GfS and Ake,

You both assert you are not bigoted, and yet you persist in your diatribes, insisting they are reasoned and based on facts; yet I see no facts presented, and I hear a lot of impassioned rhetoric full of grand conclusions without any analytical basis.

It would be one thing if your rhetoric was in favor of your favorite kind of sherbet or the preferred interpretation of Tolkein's runes. But when you bring the same infatuated gusto and unreason to bear on an issue like whether or not a civil status should be exclusive, you are standing up for an intensely misguided and harmful view which supports close-minded bigotry. Even though, with your layers of rationalization, you see clearly you are not bigoted, it is clear to me that you both esouse an unreasoning dislike for, and a willingness to mistreat, a group of citizens of this country on the basis of their sexual orientation.

Why you think sexuality should be such a compelling and important issue is not clear to me, but there is no question in my mind that prejudice and factless emotional bias based on prejudgement is what you are both dipping in to when you make your enthusiastically antipathetic posts.

I have nothing to add, here, except that you have won no ground, shown no factual case, and said nothing to persuade me you are trying to reason or find truth or even common ground.

A