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rdking647

(5,113 posts)
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 05:24 AM Jan 2012

how is gay marriage worse than open marriage?

i dont get it.. how can the GOP be so anti gay marraige but at the same time willing to accept a cheating schmuck like newt who wants an open marriage and cheated on 2 wives????
and yet its gay marriage that violates the sanctity of marriage.

and hes called a conservative????

what a crock of hypocritical shit

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Ecumenist

(6,086 posts)
1. Gay marriage is generally between two individuals who love one another and are faithful
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 05:29 AM
Jan 2012

Open marriage will get you the , AIDS and a few other NASTY things, not to mention children who did not ask to be brought into the situation. Hypocritical doesn't begin to describe it.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
3. Depends on who you ask. The President says gay people are not 'Sanctified' like Newt
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 08:40 AM
Jan 2012

according to his religion, and that's strange as he says he is a Christian, they are followers of Jesus, and Jesus said not a word against gay people, in their Scriptures he did say this:

"It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement: But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery."
Matthew 5:31-32

It is odd to me that NONE of the 'Defenders o' Marriage' speak a word that reflects the teachings of the faith they claim, that ALL of them rage at gay people, and claim that straights couples are simply superior, no matter what they do, no matter what their actions.
I am sick of the hypocrisy of their side, and of the hypocrisy on our side. Where is the outrage from the 'Defenders of the Sacrament'? Seems it is stowed away in their hypocrisy file, waiting for someone to say 'gay marriage' so they can pull out the Jesus puppet and use it to speak their own prejudices, while of course allowing a pass to Newt, Ensign, all of them.

tanyev

(42,552 posts)
5. To be fair, I suspect Newt's definition of open marriage
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 09:58 AM
Jan 2012

is that HE got to do whatever he wanted while Marianne stayed home and kept her mouth shut. Had Marianne actually gone out and found herself a lover, I bet ol' Newtie would have filed for divorce in no time flat.

BR_Parkway

(8,666 posts)
7. Technically, most of the biggies in the Bible did the one man, as many women as he can support
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 11:11 AM
Jan 2012

thing - so in all reality, Newt's version of "traditional" marriage is more accurate than Focus on the Family or NOM

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