tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post7213078333957390339..comments2023-08-11T10:04:41.498-05:00Comments on Sandalstraps' Sanctuary: Keith Olbermann on Prop 8, Plus a Rant of My OwnSandalstrapshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16303641009581382217noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post-58025736535488256062008-12-09T12:19:00.000-05:002008-12-09T12:19:00.000-05:00Heather,Thanks for clearing that up. Hope you're d...Heather,<BR/><BR/>Thanks for clearing that up. Hope you're doing well.Sandalstrapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16303641009581382217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post-14933766975633328402008-12-09T09:28:00.000-05:002008-12-09T09:28:00.000-05:00Eep! Anonymous commenter was me! I thought I had s...Eep! Anonymous commenter was me! I thought I had signed in. Sorry to cause you stress over the question of whether to publish. I of course take full responsibility for my comments. <BR/><BR/>Also: the morning after, my own words strike me as unnecessarily harsh. I regret that, but not the substance of my argument. I still passionately believe that the First Amendment that covers our right to Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08603420364898547499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post-52747148910593330442008-12-09T08:01:00.000-05:002008-12-09T08:01:00.000-05:00Anonymous,I struggled with whether or not to allow...Anonymous,<BR/><BR/>I struggled with whether or not to allow your comment to be published.<BR/><BR/>While I agree with you here, and while I allow anonymous comments, I am uncomfortable with using anonymity while criticizing a commenter.<BR/><BR/>In the blogosphere, too often, anonymity is used as a cover to say that which you would not say within an accountable social situation. While I deemed Sandalstrapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16303641009581382217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post-13730886374465944102008-12-09T01:41:00.000-05:002008-12-09T01:41:00.000-05:00Brian,Your right to be comfortable with everyone i...Brian,<BR/><BR/>Your right to be comfortable with everyone in public does not trump the rights of gays to love each other legally. Who do you think you are, that everyone in this free country should be so careful to never, ever offend your delicate sensibilities? Here's an idea: grow a thicker skin and remember the First Amendment. <BR/><BR/>Nobody ever said you have to be open-minded about gay Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post-73287638399485767962008-11-20T08:09:00.000-05:002008-11-20T08:09:00.000-05:00Brian,So much to respond to, though I suspect that...Brian,<BR/><BR/>So much to respond to, though I suspect that we're coming from such widely different perspectives that we'll never find a middle ground from which to discuss.<BR/><BR/>However, you didn't address the one area of this post that I thought we might agree on - the imposition of religious ideology on American laws.<BR/><BR/>I'm not talking about imposing any particular views on you - Sandalstrapshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16303641009581382217noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post-39285721580297574742008-11-20T07:25:00.000-05:002008-11-20T07:25:00.000-05:00If you are raising your family as the Bible instru...If you are raising your family as the Bible instructs, you should be teaching against this (I know how you feel about that, but this is how 'we' feel). As this becomes more accepted in society, it will be forced on the people who do not accept it as 'natural'.<BR/><BR/>I reference you to this: http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/11/19/eharmony.same.sex.matches/index.html?eref=rss_topstories<BR/><BR/>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post-74835339336974553872008-11-17T08:48:00.000-05:002008-11-17T08:48:00.000-05:00Right on, Sandalstraps. Why should the Mormon chur...Right on, Sandalstraps. Why should the Mormon church (or my own church, the Catholic church) care about civil marriages?<BR/><BR/>Of course, growing up in Utah I know that the Mormons in particular have little problem with forcing their standards of purity on other people.Liamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17265036866243982434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18491098.post-88146581790586242742008-11-15T22:37:00.000-05:002008-11-15T22:37:00.000-05:00As a person who has experienced the tragic illness...As a person who has experienced the tragic illness and early death of my wife, I can tell you that at that time LOTS of laws kick into gear. To have been prevented from holding her hand as she died would be beyond a nightmare. To have to fight for my home and property after wards would have only compounded my grief in ways I (thankfully) will never know.<BR/><BR/>Each time someone says 'civil Monk-in-Traininghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07373661525025912462noreply@blogger.com