
Come into present time!!!
A man and a man or a woman and a woman can NEVER POSSIBLY BE PARENTS!!!
They might be a kind of foster parent, but that's not the same thing.
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johninnaha
Wolfpack. You make an excellent point.
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johninnaha
What is this? Gunlaw? Cowboys?
"Shoot first and ask questions after?"
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johninnaha
Come to think of it, I wonder how many animals would like to marry Beat Takeshi.
I can just see him walking down the aisle with a gorilla.
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johninnaha
No, Thomas, it's not my opinion. It's an agreement made and held by the vast majority of the population of this planet. I don't have exact figures, but I talk to a lot of people, I read and everywhere I look, this is the opinion I get.
It's not just the definition of a single word. Marriage is set up as an institution. It has its own specialized vocabulary based on the definition above. "Husband, wife, mother in law, father in law, and so on. It's not just a matter of redefining a word, like "gay," for example, which used to mean, "carefree, flaky, with loose morals." 100 years ago, a "gay woman" was a (heterosexual) prostitute.
You would have to change the vocabulary for the language connected with marriage and, of course, change the definition of the word marriage as well.
For what?
So that if one partner plays around, the other can sue for divorce and get alimony?
So that they can adopt children created "the normal way?"
I am not against homosexuality. I believe it's a private thing that two people have to decide for themselves. I am not against gay "marriage," it just doesn't make any sense to me. But I very definitely am against gays adopting children.
What's it going to be like for the kid going to school? If they went to any of the schools I went to they'd get ribbed to pieces. This is apart from the very dubious effect of seeing their adopted pseudo "mother" and father sleeping together and so on.
I don't see the point of gay marriage.
No one on Japan Today so far has been able to come up with an argument in support of it that makes any sense. There's an awful lot of "should" and "must" and talks of "progress," but very little logic.
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johninnaha
On President Obama's orders, the US military invaded Pakistan.
Pakistan is not US territory.
They raided a house and assassinated someone.
We are told that this was Bin Laden, but the body was dumped at sea and so we will never know for sure.
There was no trial.
This is NOT the act of a democratic country.
This is not the act of a country that calls itself the land of the free.
Unless this means "free to do whatever they want."
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johninnaha
A homophile on another entry asked, "Why can't we be treated like normal people?"
The obvious answer is a question.
Why do you think two guys should be treated like a normal GUY and a normal WOMAN?
Two GUYS don't marry!
A guy who thinks he is a woman or a woman who thinks he is a guy is NOT NORMAL!
The purpose of marriage is to create a family.
Two guys can stick their "naughty bits" in any orifice they choose, but, however they do it, they are not going to create a family.
This is not written with any "homophobic" intent.
Anybody is free to do anything to any consenting adult that they choose.
But WHY do they want to call it marriage?
All that does is to degrade the status of marriage.
Marriage =the union of a man + a woman with the purpose of creating a family.
A man "marrying" a man or a woman "marrying" a woman is childish play acting.
Posted in: Beat Takeshi compares same-sex marriage with bestiality
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johninnaha
The man's obviously incapable of analyzing a situation and finding the source of the trouble. Why do ALL have to be punished for the sake of A FEW?
He doesn't have the skills necessary to lead. He should not be in his position.
Posted in: The Fukuoka mayor is banning public servants from drinking alcohol for a month; the Osaka mayor has declared war on tattoos on civil servants. What do you think of all this?
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johninnaha
74?
How do they know the exact figure?
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johninnaha
What a slimy worm!
As I said on another topic, Beat Takeshi and crew are one of the reasons we don't have a TV.
Posted in: 'Beat' Takeshi rejects anti-gay accusation
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johninnaha
There are agreements in society. In England and Japan, we drive on the left, on the continent of Europe they drive on the right. I think there may be other countries that do so too. We make traffic rules so that getting from A to B goes more smoothly.
We make agreements for marriage. Not everyone is allowed to marry. It depends on the bit of the planet you are standing on, but in some places, you cannot marry younger than 18, in others 16 or even 13. You also cannot marry someone who is already married to someone else. This even has a name, it's called bigamy. In Japan, if you divorce, the woman cannot remarry for six months. Certain religions are not allowed to marry people of other religions. Chinese couples are supposed to have only one baby. Some cultures punish adultery by stoning.
Strangely, amongst all these rules and agreements, love doesn't appear to be a constant. I personally think it should be, but see that it isn't necessarily present. It was - and probably still is - a custom for sons and daughters of wealthy people or royalty for political reasons. I've met many older Japanese who obediently married the person they were expected to. Arranged marriage is quite common in many parts of the world.
And yes, there is polygamy and even polyandry.
As far as I understand it, the institution of marriage is set up to produce and rear the future generation. The institution of marriage has its special vocabulary, words like, husband, wife, bride, groom, father in law, mother in law, etc., etc.
I don't see why we have to throw all this out the window because a few people want to pretend they are man and wife.
I'm not actually against same sex "marriage," I don't object to it. It just doesn't make any sense to me. I can't see any advantage for a gay couple to be married or not married. And since a) it is not something that gets much agreement in this society at this time and b) the customs involved would have to be drastically altered and in fact, c) the whole concept of marriage would have to be redefined, I just cannot think with it.
You want to make your lives together?
Do it.
Why call it marriage?
Why call it anything?
If you were really happy with it, it wouldn't matter whether people around you agreed or not.
And if it was successful, it might become a NEW institution with its OWN customs.
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johninnaha
It seems to me that logic is hardly present in this "discussion."
There's an awful lot of knee jerk reaction.
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