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Sentiment and sensibilities for religious tradition have gotten a lot of people killed over the years. You don't have the right to not be offended.

Meanwhile, you're avoiding the point.

I don't think gays would want Christians to conduct their ceremonies.

It's an action, a symbolic one as much as it is harmless. If you get offended by a symbolic action, then that really is your problem, isn't it?

No, that's what he's saying. I shouldn't do it because it would offend Christians. Gays shouldn't get married because it offends their sense of the holiness of marriage. Well, bugger that.

I don't find marriage to be holy. Does that mean I shouldn't get married because it might offend Christians who DO find it holy? Why do Christians have a monopoly on marriage when it wasn't theirs to begin with? Excuse me while I go and desecrate a copy of the bible.

Oh for fuck's sake, not this again. Articles submitted to Wikipedia are generally reliable and well-referenced, no matter what your school tells you. Don't believe it/me? Read the citations.

Light and offbeat is a misnomer. This is mostly a forum for individual pieces of news, rather that overriding "issues". If this thread was about treatment of women under Islam in general, it'd be in NCAP.

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I was more thinking that if there was more parking it'd be less arse-rapingly expensive :( I did notice that there are free parks in Codrington St.

When it has much less influence over public policy, then gays can stop hating the Church for hating them.

Why not? The Church thinks they're inhuman, malformed and deviant.

Marriage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Have a read yourself. It's pretty enlightening, especially since the institution of marriage itself predates recorded history (and, by extension, Christianity).

Well E. O. Wilson was/is pretty much the father of sociobiology.

Yep. That, however, is not necessarily an issue when diving, as it's not hugely exertive (at least not in comparison to, say boot camp haha). And to a certain extent, as I mentioned with breathing, training can overcome shortcomings with lung capacity (which can actually be a hindrance when...

Except for the fact that marriage did not have its basis in a religious ceremony, and religion (specifically Judaic religions in this context) didn't get involved until like the 12th century or something.

True about the lung capacity, but that becomes less of a problem with training. Physical ability to handle depth and pressure, however, you can't really train for. And re: buoyancy - that's why divers are heavily weighted.

Not enough parking.

There's a difference between the necessary emotional distance and being a psychopath. Amazon.com: On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society (9780316330114): Dave Grossman: Books http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kcmhr/information/publications/articles/Killing_JCH.pdf etc...

And I don't know what the situation is in the US, but in the Australian navy, women can't do clearance diving. I'm not sure there is a reason that makes a whole lot of sense, except for the danger involved - women are actually better suited to deep-sea work than men, as our higher body fat...