 Quote > MarriageMarriage is a great institution -- but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
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Owned by Unordained - Created on 09/04/2003 - Never edited 11/01/05 :: Folder :: Society & Culture12/01/03 :: Folder :: Marriage 09/04/03 :: Quote :: [unspecified]Marriage is a ghastly public confession of a strictly private intention.  12/01/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Culture and What Courts Can't Do12/01/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Opponents Of Gay Marriage Divided07/02/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: United States divorce statistics07/02/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: World-wide divorce statistics 11/02/04 :: Message :: Circumventing marriage laws09/04/03 :: Quote :: [unspecified]Jones' First Law: Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of endeavor, and stays in that field long enough, becomes an obstruction to its progress -- in direct proportion to the importance of their original contribution. 08/13/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Queer 'Aye' for Marriage07/05/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Unmarried.org  12/17/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Legal Information Institute - Marriage: an overview 01/16/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Weekly Standard - Marriage Defeatists01/09/04 :: Article :: Think of the children! :: Would you dare to raise your child in a sub-ideal environment?11/21/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Focus on the Family's review of Bruce Almighty11/03/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Benefits and obligations that come naturally with marriage07/12/04 :: File :: A talk about chastity with high-schoolers :: Real-Media audio06/30/03 :: Article :: Please enter your date of birth and gender :: Fighting for individuality in a world that doesn't care 06/02/04 :: Quote :: Lao-TzuA leader is best when people barely know that he exists.
Less good when they obey and acclaim him.
Worse when they fear and despise him.
Fail to honor people, and they fail to honor you.
But of a good leader, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled,
they will say, "We did this ourselves."
01/21/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Anti-Semitism: A Practical Manual 07/02/03 :: Article :: Shackin' up together :: Why I'm not married12/01/03 :: Quote :: Abraham Lincoln
We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness o [...] 11/03/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: [proprietary title of article satirizing the gay-marriage issue at the state level, removed]10/09/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: Two Civilized Men Among the Barbarians10/03/05 :: Quote :: Henry KissingerWe must learn to distinguish morality from moralizing. 09/04/03 :: Quote :: Mark TwainClothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. 08/01/04 :: Article :: Don't ignore differences! :: The Vatican reminds us that women are different from men, hurray!07/21/05 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Myth of Marriage05/20/04 :: Reference :: (link) :: Harper's Magazine04/07/04 :: Quote :: Howard ChaykinI don't believe in sweeping social change being manifested by one person, unless he has an atomic weapon.  12/17/03 :: Reference :: (link) :: The Christian Research Institute - Rape, Marriage, and the Significance of Sex: Why Traditional Values Matter07/21/05 :: Article :: New notes on marriage [Scratchbook] :: Have you read the fine print?03/02/04 :: Article :: Anti-discrimination and the Church :: Should you be worried about gay marriage because your church doesn't want to officiate such things? 12/20/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: Political Movie Ratings12/16/03 :: Article :: Questions for partisans of marriage :: What exactly do you want?11/08/06 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonIn matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.  11/06/05 :: Article :: Why should christians be surprised? :: 10/21/07 :: Quote :: A. SpammerI think this email passes the Turing test on accident:
Hi, how's doing? The answer is lying on the surface. You're dead on your feet, man, I can tell! But chill out, there's plenty of people just like you. Do you know that an immense grow of people suffering from a sexual disorder is observed, it's being counted by millions already. Questioned? It's a modern life style. You get-you pay. Everyth [...] 09/29/05 :: Quote :: Thomas JeffersonI know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion. 09/29/05 :: Quote :: Robert FrostA civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. 08/12/06 :: Reference :: (link) :: AnswerMan opines on lolicon08/09/06 :: Article :: The Decameron :: Putting the Devil in Hell. Is that what they call it these days?07/24/05 :: Quote :: Gaius Helen MohiamA world is supported by four things ... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing ... without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition! 05/02/04 :: Article :: South Park and The Passion :: Thoughts on the movie's impact04/26/07 :: Quote :: Albert EinsteinThe significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. 02/11/05 :: Quote :: Bjarne StroustrupCuriously enough, the volume of interest and public debate is often inversely proportional to the importance of a feature. The reason is that it is much easier to have a firm opinion on a minor feature than on a major one; minor features fit directly into the current state of affairs, whereas major ones - by definition - do not.
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