Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site psivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: net.religion.christian Subject: Re: Is General Goodness just a moral principle? Message-ID: <605@psivax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 17:29:50 EDT Article-I.D.: psivax.605 Posted: Thu Aug 1 17:29:50 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Aug-85 09:55:01 EDT References: <852@umcp-cs.UUCP> <360@utastro.UUCP> <879@umcp-cs.UUCP> <1235@pyuxd.UUCP> <2134@pucc-h> <2147@pucc-h> <5409@fortune.UUCP> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 17 In article <5409@fortune.UUCP> brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard brower) writes: > >And some ceremony in front of a priest, preacher, or minister (of the Christian >faith, I presume) is the only way to make that trusting commitment. I have to >disagree and my reasons are personal. This sounds like another way of saying >'you aren't married, your relationship is not "real"'. I hear this regularly >about my (gay) relationship, but there is no legal mechanism for marrying two >men (can you say 'catch 22'?). I can say "bullshit". > I would say that the important thing is the public commitment, *not* the legal recognition of it. -- Sarima (Stanley Friesen) {trwrb|allegra|cbosgd|hplabs|ihnp4|aero!uscvax!akgua}!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen or {ttdica|quad1|bellcore|scgvaxd}!psivax!friesen