same sex marriage

[HSLearner]

Day 1: Drama.

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Are you hinting at banning me from this site for saying that "all people should have equal rights"?

Whoa -- that's what you got from billy's post? Why, does it apply to you? Have you broken a rule? That's what we call -- on a poetry site -- an analogy.

And what billy's saying is pretty right, really, whereas what you said was a generalisation or a bit of a bumper sticker platitude. All people might be created equal (in a perfect world), but there are some who give up their right to that equality by their actions.

Neither billy nor anyone else on this site, as far as I can see, has even come close to hinting that one of those actions might be engaging in a homosexual relationship. What he did say is that a church -- separate from the state and an institution in its own right -- has the final say on who it marries. Religious and secular law are different things. The members of that church may continue to lobby against its rulings, but it cannot be forced to provide a sacrament, whether we agree with it or not.

Now, perhaps you can remove that chip from your shoulder.

I just wanted to know how freely I could speak my mind on this site without being banned. Obviously, not much. I'm not going to bother engaging in discussion if it means I'll be banned, and that likely means "engaging in discussion" is highly censored and therefore not worth engaging in. If people can't be honest and express what they truly think, there's no point in discussion. A site without censorship has far better value as far as discussion is concerned because it means that people are able to say what they think - without being censored as if they were surrounded by the thought police. Am I wrong? I'm not going to say what I really think, because I don't want to be banned. Free expression isn't here.