Comments on: Natalie Portman wants you to marry your boyfriend (updated) http://raincoaster.com/2007/11/15/natalie-portman-bigot/ 49 degrees latitude, 360 degrees attitude! Sat, 02 Jun 2012 17:32:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: raincoaster http://raincoaster.com/2007/11/15/natalie-portman-bigot/#comment-215830 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 18:13:56 +0000 http://raincoaster.com/2007/11/15/natalie-portman-bigot/#comment-215830 Replied by email, but for those of you who are still confused, I linked to it BECAUSE it’s satire. And it’s damn fine satire, too.

]]> By: wwjv4 http://raincoaster.com/2007/11/15/natalie-portman-bigot/#comment-214343 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:03:40 +0000 http://raincoaster.com/2007/11/15/natalie-portman-bigot/#comment-214343 Hello, just wanted to thank you all for noticing us. Sadly I feel the need to emphasize that “Who Would Jesus Vote For” is not some fringe Yahoos For Jesus cult, we are a strongly progressive liberal blog that supports equal rights for everyone. So even though the post linked above is clearly satire, its tagged satire, and there are a couple dozen comments stating that it is satire we still get new visitors coming every day to say how horrible it is.

So, thanks again for noticing us, and we welcome everyone to visit and comment. Have a wonderful day.

William
wwjv4.com

]]> By: raincoaster http://raincoaster.com/2007/11/15/natalie-portman-bigot/#comment-213970 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:45:55 +0000 http://raincoaster.com/2007/11/15/natalie-portman-bigot/#comment-213970 Justin, you have a point, although stats tell me this post is unbelievably popular among … bigots. They’re just too scared to leave a comment. And Portman’s point was about bigotry, among other things.

Rob, I appreciate the thoughtful comment, but I can’t agree. They didn’t used to allow slaves to marry either. We have this idea called Progress which doesn’t always work, but sometimes the human race actually fails to screw up and we correct ancient wrongs. Allowing gay people to marry is correcting an ancient wrong. After all, the Bible says marriage is all about procreation, so does that mean we don’t allow old women to get married? Do we insist on a fertility test for both parties? No, we recognize that God wants us to be able to pledge ourselves to the one we love, and that we have the right to do so in front of the community and have our bond acknowledged.

Sayblade, are you saying there are things that matter more than human rights? I’m not seeing it. Heads of state are, of course, the ones who are responsible for what is legal and what is not in their country; in mine, gay marriage is legal. In the others you’ve mentioned, it’s not. It should be.

]]> By: Dating http://raincoaster.com/2007/11/15/natalie-portman-bigot/#comment-213734 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:33:54 +0000 http://raincoaster.com/2007/11/15/natalie-portman-bigot/#comment-213734 good point.

]]> By: neath http://raincoaster.com/2007/11/15/natalie-portman-bigot/#comment-213623 Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:41:35 +0000 http://raincoaster.com/2007/11/15/natalie-portman-bigot/#comment-213623 Half full half empty- seems like she is saying she does want to get involved in a tradition that purposely excludes a fair percentage of the population.

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