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Title: Gender, gay marriage...and Galileo
Post by: Shana A on February 07, 2008, 02:37:29 PM
Post by: Shana A on February 07, 2008, 02:37:29 PM
Gender, gay marriage...and Galileo
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
February 6, 2008 2:34 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/02/gender_gay_marriageand_galileo.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/02/gender_gay_marriageand_galileo.php)
The righters are stamping their foot again, to keep marriage "a man and a woman." Next week, on Feb. 11th, the Arizona State Senate Committee on Government will vote on a bill that would write marriage discrimination into the state constitution. This latest round of hissy fits reminds me how the Roman Catholic Church used to stamp its foot when anybody challenged the old scriptural notion that Earth is the fixed center of the Universe. When Galileo completed his years of patient observations with a telescope, proving that the Earth actually moves around the Sun, Pope Urban VIII simply screamed, "The Earth does not move!" In 1633 the Inquisition declared the great man a heretic and put him in house arrest for the rest of his lif
Filed by: Patricia Nell Warren
February 6, 2008 2:34 PM
http://www.bilerico.com/2008/02/gender_gay_marriageand_galileo.php (http://www.bilerico.com/2008/02/gender_gay_marriageand_galileo.php)
The righters are stamping their foot again, to keep marriage "a man and a woman." Next week, on Feb. 11th, the Arizona State Senate Committee on Government will vote on a bill that would write marriage discrimination into the state constitution. This latest round of hissy fits reminds me how the Roman Catholic Church used to stamp its foot when anybody challenged the old scriptural notion that Earth is the fixed center of the Universe. When Galileo completed his years of patient observations with a telescope, proving that the Earth actually moves around the Sun, Pope Urban VIII simply screamed, "The Earth does not move!" In 1633 the Inquisition declared the great man a heretic and put him in house arrest for the rest of his lif
Title: Re: Gender, gay marriage...and Galileo
Post by: Veetje on February 07, 2008, 04:09:51 PM
Post by: Veetje on February 07, 2008, 04:09:51 PM
Well there might actually be hope then...300 years from now on sexuality and genderidentity will be something someone can freely express
That is..if fundamentalists havent erased everything regarding that already